New Galaxy

[mechanic]

or the exact number of times my gf has told me no while in bed.


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Next time you get into bed offer her some headache pills randomly without saying anything.

If she says 'I don't need them I feel fine' then you can say 'right then....'

[mbailey]

Next time you get into bed offer her some headache pills randomly without saying anything.

If she says 'I don't need them I feel fine' then you can say 'right then....'

I'm writing you in as a candidate next voting season   

[Ripsnort]

or the exact number of times my gf has told me no while in bed.


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Blow up dolls don't count. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Blow up dolls don't count. 

You must have a real hard time if even a blow up doll says no.

[Ripsnort]

You must have a real hard time if even a blow up doll says no.

Exactly.

[Slate]

  We can look at a galaxy as it was in the past but when we get there it would be the present. We are looking at something that is not even in the same place today.
                                     
                                                                              Science is full of holes

[Kruel]

Guys remember when taking about lightyears it's discussing the distance traveled for one year at the speed of light..

Speed of light  is about670,616,629 mph ( 186,282 miles PER SECOND)

1 lightyear is around 5,880,000,000,000 miles.(trillion)
So if something is 13 billion light years away...that means

13,000,000,000 Times 5,880,000,000,000

74,440,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles

[mbailey]

Guys remember when taking about lightyears it's discussing the distance traveled for one year at the speed of light..

Speed of light  is about670,616,629 mph ( 186,282 miles PER SECOND)

1 lightyear is around 5,880,000,000,000 miles.(trillion)
So if something is 13 billion light years away...that means

13,000,000,000 Times 5,880,000,000,000

74,440,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles

Soooooo, 3 cases of beer?

[Dragon Tamer]

Read something about how NASA may have accidentally discovered warp drive while testing a new type of thruster on one of their space crafts. The craft barely moved, but the particles that the thruster was ejecting were clocking in at speeds faster than what light is known to travel. They are looking into the issue to see if faulty equipment may have caused an error or if this is legit.

13 billion light years away is nearly as old as the universe itself. The estimated age of the universe is 13.7 to 13.8 billion years old. That makes this galaxy the oldest known galaxy in the observable universe.

[Kruel]

Scale of the universe from smallest to largest:

[Kruel]

Read something about how NASA may have accidentally discovered warp drive while testing a new type of thruster on one of their space crafts. The craft barely moved, but the particles that the thruster was ejecting were clocking in at speeds faster than what light is known to travel. They are looking into the issue to see if faulty equipment may have caused an error or if this is legit.

13 billion light years away is nearly as old as the universe itself. The estimated age of the universe is 13.7 to 13.8 billion years old. That makes this galaxy the oldest known galaxy in the observable universe.

Well remember the universe is expanding and as time goes on more and more will become visible to us.

And remember light years is a unit of measuring distance...not time, the observable universe is about 92 billion light years across.

It takes the light 13 billion years to get to us, but remember it had been traveling in every other direction(including away from us) for 13 billion years too

[Kruel]

Now, the question becomes, did we hit the jackpot in the cosmic lottery? Are we the only ones?

[mbailey]

Mathematically speaking nope. No way.

[Dragon Tamer]

Mathematically speaking nope. No way.

Agreed. If I remember correctly, two out of every three stars has at least one planet orbiting that we can detect from earth. Once you start crunching the numbers, any gambling man would tell you to put your money on the fact that we are not alone.

Will we ever meet them? I doubt it, we're still so young in terms of space exploration that it's not likely that we'll ever make contact in our lifetime. Though I would love to be proven wrong on this.

[PR3D4TOR]

Another thing to consider is that we may be the only intelligent life form right now. Space is vast, but so is the time frame. Civilizations may have come and gone many times before us. Human civilization has so far existed such a short time that in astrophysics terms it is hardly measurable. Not even a blink.