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isn't that t he real question.... sorry.. away for a looooooooooooooooong time. Rao would be in a distant galaxy... and tha's not allowed in Celestia... yet... right? not even.. for... one star...? and .. one planet? but, Apokolips would look great in celestia too...

Thanks.. i was wondering about that.. though, i've never heard or read it...(just more the disspersal of light) The beam of photons being more like a river, or cloud of energy releaset in any particular direction. This would fit the idea of it, as a form of energy, moving in waves (not that i'm sayi...

Nice!! i love this site lol

why was buddah hiding in a black hole add on? i thought that was hilarious

i know this... and believe me, it's still logical, however... i have a question.... ever look at some friends with flashlights in a valley while you were in a mountain? the light that comes from the flashlight is vastly dispersed by air, dust etc. Is its speed reduced at all? The originating point, ...

No, i wasn't asking the questions to evade an answer. Living on Earth, there are many variables that affect our existence. One or two might be singled out.. but, if all of them factor in our existence, is it logical to leave the other things out? My question is when we determine the motion of all th...

Ok... so, what if what we're observing is really a change in the shape of the Local group or a gravitational bubble of sorts (possibly the expansion or c ontraction of the Solar Wind.. like a lens)? How do we KNOW that we're seeing the motion of these galaxies if the light is "billions of years" old...

Is it me.. or did they forget the steam, the rush of atmosphere(wild storms, atmospheric waves e tc), resulting earthquakes, tsunamis, Missile launches (unfortunately, couldn't that be a problem) or waves of land as the thing obviously, smashed pretty deep into the crustt. What about tidal effects b...

Well, unless we start to study the universe from more than one point at a time (for instance four separtate satellites working in unison from great enough distances), our observation methods are basically, spherical. At any one point a sattelite has to rotate to get a full perspective based on its b...

Yeah.. i was wondnering if computer models were being used as the time differential due to the speed of light, the distance it has to travel, gravity, dark matter, etc etc.. come into play. Thanks for your answer... back to the research.

This, i knew... i was referring to how we determine what particular motion is being observed.. when nearly all we're observing is moving.. and not, in the same direction? For example, that everything's expanding, when we're moving in one direction, the solar system is moving in its direction, the mi...

What wasn't serious?

until the Science police come...they like to eat donuts for late night breakfast

Okay, here's a question, i've always wanted to have answered... maybe i'm an idiot.. ut, i'd still like to know the answer. Amidst all the motion of worlds, stars, stellar systems, galaxies, galactic clusters, helixes of galactic clusters etc.... how do w e know what specific motion is being recorde...

I thought i said that.

I know many people here might think this is schtoopitz.. but, here's a question... God tells Noah... there'll be a flood in 120 years... Being far enough away from the impact zone... Noah might not have recorded that God used a big rock to initiate the deed. Did God say 120 years because it would ta...

The considerations of the universe aren't useless, the arguing may be. If something is, well, it is. If it isn't, well, it isn't. But, if we don't know... we have something to attain. Many arguments are funny to me... "Does life need death to exist?" obviously, not.. it may use it to its own ends bu...

As an artist, i've always wondered why scientists haven't made greater attempts at... "realism" in this respect. If we know the Galactic center of Andromeda.. and have the power to view galaxies even more distant.. then.. IMHO we should be able to map Andromeda.. to some degree.. allowing us to 'gro...

I've been using celestia onon my macs for a couple of years now 1.4.1 now (isn't there a 1.4.2?) I would love to still be able to use it when i upgrade to theh next Pro desktop version with a much better video card. i have a 466GHz with a 128MB card... slow but beaautiful... now a 1.25GHz mini with ...

Waiting for the 64 bit Mac OS GUI............. then it's really on, i guess.....

I like the galaxies.... clusters were showing before, and now. why can't i get nebulae to show? lol........yeah..i traded my 466 for a mini.... faster processer.. faster ram.... faster bus... lower calibur videocard.