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Where Would You Explore?
Last post 11-12-2009 11:33 AM by canadian sightseer. 34 replies.
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  • 09-10-2008 09:18 PM

    • leroy37
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    Where Would You Explore?

    If You could explore any were in the universe were would it be?

    I would Explore the helix nebula

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  • 09-11-2008 10:25 AM In reply to

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    I think I would explore a black hole. Well, on a second thought - that's just being done by CERN in Geneva, right ?! Maybe I'd go for any habitable planet, wherever in the universe.

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  • 09-11-2008 11:39 AM In reply to

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     A planet on the facing edge of Andromeda. Then I could see a face on Milkyway. The LMC/SMC and other dwarfs getting ripped into tidal tails.

    It would be majestic!

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  • 09-11-2008 12:35 PM In reply to

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    A habitable planet inside a globular cluster.  Can you imagine what a night sky that would make.

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  • 09-11-2008 03:51 PM In reply to

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    I'd like to know what is at Jupiters core.  So I would start there.

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  • 09-11-2008 07:48 PM In reply to

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    Re: Were Would You Explore?

    I'd explore the 50 light-year radius around our solar system, looking for habitable planets, and signs of life.

      Then I'd hightail it out to M16, put on some Pink Floyd, fire up the... laser lights, and chill.

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  • 09-12-2008 07:43 AM In reply to

    • Polariser
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    Re: Were Would You Explore?

    "If you could explore anywhere in the Universe" ..... so easy to write, so utterly beyond our wildest dreams, light years beyond "if I won the lottery" ! Well for me it would have to be back to the singularity, the Big Bang, the first trillionth of a second in slow motion for someone with only modest human stereoscopic vision and feeble brain-power. You couldn't include super-human powers in your wish-list ? It might help a bit.
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  • 09-12-2008 11:32 AM In reply to

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    Like ngc2438 I would explore a habitable planet anywhere in the universe... preferably in the Andromeda Galaxy.

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  • 09-12-2008 06:34 PM In reply to

    • Arawn75
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    Re: Were Would You Explore?

     I think I would like to visit a planet, if there was one, that was extremely close to the Pillars of Creation.  It is so beautiful and to see it up close would be a real sight.  Maybe even close enough to see it without a telescope.  That would be a great sight in the night sky.  As I am sure with the rest of you the list is pretty long, but that tops my list.
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  • 09-15-2008 08:06 PM In reply to

    • Kyle
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    The middle of nowhere, between galaxy superclusters. I wonder what it would be like to see absolutely nothing in the sky.

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  • 09-19-2008 02:48 PM In reply to

    • Garcia47
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    The next galaxy to ours.   
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  • 09-25-2008 02:56 AM In reply to

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     Kyle's Idea is kinda cool, however the view of nothing seems like it would get old fast.

     Maybe a black hole, but then there is the whole being torn apart and death thing that does not sound fun. 

    So mine would be any neighboring galaxy where I could look back at the milky way and see the whole thing. Just to have that real view once would be breath taking. Espicialy if space travel to that order was developed then you could look back on the milky way and say I lived there and now I'm in another galaxy.

    Second on the list would be a formation of a star/solar system of sorts. That would be a way to go out though too.

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  • 09-25-2008 09:49 AM In reply to

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  • 09-26-2008 01:01 AM In reply to

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    I would want to explore a blackhole, the Sagittarius A in particular. Who wants to come with me? lol!

     

     

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  • 09-26-2008 05:59 PM In reply to

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    I could also see a supernova first hand. That would be COOL!!!

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  • 09-27-2008 08:29 PM In reply to

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    My exploration begins and ends here...on Earth. A piece of dust floating in a cosmos of anything and everything. Looking out from with-in! My searches of our skies drives me outward and the further I go, the closer I get...  Good skies to all !

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  • 10-04-2008 02:02 AM In reply to

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    3 Places I would love to explore

     1. The constallation bootes, I don't know why but something about it intrigues me :)

     2 I would love to travel to the edge of the visible universe and see quasars and pulsars and see what lies beyond the edge.

    3. The cosmic tornadoe would be cool to see.

     theres plenty more but those are the three i can think of.

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  • 10-05-2008 11:48 AM In reply to

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    ohh, i don't know...

     

    maybe travel faster than the speed of light around Orion's Belt?

    yeaaa, that would be cool.. 

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  • 10-06-2008 01:52 PM In reply to

    • mr Q
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    Re: Were Would You Explore?

     Kyle - I disagree. Being close to a super nova would definitely be a very, very HOT experience. Besides, if you were there, how would you live to tell about it  Mr Q

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  • 10-07-2008 10:39 AM In reply to

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    mr Q:
    Kyle - I disagree. Being close to a super nova would definitely be a very, very HOT experience. Besides, if you were there, how would you live to tell about it  Mr Q

     

    Well, If I knew I was about to die I would take up Kyle's idea.  What a grand spectacle to see and it would be awesome to be a small part of the atoms that would expand through the galaxy and one day become part of a new star or one of its planets.  In long ages to come perhaps an atom or two of my makeup would become part of something living that has yet to be named.

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