I know what you guys are thinking, Trek has been vindicated, the Romulans are out there, ready to decloak and rain their Plasma down on Earth...well for now, that isn't the case.

In this instance, Romulus and Remus are....Asteroids!

Astronomers have discovered the first Triple Asteroid - its an Asteroid (Known as 87 Sylvia) that is orbited by 2 other, smaller Asteroids. (Now known as Romulus and Remus)

The Asteroids are out in the Asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. The Astronomers didn't think they would ever find a Triple-Asteroid, because orbital Ateroids are usually formed by a collision between two objects, and the resulting ejecta from the collision goes on to form the orbiting body, just like how our Moon was formed.

Since the ejecta would gather over time, only one 'Moon' would form, which is why this Asteroid is so unusual, and the first one known.

This is a link with info (And artist's impressions' movies) about the Asteroids, but of course, you can also do a google to find out more, just type in '87 Sylvia', or 'Romulus and Remus +Asteroids'.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/08/10_sylvia.shtml

Wicked Matress (got it right now) I wonder if Trek had anything to do with it hmm?

Marchis proposed Romulus as the name of the largest moonlet because the name means "forceful" (rhome in Latin). The name Remus is related to the word "cautious" (remorari) and seemed more appropriate to the smallest moon and the closest to Sylvia.

Strange that the Remans in Star Trek aren't named Romulans, as there more "forcefull"

And the Romulans named "Remans" as there more Cautious.

Ponder this i will.

I knew romulan or/and remus are in our mythology (greek mythology i think). Didn't know about asteroids tho.

Me thinks that the discoverer of them asteroids is a star trek fan and is a romulan at heart :p

Roman Mythology, actualy.

Romulus and Remus where two brothers who found the city of Rome.

And the were also raised by a wolf And Romulus killed Remus

Lucky Remans then...at least they get to live...and fight the Romulans Wars...and work their mines...and do all the stuff the Romulans don't... 8O

founded the city of rome, not found it

founded the city of rome, not found it
who here can tell me were cardassia came from?

That's right, my bad!

Other people found the city and started to live there once Romulus and Remus founded it.

Cumon Jig, where does Cardassia come from?

Centurion is your avatar meant to be that big?

Yeah, the avatar is way to big, Var'Din

It's even bigger than mine was

I sent him a PM asking about it this morning. He still hasn't replied yet though.

Maybe it's a glitch...?

Yarg... Romulus and Remus founded Rome... thats fairly certain. Being raised by a wolf... well, that could have several meanings/reasons... but its fairly safe to assume they existed

dunno where cardassia (the name or what its significance is) came from but interesting off topic point, did you know "Vadar" in dutch means "father".... guess the dutch had a headstart in figuring out lukes father in the empire strikes back

I wonder if that was intentional or not...?

Centurion PM'd me back. Apparently it's a glitch with the site that hosts his avatar that causes it to change size.

I've sent him some links with alternative avatars, so he'll likely be changing it soon.

So thats why it took longer for the page to load

lol, I thought there was a maximum size for the avatars. But it appears you can have them as larger as you want them (or don't want them) to be

Anyway, I have a replacement now. Will change it later when that damned site is up and running again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I noticed the size of the avatars as well. My avatar is currently about 2.5 times bigger than the max allowance, (It's currently 15.8Kb) but my old one was 18 times too big! (110Kb) 8O

Don't try it with armadafleetcommand.com though, trust me, they are stricter with the limits.

Centurrion i prefer it this size actually, clearer than before.

Cardassia was a country which was overun by the roman empire right back at the start the people and culture were lost completly.
ok here`s an easy one, were does Qo`nos come from?

Is it something to do with Russia as Roddenberry based the Klingons on the USSR?

I'll have to do some deep digging, but if I rememeber right Caridassa was a small city/state on or near the boot of now Italy..... I think.....

Qo'nos. = me thinks it was a border country of what is now mongolia and china right?.... Sorry my brain is fried.... lol I think i'm way off base here...

accually it's 'vader' , but close enough

ps to avoid complications, i'm not dutch, i'm Flemish (Belgian)

Heh...so the Dutch aren't taking over then!

Welcome to the site, daveangel. If you don't know this yet, a demo is gonna be released today!

You know the Bandi planet, Deneb, pretty sure I saw sometinh called that in the starcharts, it's a name for the Alpha Cygni star. So is Wolf 359.

JUst to add on what exists besides Romulus and Remus

As for Qo'Nos... Maybe from Cronus, Zeus's daddy? I figure Klingions would relate since he took over from his own father and castrated him...
Hmm... Wonder why I connected those two...

I have no idea Welcome Back CVN-65

Thank you, thank you
Good to be back

I heard your in the USA now