and don't forget the recent announcement that the universe will end in a BIG RIP and not with a BIG CRUNCH
Well it seems there wont be a big crunch because of the increasing rate of expansion, but does that stretching necessarily mean it'll end in a rip? the last video i watched about that Brian Cox said as far as we can tell the universe as we know it will go on forever. He also gave an excellent analogy to make sense of how the universe is expanding at an
increasing rate... basically think of the universe like a lump of dough in the oven with raisins in it ... all the raisins are moving away from each other as the dough rises in all directions, but the ones closest to you move away slower than the ones further away
even i can make sense of that! heehee
Cant wait to hear this NASA announcement!!! it seems it is "major"
still over 24hrs away though, i cant wait that long
lol
My $2.50 is on liquid water!
There is much speculation that the mystery to be addressed is the phenomena known as 'recurring slope lineae', the dark tendrils observed on the planet surface during warm seasons, which it is speculated is evidence of water.
Among those speaking at the briefing will be Alfred McEwen from the University of Arizona in Tucson, who in July published a study on slope activity in Mars's Gale crater, and Lujendra Ojha, a PhD candidate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who has collaborated with McEwen and has also studied the possible water activity on Mars.
Science and technology website Inverse.com highlighted Ojha as "the odd-person out at the news conference", pointing out that it was Ojha's undergraduate research that helped identify the recurring slope lineae.
The existence of water would be significant as it would mean there was a prospect of life on Mars.
