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- jdconn01, on 09/27/2008, -1/+19first time i heard humans referred to as "shaved monkeys"
- dartmanx, on 09/27/2008, -1/+17Gillette paid them to say that.
- abupu, on 09/26/2008, -1/+17Does that mean we're all going to die? :s
- SonnyW, on 09/27/2008, -1/+17The article actually seemed worth reading until "Worse, Bruce Willis will only be available to save us for another fifty years at most." came up.
Ha-ha-ha. - MacBookForMe, on 09/26/2008, -0/+15...why not?...one day...
- Bukowsky, on 09/26/2008, -0/+13yes.
- theshizzler, on 09/27/2008, -0/+9Its an illustration. We only have a general idea of where the spiral arms are based on star densities and perceived distances - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax The second picture is our current understanding of the geography of the Milky Way (with the vague colored lines). Its difficult to see the exact geography because we're inside what we're trying to examine, but we have a general idea of what it looks like and approximately where the Sun is. As you can see, the core of the galaxy prevents us from seeing the entirety of the galaxy. For all we know, the Perseus arm could be an extension of the Norma arm, but because of the core we have no way of knowing for sure.
- thegrantman, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7Instead of an arrow with "sun" next to it he should have used "you are here".
- Mujokan, on 09/27/2008, -0/+6Look up at the Milky Way, which of course is that big band of bright stars that often goes from one side of the sky to the other. That's the disk of the galaxy seen side on. We are rotating around that. The brightest part is in the center, but you don't see a fireball because we are quite far out. (As you can see in one of the images in the article, the center is kind of near Sagittarius from our perspective.)
That's the final "down" direction for us. Then the sun is the next "down" direction. Then the Earth. If you look up just after sunset, with maybe the Moon and Venus up, and possibly a planet like Mars or Saturn, you can kind of picture the orbits in the sky... Especially if you are... ahem... smoking... - inactive, on 09/27/2008, -1/+6"Impact craters recorded worldwide show correlations with the ~37 million year-cycle of these journeys through the galactic plane - including the vast impact craters thought to have put an end to the dinosaurs two cycles ago."
Don't they mean every 4,000 years? XD - Scien, on 09/27/2008, -0/+5Of course our huge egos and huge guns might be the most likely cause of our extinction.
- Trigononamous, on 09/27/2008, -0/+5Light Pollution can prevent you from seeing celestial objects in the night sky, including the Milky Way. If there were absolutely no interference, it'd look something more like http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a ...
- Mujokan, on 09/27/2008, -1/+5Not the edge of the Universe, exactly. Basically they can use telescopes to capture light that's been travelling up to a maximum time of the history of the universe. So they can see "back in time" to the Big Bang (cosmic microwave background radiation). However, there are plenty of areas of the Universe they can't see because light hasn't had time to get here from there yet. The actual edge of the Universe "right now" (so to speak), we can't see.
But anyway, they can capture a whole bunch of light and other radiation from the whole galaxy and make up a picture of what's going on, or what was going on when the light was emitted, at least. - takeo1775, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4Whens the next pass begin?
- Rudegar, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4I propose we just catapult Ben Affleck at the meteor
- guybrush3000, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4In regards to the picture in the article, how do we have photos of our own galaxy from the outside?
- Lazydriver, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4No, dumbass. They use very high powered telescopes to see to the edge of the Universe now.
- Trigononamous, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3Or clone. The more, the merrier.
- nevpayne, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3Next alignment is....
*sigh*
December 21st 2012. - joshuabaker, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3We should cryogenically freeze Bruce, just incase.
- JustinTX, on 09/27/2008, -1/+4Dugg for: " . . . it's nice to see theories for that from Kansas not based on 'an angry bearded man in the sky did it'."
Not EVERYONE in the South is a bible thumping redneck. - Mujokan, on 09/27/2008, -1/+4Either God posted it to Flickr, or it's a simulated image built up from telescope data.
