The REAL milky way galaxy map - sol @ centre ;)

Kamog · #1 September 19th, 2003, 07:56 AM

I have never been sure whether Alpha Centauri or Proxima Centauri is closer, because I have heard both.

Fyron · #2 September 19th, 2003, 09:50 AM

Go look for a real star map.

Cirvol · #3 September 22nd, 2003, 10:37 PM

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/con...a/nearest.html

this pretty clearly shows that proxima centauri is closest... just like i said

Kamog · #4 September 23rd, 2003, 08:16 AM

Thanks! Oh, I see... Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away, and Alpha Centauri, which is a binary star, is 4.3 light years away...

The question is, which one does Centauri Prime orbit around? ... OK, it seems that it's neither. Centauri Prime is the third planet orbiting the star Centauris, which is about 70 light years away from Sol.

The inventor of the warp drive is Zephram Cochrane but is he from Alpha Centauri, or is he from Earth...this must be one of those Star Trek inconsistencies.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 September 23rd, 2003, 08:22 AM

you mean like the 'enterprise' 'romul' i mean 'vulcan's'?

DavidG · #6 September 23rd, 2003, 03:13 PM

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Originally posted by Kamog:
Thanks! Oh, I see... Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away, and Alpha Centauri, which is a binary star, is 4.3 light years away...

The question is, which one does Centauri Prime orbit around? ... OK, it seems that it's neither. Centauri Prime is the third planet orbiting the star Centauris, which is about 70 light years away from Sol.

The inventor of the warp drive is Zephram Cochrane but is he from Alpha Centauri, or is he from Earth...this must be one of those Star Trek inconsistencies.

Isn't the Centauri system wich includes Alpha Centauri a trinary?

PS Zephram Cochrane is from Alpha Centauri. Don't listen to all the non cannon BS that came from TNG and later.

geoschmo · #7 September 23rd, 2003, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by Kamog:
The inventor of the warp drive is Zephram Cochrane but is he from Alpha Centauri, or is he from Earth...this must be one of those Star Trek inconsistencies.

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Originally posted by DavidG:
PS Zephram Cochrane is from Alpha Centauri. Don't listen to all the non cannon BS that came from TNG and later.

I don't understand why everyone get's so hung up on this one. Cochrane was from Earth originally. He was born in rural England and his lifes ambition was to be a nobody and live a simple uncomplicated life. Thus he became a farmer. Unfortunatly for him fate had another idea and into his life came a runt of a talking pig which he won at a county fair. This brought him more notarity then he ever wanted so he sold the pig and and moved to rural Montana. Unfortunatly his reputation preceeded him even there. Deciding that there was nowhere on earth he could go to avoid "Hey, aren't you the talking pig guy?" he worked hard to invent the Warp Drive. After doing so he moved to Alpha Centauri and lived there for many years. Hence the history books description of him being "of Alpha Centauri". Unfotunatly, even though noone on his new planet had ever heard of the talking pig thing, being the inventor of Warp Drive was just as bad. So finally he flew off into deep space, presumably to his death. Only he didn't die. He hooked up with an floating cloud alien who gave him eternal life on a barren planetoid where he met Kirk and Spock a century later.