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I think “trade winds” is better analogy than “super highway”.

chrisweekly 6y ago
Yes, by far! And to extend it, we're at the "canoes" (or maybe "swimming and surfing") stage regarding our technology for exploring those horizons.
- weego 6y ago
  Feels more like we threw someone in and watched to see if they could doggy paddle back.
  - ben_w 6y ago
    For interplanetary, I think it’s more like we looked at some flotsam in the water spinning around and wondered if we could make a canoe based on that principle get to the next island, having only just tippy-toed into the water up to our ankles just to prove it wasn’t immediately lethal. (Scale difference: Uranus is 7800 times further than the moon [0], so if wading to ankle depth is 1m from the shore, then the metaphorical island is 7.8 km away — pretty close of the distance between the closest parts of Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight [1]). [0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Distance%20to%20Uranus%2FDistance%20to%20moon http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Distance%20to%20Uranus%... [1] https://goo.gl/maps/rvV5cXeb8i8xbVwr9 https://goo.gl/maps/rvV5cXeb8i8xbVwr9
    - dmos62 6y ago
      Really enjoyed these water and swimming analogies, but I think air and flying analogies would be better, since it's just so damn hard to fly. You see the birds and dream, but to actually take off takes something else, and even then we stay relatively close to the ground (within our atmosphere). From someone who's not seen an airplane, to then keep going into the stars is pretty crazy. There's a saying that to become enlightened you have to be willing to fall upwards. I think there's an ingredient of that in exploring new frontiers.
    - ngcc_hk 6y ago
      Surprise place name as example
8bitsrule 6y ago
I came here to complain that the headline is a rickroll. Not all their fault, though ... as they say, the researchers called it "a true celestial autobahn" (bottom of abstract). The article's title? "The arches of chaos in the Solar System". le sigh https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/48/eabd1313 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/48/eabd1313
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Yes, by far! And to extend it, we're at the "canoes" (or maybe "swimming and surfing") stage regarding our technology for exploring those horizons.

weego 6y ago
Feels more like we threw someone in and watched to see if they could doggy paddle back.
- ben_w 6y ago
  For interplanetary, I think it’s more like we looked at some flotsam in the water spinning around and wondered if we could make a canoe based on that principle get to the next island, having only just tippy-toed into the water up to our ankles just to prove it wasn’t immediately lethal. (Scale difference: Uranus is 7800 times further than the moon [0], so if wading to ankle depth is 1m from the shore, then the metaphorical island is 7.8 km away — pretty close of the distance between the closest parts of Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight [1]). [0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Distance%20to%20Uranus%2FDistance%20to%20moon http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Distance%20to%20Uranus%... [1] https://goo.gl/maps/rvV5cXeb8i8xbVwr9 https://goo.gl/maps/rvV5cXeb8i8xbVwr9
  - dmos62 6y ago
    Really enjoyed these water and swimming analogies, but I think air and flying analogies would be better, since it's just so damn hard to fly. You see the birds and dream, but to actually take off takes something else, and even then we stay relatively close to the ground (within our atmosphere). From someone who's not seen an airplane, to then keep going into the stars is pretty crazy. There's a saying that to become enlightened you have to be willing to fall upwards. I think there's an ingredient of that in exploring new frontiers.
  - ngcc_hk 6y ago
    Surprise place name as example

8bitsrule 6y ago

I came here to complain that the headline is a rickroll. Not all their fault, though ... as they say, the researchers called it "a true celestial autobahn" (bottom of abstract). The article's title? "The arches of chaos in the Solar System". le sigh https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/48/eabd1313 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/48/eabd1313

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