NASA will now Text you when there is a satellite to be seen in YOUR sky

A few days ago NASA launched a new service - 'spot the space station'. If you sign up on the website, they'll send you a text or email whenever the International Space Station is due to fly over your head. It's very easy to spot if you know what you're looking for - at dawn or dusk, it's typically the brightest object in the sky aside from the Moon. You just have to be lucky enough to be looking up at the right time. Now, NASA will be kind enough to alert you every time that time happens in your area. NASA's Johnson Space Center will calculate the sighting information several times a week for more than 4,600 locations worldwide. Sign up to the service here: http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/

- Roy Stanley

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Abstract This is my corollary of the relativity paradox. Using logical imagery and concise variables, as opposed to postulate theories, I will attempt to change the past 1000 years of physics. My imagery and variables should not misconstrue scientific or theoretical terminology nor reference it. Perspective Let me start this section with the first of many perceptual anomalies. When you think of an atom, you imagine the nucleus standing still as the electrons circle it. Only human perception allows a still plane for things to exist on. The reality of space is that there is no "up and down", only infinite space in all directions of any particular object, thus the object may be moving in any combination of directions or completely still but only in perceivable relevance to latter elements to the object. The Question If you were to look at the most basic known elements, not to include string theory, you have positive and negative matter. I want to illustrate positive and negative matter as two answers to a question; this will bring personification to my theory. Think of positive as yes and negative as no. I chose these symbols, not for their direct relevance but, to better explain a future theory without introducing the same concept with diverse symbolism later. The most basic question in the universe, 'yes or no?'. Now, if the question is in its simplest form, you can imagine that the answers cancel each other out. If i just lost you, remember yes and no are more literally magnetic opposites. So what keeps the positives and negatives from gouping? This calls for a set of rule's for the question that will help with the rest of my research. I will explain these rule's using physics, not a metaphor. Rules 1. This rule is contradicting to string theory, how ever leaves no questions behind. Think of all matter as a small spear shaped object the pointed end being positive and the blunt end negative. If two positives attracted the negitives would push against the collision of the particles. With no empty space this alludes constant movement. 2. An object in motion remains in motion ONLY if there is force acting WITHIN or ON it. The transfer of positive particle direction, or the 'kick', creates a temporary shift whereas the particles within a object have a dominate direction, as opposed to a chaotic one at a dormant state. Unless something is to keep this direction dominate the particles will return to its original chaotic state and become immobile. The reason satellites crash is directly related to this rule. The original transfer of energy from the rocket wears away as the pull of gravity does not, thus the transfer of particle direction shifts downward. 3. There is no empty space, there fore all particles may never be in align, nor separated. 4. Being no strait lines, inevitably as objects push and pull from each other, they naturally form circles. 5. Atom patterns- In a open system the positives and negatives bouncing and twisting in all directions may evenctually form a consistant pattern where the push and pull aspects are infact canceled out, or even just clumped together and still leaving a magnetic pull in parts whereas the object perceputually would be rotating, creating eventcually one organized mass of particles. The combonation and direction the particles face directly control how many other particles can sustain stable orbit around the mass and how close to the mass the orbiting particles are. 6. Tightly wound particle masses (or groups of particles where the orbiting particles are closer to the mass) are solids; it takes more force to accert particles through the tight structure. Gases have a greater distance between the mass and orbiting particles making the joining of other masses or interuption of said pattern easier than that of a solid. 7. Conductivity is the ease of particles to transfer from mass to mass in one perceptual direction. The tightly wound masses move faster because they are under more pressure, and the gases move slowly. Electricity could either flow freely through the gas, or controlably through a solid. This rule has slight alterations where as the gases may have a pattern that more easily controls the flow of particles around it, much like steam, and the solid pattern may not have good control of the direction of random particles entering its range while in a dormate state, much like plastic. 8. A system relies on growth. If there is no chance for growth or the decay out weighs the growth, then the system will fail. The Mouse Wheel and the Marble Imagine you are spinning a mouse wheel very fast and this mouse wheel is much like a circular ladder with an inch of space between each step. Dropping a marble on the out side of the wheel would send the marble flying away from the wheel, and dropping it in side the wheel would trap it. If you slowed or stopped the wheel the marble could move freely in and out of the steps. If you throw the marble at the spinning wheel just the right speed, it can go strait through the ladder on both sides, or enter the lader and not be able to leave. The steps and the marble are particles and the wheel is the controlled particle mass. The marble could be random, or it could be a step on another wheel. This in retrospect shows how fast moving particles push away slow moving particles. Like