1947 Roswell UFO Crash Blamed On Russians, Not Aliens - Stalin, Mengele Mentioned Too

[ashstralia]

ouch. my great great great slutty auntie stole your ancestor's pig.

that's a 6 billion to one shot, too.

[Hardrock69]

Space is really big.

Almost all the light we see from stars is older than Ezekiel.

In other words if your alien that Ezekiel saw lived at the centre of our galaxy and left back then in 500BC at the speed of light at this point he would only be 10% of the way home.

Anyway what makes Ezekiel a reliable witness to anything? Have you read that book - he's a total loon. :p

Totally agree. But keep in mind that our Universe is 13 billion years old (give or take a few hundred million). It only took 3 billion years for the Earth to form, and for the human race to evolve to where we are now.

So who is to say other civilizations did not rise up about 10 billion years ago? If they had the same learning curve as us humans, give them 10 million years or so, and they could probably travel wherever the fuck they wanted!

Not only that, even if they could only travel at the speed of light.....if they left their home world 2 billion years ago, they could easily have reached Earth by the 1950s, depending upon where they started from.

[ashstralia]

here's a cool vid where the earth rotation is more apparent.

[Hardrock69]

Now THAT is a cool concept! Show the EARTH rotating, not the sky! Right on, Ash!

Kinda freaky.....

I am sure there are people out there who, for whatever reason, suddenly get confronted with just how huge the Universe is, and then go off the deep end and wind up in a rubber room with nice burly men in white coats.

[Seshmeister]

[ashstralia]

wow, cool sesh. wonder if we'll see some electro mag disturbances? and i agree hr... sometimes, in the right frame of mind, one can totally trip balls on the sheer magnitude of the universe...

[Seshmeister]

It is due to peak in 2013.

[Take 'Em]

Russians? Impossible. Everyone knows that the UFO Crash was caused by Michael Schenker, so it must have been the Germans!!!!!!!

[Hardrock69]

Man! That explosion on the sun was fucking massive!

Sure hope the sun does not decide to blow up, or we are all fucked.....

[Blaze]

Sure hope the sun does not decide to blow up, or we are all fucked.....

That is quite an understatement. Though I do agree, the sun blowing up would present some unique challenges.

[ashstralia]

the sun occasionally does a little 'sun fart'. a nice big cme is randomly unpredictable. how good is it that we can view it due to technology..

[Seshmeister]

Views from Cassini at Saturn

Credit: Images: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA; Video Compilation: Chris Abbas;
Music Credit & License: Ghosts I-IV (Nine Inch Nails)



CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.



Explanation: What has the Cassini orbiter seen since arriving at Saturn? The above music video shows some of the highlights. In the first time-lapse sequence (00:07), a vertical line appears that is really Saturn's thin rings seen nearly edge-on. Soon some of Saturn's moon shoot past.

The next sequence (00:11) features Saturn's unusually wavy F-ring that is constrained by the two shepherd moons that are also continually perturbing it. Soon much of Saturn's extensive ring system flashes by, sometimes juxtaposed to the grandeur of the immense planet itself.

Cloud patterns on Titan (00:39) and Saturn (00:41) are highlighted. Clips from flyby's of several of Saturn's moon are then shown, including Phoebe, Mimas, Epimetheus, and Iapetus. In other sequences, moons of Saturn appear to pass each other as they orbit Saturn. Background star fields seen by Cassini are sometimes intruded upon by bright passing moons. The robotic Cassini spacecraft has been revolutionizing humanity's knowledge of Saturn and its moons since 2004.

[Hardrock69]

Fucking amazing......and there are probably civilizations in the universe with technology that would be viewed as "magic" by us.

[Seshmeister]

It's nuts that you can just about see the rings of Saturn with the naked eye 800 million miles away when they are just 30 feet thick!

[Seshmeister]

http://www.black-cat-studios.com/planetparks/Saturns_Rings.html

One: Lord of the Rings




There is nothing in the solar system quite like Saturn’s rings. They are not unique—Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune all have ring systems—but there is nothing to compare to their sheer magnificence and spectacle. The rings of the other planets are so dark and thin that they are invisible to even the most powerful telescopes—the existence of two of them was not even suspected until passing spacecraft photographed them. Saturn’s, on the other hand, are brilliant—the broad B ring is brighter even than the planet itself. This is because the rings of the other planets are made of dark rocky dust while Saturn’s rings are made of ice. And while the other planets’ rings are narrow bands as thin as smoke, Saturn’s are flat and wide, like a pizza or compact disk

The rings can be easily seen through even a small telescope. When the planet is at its maximum tilt toward or away from the Earth, the rings are a magnificent sight, appearing brilliant white against the pale yellow planet.

The rings are unbelievably vast. They cover an area of over 15 billion square miles (40 billion km 2 ), 80 times the total surface area of Earth. To travel from the inner edge of the rings to the outer edge, a space traveler would have to cover a distance equal to thirteen trips across the United States. Their full width from one side to the other is 70 percent that of the distance between Earth and the Moon. The thickness of the rings, however, rarely exceeds 33 feet (10 m). The rings are so thin that a sheet of paper the size of San Francisco would have the same proportions. If you were to make a model of the rings three feet (1 m) wide, it would have to be 10,000 times thinner than a razor blade.

The rings are divided into three distinct bands. The outer one, the A ring, and the broader, brighter B ring. Separating them is a narrow space called the Cassini Division (it only appears to be narrow because the rings are so large, the gap is actually large enough to drop the Earth’s Moon through!). Inside the B ring is the dim, translucent ring called the crêpe ring (or the C ring). Even before the advent of spacecraft, astronomers were aware of at least one additional very narrow outer ring and the Pioneer and Voyager probes discovered many more. There is now known to be at least seven distinct rings altogether. Additionally, Voyager found that the A and B rings were themselves made up of 500 to 1000 extremely narrow rings, like the grooves on an old-fashioned phonograph record.

The rings are made of billions of chunks of nearly pure water ice, something like the ice cubes you can buy in a bag at a convenience store. Some of the particles may be "dirty" or coated with dust. The ring particles are very small, ranging in size from grains of sugar to several feet. A few half mile- (kilometer-) sized bodies may also exist. If all of the material in the rings could be compressed into a ball, it would form a moon only 60 miles (100 km) across. Each ring particle is an individual moon and circles Saturn in its own orbit. It can be rightly said that Saturn is a planet with a billion moons.

There are many reasons for thinking that the rings are relatively young. One of these is how "clean" the ring particles are. The rings are so bright because the ice particles they are made of have not yet had time to be covered with dark dust. Another reason is that the gravitational effects of all of Saturn’s moons—the same forces that create the thousands of large and small gaps in the rings—make the rings unstable. They only look the way they do now because the moons haven’t had enough time yet to disrupt them. A few million years from now, however, the rings will start to fall in toward Saturn and the solar system will lose one of its greatest natural wonders.