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As I was trying to imply. A one time only advantage, though still better than nothing.

Thanks, that clears that up.

So, I would be highly improbable for any chemical reactions to happen in said nebula? Am I right?

Who do I want to hide from? Well, this is all for a Novel I'm working on (planning) and I was working with the idea of the occupants of a human base somewhere in the solar-system being the only survivors after Earth (and it's other outposts) are wiped clean of life by aliens. I really like the idea ...

I was just wondering if there were any theories regarding the 'atmospheric' pressures within nebulae. I assume they would be lower than most planet's yet greater tha vacuum.

I'm now going to stop being lazy and do some searching myself. Hopefully I can come up with somethign decent.

Actually I'm trying to 'hide' a rogue space station from the solar system in general ( a futuristic scenario). If it were only hiding from Earth it would be easy to put it behind the moon or sun relative to Earth, however it has to hide from most pf the planets. I realize that any perpendicular orbi...

So, Jupiter might have life. Okay. What about Saturn? Are it's conditions almost the same as Jupiter's or what?

What I'm after is a way to 'hide' a space station or some such, and North or South of the Solar Plane just seemed logical at the time. However then I started thinking that if all the planets are (roughly) orbiting on a plane and the sun revolves on the same plane, then there must be something unstab...

Well, I was just wondering if it would be possible to place an object in a stable perpendicular orbit about the sun (in relation to the solar plane)? Also what the limits of distance be (closest to the sun and furthest from the sun) for various orbits?

Yes, I do know how to use search engines. However I can find plenty about Jupiter or Saturn, just nothing with any comparisons of the two.

What I mean by the possibility of harbouring life, is actually 'Can the planet or atmosphere support complex organic molecules and reactions?'

I was just wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for info regarding the atmospheres of these two planets and how they differ. Specifically I'm interested in how they would compare in terms of the posibility of harbouring life.

Thanks.

So what would happen if we changed G to a negative number in regards to other theories?

My specific question about gravity being 'attractive' or 'repulsive' was probably a little confusing (and now irrelevent, as it has been pointed out to me that gravity does not involve particles - gravitons). What I actually meant to ask if I can adequately explain this is; Attractive gravity - Some...

Thanks that explains a lot. So in regards to my second question, would there be a lag in the effects of the 'new' gravity system? And I just realized that my third question is a little bit tricky, as wouldn't the scales also feel the same 'pull' (which isn't really a pull :D ) thus balancing out the...

Whenever I ask this question of somebody it always sounds dumb, but never the less no ones yet managed to answer it. I (and almost everyone else) knows of the effects of gravity (something probably inevitable whyen one lives in a gravity well), but I dodn't know what actually causes it beyond an int...

Well, after much searching on the net I finally came across a program that was able to do what I wanted. http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/ReprojectImage.zip It took me a while but I figured out how to reproject each feature I wanted and then paste them back to the original. Some things just had to ...

After reading all of this I think I might just give up trying to represent this map on a sphere. Or at the very least, I'm not going to try and use some weird program with diddly in the way of documentation. Actually, if anyone here can help me with the usage of Iris I would be very appreciative. I ...

Actually the original file from the scanner is a 4100x2050 52 Mb bitmap (after cropping). When I was back in high school (finish in '95) I was pretty darn good at all my maths, so I think I could easily refresh my memory. However my programming skills are very limited as I've never learnt anything b...

I've also figured that I could possibly use a 3D modelling prog to get something cobbled together. BTW I use Cinema 4D XL. However, what I need is some way to calculate the amount of 'pinching' at a specific latitude than I need some way to pinch each of the northern landmasses and the southern seas...

Well, as for the map I am working on, here is a shrunk down version of it. The original was hand drawn and coloured, but since scanning, it needed some cleaning up, and I find it a hell of a lot easier to work with black and white images. http://world-o-mine.atspace.com Yes I am starting from a flat...