Jerry

obviously I am a layman when it comes to the intricacies of astro-physics and chemistry. but I was just reading the about water vapour being found on a planter 124 light years away.

anyway it mentioned that deep down (far beyond what we can observe today) that water may exist on Jupiter, Saturn etc... but in the atmospheres of the planets it is certainly not liquid water due to the conditions?

is that true- could liquid water exist on a rocky core of Jupiter or Saturn? and if so could that mean LIFE of some kind is there??

also could water exist at sub-terranean levels on mars and venus far below the surface???

WOW!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-276...

look at this article. it suggests that water from our oceans and icy comets is older than the solar system itself. VERY INTERESTING!!

What are the implications of this?

A) does it increase the chance of life elsewhere in the universe like the article suggests?

B) what does it mean for life on earth aswell??

how does alcohol kill you? I can think of liver disease. maybe it might link onto the heart aswell.

possibly it could make you overweight aswell i'm guessing.

but pickling your liver is the main one i'm thinking of. what other things am I forgetting about???

does anyone else find this guy funny?

I've gotta be honest every now and again this is a guilty pleasure programme of mine.

seriously sometimes I just sit there in my room watching it chuckling away to myself...

I was watching it last night and was just lying on my bed p*ssing myself. he was going on about some form of all out war in the clouds by advanced alien races. there was another one where he said that Jonah was infact not swallowed by a whale by by a "USO"- and unidentified submersible object. sometimes u have to pinch myself because i can't believe what Tsoukalos is coming out with. he speaks with such a passion and verve about this kinda stuff. I love how a lot of it is based on mythology aswell. its just plain brilliant that every mystery in the world can be explained by extra-terrestrials-LOL.

it doesn't help the fact that hes got the most ridiculously stupid hair-do and looks like something out of a caricature sketch. just everything about him has me in hysterics.

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think that its a lot less than a degree but i'm not sure?

also why use a phrase like second which describing a measurement. annoying or what?

we all know what the big GOAL is!! every since we landed on the moon- all the posturing, the numerous probes, the ISS, etc its all really been designed to push us on to the next HUGE OBJECTIVE IN SPACE EXPLORATION: putting man on mars>

NASA has announced that the SPACE X and Boeing will be ferrying its astronauts into space. no longer will the russkies ferry the yanks into space.

SO WILL PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT IN SPACE HELP THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF HUMANS ON MARS (in 2-3 decades).

will it help it (like Charles boden implies) or make no difference whatsoever.

DISCUSS...

how long would it take for me writing with my left hand before I genuinely became able to use both hands equally well.

this would be a very useful skilful?

is there an art to it- like improving the muscles in your index finger OR is it just practice?

* why do we even have chirality? its weird really. why aren't we just all both handed and both footed?

I read yesterday that NASA had some big announcement that it was going to deliver. anyone know what it is?

is it this SPACE X thingy? has a private company won the contract the take astronauts into space?

was reading something about Boltzmann brain- a hypothesized being/entity which can become self-aware. there are some terms that i'm confused with- which are probably inhibiting my understanding of what this concept is?

please kept the jargon to a minimum...

I don't understand what it means:

A) "if the universe is in a state of equilibrium"? what equilibrium are we referring to?

B) what do "random fluctuations" mean?

I read about this. a theory by a physicist called Ludwig Boltzmann.

I kinda understood it but a tad confusing.

don't really get the logic totally.

Hear me out before you scoff.

bacterial life exists everywhere on earth... even in the atmosphere. on a single human there are billions of bacteria. surely no matter how much sterilization occurs on a spacesuit and on a spacecraft there must be loads of bacteria. also we now know certain types of microscopic life can survive and thrive in space-like conditions.

so it follows that when little old neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin plonked their kaboosh's on the moon and then left they would have left behind millions of microscopic life-forms on the moon, many of which would have survived.

I wonder how that life has thrived, expanded and even evolved over the past 45 years?? the imagination starts to run wild.....

DISCUSS.....

Quite simply what are the racial groups of the world we live on. I can think of a few broad groups but there are so many little groups here and there- overall there must be at least 10 races?

This is of course BROADLY SPEAKING.

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MY BEST GUESS:

*Black

*White

*East Asian (Oriental)

*South Asian (India, Pakistan etc)

*Middle east/ N' African

*Native Americans

*Aborigini's

*Melanesians

*Polynesians

*Pacific Islanders

Could aborigines be classed as a subset of the Black race?

do they have any historical/evolutionary link to black sub-Saharan people? do they have any genetic link for that matter??

This is an intriguing (and no doubt controversial saga). in intrigued in the chronology/scientific details of it though.

A) in what was a vehemently religious world what inspired this man to go on a voyage around the world and come up with this new hypothesis- in the first place?

B) what specific discoveries did he personally make that gave credence to his view?

C) where did he discover the skeletons of the early homonids? the early apes?

D) how long was it before his views that he propagated began to gain acceptance?

what are the chances that another toba-style eruption could occur sometime in the near future??

and if it did what could we possibly do to try and avoid/salvage as much human life as possible??

a) how many people were left on earth after the Toba eruption?

b) did it literally effect the weather in the whole world or just asia, Africa and Europe?

c) what is meant by the term population bottleneck?

I have many questions

1) what race were the first Africans? were they black (Zambia seems to be the most suspected origin place)? whatever race they were how did they develop into the many different races we see today????

2) are we sure that humans didn't "evolve" in different places across the planet. many humans developed in different continents of 10,000s of years independent of eachother. although not the orthodox view this is still a viable theory.

3) why do we assume its 60,000 years ago. other evidence suggests it may have occurred a lot earlier. i'm sure with more discoveries scientists will continue to change the dates.

4) I don't understand the theory that ethnic diversity fades away the further you get from Africa? to me Africa has black people and some Arabic looking people in the north. go to Europe and there is plenty of diversity- northern Europeans, latinos, greeks, turks, slavs etc.... don't even get me started on asia- the diversity there is incredible. arabs, Persians, Indians, Pakistani's, oriental- who themselves tangent off into many different types. i'm sure aborigini's pacific islanders and native americans must have plenty of differences aswell within different groups/tribes etc.....

CAN SOMEONE CLEAR THIS UP TO ME??

THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING TOPIC..

*I was reading an article in new scientist which says new evidence is coming which challenges the current orthodox view that mass migration from Africa took place 60,000 years ago.

various discoveries of bones/skeletons of what appear to be homo-sapiens have been found in asia. they reckon it cud have started 130,000 years ago...

what do we think of this? DISCUSS..