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It's my understanding that everything in space is in some sort of "free fall", which is pretty much what an orbit is. So, if you were in a spaceship and applied some thrusters, you are pretty much changing the orientation and speed of your "free fall", right? So, let's say I wanted to get to...

There is a sea creature (a clam or fish or something) that has a tongue like appendage that it uses for bait, and when the fish approach it it gets eaten.

So, are you saying that if the moon was actually a second 'earth', it would need to be twice as far away from us in order to maintain the binary state?

"Not only could you have life on both, it would not be suprising to have very similar biochemistries on the two planets." - Njorl So when the planets are revolving each other, they would have 2 points. The first would be it's position closest to the sun in it's binary revolution (during that...

What do you call the order in which planets are in their relation to the sun? So the Earth would be the 3rd. So is there a name for this 'position'?

What if our Sun was a blue giant or was some other color? Would the planet be lit with that color? What would it be like? Our Sun is yellow/orange, but we don't live under that kind of light, our light is more just white, but I don't know why. How would the color of a star be apparent on its...

Would it be possible for binary planets, or even a planet and it's moon, to simultaneously sustain life? I know the odds of a planet having life on it is very low, but for a planet that does (earth) would it's sister planet or moon be able to sustain life as well? Maybe if the bodies are the...

I read it in a magazine.

I would understand why it was forgotten. What would you do if you had no other choice but to do it?

Dune The movie Dune was cool.

I am, for some reason, unable to post in the "earth" board, so here I am. How many trees does it take to provide enough oxygen for one human? How large would these trees be?

I was reading some article about some scientists who were able to 'read' some sort of cosmic background radiation and determine the size, shape, and age of the universe or whatever. How do they take these radiation readings and create an 'image' or understanding of the universe?

Yes, I believe it was Smolin's article that I read. Anyways, thanks for the replies, I suppose if LQG is a rediculous theory, as most seem to think, then there is no need to bother with it. It's not something I need to know, just something I was curious about since it was in the magazine .

I read about the Loop Quantum Gravity theory in some science magazine during my break at work. I wasn't reading attentively enough to make anything out of it. All I know is it is another theory to unite General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, I think. Anyone care to share their knowledge on...

This cleared things up, thanks. Maybe every point didn't grow apart from each other, but rather grew smaller, making it seem as they grew farther apart. :O