If it was reported that one of NASA's probes which was launched 50 years ago had at last reached the end of the universe (which is precisely what they wanted it to do, so result!! ), and that there's a planet just like earth, but made of sponge with a marzipan crust, sprinkled with sultanas and raisins, and rivers of milk and honey, would you believe it? Supplementary question - and if not, why not?
As we do not and cannot know where or if this Universe ends...NO. Added to this would be the complete lack of sponge or any other living organism (let alone terrestrial) noted anywhere but here. While it is painfully clear that you lack knowledge of space and have no intention of gaining any...you do little more than make a fool of yourself by debasing those that do.
It may be leaving the heliopause but we will all be dead before it leave the Oort Cloud. So no the universe is quite a bit larger.
No, the Voyager satellites were never intended to leave our galaxy. They will travel an orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy just like our sun is, making a lap about every 320 million years. There are many sources of information concerning what NASA is doing. If you really think there is a conspiracy that profound, you should cite something.
It isn't a conspiracy, its an organised confidence trick to fool people like yourself. It seems to have worked, too?
Thankfully science has informed us that you could not reach the end of a perhaps infinite universe in 50 years? Anyways, why do you have such a big problem with NASA and astronomy? And one wonders if you think atoms exist, even when you cannot see them? Not trying to be a smart arse, for I am seriously wondering your beliefs on these issues. In an effort why you think as you do.
Trick them into what? Believing the earth is flat, and that the stars, planets and galaxies we can look at, with naked eyes and telescopes do not really exist as we think they do? That they are like holes cut in some structure, which has lights behind it to give the impression of being something other than a light shining through lots of tiny holes? What are your cosmological beliefs? Did we send men to the moon? Or is that also a hoax run by confidence men, on marks, but you refuse to be a mark?
'science' has proven no such thing, individuals in NASA have speculated, and speculation is worthless, especially when it's self-serving. But if you want to believe something any Tom, Dick or Harry says without them offering some proof of it, that's between you and your self-respect. But I'll remind you that children children believe everything they're told without questioning? Mind you, they begin to question when they get a bit older. Um, because I don't believe everything I'm told without questioning and demanding proof?? Indeed I'm surprised that any salient adult would.
I have my doubts about that, actually; but even if they did, that's 'just around the corner' stuff - I'm referring to deep space.
First, there is no "end" of the universe. Second, because of there is no "end' NASA would never have the goal of reaching it. Finally, if such a planet did get discovered, there would have to be some major evidence before I (and many other people) would accept it. I don't believe NASA because they say so, I believe NASA because they have evidence to back up their claims.
Isn't there? I quite accept that you can't possibly know, indeed it's one of the things which mankind is destined to never know, but what, specifically, makes you believe it?
The knee-jerk riposte of someone who has suddenly been forced to realise that he's been wrong all along.
What have you been smoking or otherwise indulging or dabbling in, or snouting ? I do not see a point here, or any cohesive statement of fact. One thing I can say, 50 years of travel of a probe such as Voyager, at it's current speed, will not be so very far even with what little we know now about our Solar system as it relates to our galaxy and the distances to other galaxies and the distances between galaxies etc... Stellar cartography charting the many distances in Parsecs.
Another NASA disciple! Whaddya do!! Adults with the minds of children. Something weird is happening to us, and I don't like what it is.
If it was reported that one of NASA's probes which was launched 50 years ago had at last reached the end of the universe (which is precisely what they wanted it to do, so result!! ), and that there's a planet just like earth, but made of sponge with a marzipan crust, sprinkled with sultanas and raisins, and rivers of milk and honey, would you believe it? Supplementary question - and if not, why not? Ignoring the obvious comic reference, 50 years of sublight travel is not enough for a probe to reach either Proxima Centuri, or Alpha Centuri the closer Galaxies, no where near the end of anything. So why the Snark ? Care to share ?
No, nothing that I haven't already shared - read the thread if you want to know where I'm coming from . . . and it ain't 'Proxima Centuri'! ffs
