How exactly could we have space exploration/moon landings without government?

sirachman said:
They are entirely unrelated.

Dark matter is an as yet unknown substance. We call it dark because it does not interact with the electromagnetic force, or light, and therefore is invisible. Dark matter does have mass, and does exert its gravitational force on regular matter. Years ago, physicists were looking for an explanation as to why spiral galaxies, which should fly apart as its arms swirl around the center, remain intact. Something with great mass surrounding the galaxies seems to hold the spiral arms in place, otherwise they would fling billions of stars into space. So dark matter emerged as the best theory. Contraversy remains as to whether this is actually a new kind of matter, or the effects of gravity at large scales.

Dark energy is believed to be the force of the expansion of the universe. This is vacuum energy, the force that tends to push objects away from each other. This force was confirmed in the famous Casimir expirement in 1948. Dark energy acts as an anti-gravity force, pushing the large galactic clusters further apart as it expands the size of the voids between them.
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:confused: I see
 
sirachman said:
So what is 4% of infinity again? lol
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"Infinity" is only a meaningful concept in mathematics. :rolleyes: Everything we know of in REALITY is finite. ;)

Of that 4% being atoms, ~95% of it is hydrogen. Pretty BORING.<IMHO>
 
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Truth Warrior said:
"Infinity" is only a meaningful concept in mathematics. :rolleyes: Everything we know of in REALITY is finite. ;)

Of that 4% being atoms, ~95% of it is hydrogen. Pretty BORING.<IMHO>
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If you figure in the speed of the universes expansion and the laws of physics restricting motion of solid bodies to less than the speed of light then it is impossible to explore the entire universe before it grows larger. I guess you also dont comprehend the scales you are dealing with. Accepting your figures as correct that would mean that .2 percent of the universe is "other that hydrogen" not to mention the fact that in chemistry you would learn that hydrogen is involved in just a few other chemical compounds. This is also counting all the space between galaxies stars and planets which is vastly enormous. Discounting that, even if this was ONLY counting entire galaxies there are hundreds of billions of them. In only the observable universe there are many more than 125 billion-500 billion. If we say that that is 125 billion then there are .25 BILLION galaxies worth of elements other than hydrogen in just those galaxies and thats also if as I said we pretend those percentages dotn apply to all the empty space. Do you realize the enormity of that? Yes i agree it is finite, but its infinite for all intents and purposes humanity could ever need. There is nothing boring about that.
 
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sirachman said:
If you figure in the speed of the universes expansion and the laws of physics restricting motion of solid bodies to less than the speed of light then it is impossible to explore the entire universe before it grows larger. I guess you also dont comprehend the scales you are dealing with. Accepting your figures as correct that would mean that .2 percent of the universe it "other that hydrogen" not to mention the fact that in chemistry you would learn that hydrogen is involved in just a few other chemical compounds. This is also counting all the space between galaxies stars and planets which is vastly enormous. Discounting that, even if this was ONLY counting entire galaxies there are hundreds of billions of them. In only the observable universe there are many more than 125 billion-500 billion. If we say that that is 125 billion then there are .25 BILLION galaxies worth of elements other than hydrogen in just those galaxies and thats also if as I said we pretend those percentages dotn apply to all the empty space. Do you realize the enormity of that? Yes i agree it is finite, but its infinite for all intents and purposes humanity could ever need. There is nothing boring about that.
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You may just want to argue that with the WMAP data and scientists. ;)

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
 
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Danke said:
Oh yeah, NASA solar panel designs have solved our energy needs, silly me.
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Wow.. Yer just a whizbang bundle of curious intellectuality. I will bet you get your hamburgers from cows struck by lightning while you wallow naked in the hollow of the woods.

Randy
 
Truth Warrior said:
Why? Are we competing? :rolleyes:
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Revolution9 said:
Wow.. Yer just a whizbang bundle of curious intellectuality. I will bet you get your hamburgers from cows struck by lightning while you wallow naked in the hollow of the woods.

Randy
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You can do better than that Randy. I mean look at all the trillions we have spent on the military industrial complex. Mankind is so much further advancement because of it, just look at our miraculous economy. Debt, no problem. Silly talk. Free markets sucks. USA! USA! USA!
 
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