The Impossible Space Quiz

[hexed6]

I bet in 400 or 500 years when space technology is a lot more advanced, someone will go "fetch" Voyager 1 as a collectors item.

Interesting idea, I wonder how much the Golden Record will be worth at that time? I better get to work on building that rocket...

According to a Wikipedia article, the New Horizons probe will surpass Voyager 1 (in distance from Earth) in approximately 200 years.

[Baker]

I was thinking it was a Voyager picture. I was reading about it yesterday trying to figure out #4 and I read that Voyager 1 has reached a distance of 100 AU from the Sun as of August 15th, the most distant human made object traversing space. Within the next 10 years Voyager 1 will have passed through the heliosphere and into interstellar space and The Great Unknown.

I bet in 400 or 500 years when space technology is a lot more advanced, someone will go "fetch" Voyager 1 as a collectors item.

[hexed6]

I was thinking it was a Voyager picture. I was reading about it yesterday trying to figure out #4 and I read that Voyager 1 has reached a distance of 100 AU from the Sun as of August 15th, the most distant human made object traversing space. Within the next 10 years Voyager 1 will have passed through the heliosphere and into interstellar space and The Great Unknown.

[Baker]

Is #4 a spiral galaxy side view?

Nice try, but no.

The unsolved looks to me like the white bronco oj was heading to mexico in.

Close enough, heheh :d Winner!

It is a picture of the planet Earth at a distance of over 4 billion miles away taken by the barely functioning Voyager 1 in 1990. Voyager 1 has been heading out into nowhere since 1980 when it visited Saturn so it had travelled 10 years at a speed of about 14 miles per second beyond Saturn so it was well beyond even the distance of Pluto.

[ArmOrAttAk]

The unsolved looks to me like the white bronco oj was heading to mexico in.

[hexed6]

Is #4 a spiral galaxy side view?

[hexed6]

A complete guess...

1. Doing flips or some sort of acobatic stuff?
2. Playing catch and/or kicking with some sort of object?

1. No.
2. Close, you're on the right track.

[Canadian*Sniper]

I find the only way I can keep up to date with other types of businesses is by reading the newspaper. Who knows, I might change profession down the road and I'll know what companies I should look at :-)

[Baker]

newspaper, anyone else read that?

I think I bought one of those a couple of years ago.

Hehe, who reads the newspaper anymore except at airports (where it is so damn boring)? It's a waste of 50 cents to read the same AP and Reuters stories that are free on the internet.

The Wall Street Journal is an exception to the above because the content is so unique, but you more or less have to be into stocks or bonds to need to be that informed.

[Canadian*Sniper]

How ironic on the virge of this topic that today the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto from a planet to a "dwarf planet." Thus our solar sysem now officially contains only 8 planets. They also did not alter the definition of a planet to include some of those larger asteroids, like the one Baker had as one of his trivia questions.

Read: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210275,00.html

Yea I read that in the news today (newspaper, anyone else read that? )

[Bank]

I don't think it should be considered a planet

You deserve to die.

[Baker]

How ironic on the virge of this topic that today the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto from a planet to a "dwarf planet." Thus our solar sysem now officially contains only 8 planets.

They've discovered 5 or 6 Pluto-like objects beyond Neptune ... still Pluto is rather large. I don't think it should be considered a planet, but I don't think anyone likes the idea of changing around how many planets there are.



I think I saw the above on the Sci-Fi channel back when the Sci-Fi channel ran mostly movies. The movie Journey to the Far Side of the Sun was a very cool movie ... here is what happens (spoiler ... highlight text):

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A rocket takes off to the far side of the sun to investigate something they've detected in Earth's orbit. The rocket takes off and then unexpectedly returns to Earth prior to completing the mission. He is interrogated by the government as to why he didn't complete his mission and is delusional and he doesn't know. Eventually -- and I can't remember how --- they discover he is from mirror image Earth on the opposite side of the sun and is NOT the man they sent on the mission.

/ #4 remains unsolved, hehe

[Bank]

The First Church supports Pluto as a Planet, not a dwarf, as Saint Samuel would have it.

[Solecord]

How ironic on the virge of this topic that today the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto from a planet to a "dwarf planet." Thus our solar sysem now officially contains only 8 planets. They also did not alter the definition of a planet to include some of those larger asteroids, like the one Baker had as one of his trivia questions.

Read: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210275,00.html

[Baker]

#4 ... Low resolution, I'll just take a stab in the dark, comet trail?

Incorrect. Some extra info: #4 isn't a comet or asteroid, it is something everyone knows of. The object the arrow is pointing to is 6.6 billion km away from the source; the photo was taken in 1990.