Experts Urge a Reprieve for the Hubble Space Telescope

NY Times ^ | 08/15/03 | DENNIS OVERBYE

[RadioAstronomer]

Ping! :-)

[EBUCK]

2. Civilization will have sunk to a point where the crash won't be meaningful.

Unless yer the poor sap that happens to have his mud and straw hut in the designated landing zone...lol.

[EBUCK]

Has anyone considered that the light from the initial bang has already gone out? It is possible that the birth certificate has faded away and that whatever evidience there was may have already sped by us.

[RadioAstronomer]

Actually we can "see" the echo from the Big Bang. It is the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation. Sometimes noted as CMBR also.

[EBUCK]

I've read that, like ripples coming back off the bank of a lake, the reverberations are apparant...but wht I'm getting at is the actual event may have burnt itself out and it's direct evidence (that hubblesque technology would be able to detect) may have already blew by us, gone for good.

[RadioAstronomer]

Except everywhere you look is the "center" of the universe. (blown by us is not correct)

Here is an awesome link that you would enjoy! :-)

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm

[EBUCK]

Bum Link....

[RadioAstronomer]

It doesn't work for you?

[EBUCK]

No, I tried to get there every way I could.....

[RadioAstronomer]

I dont understand :-( I tried again and it worked fine. Here let me try a different link:

http://cosmos.colorado.edu/astr1120/l12S1.htm

There is also a link to the one I posted above from this site also. :-)

[EBUCK]

That one worked...thank you!

[edwin hubble]

"The earth has a non-trivial moon, which makes it wobble slightly in its solar orbit. Thus, the real center of mass of the earth-moon system is a bit off from the geographical center of the earth. Since the satellite also feels the tug of the moon, it is basically orbiting the earth-moon center of gravity. "

Yes, The center of mass of the Earth-moon system lies about halfway between the Earth's center and its surface. This 'wobble' of the Earth is responsible for the second tide each day - on the side opposite the moon.