"All of a sudden I'm seeing lots of little clues that the 1980s are making something of a nostalgic comeback."
Man, I hope not. The 80's sucked. I had two 70's and jumped right to the 90's. :-)
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Okay, so where's Uranus supposed to be? |
Cool! I've never heard that before. In fact I had always heard the Milky Way was isolated from other galaxies, thus lowering the risk of collision and keeping our insurance rates way down.
This information is really rather... creepy.
the full article isn't bad at all. shallow, but well presented.
related, a Blast from the Past:
Astronomy Picture of the Day 09-01-04
NASA | 09-01-04 | Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell
Posted on 09/01/2004 12:34:45 PM EDT by petuniasevan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1204850/posts
Moving the Orbits of Planets
David Jewitt | Last updated Sep 2004 | David Jewitt
Posted on 02/02/2006 12:44:25 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1570230/posts
I wonder if both scenarios might be right -- what if the inner planets start out as giant balls of gas just like the outer planets, but during the early stages of the newly formed solar system the Sun causes the gas to boil off of the closer planets over a hundred million years or so, eventually leaving just the denser, rocky residue that had originally been a small percentage of the young gas giant, but now remains as what we would recognize as an Earthlike (or Marslike/Venuslike) planet?
