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- zaini014, on 07/02/2008, -1/+22i like this article.
it remind me that we are so small in this world, yet alone the galaxy.
i digg it - Orion1004, on 07/02/2008, -0/+21Makes perfect sense that we're interconnected with the cycles and forces of the Milky Way. Great submission! The more we'll learn in the coming decades, the more we'll see how linked everything is.
- DeskFlyer, on 07/02/2008, -0/+18Space is ***** awesome.
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+14Everything moves in cycles
- ecrunner, on 07/02/2008, -0/+11my period makes more sense now....
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8Good stuff.
- darkciti2, on 07/03/2008, -2/+8No ***** *****! We're entering the "Age of Aquarius". It's not a hippie fantasy, it's an actual phenomenon that has occurred here on Earth for thousands of years (cyclically, based on astronomy). Expect some serious rains and very bad weather in the years to come.
Even the Egyptians recorded these events (which occur every 4000 years [or so]). It's no wonder their country was buried by sand. 4000 years ago, Egypt was probably a flourishing green land and the glaciers were probably magnitudinally larger than they are now. Their land became flooded (during their own Earth warming) and the result today is a desert/beachsand.
Only the tallest of their structures would still be visible today, which is why the Pyramids are still visible... which also explains why the deeper we dig in Egypt, the more homes, cities, structures we uncover: Picture a major City buried in sand and we're just now digging it out.
***** - in the future, people will think that ancient Americans worshiped a woman holding a book and a torch (the Statue of Liberty) and arches (The Gateway Arch). - patm1987, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5Or, as my physics professor loves to say, all physics can be reduced to simple harmonic oscillations.
- adamhaley, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4great article.everything is connected. this can be observed outwardly through science, and inwardly through intuition. also the photograph is stunning
- fixty, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Reminds me of Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep" & the "zones of thought".
- Kormiku, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.
- TremorX, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.
- Retsam06, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.
- Fordi, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2"What if activating the LHC creates implodes our Galaxy (the Milky Way) via a black hole"
Not physically possible. Please learn some QED before commenting on effects from it (the same equations that state the possibility of a black hole being formed at the proposed energies also dictate its evaporation before it can consume anything). - stonebear, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2David Flynn ~ Astronomical Procession and 2012
http://tinyurl.com/5ybjm8 (Google Video) - danesis, on 07/03/2008, -1/+3So it appears that our sun experiences a galactic "sunrise" and "sunset" every 64 million years. If those scientists are correct, we are very close to the next extinction level event in relation to the last dead stratigraphic zone on earth. My guess is 12/21/2012.
- MeatyMcBeef, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2So this is a 62 million year cycle? The dinosaurs died out when 65 million years ago? The cosmic period is late...
- Yookji, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2No.
- Murdats, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2it doesnt happen every 4000 years, it happens every ~65million
also by entering the age of aquairius do you mean we are in the millenia that it will happen? its scheduled for 2595
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_age#The_ ... - darkciti2, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Wow. The original article on the Age of Aquarius has changed significantly on wikipedia since I last read it.
Visit your local library for a printed Encyclopedia to read about the Astronomic ages and how they occur cyclically in nature.
In the 60's and 70's they didn't have Wikipedia, so I trust those static sources more than some of these new dynamic ones.
Don't get me wrong, I love Wikipedia... I'm just not sure I trust it 100%.
Questioning authority is a good thing. Particularly when it comes to defining history. - Slackdragon, on 07/03/2008, -5/+6Or, as Al Gore would have you believe, human activity influences galactic cycles.
- darkciti2, on 07/03/2008, -1/+2So, to be fair, let's take the year 2595 and give or take a few hundred years.
A 570 year difference (today) in the astronomy realm equates to a .001% chance of error.
We're entering the Age of Aquarius, dude. Isn't it globally obvious at this point? - darkciti2, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I'm not saying the LHC could do that (I know it won't and I'm actually quite excited about it coming online). I'm just saying that an interesting paradoxical fiction book could be written based on the premise.
- havocjaw, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1If you saw Pi the movie, you already knew this!
- desertDenizen, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I don't know of anybody who's saying humans are eradicating all life on earth. We're just very possibly making the earth unlivable for humans in a few generations, or livable only at a significantly decreased population, or under miserable circumstances.
