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An ISS and Space Shuttle at the same time with naked eye ?(382 Reads )It was a great moment for me. On Monday, March 7th, 2011 at about 18:50-18:55(CET = GMT+1) I was walking in Zelenec (near Prague, Czech Republic) from the train station to the gym to meet my second son and to go home with him. By walking along the street I noticed a very nice picture on the black sky (of course with much light pollution, but the air is very clean these chilly days and weather is great for stargazing). The Moon was about two days old and in the west the thin Moon´s sickle was laid nearly horizontally, with very good visible earth-shine at the rest of Moon´s disc above it. Bellow the moon I saw Jupiter near to the horizon. Very close to the Moon I suddenly noticed a bright dot moving from the west to the south going through the southern part of Orion and north of Sirius, later to the eastern part of the sky (with culmination at about 30-40° of altitude). With regard to my earlier observations it could have been an International Space Station (ISS), which I later in night confirmed with the help of the internet The most exciting thing was that it was not the only moving object I witnessed. There were two bright points going the same trajectory, in my guess cca 5° apart. The question which remains: was it really space shuttle what I saw and if so, was the shuttle in front of or behind the space station on its orbital trajectory ? I guess the space shuttle was behind (westward) |
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March 7th, 2011 - I very likely witnessed an International Space Station and Space Shuttle Discovery on its last mission at the same time, with naked eye. With regard to the fact there will be only two more STS missions, it was apparently one of the latest occasions to see something like this.
For decades there are discussions about the (im)possibility of time traveling. We all know that time traveling on the macroscopic scale is by modern science considered to be impossible. The reason is, that by influencing even a single tiny particle in the past would alter the time line and change history. This would result in paradoxes like “how could I exist in my present time if I travel to the past and kill my mother before I am born”. I think, this particular paradox has a logical and valid solution (using many-worlds ideas or accepting self-correcting approach), but there are other, more complicated, where it is not so obvious if they are resolvable, too. They probably don't.
Still, there are at least two possibilities how to accept time traveling in general with no temporal paradoxes at all. And both are very simple to understand. It is possible I am not the first one who invented it, but at least I neither read nor hear these ideas before.
All the modern history of mankind goes along its need for understanding the natural patterns. Although we control most of the living nature, there is still no escape from the restrictions of the laws of physics and other principal limitations. This essay discusses the possibility of breaking or changing these laws and of creating new possibilities by realizing there is no independent outer reality in comparison to our inner subjective worlds. And if we accept the possibility that we are gently co-creating and co-changing the whole world including its history (as well as we are changed by it, too), we can draw conclusions from it, which might be far beyond our today's life experience. All this has much to do with apparently incompatible worlds of our real life and our fantasies. But aren't these two worlds virtually two different views of the same simple existence ? Is there a paradigm of all other paradigms ? Are we in fact the God for whom we are searching through tens or hundreds of thousands of years and who is very different from all we are used to accredit to him ?
(As for now, the following text is in Czech language only. An excellent translation of the following text to English would be great. Is there anybody willing to do it ? The best translation will be placed on this website with the name of the translator.)
My very old but still interesting short writing. Still in Czech only - is awaiting to be translated 