Space Forum / Space Science / August 2003

A friend recently gave me a nice Tasco telescope (#675TR/302675).
Since then, he moved across the country and I can't easily ask him
questions.
Here's a question.

OK, this is just a thought but... If the nearest star is 4 light years
away then we are seeing light which is 4 years old?? So what we are
looking at is the past??? Is this right? Or am I a plonker?? If this
is right.. then somewhere out there in the universe there is light

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                       QUESTION:
Is it really true? Is Mars about to kick the entrails out
of the liars and frauds who spam SA, SAA, AA, AT, AAM, APN

from the little research that I have done and looked over about
blackholes, I is to my understand that the bigger the body, the larger
the graviational pull would be to pull in other objects.
my question stems to this.  is it possible for 2 (or more) blackholes to

I just watched a webcast of the "Mission Briefing" for these spacecraft, and
someone mentioned a descent imager will be attcahed to the space craft and
record images as it comes down through the atmosphere.  This is the first
i've heard of this camera.  Does anyone have any more ...

if we can genectically modify crops to resist the cold then what is stopping
us from creating a plant that could survive on the surafce of mars ?...
maybe we could modify it to be more effeicient at turning co2 into o2 as
well.

What is this that I see in this Viking picture of Mars from Space.com?
There is something weird in the center of the image in the Mars soil
and directly to the right there is an object of a weird shape.
http://tinyurl.com/klfu

  Having already been to an almanac page and not finding this, is there a page
that can tell me, for a given date in the last century, what planets were
visible?
TIA!

ESA News
http://www.esa.int
13 August 2003
Holiday weather on Mars

  This is meant to supercede the previous message, as it's late and I don't
think I worded that right.
  I'm looking for some means of *seeing*, not to scale, the positions of the
planets in the Sol System, relative to each other, on a specific date in the

How do,
Looking at the current picture on the SOHO LASCO C2 coronograph...
<URL:http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/
javagif/gifs_small/20030811_1506_c2.gif>

Can they be turned on again?  Be interesting to see if anything's
changed in the last 27 years.

I really don't know anything about space, but there is one thing that
I want to know.
When you see the moon in the Southern of Africa, is it possible to see
him at the saim time in the middle of Europe?

-> Most likely, life sparked virtually immediately after the Earth
-> cooled,
Let's not forget the "panspermia" idea - that life may have originated
somewhere else, and came to the earth on a meteorite. This idea would

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