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originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: underwerks
What if it's a giant mass of spaghetti?
What if it's a cyborg beaver?
Or maybe a super intelligent shade of the color blue?
I recommend not worrying about it. It's most likely nothing at all, but if it's not, there's still nothing anyone can do about it.
originally posted by: Krakatoa
A coronal mass ejection would do that handily if it hit the Earth head-on.
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: underwerks
I thought our solar system was passing through the galactic plane which was the cause of all the 2012 doom porn.
Maybe we actually are going through the plane after all. Just a thought.
Something for me to do a little research on.
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: underwerks
I thought our solar system was passing through the galactic plane which was the cause of all the 2012 doom porn.
Maybe we actually are going through the plane after all. Just a thought.
Something for me to do a little research on.
The galactic plane is the plane in which the majority of a disk-shaped galaxy's mass lies. The directions perpendicular to the galactic plane point to the galactic poles.
Wikipedia
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: underwerks
I thought our solar system was passing through the galactic plane which was the cause of all the 2012 doom porn.
Maybe we actually are going through the plane after all. Just a thought.
Something for me to do a little research on.
I've always wondered if maybe a lot of the weird experiences people have are a product of different areas of space we travel through.
Maybe we'll come to find out that different areas have different properties that effect our perception in different ways. And others may have properties that spell disaster on a planetary scale.
If the whole cosmic plane thing is to be believed.
originally posted by: NerdGoddess
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: underwerks
I thought our solar system was passing through the galactic plane which was the cause of all the 2012 doom porn.
Maybe we actually are going through the plane after all. Just a thought.
Something for me to do a little research on.
I've always wondered if maybe a lot of the weird experiences people have are a product of different areas of space we travel through.
Maybe we'll come to find out that different areas have different properties that effect our perception in different ways. And others may have properties that spell disaster on a planetary scale.
If the whole cosmic plane thing is to be believed.
I've wondered this as well during several day dream episodes.... We ARE traveling through space as far as I thought, even if we are stuck in the same orbit, the whole system is moving through space.
-Alee
The Milky Way does not sit still, but is constantly rotating. As such, the arms are moving through space. The sun and the solar system travel with them. The solar system travels at an average speed of 515,000 mph (828,000 km/h). Even at this rapid speed, the solar system would take about 230 million years to travel all the way around the Milky Way.