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Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

old people can still party it up lol...but if it does start getting easier to travel to outter space its not always going to be good....

if you think about it that means that lets say a killer, can kill someone here and then go into space and never be caught...now thats pretty scary stuff...so i think that if we do start travelling easier into space there will be a lot more violence.

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

Theres violence everywhere.. this will just give us more of a variety of ways to kill someone muhahaha ... think of star wars.. an intergalactic policing system.. god i love that stuff haha... **** when im old i hope we arent dissapointed like our parents were. They pretty much got owned haha. They predicted so many crazy things, but none of it happend.

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

sure we'll be old but hey we'll WEIGH less on the moon..we'll still have the same mass but eh who cares? imagine..drinking on the moon..it wouldnt go over very well..plue we would have to have built a kind of convservatory up there so we can all be inside instead of at risk where we can "fly" off into outer outer space

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

I think this space exploration will allow us to find out more about our solar system and the universe that we are in. When we get the information back we will be able to tell for sure if Pluto is an actual plaint or not. And also if there really is a so called plaint “X”.

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

(It's still under question whether they are going to be classified planets or not but here they are)
They found 2 planets beyond Pluto, the first is called Xena, they say it's about 1.5 times the size of Pluto, it is around between 2,600km and 3,000km across, and inhabits a region three times as far from the sun as does Pluto, averaging a distance of nine billion miles from our star. A single orbit takes the world 560 earth-years.

And on March 15, 2004, NASA released info about a planetoid called Sedna. It's between 800 miles and 1,100 miles in diameter, or about three-quarters the size of Pluto.

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Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

Who does NASA find these planets? and why know why didnt they find them 5 years ago. And if they can see these planets why cant they see other planets further away.

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

the planets are so far away and so small that if you stood on the planet, you could block out the sun completely with a needle head. it's part of the reason they couldn't see them until bigger and better telescopes were built

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Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

Technology keeps getting more and more advanced. I am curious to see exactly what scientists especially people at NASA will try to do. But more importantly, what they are successful in.

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

Yes the reason why we can see those maybe plaints now and we could not see them before is because of our advances in technology. And I believe that in the future that we will for sure find out if those things out there are really plaints or just really big rocks. And who knows there might even be life on Pluto who really know till we get there.

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

The issue of planets beyond Pluto is not one of confirming them. We know the "rocks" are out there. It's a question of definition. What exactly is a "planet". Before you say "anything orbiting the sun", consider this...
(1) asteroids orbit the sun, are they planets?
(2)comets orbit the sun, are they planets?
etc etc etc....

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

well if i had to create a definition for a planet it would be; a hunk of rock or ball gas of at least ____(enter number here)______km in diameter that orbits primarily the sun (so you don't have any moons being considered as planets)

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

that is one of the things that we are trying to find out with this mission to Pluto. Scientists are trying to figure out what those numbers are that u mentioned. And once they figure that out we will be able to classify if Pluto is a planet or just a rock and same thing goes for the other 2 rocks past Pluto.

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

How would they do that...measure the diameter of Pluto? Wouldn't that be hard...haha I don't think that they would have to walk the whole length of Pluto and measure it. But how else would they be able to do it?

Re: Journey to the Outer Limits - pg. 53

Go to http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/

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