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Freaking cool. I didn't know we had something on the planet.
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By "we", do you mean the Soviet Union?
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When it comes to space travel, We is the Human Race.
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Yeah, we as in Earth
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Don't know if this one has been mentioned. This is Saturn's moon Iapetus, also known as the Walnut moon. It has a ridge that goes around the planet halving it almost perfectly. In places that ridge is 12.4 miles high (20 kilometers) and 120 miles wide and goes about 75% around the moon. Scientists don't know exactly how this occured but they think another moon crashed into it. We have never seen something like this in any other body.
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Another look at the Saturn Hexagon.
The Lakes on Titan
The hexagon freaks me out. I was reading recently that originally Voyager took a shot of it in like the 1970's and NASA claimed it was a lens anomaly and not actually there. Then another probe reached it 30 years later, forget the name of the probe, and then with HD photos they couldn't deny it anymore. The southern pole of Saturn is also odd.
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Mind blowing considering Everest is only 8.8 kilometers, and that mountain range ( if you want to call it that) barely looks like a bump.Don't know if this one has been mentioned. This is Saturn's moon Iapetus, also known as the Walnut moon. It has a ridge that goes around the planet halving it almost perfectly. In places that ridge is 12.4 miles high (20 kilometers) and 120 miles wide and goes about 75% around the moon. Scientists don't know exactly how this occured but they think another moon crashed into it. We have never seen something like this in any other body.
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Our cosmological reach is greater than we realize.
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Our cosmological reach is greater than we realize.
That's not reach bro. That's a baby gazelle hiding in a bush and being too noisy for its own good.
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Lol what?
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Ever looked at any ecosystem? Do you really want to attract the attention of every lion on the Serengeti to the location where you are trying to hide and grow? There is this idea that all the wonderful creatures of the universe will wish us all the best. I don't view it that way.
Its like the gold Voyager disc we sent out into the universe that tells our exact location in case anyone finds it. Insanity.
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Lol. Paranoia (maybe)
The "food chain law of the jungle" may just be a humanistic trait - despite Hawkings vision of nomadic aliens that would take us over.
It's all just speculation at this point but we have no real reason to believe aliens would be hostile but it's fun to think of how they view us.
I think aliens (advanced) know we exist and view as like a cosmological microcosm of a Mississippi - they know we are backwards, slow and no one wants to visit it - but they just let us be.
The Voyager also has a recording of
Johnny B. Goode on it - so aliens may just want to party with us.
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Well, if we find the aliens that are seeking Johnny B. Goode then we might be alright, but yea, I'm not buying into this idea that there are no predators lying in wait. That pretty much violates every law of nature we have ever known. I would prefer not to be sitting here watching Honey Boo Boo eat butter and sketti when they arrive. :icon_lol:
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Haha
Well true that it's the only law of nature we know or can evaluate.
That being said, I would welcome our new Alien overloads
I also wouldn't blame aliens for being a little on edge around us - we do have a history of "hey look, it's something new and different - KILL IT!!!!!!"
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Perhaps we are out here in the middle of nowhere for a reason. Perhaps it is going to take a few hundred thousand years of society building before we, as a society, will be ready for the truth regarding aliens. Humanity has progressed very far in a few thousand years. But we are at the very beginning of the consciousness spectrum, and likely will not be encountering alien cultures, if they exist, for a long long time. Certainly not in our lifetimes.
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Like most hot babes, you end up burned and crushed.
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That's true, but better then being rejected by a babe that's as cold as ice.
If I had the choice, I would rather be a star than a planet.
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pretty sure the gold disc in voyager was a dvd of Caddyshack 2
we are safe. no one wants any of that shit