- GregR, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3Odd they they show the sun's orbit around the core to be circular.
Looking at the solar system as an example of how planets and moons behave, all of them have elliptical orbits, so why would the sun's orbit be any different? - Mujokan, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Delicious dust, I believe.
- rebotfc, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2So long, and thanks for all the fish...
- RSMiller, on 09/27/2008, -2/+4Dugg for the "angry bearded man" comment in the story.
- waywardsoulnf, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3I think we'll have a higher chance of surviving than the dinosaurs...Seeing as they didnt have huge brains and even more huge guns...
- MrSlumberjack, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2I read somewhere that we are shielded from the center of the galaxy by massive clouds of some kind of dust.
- Mockylock, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1DUCK!
- Wakuko, on 09/27/2008, -2/+3Why is it that if we look in the direction of the center of the galaxy, we don't see a huge fireball as in the picture?
Where is the ***** center of the galaxy in our sky? - stonebear, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1Actually, the is earth safe from the extinction level events caused by deviation of the solar system from the galactic plane, as it is nearing the 2012 alignment with it. Of concern to astro-theologists and scientists alike, is how the tremendous gravity spooling out of the black hole along the galactic plane will affect our system, especially since the sun's protective magnetic field has been diminishing as it approaches the plane. Earth's magnetic field grows increasingly erratic, and it's thought a pole flip is eminent.
The implications of that for earth are largely unknown, but there is much concern that it will wreak havoc with technology, and possibly the psyche of man. Of interest to many is the Mayan calendar, in which the shifting of world cycles matches up with the solar system's alignment with the galactic plane, as well as it's position at the extremes of its deviation from it, with the greatest world changing events being associated with the alignment.
According to the Mayan long count calendar; in 2012 the current world is be destroyed, and a new one created. People are interpreting that in all kinds of ways, but one must really get into the classical Mayan head to understand what that means. Unfortunately the genocide that was wrought upon that civilization by the Spanish has made it very difficult, but archaeologists have been making progress.
A couple of interesting Astrotheologists:
Maurice Cotterell ~ Secrets Of The Supergods http://tinyurl.com/4jl3ec (torrent)
David Flynn ~ The Doomsday Clock http://tinyurl.com/3mnjw6 (google video) - ljw5021, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Older than internet.
- scribat, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1EPIC FAIL
- novenator, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1I've never thought about it this way. Good article.
"...the ~37 million year-cycle of these journeys through the galactic plane - including the vast impact craters..." astronomers must have finely calibrated their models to determine not only our location in the galaxy, but our motion above and below the galactic plane. Interesting - aeschynanthus, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1The Milky Way as seen from the Earth is the brightest in the direction of the centre -- in Sagittarius. There are lots of stars in that direction. We don't see a ball of fire there because interstellar dust clouds obscure the visible light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way#View_from_E ... - ryuho, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1I liked the article, i loled at the end of it.
- Mujokan, on 09/27/2008, -0/+0Dammit, now you made me want to shave my monkey
- Mujokan, on 09/27/2008, -1/+1An invisible dot on an invisible dot... Infinitely small... (The Total Perspective Vortex)
- AllenFresno, on 09/27/2008, -3/+3Yeah.. I think the Milky way journey is going to be deadly... deadly boring! lol
- skinturtle, on 09/27/2008, -1/+0@LazyDriver - Hey there ass-twad...what you said is about like saying, "I can tell what my house looks like because I can see the forest at the edge of the lawn,"
Fail. - Cowboy1015, on 09/27/2008, -2/+1We're gonna dieeee!!!
- sirmasterboy, on 09/27/2008, -5/+3Also because there is most likely a giant black hole at the center of our galaxy which would suck in a great deal of light as well.
- skinturtle, on 09/27/2008, -4/+0How do they know the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and how do they know where in this galaxy we are located? Did the aliens tell them?
- MidnightRadio, on 09/26/2008, -7/+2probably! :)
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