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HUGE scientific discovery...milky way is NOT our parent galaxy
Posted by kindm's on 05 Jul, 2007 10:45 -
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Very cool. I love this stuff. Just think how much more our kids will know about the universe than we do...
...but there\'s one thing that bothers me in those articles: they are now attributing global warming to higher electro-magnetic radiation by our new position in the milky way. Whether they\'re right or not, this point will make its way to every conservative blog as a reason to ignore environmental issues.
Then again, if Pat Robertson (or George W) wants to rely on this news, he\'ll have to concede that the earth wasn\'t created in 7 days..... -
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Quote from: Dweasel Weasel;151357
Very cool. I love this stuff. Just think how much more our kids will know about the universe than we do...
...but there\'s one thing that bothers me in those articles: they are now attributing global warming to higher electro-magnetic radiation by our new position in the milky way. Whether they\'re right or not, this point will make its way to every conservative blog as a reason to ignore environmental issues.
Then again, if Pat Robertson (or George W) wants to rely on this news, he\'ll have to concede that the earth wasn\'t created in 7 days.....
I agree but if it is true it is something to take in to consideration. They also talk about how the polar caps of mars are melting as well so it could have a lot to do with the issues. -
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sweet, good heads up
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Bottom line= Earth is ****!!
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Galactic collisions may produce the quasars, gamma ray bursters, and active galactic centers that had been attributed to black holes before repulsive interactions between neutrons were recognized.
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so here\'s what I\'m wondering -
Currently, the milky way is at (give or take) a 90 degree angle to our plane:
Now, after our shift, (given, this can take hours or centuries, it\'s impossible to predict but will probably be long coming) the stars in the sky will stay relative to each other. Only our galaxy is moving. So, ALL STARS will rotate 90 degrees:
So um, everythings going to move (ok, only we are moving, but it is easier to think of everything else as moving). Polaris will probably no longer be our north star, but not due to the precession of our axis, which causes us to pick a new star every few milenia (example, it used to be thuban and they plan on it changing to Gamma Cephei, then lota Cephei and eventually Vega around 5200) These last 3 may be way off though now.
We may have a completely different region of space being \'north\', and thus a new star, or none at all visible to the naked eye. pretty crazy.
If this sounds confusing to you, think of yourself as the galaxy and everything you see in front of you the sky. Now turn your head 90 degrees. The computer screen is still close to where it was before, but other things you see may move a great distance. -
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What I also found interesting was that this "Shift\' is what explains the Mayan calendar ending when it does.
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I saw something about this on the Science Channel last night, regarding the Mayan calender and the "shift" that ends it all.
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most of the reasoning I have found for the mayan calendar has to do with the fact that that date is the end of the pictun cycle from when they started counting. I had heard that this date was part of when we were suppose to first go back across the plane of the milky way, but I *think* I also hear the planets are aligning then(?). No matter how you read it though, the mayans knew their stuff with astronomy and stuff like this is most likely NOT a coincidence.
Either way it\'s pretty ironic that those spanish priest picked the 3 documents out of the fire that they did as they conquistadors were destroying all the heretics\' non-christian documents :sigh:, that they had to do with the calendar. Otherwise, we would have never known of it. God only knows what those idiots destroyed that we may or may not have relearned yet. -