/sci/ - Science & Math

Sol - Our sun.
Luna - Earth's moon.
Terra - Alternate name for Earth.

I'm going to have to agree with >>3282474 on this one. Why does anyone here care anyway?

Personally I prefer Sol to just 'the Sun' or Luna to 'the Moon' because eventually it *is* going to become convoluted. What, you think people from 47 Ursae Majoris 800 years from now are going to continue calling it the sun? Or the moon?

(As an alternate name for Earth I hate Terra however. I prefer Telluris.)

>>2967662
Do you have any information to counter my earlier post? With the wall-o-links? Or is the circumstantial evidence of 'people said we'd be on Mars in the 80's and it didn't happen'

>>2885761
Would mirrors in orbit around Titan and Saturn be able to bring up the temperature to something more hospitable? I'm not exactly sure how many mirrors you would require and whether it could safely stay orbiting without the gravitational havoc of the other Saturnian moons.

So, the estimated age of the universe is estimated at 13.7 +/- .1 billion years old, but the known universe spans 98 billion light years. I understand that in the beginning there was absolute chaos and maybe the laws of physics didn't act like they do today, and dark energy is pushing the universe apart at an increasing rate, but light from the farthest reaches of the known universe would have taken 49 billion years to reach us. How do we account for the difference there?

image i was going to use is too large so heres the link:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Observable_Universe_with_Measurements_01.png