Ancient Aliens When I look up at the stars at night, I just have to wonder who or what is looking back at me from some distant planet in some distant galaxy. We’ve all probably wondered what lies beyond our small, self-contained little world. The question the world has is whether or not there is life beyond earth. In the words of Metrodorus, a Greek philosopher of the fourth century, "To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow." I believe that extraterrestrial life does exist.
Summarize the reasons both for and against repairing the tile while in orbit. If you had been on the team making this decision, would you have argued for or against the repair and why? In the case of the Endeavor Space Shuttle, NASA decided that the puncture in the tiles caused 58 seconds after launch by a tiny piece of debris weighing approximately 1/3 of an ounce from the external fuel tank was not enough of a concern to merit repair before re-entry (NYT). The design of the fuel tank is the reason for these problems just as in the Columbia and NASA is working hard to minimize the shedding during launch. However, the design of the shuttles is aging quickly as the vehicles are reaching retirement.
“Fundamental to the conspiracy theory is our supposed inability to go to the Moon. The thought of humans traveling to the Moon was so fantastic even early science-fiction writers didn't predict it happening for centuries to come”(Villard). The rockets that made the moon landing possible were based upon the principles that were founded by Isaac Newton centuries ago, meaning that the underlying science was already there. The Saturn V rockets were more than capable of taking a man to the moon, and it was seen by thousands of eyewitnesses and media who saw the rocket blast off from the Kennedy space center in Florida (Villard). Those who claim that NASA could not reach the moon in the 1960’s discredit the hardworking engineers and scientists who paved the way for a lunar
here we go. The mechanics of how all the black holes in the movie acted were a bit sketchy. For example, the first black hole that Spock and The Narada exit/enter from was created from “Red Matter” in mere seconds. Accepting that red matter creates a black hole, this event would not take mere seconds as it did in the movie, but numerous years rather. In addition, entering a black hole would not only take thousands of years to occur, according to “Spaghetti theory” the gravity would be so intense as you neared the center of the black hole, your body would be stretched out into a thin strip of organic matter.
Even though NASA and the U.S. government have video of the Apollo11 moon landing, many still think we in fact did not go to the moon. Why haven’t there been more manned explorations and was this an elaborate hoax by NASA to satisfy political demands. Michael Newton (2006). The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories (pg. 22).
The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster An initial 1972 study by the Mathematica organisation found that the space shuttle could orbit payloads for as little as $100 US per pound, on sixty launches per year with the initial shuttle design specifications (69,000 pound payload capacity). This offered military, satellite deployment, scientific and medical research applications with a very cost effective option. However the Mathematica report was based on unrealistic costings provided by contractors to win NASA tenders. Additionally equipment performance shortfalls prevented the 109% of thrust required by NASA, further reducing payload capacities. The actual cost for payloads became 20 times the
Telescopes were the first valid measurement of the speed of light (NASA, 2009). * NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, help provide evidence of other galaxies, all having billions of stars. Newer telescopes permit us to learn about objects in the universe by identifying the heat, radio waves or X-rays they emit. Telescopes help us discover planets around other stars. The hopes with some of the future telescopes are to answer the question that many ask, "Are we alone in the universe" (NASA, 2009).
From his observations, Anaximander concluded that the sun was nothing more than a disk with hot gas escaping out of it, and that the stars were holes in the sky where light shined through. Although those explanations seem silly, Anaximander also believed that the earth floated free and unsupported in space, which would make sense to the ancients since they had no knowledge of
It is still an evolving topic of study in science with spacecraft New Horizons set to reach Pluto in 2015 (Cain, 2008). Although many people still consider Pluto to be a planet, it is imperative that society dispel this myth, as if students are taught misconceptions it’s hard to correct this conception (Newstead and Murray n.d.). Pluto should not be thought as a main planet in our solar system because of the objects minute mass and size. When first discovered in 1930, Pluto was thought to be larger than both Mercury and Mars (Masters, 2004). Since 1978, Pluto has been revealed as smaller than both these inner planets, at only 2,400 km across (Cain, 2008).
400,000 people were involved in making the Apollo 11 moon landing happen. The Apollo Moon landings were among the most completely documented and observed events in history. The conspiracy "theories" that claim otherwise are a bunch of nonsense without even a single compelling piece of evidence. Most of the questions raised are based on ignorance of basic physics and optics. Video special effects were in their infancy in the late 60's so that faking a landing on the Moon would probably have been more difficult than actually going there, and it seems highly unlikely that the hundreds or even thousands of people who would have had to be involved in such a conspiracy would have kept it a secret for so long.