masses collect in groups. A good example of this concept is our planet. The center of the planet is hot and spinning and if it wasn’t for the temperature, is made of solid mass. The atmosphere is made of layers of gases. Why Everything Is a Circle; What is Gravity? When one particle orbiting a mass getts caught in the orbit of another mass, the two masses orbit eachother. This is on a very elementary scale, whereas in bigger models you would notice a pattern such as molecules or solar systems. This is where my yes or no corollary comes into play. The question is now a little more complex; Can the orbital particle enter the sphear of mass with out richoteing off and can the two masses work in sync. The question, as you can imagine in infinite space, is asked trillions of times before a notable system starts to form. The definition of a system in this research is the built up of yes’s. Over a series of trial and error events the one mass multiplies. As the mass gets bigger, more particles are pushed away, causing the flow of new systems towards the mass to increase. This is most easily explained as replacement. As the cycle continues more and more pressure is on the center of the system causing the particles to puch closer together and move faster. This reaction links outward. The now faster moving center expects a aleration of the middle pushing out and left over particles that were not already in stasis with the system and bringing the mass even closer together. What you should be looking at by now is a star. If you have not drawn this conclusion my next illustration should connect the dots. Back to the basic yes and no aspect of the equation and now understanding how the system works as a whole, you can see that at any given point two particles can orbit each other constantly. Any other two orbiting particles of the same speed can link with the origional circle and thus starting an uncontrolled system. In reference to the flower of life, that is what the result of a very evenly created system would look like theoretically. If at any point something says no the whole system could fall apart. For instance, if the question remains”can I enter this system?” and the answer is yes over and over, then the system will continue to grow. However if the system has a gap and it needs to be immediately replaced and only no’s exist, the system disperces and starts over. This out come is almost impossible on a particle level though, because just the other side of that no is a yes and the force of the system would naturally flip it, like a magnet on a table when you chase it with another magnet. There are two important concepts to gain from that logic. First being that the chain of linked particles expanding from the fast moving center is what holds every thing in place in a system. The links get weaker the further from the center you are. This is because of the likelyhood of a slow moving particles surviving towards the center, not because the connections are natural. Think of a boloon just before you let it go, the likely hood of that chemical existing in your hand is contrary to the plastic containing it. The rest of the particles surounding it move faster than helium pushing against it, more so towards the center of the system and less so away. The gases being pushed away from the center of the earth and the metals being pulled towards it as well as water replacing the other wise empty space in the system, is what we today think of as gravity. The size of a planet has little to do with the weight of the individual on the surface, if the planet is made of gas or if the heaviest substance is too far towards the center to create a big enough impact on separate systems on the surface. Secondly, growth is inevitable in all systems. Life as we know it is a result of systems saying yes enough times. Science has often over looked this logic because it seems unlikly that DNA would be so perfect by sheer time and chance. That idea is indeed a paradox because in replacement, once a system has started, the no is almost instantly replaced with a yes if it exist, and we do exist, because it was possible and all it took was time.One thing that is probably not foreseeable by science is the extent of what is possible and what could or will be. Life is inevitable, systems are inevitable, and growth is inevitable. This is contrary to a controlled system however. Think of chaos as a parking lot with just your car and several loose baskets, one of which is right by your car. You don’t want the basket to hit your car but if you leave it uncontrolled you have no idea if it will or not. If the system has just started there is a chance there are no basket holders. The solution would be to slowly push the basket against your car, causing the collision, but controlling the damage. This ability is only of human nature and not inevitability. With this I believe humans have the ability to beat inevitable things with time such as death, and the “end of days”. Circuits Basic electrical physics sugest, in a circuit electricity flows in the direction with least resistance. I could have lead with this topic but it would have had much less to do with the big picture. There are many topics that I have theorized about pertaining to this truth. For example, the egyptions wore long hats to cover their unpleasantly long heads. Even back before humans looked the way we do today, basic understandings of astetics existed. This is because, in the complexity of the mind and perception of our suroundings, applied astetics shows that certain people are just easier to look at. Simple people with genaric features tend to be more pleasant on the eyes. This is in account to the memory we store every time we look at a person, if they are simple we don’t have to try as hard to recognize and store the new information so naturaly from birth, if this is not controlled, we grow up favoring simple people. You could call it simple minded if you like. I will publish my finding on elolution after this. This applies to space when you are posed the question of how chaos was controlled before humans. The answer is, because simplicity is easier than chaos.