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Thank You for the thread with this very interesting definition...
I lived my youth very different from the other teenagers. I know Star Trek since 1978 and Stars Wars since 1979 (many years later I learned to know Babylon 5 and Stargate). I knew already, which topics I shouldn't talk about in the school. 1980 my interests began not only for Electronic Music, also for UFOs & Parasciences and for astronomy, which is the topic here...
I read many books and I watched many TV-serials about astronomy, but I visited also many scientific lectures in the planetarium in the West-Part of Berlin for many years. I know this planetarium already since 1974. Sometimes the scientific lectures were very monotonous and dry, but I got many knowledge, although only a little bit as an amateur and not professional. The planetarium had amateur astronomers in that time. To become a professional astronomer, the person has to study physics and mathematics. But these are not normal mathematics at the university. The person has to learn the higher mathematics with very complicated mathematical formulas, which I myself never understood. I can understand only the simple mathematics, which I had learned until the 10th class, before I should learn the higher mathematics for the last 2 and a half years. Many students don't understand the very complicated formulas and fail. But I can only say, the astronomy is very interresting, also without understanding these formulas. Later I had less time to visit the planetarium. 1992 I learned to know also the other planetarium in the East-Part of Berlin, which had another kind of events, not so monotonous and dry, that's much better for families with children, who are more interested for the live show effects than for scientific lectures. The technologies of the planetariums have become much better since 1974, and the planetariums are also a very good place for Electronic Live Concerts...
I have watched also the scientific episodes "Alpha Centauri", part of "Space Night", not only the musical episodes "Space Night Earth Views". Fortunately the very popular Space Night of the Bavarian TV-broadcaster BR Alpha will come back with new GEMA-free music from artists without a GEMA-membership. And the other German TV-broadcaster Phoenix has many TV-documentations also about nature, not only about politics and history, mostly as a serial with a few episodes. I watched the very great and fantastic TV-serials "The Blue Planet" and "Planet Earth" and many other TV-serials about nature, also about astronomy and lifeforms on other planets...
Back to the topic, not only our own Sun has planets, also many other stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy has millions of stars, and our universe has at least milliards of galaxies, maybe much more. Why shouldn't a planet contain lifeforms? The lifeforms can be very different from us, but they can still exist. I don't want to talk about UFOs & Aliens here, but I want to mention the possibility for other lifeforms on other planets. And everything about astronomy and also the other physics is still interesting...
Greetings from Sabine Klare Aka Sternenmaschinebine
Last edited by Sabine Klare; 22nd February 2013 at 09:10.
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