- sockpuppets, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Actual photo of the scientists at work.
http://www.thebystudio.com/tv/hello/314698/640/200 ... - OgonGuitarist, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Not only do cosmic rays influence life by causing mutations in DNA, as the article says, they also help create life, by colliding with matter in interstellar gas, producing molecules essential for life.
Another interesting element in evolution - planetary or galactic - is the similarity between interstellar gas and water. Both are recycled by galaxies and planets respectively, giving rise to the cyclic nature of life. - desertDenizen, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Yes, undulating motions definitely keep life going.
- Murdats, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1@darkciti2
you trust unchanging sources over ones that can adapt to error correction and new information?
also how is entering the age of aquarius totally obvious? its an astrological event, meaning its based on constelations and woo, they have little bearing on anything in reality other then cool, a bunch of stuff lines up from this perspective at this time. - stonebear, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1You treat me like I was your ocean
You swim in my blood when it's warm
My cycles of circular motion
Protect you and keep you from harm
You live in a world of illusion
Where everything's peaches and cream
We all face a scarlet conclusion
But we spend our time in a dream - InfiniteNothing, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Friggen awesome: there's a super massive black hole in our galaxy with maybe millions of times the mass of our sun and the LHC pancakes the galaxy.
- rezonq3, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I think you guys might be talking about The Platonic (or Great) Year. A full wobble of the Earth's axis. It takes about ~27,000 years. This is of course NOT the same thing as what the article is talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_year
The Platonic Year is broken into twelve periods that brings the 'Ages' to about 2150 years, give or take. The next Age is indeed Aquarius according to Astrology and we are pretty much in the middle of the shift. - gettarat, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1Space is ***** awesome.
http://pyramidsofgiza.org/ - stonebear, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Ian Lungold ~ The Mayan Calendar Comes North
http://tinyurl.com/4p8k27 (Google Video pt. 1)
http://tinyurl.com/3mjtur (Google Video pt. 2) - darkciti2, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1How is our information stored, ace?
Do you think disk drives or paper will exist if an event of that magnitude occurred? If your city/house/apartment got flooded, would your information survive?
Why do you think marble/granite stone structures are used for monuments (hint: the only thing remaining of the Roman empire)
Masons/Freemasons are the ones that had the skill to carve into marble; hence a trust relationship had to be established (which is why they became a closed society). The masons had direct access to the information of the highest level. - aristideau, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Brainwave by Poul Anderson
http://www.amazon.ca/Brainwave-Greatest-Masterpiec ... - Iztikeit, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1This is all the proof I need to be convinced life will continue to exist without concern of humans causing its demise.
- c0mputar, on 07/03/2008, -2/+2Buried as inaccurate. The universe orbits our plate.
- Barackalypse, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1Sorry, I refuse to believe any forces other than man made pollution have any ability to influence the planet or the species on it! =)
- Dealjobber, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0So, going by the Permian extinction and keep subtracting 64 million years until it passes to present day, we have 6 million years left before we cross out of the galactic plane, again.
- davidsf1, on 07/04/2008, -0/+0Our galaxy conditions most definately influence everything on our earth.
See: http://digg.com/general_sciences/Quantum_Theory_Br ... - VoijaRisa, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0I actually work with one of the professors mentioned in the article (Dr. Melott), albeit on a completely unrelated project (causes for superflares on solar type stars and implications for life on Earth). According to him, we're just passing the galactic midplane on the way down.
- ShadowFoxxx, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0We're so small, it's not even funny: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/ShadowFoxxx/ ...
- speedyparker87, on 07/04/2008, -0/+0So where are we right now in this cycle? I wish the article would have mentioned that.
- Iztikeit, on 07/03/2008, -1/+0We have information out the wazzo. Such events aren't likely to happen again, barring a total collapse and a couple thousand year Dark Age.
- darkciti2, on 07/03/2008, -2/+1You could write a book about this:
What if activating the LHC creates implodes our Galaxy (the Milky Way) via a black hole and it's seen light years away as a new star being born. The matter/energy contained in this new star gets pulled apart over the millenia and the energy contained within it gets redistributed until it forms a new galaxy.
This new galaxy (Aurora?) eventually spawns new planets and eventually life (as we know it). This new life learns, adapts, evolves and becomes intelligent. Once that life form evolves to the point where it can smash atoms, it implodes, and the cycle repeats. - darkciti2, on 07/03/2008, -2/+1All of this has happened before, all of this will never happen again.
- snoop396, on 07/03/2008, -1/+0he invented galactic cycles
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