Double sunsets, via Tatooine more common ...

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:58 am

So says NASA and jpl, anyway:

Star Wars'-Type Double Sunset Might Be Possible

The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy.

Now playing at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/spitzer/spitzer20070329/ is a video comparing the double sunsets of the "Star Wars" planet, Tatooine, with recent findings by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The telescope found signs that planetary systems around double stars are at least as common as they are in single-star systems like ours. This suggests the universe could be packed with planets that have two suns. Sunsets on some of those worlds would resemble the ones on Tatooine.

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Not only do they say it's "possible," but the claim in the video is binary stars may outnumber single ones, like our own sun.

I wonder if Copernicus' equivalent had to double his efforts amid idiots twice as convinced "the world" was the center of the universe, 1.6 ~ gigabillion light years from here.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:08 am

That's no moon. It's a space station.

Y2K · Post by **Y2K** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:28 am

What happens when we find out it's "possible" that our sun may be part of a Binary Star Solar System because we are to little and stupid as to think on such a small scale when it pertains to "The Universe." Somewhere our Sun could be a first, second or may be even a third segments of some random alien planet's actual sunset.

Think big.....

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:50 am

Only in a parellel universe.

I'm fairly certain we've been around our own Sun, with space vehicles, several times, given that we've needed planets to help slingshot them into the outer solar system.

If there was a binary star lurking out there in our own solar system, we'd have found it by now. If by nothing else, the gravity of "another sun" fucking up most every outer solar system probe we've ever launched.

Oh, and not to mention that the Earth only has one sunset. There is that.

Y2K · Post by **Y2K** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:46 am

If there was a binary star lurking out there in our own solar system, we'd have found it by now.

You give the North Star no props?
It may not have the "Bode" our Sun has, but it's always been there for us

Think Big!

BIG!

the_ouskull · Post by **the_ouskull** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:10 am

I wonder how many of you fucks, on this thread, this late, are stoned...

In.

...and in response to the thread: the closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri at about 4.6 light years away. Our sun is seven light minutes away, and if we were any closer, we'd be toast... any further, we'd be frozen. I'm pretty sure that, if there's another sun, especially a binary one, within 4.6 light years, we'd have seen it by now.

It'd be nice to see that Star Wars sunset and all, playing cards with Chewbacca, Greedo, Han-Solo, and Mike Matasow in the background, but it's not happening within a lifetime's travel for any of us... so who gives a fuck? Fuck the nice shit that other species have.

the_ouskull

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:45 am

Y2K wrote:You give the North Star no props?

Polaris isn't a binary star to our sun. It's 430 light years away, bro., not to mention Thuban.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:56 am

and--Polaris is not always the "North Star" due to
the precession of the equinoxes--- you can look it up
if you are so inclined !

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:02 pm

I see double sunsets all the time.

Sincerely,
Atomic Puke

rozy · Post by **rozy** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:12 pm

RACK Jack

RedHerring · Post by **RedHerring** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:12 am

Redemption!! now my Dad will have to talk to me again....

Signed....