Bruggen130 is correct in saying that the Space Station does not travel South to North. Over Britain it always travels West to East, I think what you are seeing is a Polar orbiting NOAA sat that travels North South or reverse as said by Al.
Ian

The problem is that some people see a bright light traveling at a steady speed the first thing they think of is ISS, below is the chart for oct from heavens above for Blackpool.

Click on the date to get a star chart and other pass details.

Date Mag Starts Max. altitude Ends
Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az.
10 Oct -0.9 04:45:51 18 ESE 04:45:51 18 ESE 04:46:50 10 E
10 Oct -3.3 06:17:28 21 WSW 06:19:13 55 S 06:22:05 10 ESE
11 Oct -2.2 05:11:41 35 ESE 05:11:41 35 ESE 05:13:38 10 E
11 Oct -3.0 06:43:17 11 W 06:45:55 44 SSW 06:48:43 10 ESE
12 Oct -3.4 05:37:29 55 S 05:37:29 55 S 05:40:19 10 ESE
12 Oct -2.2 07:09:57 10 W 07:12:30 27 SSW 07:15:03 10 SE
13 Oct -0.2 04:31:41 11 E 04:31:41 11 E 04:31:49 10 E
13 Oct -3.0 06:03:18 33 WSW 06:04:05 42 SSW 06:06:52 10 ESE
14 Oct -1.0 04:57:30 18 ESE 04:57:30 18 ESE 04:58:25 10 ESE
14 Oct -2.2 06:29:07 17 WSW 06:30:35 25 SSW 06:33:04 10 SE
15 Oct -1.8 05:23:20 25 SE 05:23:20 25 SE 05:24:52 10 SE
15 Oct -1.4 06:55:20 10 WSW 06:56:54 14 SW 06:58:26 10 S
16 Oct -1.8 05:49:13 21 S 05:49:13 21 S 05:50:56 10 SSE
17 Oct -1.2 06:15:10 12 SSW 06:15:10 12 SSW 06:16:03 10 S

Whats your location, because I don’t think the ISS travels in a south to north
direction over GB.

ahem, excuse me poppet, kindly step outside so we can discuss this :rolleyes:

what’s not to like !?!?

Thunderbird Two from Flygirl is a good call as well….. it was always my favourite (with the Mole!)

Sorry i’m talking about the first Battlestar you know the one before you were born:D, then again the new one was just as crap all that zooming in and out,
gave me an headache that did:diablo:

The Battlestar Galactica, sh!t series though.

[QUOTE=Creaking Door;1639732]Now it would be foolish for me to argue with the likes of Carl Sagen! 😀 But…

…taking the ‘first few hundred million years’ of Earth’s history as 1000,000,000 years then 3,000,000,000,000,000 tons of comets (water) is going to be arriving at a rate of 3,000,000 tons a year!

Wasn’t the Tunguska explosion in Siberia in 1908 that flattened 2000 square kilometres of forest supposed to be a comet (estimated as ‘a few tens of metres’ across)? So, I’m sure we’d notice 3,000,000 tons of comets arriving every year! :diablo:

So when did that all stop? :confused:

Obviously the rate of comet impact must have slowed, so that begs the question why?

It all stopped a few billion years ago , but when the solar system was forming
5 billion years ago our little part of the universe was a very violent place.

not necesarily the case they are now proving that some bacterias can survive in molten lava!

I know that life can survive in thermal vents and volcanic hot springs, but molten rock is news to me.

All the water on Earth from comets? Given that Hydrogen is the single most common substance in the universe, is highly reactive and the result of this reaction is usually water isn’t it more likely that this is where the vast majority of water on Earth comes from?

No sorry but the scientific world seems to think thats where all the water came from,[QUOTE] “Over the first few hundred million years of Earths history they (comets) would have deposited (3,000,000,000,000,000,) tons of water. just possibly most of the water in the oceans arrived via a cometary delivery service after the Earth was fully formed. Certainly, comets would not have been the only source water. Molten lava arriving at the Earths surface from the interior is known to carry with it a few percent of water, and volcanic events were frequent billions of years ago.[QUOTE] Comet by Carl Sagen. this is just one of the many books that state the same thing
So I should have said most instead of all, Sorry.

Life came to earth on a comet?

…or on a block of rock and ice that spends billions of years floating through space at near absolute zero until it finally blunders into a solar system and plummets into a planet and explodes with the heat of thousands of nuclear weapons? 😀

That is exactly what a great number of physicists think how life came to earth, all the water on earth came here on comets and you need liquid water for life:D