Space & Astronomy
Exploring "Why" questions about Space & Astronomy
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Why the venus project (or zeitgeist if they’re both the same) is a bad thing
The people that tell you the Venus project is a bad thing are people that are too happy making money off of others.
Why is the Christmas hype starting earlier every year?
Yes, it's all about marketing. Some retail businesses don't turn a profit at all without the Christmas shopping season. Moving everything up earlier extends the number of days that consumers will have
Why haven’t we begun colonizing the moon?
Cost > Benefit Or as per the conspiracy theory there is an alien observation post and we have a pact not to go there.
Why didn’t America start off using the metric system?
It was actually introduced (by France) after the USA was founded. France introduced the whole system in 1799, America was founded in 1776. Parts of it have been around for much longer, but the system
Why do all the planets in our Solar System orbit the sun in a latitudinal path/on the same plane?
A nebula ie a cloud of gas starts to collapse. The conservation of angular momentum result in that is spins. If you have a spinning cloud with particles that travel in random direction they start to c
Why do people hate the Star Wars prequels?
A few reasons. The CGI is good, but not good enough compared to the real models used in the originals. Everything is far too clean.
Why are planets/moons/stars perfectly round?
Quite simply: gravity. Once you get above a certain size, gravity is strong enough that it will even deform an object into a sphere, which minimizes the gravitational potential energy on the object (e
Why do people in Indian soap operas start speaking English randomly or adding English words in the middle of sentences? Is that common and how did they get to this point?
Most educated Indians are bilingual. English + 1 language (varies state to state). In fact, in many schools and work environments, people use English solely, mainly because not everyone speaks the sam
Why doesn’t Saturn’s rings clump up and turn into a moon?
First, because they have/do. Second, Because the gravity of Saturn's actual moons stops them from doing so. Some gaps in Saturn's rings are formed because a moon or moonlet has formed and cleared a pl
Why isn’t the earth’s spin visible from a plane?
two different questions. you can see the earth spin from a plane. travel eastwards and the sun will rise earlier due to the earth spinning.