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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 06:45 AM
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http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm

Hey guys this is a short video from the Hubble telescope when they decided to look at "nothing" hope you enjoy
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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 06:55 AM


We really are just a speck in the Universe. Amazing stuff!

Thanks for sharing Scott!

So are we alone?????





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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 07:14 AM


....our brains have no way to accurately put that in any meaningful perspective.....
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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 11:22 AM


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....our brains have no way to accurately put that in any meaningful perspective.....
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Sure we do.....


Of course, most of this is blown out of our head as we try to remember if we locked the door before leaving home this morning... or what it was that SWMBO asked you to pick up on the way home.

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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 12:10 PM


Wasn't being shown your place in the universe a form of torture in the Hitchhiker's Guide?
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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 12:16 PM


Thanks Sam, I just remembered what I didn't do yesterday.
I can blame the lack of ability to understand, I think that might work.:lol:



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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 12:31 PM


I think that was the" total perspective vortex torture" the Vogons are cruel.



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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 04:48 PM


Most excellent post FlyGuy Scott.


we are just specks of sand on the beach of the Cosmos.



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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 05:42 PM


Just a fun little fact. Since the universe is expanding equaly outwards from everywhere, any point can be the center of the universe. That means that you are the center of the universe.:bigok::crazy:



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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 06:38 PM


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I think that was the" total perspective vortex torture" the Vogons are cruel.

Listening to their poetry was supposed to be worse.
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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 06:57 PM


You've not heard my wife poetry group yet.....I'll take the vogons.
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[*] posted on 11-12-2012 at 07:11 PM


Everything we see and touch is almost completely empty space. I still can't get my head around the fact that everything in the universe was once compressed down into something the size of an atom. Think about that.

All the mountains of the world, the oceans, the continents, the rocks beneath our feet, the whole planet, the moon, the Sun, the planets and the 200 billion other stars in our galaxy each with their own planetary systems each with their own mountains and grand canyons and seas and moons. Countless black holes and neutron stars so dense that not even light can escape their gravity.

Then multiply all that again by the trillions of other galaxies in the known universe. In fact more galaxies in the known universe so far than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the world we buggy on and don't buggy on.

All of this represents just half of 1%. The rest is dark matter.
Now squash everything including dark matter into the size of an atom or less. Messes with my mind.

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[*] posted on 12-12-2012 at 12:21 PM


I had another look at the vid today. Nice how after a bit of thinking and then watching a second time puts a bit more into the brain and then brings up more OOOOH MYYYYY realizations.
It took 11 days for enough lite from the area to create the picture. I get tired of waiting for the click after I push the button to take a picture on my phone.



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[*] posted on 12-12-2012 at 03:45 PM


Our closest galaxy - meaning the closest cluster of planets similar to our own with a sun moon stars etc... is the Canis Major dwarf galaxy If we were to travel at the speed of light, it would take 25,000 light years to reach it. Now this galaxy is still inside our own Milky Way Galaxy, meaning we still haven't traveled outside our own galaxy into what we would call the universe.

Here's a little blip about this newly discovered galaxy....
"“On galactic scales, the Canis Major dwarf galaxy is a lightweight of about only one billion Suns,” said Dr. Michele Bellazzini of Bologna Observatory. “This small galaxy is unlikely to hold together much longer. It is being pushed and pulled by the colossal gravity of our Milky Way, which has been progressively stealing its stars and pulling it apart.” Some remnants of the Canis Major dwarf form a ring around the disk of the Milky Way."

Now, what is a light year? Light travels at 186,000 miles per SECOND! So if you got in your super duper spaceship, and pushed it to full throttle, reached the speed of light.....the distance you would cover in one year at 186,000 miles per second is "One Light Year"....now do this for 25,000 years and you would reach our CLOSEST galaxy...but still not get to the edge of our own Milky Way Galaxy.....



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[*] posted on 12-12-2012 at 04:12 PM


NASA is working on a project for a solar sail. Instead of using wind it uses light to propel objects through space. Just think about it, soon we will be able to go kite surfing in space.:wow: And for the low, low price of 2.5 billion dollars :shocked2::smilegrin:



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[*] posted on 12-12-2012 at 06:35 PM


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NASA is working on a project for a solar sail. Instead of using wind it uses light to propel objects through space. Just think about it, soon we will be able to go kite surfing in space.:wow: And for the low, low price of 2.5 billion dollars :shocked2::smilegrin:


2.5 Billion !

That's just a pocket change to some billionaires out there. A yearly wage at most. I'd be lucky to earn that amount in ten years!

The universe is a trip. Unless we can go way way faster than light then we really are going nowhere.

Then of course at some stage we are going to have to deal with relativity, which makes going fast pointless because by the time you get back to Earth, your family and everyone you've ever known has been dead for thousands of years.

So what's the answer ?
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[*] posted on 12-12-2012 at 09:13 PM


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So what's the answer ?

Makes me think of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. UH, what was the question? I do remember that Erin Gray was rather hot.



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[*] posted on 22-12-2012 at 10:28 PM


This star with a similar solar system to ours is ONLY 12 light years away. Now let's get to work ;)


I believe there are other planets out there sustaining life of some sort with the trillions of solar systems in the universe. The Earth can't that unique or one in a trillion.


http://gizmodo.com/5969697/astronomers-discover-earth-planet...



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[*] posted on 23-12-2012 at 09:20 AM


A little closer to home and time from the Jefferson Airplane

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[*] posted on 23-12-2012 at 09:38 AM


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This star with a similar solar system to ours is ONLY 12 light years away. Now let's get to work ;)


I believe there are other planets out there sustaining life of some sort with the trillions of solar systems in the universe. The Earth can't that unique or one in a trillion.


http://gizmodo.com/5969697/astronomers-discover-earth-planet...


I love it when they go to all the trouble of saying they found a planet just like Earth, get an artist to paint us a picture, do a computer simulation and then give a few examples of how we might get there.

Then they drop the bombshell. This Earth like planet is actually 2-5 times the mass of Earth. So we can't walk around on in because our bones wouldn't be strong enough.

And it's only 12 light years away. ONLY 12 LIGHT YEARS!! lol
I won't do the maths but that's got to be a few hundred thousand years with our technology.

The only realistic way to travel around the galaxy is to build a warp drive. Is it possible ? I hope so.
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[*] posted on 24-12-2012 at 02:13 PM


Quite a few physicists have hope for the warp drive.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/warp-drive-star-tre...



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[*] posted on 24-12-2012 at 10:23 PM


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I think that was the" total perspective vortex torture" the Vogons are cruel.


http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex

Hope this clears things up a bit.

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