>>>Gunrock
"Man, that would be a huge mess."

I don't know what might be the volume of matter ejected in a Borgasm. Possibly enough for another "Milky way?"

The Borg would put an end to fake climax as well. The collective consciousness would demand total satisfaction every time. No doubt about that.

hello, friend. yes, you. for if you can read this, then you are that. do you like music?
wanna' be me, for the next 5 minutes? open this, in a window or tab, at 1/3 volume:

http://www.videosift.com/video/TATU-Cosmos-Outer-Space

...and then, in another, open this at full volume:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Carl-Sagan-Cosmos-Intro

and hit play on both. and know that i am in awe of us all, and none more so than TEDsters, Mensa, and most of the people i've met at this site. yes, even shroom. i don't want him banned either. i want him to grow the fuck up and start listening, and trying to understand, as much as the rest of us are.
and what happened, was not because of anything i did. or dag did. it was because of what shroom's been doing, most of the time, since long before i got here, and everyone here can agree on that much, at least, i'm positive.

that's why i just upvote or pass. you're all way too smart, too observant, and trying too hard, to ever be downvoted, in my humble opinion.
i'm home. and i'm getting a charter. asap. whaddya' think, for nametextcol...
blue? or black?

- opie
(owen paul)
rochester, ny, usa
pale blue dot
unfashionable western spiral arm, milky way

Excellent article. I had always assumed that the theory of how the edge of heliosphere would fluctuate based on the amount and types of cosmic rays it encounters emenating from the center of our Galaxy (similar in a way that the planets in our solar system are bombarded with solar energies yes our atmosphere and magnetic field protects us from many of them.)
The "atmosphere" of our solar system would act in a similar way, however there are still many unknowns that are yet to be discovered still. Voyager II is expected to pass through into interstellar space within 7 to 10 years and it supposedly has enough power to last until 2020.


"The Sun is moving upwards, out of the plane of the Milky Way, at a speed of 7 kilometers per second. Currently the Sun lies 50 light-years above the mid-plane of the galaxy, and its motion is steadily carrying it further away.

But the gravitational pull of the stars in the Galactic (Milky Way) plane is slowing down the Sun's escape. The astronomer Frank Bash estimates that in 14 million years the sun will reach its maximum height above the Galactic disk. From that 250 light-year position, it will be pulled back towards the plane of the Galaxy. Passing through, it will travel to a point 250 light-years below the disk, then oscillate upwards again to reach its present position 66 million years from now. We crossed the plane 2 million years ago. We are currently in the thick of the galactic disk and our view of distant regions is largely blocked by dust but 10-20 million years from now, our motion will allow a full view of our starry galaxy.

The Sun-Galactic center distance is 25,000 light-years -- plus or minus 2,000 light-years. The galaxy is thought to be 100,000 light-years in diameter and we are thought to be about halfway out from the center (used to be thought that we were two-thirds out).

If you have a good idea of the Sun's distance from the Galactic center, then the solar system's speed can be approximated. Using speed measurements of the gas at different distances from the Galactic center, the Sun appears to be cruising along at 200 kilometers per second and it takes 240 million years to complete the grand circuit around the Galaxy. This speed is an absolute speed."

Note:
1 light-year = 9.46*10^{15} meters
1 parsec = 3.08*10^{16} meters

^ From the book: _Guide to the Galaxy_, 1994; Henbest and Couper; Cambridge University Press.

Lol... Wouldn't you kind of freakout if you (a) couldn't reach the pipe without climbing under a sink... I mean the pipes and drain are only as far back as the sink is deep.

And (2) wouldn't you maybe think WTF if you are crawling for more than.. say.. well.. I can't say I would keep crawling. And (c) wtf is up with a room with lights. And how did he get back? He is in the middle of a field outdoors?? And what are the odds that you see yourself when you emerge from a space-time distortion? Was he future self in the same house with the same sink in 50 yrs? Not to mention the Earth is orbiting the sun and milky way and universe... So it is unlikely any time travel would even involve starting and ending on the Earth. (Sure maybe there is a worm hole that you can go in and come out somewhere, but unlikely to be physically on the Earth and moving with the Earth surface and connecting two points in time)


But regardless, did you see the tatoo? It doesn't even match size, and let me tell you, the older guy tatoo looks fresher. Not 50 yrs of aging into the tatoo.

Totally viral.

so am I bigger, relative to a single blood cell inside me, than the milky way is to me?

Coincidentally he mentioned this Sift - The End Of The Milky Way. Check it out.

I think I'll *NSFW for the disturbing aborted babies. On which I feel the camera lingers on for a little too long.