Wednesday, September 5, 2012

RTOTD #700.1

Day 700.1

So I have been thinking about this for a long time...

Why don't we ever try to shoot stuff up above us? I don't mean just into the sky, we do that all the time with satelites and space ships and shit.

No, I mean when we launch a probe to go look at the universe, we alway shoot towards the moon and Mars and Jupiter and shit and, like the Voyager I and II that just left the solar system, wait for them to leave the solar system going that way.

It seems like that would be the long way, right? The universe is 3 dimensional and yet we keep shooting things towards the sun or away from it. That's like always going east and west basically. We never shoot shit south or north. Why?

So what's south? There's shit down that way... we know that when we look directly at the sky from the south pole, there's stars and stuff down there. Same with the north pole...

So with everything being oriented east and west from the sun in orbit, basically, doesn't trying to leave the solar system by going towards Pluto seem like the long way?

Here... this might explain it better...


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