“A Perilous Journey” –Our Solar System Has Completed 20 Orbits of the Milky Way

Daily Galaxy ^ | 6/26/2021 | Maxwell Moe

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Maybe we are all that there is."

I find that utterly TERRIFYING!

However, I guess we COULD be suspended inside a charm on a cat's collar! ('Men In Black') I strangly find that MORE comforting than any alternative, LOL!

[Fred Nerks]

recycling:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3971264/posts?page=7#7

[Deaf Smith]

If my Galactic Year age is 0.0000027876 can I still buy beer & Copenhagen?

[jonrick46]

"we are a train wreck waiting to happen as we corkscrew through through the Galaxy..."

That is why scientists are looking at exoplanets to discover possible habitats able to support human life--just in case we see disaster ahead. Even as the next generation of space telescopes comes online, like the James Webb Space Telescope, you'd need a 90-kilometer-wide telescope to see surface features on a future home 100 light years away. However, there is another alternative solution: The project, called the Solar Gravity Lens, or SGL will use Albert Einstein's idea that said, over a century ago, that gravity can bend and magnify light--a concept known as gravitational lensing. The gravitational field of the sun will create an immense lens. It will require precise navigation, communications over long distances, and the need for a sunshade to keep our own Sun's light from entering the telescope. A coronagraph would also be required to block the light from the exoplanet parent's star. Getting to the focal point will be challenging but the results will be spectacular. Once we determine which exoplanets have promising features, how will be get there? Think the Star Trek warp drive. Scientist have discovered how we can make a warp drive possible so men can travel to distant planets in minutes. Those strange UFOs we are observing may have discovered the way to make warp drive work already.

[Zuriel]

**OUR GALAXY
Top view
(simulated image)**

Simulated.... ok, I was almost going to assume that Spock took that pic from the Enterprise.

Top view? The folks in the southern hemisphere may disagree.

[Openurmind]

Thank you. Yes I am hip to the agenda. And there was a great thread on here a few days back about past and future proposed projects. It talked about the coronagraph telescope. Cool stuff. :)

[Sapwolf]

Only twenty?

Come on, Man!

[familyop]

"Oops!! Make that, 60 or more orbits around the SUN, not the earth! Lol!"

I was wondering where you've been.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? . . . He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. ” (Psalms 2:1, 4).

[gundog]

You misspelled gottened. :)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks colorado tanker.

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[Wuli]

I have an older brother that always refers to his birthdays as him having completed X number of “circumnavigations of the sun”.

[ETL]

Time is sometimes expressed that way in sci-fi television shows.

(I mistakenly said orbits around the EARTH, as opposed to the Sun, and corrected it afterwards)

[colorado tanker]

This does create some interesting questions. For example, did the region of the Galaxy the Earth was traveling through at the time contribute to Snowball Earth? Did it have something to do with the first microbial life on Earth? I have no idea how anyone could answer those questions, but they’re interesting to contemplate.

[SunkenCiv]

Good point, I'd not considered the panspermia angle.

[Reily]

Read “The Chilling Stars” !