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dgun
08-24-2008, 09:25 PM
Interesting explanation via NASA video. (http://videos.howstuffworks.com/nasa/13582-does-our-solar-system-have-boundaries-video.htm)
jafar00
08-25-2008, 03:27 PM
Yeah, the boundary is the limits of the Sun's influence. All I can say is, we seem to have come a long way in the last few years. Not so long ago we were taught there were only 9 planets, and Pluto still had full planet credentials. ;)
Easy90
08-25-2008, 03:42 PM
Interesting...probably belongs in the "nature, health and science" category...not "off topic." Or, if you lefties want to assert that we have a solar system boundary "crisis" because of Bush...maybe it could be in one of the "I hate Bush" "conspiracy" type threads....
Truth_and_Power
08-25-2008, 04:06 PM
Yeah, the boundary is the limits of the Sun's influence. All I can say is, we seem to have come a long way in the last few years. Not so long ago we were taught there were only 9 planets, and Pluto still had full planet credentials. ;)

A few more decades and we can drop off the polar bears on europa where they will have a happy home.
Comrade
08-26-2008, 01:35 AM
A few more decades and we can drop off the polar bears on europa where they will have a happy home.

No because in a few dacades they will have ALL DIED because humans are EVIL planet DESTROYING industrialist monsters that are causing GLOBAL WARMING.

In seriously though, I love all the space stuff. Considered doing it at university for a while, until I realized I am appauling at physics...but I can quite easily grasp the newest theories about the creation and death of Black Holes and the creation of the Big Bang...I guess its what you're interested in.
dgun
08-26-2008, 01:37 PM
Don't let Physics scare you Comrade. If you can plug stuff into a formula and come out with an answer, you can do physics. Remembering the formula? Well, for me that's the tough part.
Comrade
08-26-2008, 05:38 PM
Don't let Physics scare you Comrade. If you can plug stuff into a formula and come out with an answer, you can do physics. Remembering the formula? Well, for me that's the tough part.

Yeah same for me; I can understand the input, output and concept, but the formulas and how you get the output from the input just mystifies me. I hold no stock with numbers and symbols I'm afraid.