Space.

kneemos

How far away is space?
You can see it from space is a common saying,but is it that far away?

Honey Monster

...the final frontier.

The Moldy Gowl

Shower thoughts?

Birneybau

These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's mission...

Fr_Dougal

How come you can never find those tiny cows you see in fields?

Birneybau

Ruu wrote: »

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise..

Take a hike bub

anncoates

I think I remember reading once that space technically starts at 50 or 60 miles up.

dmc17

kneemos wrote: »

How far away is space?
You can see it from space is a common saying,but is it that far away?

Depends which bit of space you're talking about I suppose

Donkey Oaty

A hundred kilometres. (Really.)

bodice ripper

I have been to numerous Star Trek conventions. True story.

The Moldy Gowl

Space is a mind**** when you try comprehend it.

Links234

Birneybau wrote: »

These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's mission...

To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go...

COYVB

Outer space is 10,000-ish km up

Birneybau

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

Space is a mind**** when you try comprehend it.

The sheer distances are just incomprehensible

kneemos

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

A hundred kilometres. (Really.)

Being seen from space is not really a major feat then.

tomwaterford

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

How come you can never find those tiny cows you see in fields?

Cos they're daisies

bodice ripper

Daisy, daisy...

CrazyRabbit

Well it's definitely higher than 6'7" as that's as high as I can reach and I can't feel it.

Karl Stein

Louis Armstrong was the first man to play trumpet on the Moon.

The Kármán line, at an altitude of 100 km (62 mi) above sea level, is conventionally used as the start of outer space in space treaties and for aerospace records keeping.

The Moon is 238,900 miles (384,400 km) away. Venus is the closest planet to Earth - it is about 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) away from Earth. The Sun is 92,960,000 miles (149,600,000 km). The nearest star is 4.24 light years away (that means it would take 4.24 years travelling at at 300,000 kilometres per second to reach there).

Hubble pointed its mirrors at what appeared to be a dark patch in space and took this image - those galaxies and star clusters are between 5 and 10 billion light years away. That means we're looking at the universe as it appeared billions of years ago.

So space is kinda big.

Birneybau

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Always thought it was different to the above.

toastedpickles

SPAAAAACE!

anyone who's played portal 2 will understand

Akrasia

The earth's atmosphere extends to 10,000 kilometers above the surface of the earth, so technically, most of the satelites and the international space station are still within the earths atmosphere and are not actually in 'space'. There will still be friction from the earth's atmosphere requiring orbiting space craft to use fuel to maintain it's orbit as the friction slows it down (the higher up, the less frequent the adjustments.

Above about 100km above the surface, the atmosphere is so thin that it might as well be space for most practical purposes, but there will still be friction that would require frequent booster corrections to maintain orbit. The ISS orbits at 400km above the surface

In Kerbal Space program, space begins at 70km above the surface.

Zaph

I think Douglas Adams said it best:

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

john the one

Surely it can't go on forever? Surely? I mean I think of it as like the Truman show where he gets to the end of the ocean and hits a wall.

But what after that? Does space not allow you past a certain point before it tries to suck you back in?

If space is ever expanding, that must mean it has an end. Please help

mrsbyrne

Birneybau wrote: »

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Always thought it was different to the above.

Do DOOOOOO dododododo

IvySlayer

Links234 wrote: »

To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go...

where no-one has gone before!!

*WHOOOSH*

NNNNNAAAA-NAA-NAAA

DO-DO-DA-DO...

IvySlayer

TNG > TOS and that's the end of it.

Links234

IvySlayer wrote: »

TNG > TOS and that's the end of it.

DS9 > All

There, I've thrown a spanner in the works. Let the nerd battle rage!

Jawgap

anncoates wrote: »

I think I remember reading once that space technically starts at 50 or 60 miles up.

To earn your astronaut wings you have to fly above 50 miles.

IvySlayer

Links234 wrote: »

DS9 > All

There, I've thrown a spanner in the works. Let the nerd battle rage!

Careful I know a bunch of Klingons who would crush your Jem'hadar buddies

But Space, it's expanding but expanding into what

According to many scientists there could be other universes inside black holes, space is so full of mystery

Akrasia

john the one wrote: »

Surely it can't go on forever? Surely? I mean I think of it as like the Truman show where he gets to the end of the ocean and hits a wall.

