Let There Be Light!

Let There Be Light!
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:00:00 -0600

Endeavour pilot Terry Virts opened the windows of the newly installed cupola one at a time early Wednesday, giving spacewalkers Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick an early look into the International Space Station's room with a view that they had helped install. The cupola's fully opened windows look down on the Sahara Desert in this image that was 'tweeted' from space by JAXA astronaut and Expedition 22 flight engineer Soichi Noguchi. Image Credit: NASA

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OBAMA IS KILLING OUR NASA!

Most of us aren't aware of it but NASA is in our home, car, office, factory and more. NASA is unique. While
other government programs focus on just their are of responsibility, NASA does the self-same thing but in the
process there are numerous collateral benefits to numerous other areas from it's pure and applied science
projects, as well as, spin offs and applications. It is imperative that NASA while still extremely necessary to so
many fields once again becomes the main scientific/technological engine of our economy. Further, Obama's
decision not to replacing the aging space shuttle fleet means - do you relish the idea - that we will have to beg
and pay Russia to carry our astronauts to the so-called International Space Station for which we footed most of
the bill!
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In older posts, (less then a month old) please read: "Richard DePersio responds to question from his nine year
old niece: "Do you think that there is life elsewhere in in universe?" with: "R.D. responds to question from his
niece"; "Rickcosmos is not Known for his brevity!"; "Rick Always has Time for His Nieces."

Rick always has time for his nieces

-----Original Message-----
From: rrdd3939@aol.com
To: dredi69@aol.com
Sent: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 3:39 pm
Subject: Re:

Real scientists like us don't use the term 'believe' when it comes to science. Science is based on theory

and fact; religion is based on faith. They are both important and necessary.You can believe in a religious idea like Jesus is the Son of God but in science you either except or reject an idea.

It is likely that one-celled plants and animals, algae, bacteria existed in the past or still exist on Mars or on the areas around the north and south poles  of the moon; life as complex as insects on

Jupiter's moon - Io and as complex as fish in an ocean under the solid surface of Saturn's moon -  Europa.

As far as aliens visiting the earth in the past or present in flying saucers -no. Intelligent alien life living

on planets orbiting other stars - maybe (50% chance) but they haven't visited. Topper knows an alien

who lives on a planet orbiting the star 69 Cygni and Harvey knows an alien from Mexico (that's a different kind of an alien.

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To: RRDD3939@aol.com
Sent: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 9:09 pm

uncle rick, i have a question for you - do you believe in aliens?

aj

Fwd: Rickcosmos is not known for brevity!.

-----Original Message-----
From: rrdd3939@aol.com
To: dredi69@aol.com
Sent: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 4:.

Alexa, lets pretend that mass and weight are the same thing. The earth has more mass then the moon

that's why the moon orbits the earth and the earth doesn't orbit the moon. The more mass that an object has the more gravity it has. Gravity is an invisible force (Topper knows a lot about it.)The earth pulls you

down stronger then if you were on the moon. Gravity determines weight. You weight more on

earth then on moon (we are pretending mass and weight are the same thing). If you drop something

on earth like a glass of milk, your mother hollers at you. Things fall slower on the moon. Maybe, you

can catch it before your mother yells!

The earth is a planet and orbits a star. There are planets that orbit other stars. What if a planet had

intelligent life like humans. It will mostly be made out of water and carbon like us. Would it like us? It might look like monster but have things that resemble what we have. You would look at it and say: "Those

looks like eyes" and "I wonder if he uses that body part like a hand" and " I think that his brain might be

inside that body part."

The planet can't be to big (where pretending that mass and size are the same): the air would crush it

and gravity would pin it against the ground - it wouldn't be able to lift itself up or even move - -

it wouldn't be able to search for water and food. It would be alright if it were a little bigger then the earth
then the intelligent life on that planet would be short and squatty. If it were just a little small then the 

life would be tall and thin. Can you figure out the reason?

Venus is just a little smaller then the earth but it's air is poisonous.

There is something else for there to be intelligent life on a planet it has to be the right size, have the

right kind of air - - and be at the right distance from it's star, otherwise, it would be too hot or too cold to

live.