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what a boring solar system
Topic Started: Jul 6 2010, 09:48 PM (925 Views)
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I read that there is supposed to be a drilling operation going on by 2060.
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I'll be alive then, what about you?

It isn't boring because without it we wouldn't have excitement and non-boring stuff.
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Hooray I'll be alive by then and only in my 70's!
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Future medicine- you won't look it!
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I'm going back to basics.

How can you say our solar system is boring when we have both Jupiter and Mercury?
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We do have 8 planets, more than any detected solar system. Then again, we never detected Earth-size planets, so there are probably systems with more than 10 planets. But hey, we almost had over 15 (if Pluto was a planet)!
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It's not boring persay. It's actually quite exciting. But, while the current solar system is most likely the best configuration for life on Earth, it could have had five planets (or moons, as the case may be) with life (Earth included).

So it's quite exciting compared to other solar systems. But compared to what our solar system could have been, it's quite boring.

And 2060 for a Europa mission? I heard 2030 or 2040.
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We have a boring solar system (name wise).

Think about it! our moon is called the moon and our sun is called the sun and even worse the solar system we are in is called the solar system!!

Seriously! there should be more creativity!!

What do you think these things should be called?

As had been pointed out, Sol and Luna are Latin (IIRC) for "sun" and "moon" respectively. I think any culture with only one star and only one moon will probably similarly name their celestial bodies, in whatever language that ends up being. Now if an individual had several of either or both, then they may be a little more creative in their naming.

The reason for your naming envy may come from the fact that we have to differentiate the other celestial bodies from the two big bright ones; some of them have really cool names with interesting origins, and others are kinda dumb, IMO.

Part of the reason may also be that you think "solar system" is an accurate term for any system of star(s) orbited by other bodies, when it really only applies to our star system.

I wonder what name other species have for our average old star...
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Well Sol is much better than Tosev in my opinion.
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Who called a star Tosev?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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You know if the Spec Evo fiction genre survives to the time we find life in the universe sites like this will become super popular and we won't be such a small percentage of humanity.

Also I think there's life in the star system.
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I seriously doubt the future medicine thing, I mean, what do the youngin's care about us old farts anyway? They're all busy finding life on Europa and going on diets and riding in flying cars.
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You know if the Spec Evo fiction genre survives to the time we find life in the universe sites like this will become super popular and we won't be such a small percentage of humanity.
Or if we find alternative universes. Then alternative evolution will be popular.
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Of course there's life in he solar system. :) Some of us may be more alive than others, but I am 100% sure that there is life here.
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Compared to what we know about other star systems, ours is boring. Our biggest gas giant is smaller than any other we have detected to date, and just about every terrestrial planet we seem to find dwarfs Earth. About our only real attribute is life, but since we don't know for sure that those 400 some exoplanets we've found are lifeless, we can't really say that it makes us unique.

Maybe that's why we've found no other life, or no other life has found us; our system just looks too boring. Smaller than average planets, weak yellow star; about the only things of value I can think of are Earth, the asteroid belt, and the Oort cloud (the latter could be harvested without our knowledge though). Aside from about a century of radio broadcasts and half a century of television broadcasts, we humans have also done nothing notable. Sure we've gone to the moon, but how much of an achievement is simply going to your planet's natural satellite? That's like calling a walk around the block a marathon. Maybe when we start visiting other planets on a frequent basis (as in every decade or every few years) and showing more global interest in space exploration our system will seem more interesting; to both us and any aliens that might have overlooked us or been uninterested.
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