But what after that? Does space not allow you past a certain point before it tries to suck you back in?

If space is ever expanding, that must mean it has an end. Please help

Its like in asteroids. You get to the edge of space and come flying in from the other side of the screen

Links234

IvySlayer wrote: »

Careful I know a bunch of Klingons who would crush your Jem'hadar buddies

Sorry, but no. It's out there, no backsies, DS9 was the best Trek show.

bodice ripper

Links234 wrote: »

DS9 > All

There, I've thrown a spanner in the works. Let the nerd battle rage!

I was in denial like this too, but then it went down the tubes at a great rate somewhere around season 4. Sort your life out.

FortuneChip

kneemos wrote: »

How far away is space?
You can see it from space is a common saying,but is it that far away?

What space?

bodice ripper

Anyway, Babylon5 is where it's at. Act like you know.

endacl

Links234 wrote: »

Sorry, but no. It's out there, no backsies, DS9 was the best Trek show.

DS9 was the nadir of a show that should have been forgotten once the sixties had passed.

kneemos

FortuneChip wrote: »

What space?

Attic.

IvySlayer

Links234 wrote: »

Sorry, but no. It's out there, no backsies, DS9 was the best Trek show.

You're wrong it's Voyager..bwhahaha I can't say that seriously

RobertKK

Stephen Hawking warns we should be wary of getting in touch with possible aliens, as they could be far more intelligent than us, and we could lead to our own destruction if we make contact and they come to raid the planet for resources, and there is likely millions upon millions of planets in Goldilocks zones around other stars, where it isn't too hot or too cold.

Space is so big we don't know...yet. The new telescope to be launched within the next ten years is expected to give us a lot more information as it will be able to see what makes up the atmosphere on other planets outside our solar system.

Links234

bodice ripper wrote: »

I was in denial like this too, but then it went down the tubes at a great rate somewhere around season 4. Sort your life out.

Not the case at all, it was a terrific show and only got better as it went on.

bodice ripper wrote: »

Anyway, Babylon5 is where it's at. Act like you know.

Actually, yes, few shows even come close to B5, but as far as Trek goes, DS9 was the best.

Akrasia

kneemos wrote: »

Attic.

Office

bodice ripper

Links234 wrote: »

Not the case at all, it was a terrific show and only got better as it went on.

Put down the crack pipe.

bodice ripper

Akrasia wrote: »

Office

Crawl

MadsL

Pffft. Blakes 7. That is all.

Akrasia

RobertKK wrote: »

Stephen Hawking warns we should be wary of getting in touch with possible aliens, as they could be far more intelligent than us, and we could lead to our own destruction if we make contact and they come to raid the planet for resources, and there is likely millions upon millions of planets in Goldilocks zones around other stars, where it isn't too hot or too cold.

Space is so big we don't know...yet. The new telescope to be launched within the next ten years is expected to give us a lot more information as it will be able to see what makes up the atmosphere on other planets outside our solar system.

Space is like time,

Time is natures way of making sure everything doesn't all happen at once

Space is natures way of making sure everything isn't all happening in the same place.

Akrasia

I love this site

http://htwins.net/scale2/

it shows how big the universe is, and how freakin tiny the smallest elementary particles are

bodice ripper

MadsL wrote: »

Pffft. Blakes 7. That is all.

No one actually likes Blakes 7, they just say it to look like the most in the know nerd.

catallus

Akrasia wrote: »

it shows how big the universe is, and how freakin tiny the smallest elementary particles are

But can it really show how, like, really big it is? Like really really big?

kneemos

Akrasia wrote: »

I love this site

http://htwins.net/scale2/

it shows how big the universe is, and how freakin tiny the smallest elementary particles are

Nobody knows how big tit is.

catallus

kneemos wrote: »

Nobody knows how big tit is.

There you go, talking about tits again!!!! :mad:

Links234

bodice ripper wrote: »

Put down the crack pipe.

I'll do no such thing! It had the best supporting cast of any of the Treks, Sisko was a brilliantly written character, he was flawed and suffered from PTSD. It also had some of the best episodes of any Trek, The Visitor or Far Beyond The Stars for example.