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.Cosmology and the Infinitesimal

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37

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#77
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 The two Voyager spacecrafts that have
 left the solar system contained gold
 plated records (CDs were not yet
 available) with a variety of different
 sounds from our planet. What was the
 title of the record?
>
1. Earth Says Hello.
2. The Sounds of Earth.
3. Earth: A Distant Greeting.


#78
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 In spite of our primitive interstellar
 technology, our radio telescopes are
 capable of communicating with planets
 at great distances. How far away could
 a planet be and still pick up an Earth
 signal?
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1. 10 light years.
2. 1200 light years.
3. 15,000 light years.
4. 1 million or so light years.


#79
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 How close must another civilization be
 to the Earth to know that we humans are
 here, inhabiting the Earth?
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1. 40-50 light years due to TV signals.
2. 1000 light years with good telescopes.
3. They simply cant know we are here.



#80
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 How fast do radio signals travel?
>
1. about as fast as sound in a vacuum.
2. about 1/2 the speed of light.
3. the same as the speed of light.


#81
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 How much faster is light than the
 fastest Earth spaceships?
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1. light is 1000 times faster.
2. light is 10,000 times faster.
3. light is 1 million times faster.


#82
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 How large is the largest single radio antenna
 on Earth?
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1. 1000 feet across.
2. 100 feet across.
3. about 50 feet across.


#83
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 How many stars are there in the Milky
 Way, our own galaxy?
>
1. about 1 million.
2. about 1 billion.
3. about 500 billion.
4. about 1 trillion.


#84
Y:Y
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 With billions of stars here in the Milky
 Way galaxy alone, not counting a
 billion other galaxies, is it likely
 there is other life in the universe?
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#85
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 Space is mostly empty, but there is
 still much out there. How many stars
 exist within just 100 light years of
 earth in any direction? (Keep in mind
 there are 500 billion stars in the
 Milky way, which is 70,000 light years
 across.)
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1. about 10.
2. about 1000.
3. about 50,000.


#86
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 How many large continents exist on the
 planet Venus?
>
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 5.
4. 7.


#87
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 What is a Black Hole?
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1. a singularity in the space/time continuum.
2. a 'hole' to some other place.
3. an area of hyper dense matter.
4. a star that shines black.


#88
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 How small can a black hole be?
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1. as small as a sun.
2. as small as a big planet like Saturn.
3. as small as a tiny planet like Pluto.
4. tiny, maybe just a few miles across.


#89
M:2 3
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 How heavy would a teaspoon of black
 hole material be?
>
1. about as heavy as a teaspoon of led.
2. about as heavy as the moon.
3. about as heavy as the sun.


#90
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 What makes a Black Hole?
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1. condensing cosmic dust.
2. maybe a large condensing dying star.
3. we have no idea.


#91
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 Do Black Holes really exist?
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1. we don't know, but we think so.
2. yes.
3. no.


#92
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 Why are they called 'Black' Holes?
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1. Because light can't escape.
2. because they are black in color.
3. because we have never really seen one.


#93
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 What is 'escape velocity'?
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1. the speed to leave Earth's gravity.
2. the speed of sound.
3. the speed of light.
4. the speed of the space shuttle.


#94
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 Escape Velocity is the speed you must
 travel to leave the gravitation
 influence of the Earth. This means you
 would go on into outer space forever.
 How fast is escape velocity?
>
1. 1 meter per second.
2. 1000 meters per second.
3. 11,000 meters per second.
4. 1 million meters per second.



#95
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 The Earth travels in an elliptical orbit
 around the sun. Sometimes it is close
 to the sun and sometimes it is further
 away. How far away, on average, is the
 sun?
>
1. 100,000 miles.
2. 15 million miles.
3. 92 million miles.
4. 1 billion miles.



#96
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 How long does it take light to get
 here from the sun?
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1. light gets here almost instantly.
2. about 8 minutes.
3. about 1 month.
4. about 7.6 years.



#97
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 How far away is the moon from the
 Earth?
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1. about 240,000 miles.
2. about 500,000 miles.
3. about 10 million miles.
4. about 100 million miles.



#98
M:3 4
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 If the Earth has a diameter of approx.
 8000 miles, how big is the
 diameter of Jupiter, the largest
 planet in the solar system?
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1. 10,000 miles.
2. 50,000 miles.
3. 90,000 miles.
4. 130,000 miles.



#99
M:3 4
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It takes Earth one year to go around
the Sun. It takes Mercury 87 days to
go around the Sun. How long does it
take Jupiter to go around the sun?
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1. 2 years.
2. 6 years.
3. 11 years.
4. 25 years.



#100
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 If the average distance that the Earth
 is from the Sun is 92 million miles,
 what do you suppose that distance is for
 Pluto, the planet furthest from the Sun?
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1. 100 million miles.
2. 1 billion miles.
3. over 3 billion miles.



#101
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 How many planets are there in the solar
 system?
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1. 3 planets.
2. 5 planets.
3. 7 planets.
4. 9 planets maybe 10 (planet X).
5. 14 planets.



#102
M:2 3
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 If the diameter of the Earth is 8000
 miles, what is the diameter of the
 moon?
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1. 200 miles.
2. 2000 miles.
3. 4500 miles.



#103
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 Is Saturn the only planet to have rings?
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#104
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 What is the study of cosmology?
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1. study of the nature of the universe.
2. study of stars.
3. study of planets.



#105
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 Edmund Halley is the astronomer that
 Halley's comet is named after. It
 was named after Halley because Halley
 was the first person to predict the
 comet's return to Earth by calculating
 how long it had been gone between
 previous visits. How long does it
 take Halley comet to complete 1 orbit?
>
1. 3 years.
2. 48 years.
3. 76 years.



#106
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How big is the average comet?
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1. about the size of a baseball.
2. about the size of an aircraft carrier.
3. about a half mile across.
4. about the size of a large city.



#107
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 What are comets made of?
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1. most are made of ice.
2. most are just gas.
3. most are made of iron.
4. no one knows for sure.



#108
M:1 3
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 Halley's comet is relatively big,
 about 16 miles across but it's tale
 stretches thousands of miles into space
 behind it. What is the tale made of?
>
1. evaporating ice as it nears the sun.
2. dust pulled by other planets gravity.
3. dust randomly flying into space.



#109
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 Why does the moon have many visible
 pockmarks from collisions while the
 Earth has only a few?
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1. the moon mostly protects the Earth.
2. the moon is statistically unlucky.
3. the moon does not have erosion.



#110
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 How often, on average, will the Earth be
 struck by a large comet?
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1. once every 150 years on average.
2. once every billion years or so.
3. no one know for sure.



#111
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 If the moon is unlikely to be hit by a
 big comet except for every several
 million years, why are there so many
 visible craters on its face?
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1. the moon is a statistical anomaly.
2. the moon has a strong gravity.
3. the moon is very very old.


#112
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 A large comet hitting the Earth
 millions of years ago is rumored to
 have caused the extinction of the
 dinosaurs. Is clear cutting of rain
 forests just as bad as a comet
 collision?
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