I'm waiting for CountZero to discover the concept of paragraphs. Maybe next year.
Ah **** it, it's a lazy troll at best. I'm off to say my bedtime prayers. All the best for 2011 stargazers. Can any of you see my future in the movements? I'm Cancer btw. 
But come on...Big Bang? Really? Nah...bollocks!! 
There may be other explanations
I think this is the safest option, and I'm sticking with that. 
Why should I bother with paragraphs on such a short post? Nobody else worries much, and I'm not writing a magazine article, so why should it bother you?
Not an editor by any chance, are you?
Or just a pedant?
As it happens, I've spent many hours laying out book pages, casting-off copy, pasting-up said pages, proof-reading,
editing and correcting. I do actually have a clue. This is an Internet forum, I'm not being paid to edit it or lay it out properly so I really couldn't give a shit what it looks like. Only the spelling. Is that ok with you?
(Rhetorical question, I don't actually give a toss one way or another).
Everyone chill out and be nice please. Like me.
All that amazingness. Let's not spoil it by arguing.
I'm borrowing my friend's telescope tomorrow. The sky needs investigating. I need to see more.
It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the product of a deranged imagination.
Amusing, but deeply flawed I feel.
Amusing, but deeply flawed I feel.
I'd like to say take it up with Douglas Adams but it may prove to be a little difficult.
Why should I bother with paragraphs on such a short post?
Dude, you NEVER bother with paragraphs.
Never too late for the "takes himself too seriously award" for 2010 Lighten up sweetheart.
Is that ok with you?
(Rhetorical question, I don't actually give a toss one way or another).
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
stuartie_c - MemberOr to put it another way, the light we see from it tonight left it sometime in the 14th Century when our ancestors would have been dressed in rough smocks whilst standing on a riverbank and throwing turnips at a witch.
(This still happens in some parts of Fife.)
Yes I think its the bit where my sister lives.........and she maybe the one getting turnips thrown at.
Elfinsafety - MemberDon't. They tried telling me it was Gatwick, when all along it was Farnborough airport.
20 years ago, a friend had just got his Private Pilot's Licence. He got into a little trouble by mistaking Gatwick for Biggin Hill and trying to land there.........
I like deadlydarcy's idea because it just adds a bit more hugeness, awesomeness into things.
If you believe we have a god who looks after us, and accept that man is made in his image, and also accept that there are infinite suns/worlds, then you must also accept that there are infinite gods to look after the infinite number of aliens who aren't covered by our own god's remit.
Which means that 'our' god must be pretty busy keeping good relations, bickering, having celestial wars with the aliens' gods.
And all this while trying to balance on a pinhead, or moving away from each other, moving towards each other.....no wonder we haven't seen many miracles lately. (Apart from on 34th Street apparently?)
I like deadlydarcy's idea because it just adds a bit more hugeness, awesomeness into things.
Nooooooo...I was only messing. You'll have the other eejits down on you like a ton of guff in a second.
I like deadlydarcy's idea because it just adds a bit more hugeness, awesomeness into things.
I'm not sure dd had an idea, he just doesn't like the Big Bang Theory.
(quite right to as it is a rubbish derivative sitcom)
you must also accept that there are infinite gods to look after the infinite number of aliens
Except our God apparently created all the heavenly bodies, so he must be the main deity.
Also "infinite" keeps getting banded about. Current theory says the universe is finite containing a finite number of bodies. It is just reaaaaallly big.
is finite
Is there a wall at the end?
deadlydarcy - MemberNooooooo...I was only messing. You'll have the other eejits down on you like a ton of guff in a second.
Am I allowed to say LOL any more?
. It is just reaaaaallly big.
If you think that it's a long way to the chemist, then space is a lot, lot bigger...... (paraphrased from the Hitchhikers Guide.)
Is there a wall at the end?
Nah, just a restaurant.
I'm going shopping for a telescope tomorrow so I can get a better look at all this crazy shit.Really, I am. Except, I won't be going anywhere near a shop. Instead I'll press some keys on my wireless keyboard and click my wireless mouse and some electromagnetic perturbations will be transmitted across my wireless network and one will arrive at my house a few days later.
Except it won't, because all the wonders of the universe and the brave, pioneering spirit of our Earth-bound scientists can still be brought sharply into check by the banal hopelessness of our postal system and I'll have to trudge over to a delivery depot on the outskirts of Livingston or Glenrothes and wait whilst an short, aggressive man ignores me for an hour before wresting a muddied card from my hand, sighing loudly and grunting at one of his fellow dementors who will deliver a sorry, broken package to my hands and rendering all the wonders above me forever mute and dark.
Perhaps I should just side with deadlydarcy. It's easier that way, isn't it?
Don't give up that easily, buddy.
Whilst you're passing the time between your bank details being skimmed off by some dodgy Russian spyware and receiving the card from DHL saying they tried to deliver even though you were in the whole day, have a look here: Stellarium
Can I recommend this book and these charts (try to find it cheaper)? This book is also pretty good in lieu of the charts. I'm sure those charts used to be available for about £4...
A set of 7x50 binoculars will do the trick, you can even shove them in your bag on a night ride. Take a torch with a red filter and you're all set. Planisphere is pretty helpful when you're starting out too
Who else is watching Stargazing Live on BBC2?
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