We arent originally from the milky way?

[Denver Crush]

I came across this article and thought it was pretty damn cool, but also kind of scary in some respects. But it does make the case that climate change is in fact a natural process we are going through. I still have no doubt that we are contributing though.

http://viewzone.com/milkyway.html

Scientists Now Know: We're Not From Here!

Summary & comments by Dan Eden for Viewzone

Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted!

This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy!
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[The Lone Bolt]

Cool article! I didn't know I was from another galaxy!;)

[alkemical]

Very interesting:

This grand turning is possibly the root cause for the discontinuation of the Mayan calendar (the most accurate on the planet) because the 'read-point' of the Pleiades star cluster, which many believe the calendar was based upon, can no longer be a constant as we begin to steer away from the earlier predictable movements.

[atomicbloke]

Very interesting.

[Crushaholic]

I could have told you were weren't from the Milky Way. Milky Way has no nuts, and we know that we have our share of nuts in this world. It has to be Snickers, or something like that...:approve:

[Spider]

Cool article! I didn't know I was from another galaxy!;)

I had a hunch you was ;D

[mhgaffney]

Thanks for the interesting read -- however, I subscribe to a different theory. I agree with astronomers like Halton Arp and Paul LaViolette, who believe that the center of galaxies are focal points of creation -- NOT black holes where matter disappears forever.

This leads to a very different conclusion about our origins.

This suggests talaxies are constantly in the business of creatng new worlds - and ccasionally they spit out entire galaxies. Ergo, Sagitarious emerged from the Milky Way. We are nt devouring it -- we created it.

And at some very distant point in the past the Milky Way probably emerged from Andromeda in much the same way. Andromeda is a much larger galaxy than our own. It's still quite close to us.

I take especially strong issue with some of the statements in the article. Here's a quote:

"The shape of the Sagittarius debris trail shows us that the Milky Way's unseen dark matter is in a spherical distribution, a result that is quite unexpected," Weinberg said.

"The observations provide new insights into the nature of the mysterious dark matter," said Princeton's Spergel. "Either our galaxy is unusual or the dark matter has richer properties than postulated by conventional models."

What is "dark matter" anyway? The big bang astronomers can't tell us because they don't have a clue. They postulate its existence simply because without it their silly theory falls apart. It's that simple.

Think about it: The dominant Big Bang theory today requires that most of the matter in the universe be invisible.

The called dark matter has never been seen. It's never been measured. It's never been detected. So how do we know it even exists? The answer is that we don't. In fact, it's just a lot of wacko nonsense.

One day in the future people will look back and laugh at us -- just as we laugh at the flat earth societies of old.

[alkemical]

****, i laugh at myself everyday.

[Bronco Bob]

* A series of Martian atmosphere transformations increasing its biosphere quality. In particularly, a cloudy growth in the equator area and an unusual growth of ozone concentration.

Update Note: Mars Surveyor Satellite encountered an atmospheric density double that projected by NASA upon entering a Mars orbit. This greater density bent one of the solar array arms beyond the full and open stop. This combination of events has delayed the beginning of the scheduled photo mission for one year.


Pure baloney.

Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss

WASHINGTON - After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands.

The causes were released today in a preliminary report by an internal review board. The board was formed to look more in-depth into why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent in November 2006 and recommend any processes or procedures that could increase safety for other spacecraft.

Mars Global Surveyor last communicated with Earth on Nov. 2, 2006. Within 11 hours, depleted batteries likely left the spacecraft unable to control its orientation.

"The loss of the spacecraft was the result of a series of events linked to a computer error made five months before the likely battery failure," said board Chairperson Dolly Perkins, deputy director-technical of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/20070413a.html