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HiGhTillDeaTH

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what up everyone, during my Senior year in High School I started to get into Astronomy and started to really enduldge my mind to researching AMAZING pics from space and interesting facts...But to the entire point of me posting this is to ask ALL of you a question, some might already know the answer, but please dont go searching the internet for the answer just say that you dont know, or atleast make an educated guess... Here we go, The question is..

What causes High and Low tides on our planet?
 
The gravitational effects of the moon and to a lesser extent, the sun.


Astronomy is cool tho. RIP Hubble. Made some great desktop pics
 
Duke said:
The gravitational effects of the moon and to a lesser extent, the sun.


Astronomy is cool tho. RIP Hubble. Made some great desktop pics
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from what i understood, its just the moon. but yes the gravatational pull of the moon on the earth causes the water to be pulled closer the moon itself, thus resulting in high and low tides.

u know about quazars?
 
HiGhTillDeaTH said:
from what i understood, its just the moon. but yes the gravatational pull of the moon on the earth causes the water to be pulled closer the moon itself, thus resulting in high and low tides.

u know about quazars?
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The effects of the sun are usually negligable because of the moon's effect. But when both moon and sun work in conjunction, it can cause a springtide.


Yes, quasars are dope :) The whole universe is dope. I've always been amazed at the scale of the whole thing.
 
Duke said:
The effects of the sun are usually negligable because of the moon's effect. But when both moon and sun work in conjunction, it can cause a springtide.


Yes, quasars are dope :) The whole universe is dope. I've always been amazed at the scale of the whole thing.
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Hell yeah, I am just completley amazed by our universe. Like artistic said, studying this as well as similar subjects, my life is put back into prosepect REALLY quick. It makes me realize that I am SO TINY in this world, and although i might be six feet under 2marrow, the sun will still rise, and lif will continue to evolve.

Cool i did not know that the sun and moon worked together to create a springtide... or maybe i did at one time and it slipped out of my head, u know my short term memory is shot.

But i was hoping to find out a little more on quazars/quasars however it is spelled. If i recall right these are ENORMOUS black holes that have so much gravational pull that not even light can escape. But when i was in high school my teacher told me that these are what to believed to be at the edge of our universe. Which is why are universe is constantly e x p a n d i n g. I heard that they suck in incredible amounts of space materials each and everyday.

I hope in my lifetime i will be able to see an actual star explode, and see the supernova, and the nebula...there are tons of pics out there of various nebulas.

Also another interesting fact that my teacher implanted in my head was that lets say a star just now exploded. Sirius for example, is 8.6 light years away, so we wouldnt even know that the star exploded for a little over 8 years. but we have technology, so we dont have to worry about this.
peace
 
Illuminattile said:
It worries me that so many kids think science is dull/boring/geeky.
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me too, people just dont appreciate shit like they used to. Our attention span is a whole hell of a lot shorter than it use to be. And now a days everything has a label attached.
 
Illuminattile said:
It worries me that so many kids think science is dull/boring/geeky.
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another thing that worries me is kids ignorance when it comes to reading. I have a whole closet full of books i have read and iam always at barnes & nobles lookin around. I hate the kids who act like reading is uncool. Reading is knowledge man!
 
yeh its the moon and polarized magnetic something or another, my proffesor was just talkin about how the moon also might might have something to do with women and there periods, once a month, one moon a month something about that...
 
HiGhTillDeaTH said:
thats right, but i might take off just a couple of points if this were a school test because you didnt mention gravity at all. But we are not in school so it doesnt matter. But yeah, you got it.
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I've done my physics exams. :)
 
Hey man, if you like astronomy i really recomend you check this site out http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx or even subscribe for their magazine, I know I do. I really feel your point about how people dont appreciate science/reading, all my friends always make fun of me cuz I'm into that kinda shit, its just too bad I can't convince them how much better off they'd be if they picked up a couple books.

Quasers ain't really black holes. Black holes are super giant stars that basically implode, like the mass of a star thats 100x bigger than our sun jammed into a 10km squared radius and you have a blackhole. Then you have super massive blackholes which I cant even really explain without taking some time to research em a bit, same with quasers, don't really know what they are off the top of my head.
 
Lord Tyranus said:
another thing that worries me is kids ignorance when it comes to reading. I have a whole closet full of books i have read and iam always at barnes & nobles lookin around. I hate the kids who act like reading is uncool. Reading is knowledge man!
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I actually tend believe that kids read more then ever.
maybe not books, but things like the internet, programs, games etc.

Before the internet people had to get books to get knowledge about something (other then word of mouth), today you can just google it up.
 
HiGhTillDeaTH said:
Hell yeah, I am just completley amazed by our universe. Like artistic said, studying this as well as similar subjects, my life is put back into prosepect REALLY quick. It makes me realize that I am SO TINY in this world, and although i might be six feet under 2marrow, the sun will still rise, and lif will continue to evolve.

Cool i did not know that the sun and moon worked together to create a springtide... or maybe i did at one time and it slipped out of my head, u know my short term memory is shot.

But i was hoping to find out a little more on quazars/quasars however it is spelled. If i recall right these are ENORMOUS black holes that have so much gravational pull that not even light can escape. But when i was in high school my teacher told me that these are what to believed to be at the edge of our universe. Which is why are universe is constantly e x p a n d i n g. I heard that they suck in incredible amounts of space materials each and everyday.

I hope in my lifetime i will be able to see an actual star explode, and see the supernova, and the nebula...there are tons of pics out there of various nebulas.

Also another interesting fact that my teacher implanted in my head was that lets say a star just now exploded. Sirius for example, is 8.6 light years away, so we wouldnt even know that the star exploded for a little over 8 years. but we have technology, so we dont have to worry about this.
peace
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I dunno exactly about quasars... *resists the urge to google it*, but i think they are more or less unidentified huge masses of energy, believed to be like the central point of distant galaxies. Whether they're black holes or not, i dunno.

And yeah man, the Universe is just fucking amazing. If life forms on a planet 500 lightyears way from us had a telescope powerful enough to see clearly on Earth, they'd see us walking around in medieval times. Crazy shit.

There's so much we don't know about the universe, which makes it so interesting.
 
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