THe night skies

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes, according to my GP I am disgustingly fit and healthy for my age, which has been stuck at 16 with many years of experience for years.

But there are so many stars, the number in the sky is almost as big as the number down here on earth.
Every day we hear of some star or other be it in business, footy or some other extreme activity.

For those who missed the star line up the other morning we were told it will come back in about 1 or 2 thousand years time.

Stars cab be seen any where, some good some not so good like the five I could see through the hole in the deck head above my bunk at the Vindi.

[j.sabourn]

Ref the star line up the other morning , if we are talking about the same , the ones I saw the tail end of were planets , not to be confused with stars. Not even shooting stars. A few thousand years I can quite imagine, must have used a computer to work that one out , but just shows what goes round comes around. Most worldly things if we but knew it have all happened before at some time or other. So when someone says s I have never seen it as bad as this. It may of happened many times before in the billions of the worlds history. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John S.
On the news last night someone was talking about a soon to be seen big spot on the moon, or at least I think it was the moon, perhaps one of the American space men left a boot there.
Des

[j.sabourn]

The moon is only a shortass in relation to the other bodies about a third of the size of the earth . Not too far away either if remember right about 240,000 miles , most of us have done well over that traipsing around this world . If the sun was closer to the earth think of the massive gravitational pull on the earth and it’s tides. Whereas the moon which has by far the greatest pull would again be a minor contributor . I know sunspots had a definitive reaction to radio communications not so sure about the moon ? One of our R/0s would be better informed than us.
Cheers JS. PS Those moon boots can be very large .

[happy daze john in oz]

According to some report Australia is wider across than the Moon!!!!!!!!!

A black hole now shown on TV, maybe we could use it for the erection next week, would solve a lot of problems of it swallowed them all.

[j.sabourn]

There are 9 planets in our sphere which most people recognise . The sun is home to us all and is a STAR as it had no orbital path.
The diameter of the Sun is 864,000 miles
The diameter of the planets are as follows....
Earth. 4222 miles
Mercury. 3031
Venus. 7521
Mars. 4222
Jupiter 88736
Saturn. 74506
Uranus. 31764
Neptune. 30755
Pluto 1485. The baby planet
I saw about the new or just found black hole and can’t remember any estimations about its size , but no doubt it could swallow all the planets at one go and not notice any difference it will no doubt be massive and beyond comprehension .

Cheers JS
PS Think forgot to put the moon in , which is 2160 miles in diameter JS

[J Gowers]

Latest I heard was the black hole was 40 million miles in diameter, so a wee bit big!

[j.sabourn]

Just imagine standing on the rim and shouting down “ Anybody down there “ .JS
Imagine further a voice came back sounding like Putin , I’m down here how did my parade go. JS

[thomas michael]

hi john sabourn #18
good morning, it would be a bigger surprise if paddy shouted back that he was still digging and what do you want,
tom

[Yachtsman]

JS, you have just shrunk the Earth. It is 7926 miles diameter.

Bob