Space The Final Frontier

[Ratae]

Even managed to get one of next door's cats in a snare, but that's another story.

Shameless, some people are utterly shameless and lack any of the milk of human kindness. But still, our Al is a Jocko, barbarians the lot of them, he still pokes at a sheeps entrails and howls at a full moon I expect!

[banjo]

If clouds are absent:
Good view of Saturn's rings at the minute. (ie, not end on)
You can always see at least 3 of Jupiter's moons.
Easier to see than the majority of deep sky wonders.
$0.02.

e&oe

[Ratae]

Aug 13, 2014 16:13:02 GMT Ratae said:

Aug 13, 2014 15:55:24 GMT Craig72 said:

Hello Roy, have a look at this site about carbon dating and it'll give you some idea on how we can work out the age of things.

science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/carbon-14.htm

Oh and the oldest fossil is approx 3.4 BILLION years old, not 640 Million.

Craig.

And it lives here in our local museum. Somewhere on these forums there is a piccy of it, I put it up ages ago. Can't remember where though!

Here it is....'Charnia'

[Craig72]

Aug 13, 2014 19:06:01 GMT toyboyroy said:

Aug 13, 2014 12:20:32 GMT banjo said:

The outer edge of our solar system is 21,499,783,050 Km. away. So I assume that is the radius, therefore the Square area is phenomenal yet on this scale to get to the farthest regions of the observable universe, another 435,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km (Now its impossible to imagine the square area of that,)or 46 billion light years away. (I googled it) www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140304-how-big-is-space-interactive/index.html

Roy mate, I think you've got your distances muddled up a bit.

A light year is approx 6,000,000,000,000 miles. That's 6 Trillion miles. And the most distant star is about 13.5 Billion light years away. So 6 Trillion times 13.5 Billion will give you the miles.

Craig.

[Ratae]

'A long way'...can we just settle on that?


Ratty the pragmatic.

[Craig72]

Aug 14, 2014 15:27:29 GMT Ratae said:

'A long way'...can we just settle on that?


Ratty the pragmatic.

Yes we can Rats, but not far enough for the wabbits to hide from you. LOL.

Craig.

[postman]

infinity?

could be this thread

or...

[toyboyroy]

Aug 14, 2014 15:19:23 GMT Craig72 said:

Aug 13, 2014 19:06:01 GMT toyboyroy said:

The outer edge of our solar system is 21,499,783,050 Km. away. So I assume that is the radius, therefore the Square area is phenomenal yet on this scale to get to the farthest regions of the observable universe, another 435,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km (Now its impossible to imagine the square area of that,)or 46 billion light years away. (I googled it) www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140304-how-big-is-space-interactive/index.html

Roy mate, I think you've got your distances muddled up a bit.

A light year is approx 6,000,000,000,000 miles. That's 6 Trillion miles. And the most distant star is about 13.5 Billion light years away. So 6 Trillion times 13.5 Billion will give you the miles.

Craig.

Craig me Welsh comrade, I copied and pasted from the site that has the link to it. If you need to correct somebody follow the link and CRACK ON

Roy