Comet landing

The scientist stated on the news they want to land on this comet and check for water as we don't know how the water ended up on this planet earth.

Correct me if I'm wrong did we not go through ice age and everything froze and then when it thawed out the land melted and the sea was created? Well I'm sure that's what I was taught at school!

seems like a waste of time chasing this 10 billion dollar comet for the past 10 years!

Gee that makes sense I'm not listening to anything the media, governments or scientists say any more!

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CrossStep said..

Yes, but where did "everything that froze" come from?

There was a huge amount of stuff all compressed (where that stuff came from nobody seems to care)
after a while it was soooo compressed it exploded and made other stuff. (Nevermind that violates entropy)

The most basic atom - hydrogen - was made, and by joining together with energy input from radiation etc (no idea where that energy came from) protons and electrons and neutrons from hydrogen became other things. Eventually it also made oxygen.

Eventually hydrogen and oxygen met and made water - and that would occur. But lets neglect the fact that both are so reactive they would not exist in their natural state and would have reacted with everything else so water would be unlikely - or at least very little of it. For example ammonia would be way more prevalent but the earth got fkloads of water somehow. (Even thought that also violates entropy, all places should have more or less the same stuff after billions of years.)

Then clumps of stuff stuck together and made planets etc. They all rotate the same way for some reason, so we went back and made the aforementioned dense mass a "dense, spinning mass...." That sounds better and makes us feel happy about why stuff spins. Yay for 'science'
Until somebody cluey figured out that some things out there spin the wrong way and that violates the conservation of angular momentum (a thing chucked off a spinning thing will spin the same way). But we ignore that too.

So now we have where water came from and a really bad explanation that now most scientists say is not quite right but we will still teach it to kids at school.

I agree landing on a comet that has water, to figure out why we have water, is a phenomenal waste of money. How about making sure all people on earth have enough water first!!!!????


Or shall we move on to gravity waves, red shift, etc?


Heavy weather, here we come....

Landing a spacecraft on a tiny rock a squillion km the other side of the solar system. That is way cool!

^^^ yeah awesome - can stick a probe on a rock a billion miles away.

But can't fund healthcare, have to increase retirement age, blah blah.
Maybe the NBN will make australia so smart we will beat NASA to the icy rock of importance.

PS sausage - rapid expansion is explosion. Or deflagration but that's just semantics

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southace said..
Gee that makes sense I'm not listening to anything the media, governments or scientists say any more!

Here come the MIB.

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Poodle said..
Landing a spacecraft on a tiny rock a squillion km the other side of the solar system. That is way cool!

An amazing technological achievement for mankind.

Why compare that to mankind's social failures such as the various wars we have going at the moment????

They are just egos out of control. Phuck ego. It is that, that holds us back.

I love science. I think it is massively cool that we can do it.
Australia could win the space race by making an elevator into space we have the geological conditions necessary . It would probably be cheaper than 10 stealth bombers. .
The halidron collider cost money just to learn . Governments just don't govern for the benefit of the people or forward planning for the future . Ok nasa is a fringe group hoping to benefit everybody. But if we can learn enough maybe things will become cheap enough so everybody benefits . Sometimes the technology is there we just need to think outside the box. . How are they going to launch the probe ?private courier that delivers it to space to be assembled or an old saturn 5 rocket.

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Mark _australia said..
^^^ yeah awesome - can stick a probe on a rock a billion miles away.

But can't fund healthcare, have to increase retirement age, blah blah.
Maybe the NBN will make australia so smart we will beat NASA to the icy rock of importance.

PS sausage - rapid expansion is explosion. Or deflagration but that's just semantics

They spend a hell of a lot more on guns n bombs ....

The Big Bang was definitely an explosion of sorts but it was quite special in that it was a rapid expansion i.e. orderly and uniform throughout (apparently) and it appears to have been an expansion of space not in space. Though what that really means I don't know. The WMAP confirms it.

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Mark _australia said..

CrossStep said..

Yes, but where did "everything that froze" come from?

There was a huge amount of stuff all compressed (where that stuff came from nobody seems to care)
after a while it was soooo compressed it exploded and made other stuff. (Nevermind that violates entropy)

The most basic atom - hydrogen - was made, and by joining together with energy input from radiation etc (no idea where that energy came from) protons and electrons and neutrons from hydrogen became other things. Eventually it also made oxygen.

Eventually hydrogen and oxygen met and made water - and that would occur. But lets neglect the fact that both are so reactive they would not exist in their natural state and would have reacted with everything else so water would be unlikely - or at least very little of it. For example ammonia would be way more prevalent but the earth got fkloads of water somehow. (Even thought that also violates entropy, all places should have more or less the same stuff after billions of years.)

Then clumps of stuff stuck together and made planets etc. They all rotate the same way for some reason, so we went back and made the aforementioned dense mass a "dense, spinning mass...." That sounds better and makes us feel happy about why stuff spins. Yay for 'science'
Until somebody cluey figured out that some things out there spin the wrong way and that violates the conservation of angular momentum (a thing chucked off a spinning thing will spin the same way). But we ignore that too.

So now we have where water came from and a really bad explanation that now most scientists say is not quite right but we will still teach it to kids at school.

I agree landing on a comet that has water, to figure out why we have water, is a phenomenal waste of money. How about making sure all people on earth have enough water first!!!!????


Or shall we move on to gravity waves, red shift, etc?


Heavy weather, here we come....

Sounds like a science lesson from Kent Hovind

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slammin said..

NotWal said..

Mark _australia said..
^^^ yeah awesome - can stick a probe on a rock a billion miles away.

But can't fund healthcare, have to increase retirement age, blah blah.
Maybe the NBN will make australia so smart we will beat NASA to the icy rock of importance.

PS sausage - rapid expansion is explosion. Or deflagration but that's just semantics

They spend a hell of a lot more on guns n bombs ....

The Big Bang was definitely an explosion of sorts but it was quite special in that it was a rapid expansion i.e. orderly and uniform throughout (apparently) and it appears to have been an expansion of space not in space. Though what that really means I don't know. The WMAP confirms it.

I thought the whole point of recent discoveries was that it wasn't uniform and that the randomness proved the uniformity???

Relatively uniform. The "A" in WMAP stands for anisotropy. The universe is relatively isotropic. It shows the same amount of anisotropy in all directions. This is believed to account for the consequent clumpy distribution of mass. The notion it contradicts is that if the universe was perfectly homogeneous to begin with it wouldn't be clumpy now.

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