17,930,435,000 km from home

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Skybird

No need to spend time on it, Vendor! Believe me - lightyears (ly) or lightdays or lightseconds are used as a distance unit in any astronomical science book you could think of. It is established nomenclatura. No need to debate anything there!

My latter comment was more directed as a joke, I have the picture clear....and understand the theoretical part, without being "smartass"

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Here's another:

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Vendor

...and understand the theoretical part, without being "smartass"

Better a Smartass than a Dumbass.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Better a Smartass than a Dumbass.

[Gargamel]

I like how they discovered the anomaly a while back, where the voyager probes were not where they were supposed to be. Theories abounded about how the current theories on solar winds werre wrong, or there was an unseen border force slowing the craft.

Turned out the nuclear power cells were heating the leading edges of the craft a little more than the trailing ones, and that very slight radiation of energy slowed the craft enough to have physicists pulling their hair out for years. Apparently it took some deep computer modelling to figure it out.

Space.com probably has some good links on it.

[Pisces]

Ok, I have to be the real smartass now. It only takes light 8 minutes to go from the SURFACE of the sun to go to the earth. However, from photon creation in the core of the sun, to the the surface of the sun it is supposed to take hundred thousands of years before it get's there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Core

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Pisces

Ok, I have to be the real smartass now. It only takes light 8 minutes to go from the SURFACE of the sun to go to the earth. However, from photon creation in the core of the sun, to the the surface of the sun it is supposed to take hundred thousands of years before it get's there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Core

However Neutrinos travel the distance in 8 minutes. They do not go bouncing around in the sun's core before finding an exit.

So if you ever detect a sharp decrease in Neutrinos from the sun its time to pack up and leave: you only got a few hundred thousand years before the sun goes Red Giant on you.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Space. Subatomic particles. All emptiness, no solid substance anywhere. All what we perceive - a dance of reflections only: that's what we call "mind".

The greatest mystery: that something exists. Why does exist simply nothing? Why is there something at all? Single Big Bang - what was before, why did it happen, and where? Fluctuating universe - unlimited ammounts big bangs, since eons and eons - why?

We sit and think, heads in our hands, wondering. Who is the thinker? Where does he sit? What's it that he sees? Emptiness staring into emptiness, seeing all. We may send out probes and spaceships, we may go deeper and deeper into the subatomic world - could it be that we are the answer?

A dream within a dream, dreaming of that dream.

You're either insane or soon will be. I like that; it makes me feel less alone.

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Better a Smartass than a Dumbass.

Unfortunately the two are often one and the same.

Originally Posted by Pisces

Ok, I have to be the real smartass now. It only takes light 8 minutes to go from the SURFACE of the sun to go to the earth. However, from photon creation in the core of the sun, to the the surface of the sun it is supposed to take hundred thousands of years before it get's there.

But how long does it take that light to reach the core of the earth? Core to core is irrelevant.

[Sammi79]

Originally Posted by joegrundman

it'll never reach another star. in about 150 years some guy is going to scoop it up in his Cobra MkIII and bring it back to Mars and flog it on ebay.

I miss Elite. Badly. Elite II was IMHO as good as computer gaming ever got. Only graphics have improved since then.

That is one game in severe need of bringing up to date with modern hardware.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Originally Posted by Rhodes

Here's another:

I think I like this one best:

[Gerald]

Nice one,

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I think I like this one best:

I LOLed when the Red Dwarf showed up...

That one is a download...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I think I like this one best:

Saved by The Doctor!

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Saved by The Doctor!

The First Doctor.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

The First Doctor.

I had to go back and freeze-frame it. I thought it was hard to tell, but you're probably right.