New Iapetus Theory

[vogon13]

Feel like doing some arithmetic tonight. Gasp!<br /><br />10,000 cubic kilometrers is 10,000,000,000 cubic meters.<br /><br />If we emplace 1 cubic meter per second, how long to emplace the whole enchilada?<br /><br />Well, its that many seconds, 2,777,778 hours, 115,741 days, or 317 years.<br /><br />Yoiks! Blink and you miss it!<br /><br />Considering age of solar system is 4+ billion years, chances of us seeing it emplace are pretty small. Emplacing at 10 or 1/10 cubic meters per second matters not a whole lot either.<br /><br />Future space explorers are going to have to scour many star systems to find an active one. Maybe easier to trigger one artificially.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[bonzelite]

i don't think the solar system is 4 billion years old. <br /><br />how can every object in our solar system be the same age? given the diversity of objects just around one planet, say, saturn, there is no way in h#$LL that all of those satellites are the same age. no way jose'.

 

[telfrow]

<font color="yellow">in fact, the government should just ban this entire web site. most of it is speculative crap.</font><br /><br />You're referring to TEM, right?<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

[vogon13]

"i don't think the solar system is 4 billion years old."<br /><br />How do you feel about phlogiston?<br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[bonzelite]

"phlogiston theory , hypothesis regarding combustion. The theory, advanced by J. J. Becher late in the 17th cent. and extended and popularized by G. E. Stahl, postulates that in all flammable materials there is present phlogiston, a substance without color, odor, taste, or weight that is given off in burning. “Phlogisticated” substances are those that contain phlogiston and, on being burned, are “dephlogisticated.” The ash of the burned material is held to be the true material. The theory received strong and wide support throughout a large part of the 18th cent. until it was refuted by the work of A. L. Lavoisier, who revealed the true nature of combustion. Joseph Priestley, however, defended the theory throughout his lifetime. Henry Cavendish remained doubtful, but most other chemists of the period, including C. L. Berthollet, rejected it."<br /><br />sounds like the guy drank a lot of absynthe and got totally phlogisticated. <br /><br />

 

[bonzelite]

"You're referring to TEM, right?"<br /><br />what?

 

[telfrow]

<b>T</b>he <b>E</b>nterprise <b>M</b>ission<br /><br />(As if you didn't know...) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

[bonzelite]

oh that. TEM. yes. a lot of that is speculative crap as well! <br /><br />sure, i'm curious, but not dumb. a lot of that conpiracy stuff, like "weather war" and all of that. i dunno. a lot that seems like absolute crap to me. like the "illuminati" and area 51. scientology. anal probes and abductions by UFOs. the tsunami in sri lanka was "planned." <br /><br />i'm not into that.

 

[vogon13]

A 300+ (heck even 30,000) year period for emplacement of the feature kinda rules out the feature being a relic from Iapetus' accretion. Crater counts will confirm.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Congratulations! You are the one millionth poster to put in a link to the Hoaglanditic webstravaganza.<br /><br />Think the mods have been deleting them as of late....... <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />No, we haven't been. We generally do not restrict links unless they violate the Terms of Service (naughty words in the link, malicious data-harvesting websites, obvious spam, etc). There is no policy in place pertaining specifically to The Enterprise Mission. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Because I thought there are NASA folks on these boards.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />There are a couple of Kennedy Space Center workers employed by United Space Alliance, and a number of people working for other companies that sometimes contract to NASA. But that's about it. There are also a few academics here, such as JonClarke. The vast majority of us are enthusiastic laypersons, just like you. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />Here at Uplink, you will find a high concentration of people who pay a lot of attention to space news, and some who even subscribe to relatively obscure industry journals. So it's a good place to check on rumors, find out the status of various programs and missions, and it's a good place to bounce ideas around. But it does have its limits. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Must have been thinking of something else, sorry. <br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Or a sneaky way of finding out for sure.<br /><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[telfrow]

Just wishful thinking. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>