Recent content by Smartoad

well, I live in coos bay, and we have some mountains near us, or what seem to be just realllly tall hills compared to the three sisters that you can see in Bend (a city) but i may be able to get as far up as I can sometime soon, I've heard that winter evenings are the best for this kind of...

I live in Oregon on the coast, so not only do clouds get in the way, but so does light pollution (though I am sure light pollution is just about everywhere you go). Anyways, if there are any frequent viewers of the Milky Way through the naked eye out there, do you know of any places in Oregon...

Everything is on the same plane, and I was wondering why. I mean like, if you laid a reallllly flat and thin plate out, then everything rotating around the sun would fall in that, I mean the planets, not comets or whatever.

well then, the very thing that inspired me to learn about sciences and physics has been crushed into a fine powder and blown away right before my eyes. though I do know that a lot of the movie was cool special effects, there is some truth in there. Like how nothing ever technically touches...

I am Soph. year of high school but since 7th grade I have loved Molecules and atoms and pretty much everything small. Its fascinates me and when i read about it I get warped inside and find myself not blinking for minutes straight. But my problem is that no matter what forum I go to, everything...

oh my gosh, I feel dumb now, see, I thought that the reason the moon had its phases was because the sun was on the other side, and the Earth was blocking the light from the sun to the moon, but that only happens during lunar eclipses. It makes sense that the phases come from the moon being...

I may be wrong, and I will feel pretty stupid if i am, but i think that we can see Earth's shadown on the moon, that's why it has cycles right? if so, then why can't we see mountains and stuff from certain places on the earth. Is it because the moon is so far away?

I recently saw an optometrist and told him about an ongoing condition i have that is referred to as visual snow. Visual snow is like TV static but over your vision, and gets worse at night. He told me that what I was seeing was the proteins in the jelly stuff behind my pupil and stuff, but this...

Could someone please explain to me the idea of M state metals, or Mon-atomic metals, I've heard that they were High Spin superconductors and that when heated they loose weight, so much so that the scale they are placed on reads negative. So, my questions are: How is this possible, and Why on...