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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Bino on January 24, 2013, 11:33:45 AM
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"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is." - Douglas Adams
This video over on the Astronomy Picture Of the Day site shows what it would be like to fly among the galaxies. Not stars. Galaxies.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120813.html (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120813.html)
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The real question about our universe is what is it?
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"I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
Nice, Bino!!!
Thanks for the link :aok :aok
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I always liked this explanation...
http://vimeo.com/24647137
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even this vid does not show how big space really is.....
the Andromeda Galaxy the closest galaxy to earth, is about 2.5 million light years away from us.....
speed of light is 186,000 miles a second....
so traveling at 186,000 miles a second for 2.5 million years.......
will only get us to the closest neighboring Galaxy........ :O
a little tidbit.....( ya I used to love reading about the universes)
there is a star that is so dense....a square centimeter of its material would weight 300 lbs on earth...... :O
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Saw this on another site a few days ago. Great video. :aok
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Makes me sad that people fight wars with the knowledge that they are dust particles.
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This always blew my mind.....There are more galaxys in the universe, than grains of sand on the Earth.
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A teaspoon of a Neutron Star would weigh as much as a mountain
http://io9.com/5805244/what-would-a-teaspoonful-of-neutron-star-do-to-you
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even this vid does not show how big space really is.....
the Andromeda Galaxy the closest galaxy to earth, is about 2.5 million light years away from us.....
speed of light is 186,000 miles a second....
so traveling at 186,000 miles a second for 2.5 million years.......
will only get us to the closest neighboring Galaxy........ :O
But it is getting closer all the time and will collide with the Milky Way someday in the far future.
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People have to be mind boggling stupid to look at all that and still think we're the only intelligent life form out there.
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But it is getting closer all the time and will collide with the Milky Way someday in the far future.
we will be walking on the sun when that happens, and be able to travel at the speed of thought. :aok
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"The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space." - Ellie Arroway
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Looking forward to watching this when I get home. Thanks. :aok
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"The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space." - Ellie Arroway
Get's even bigger when you bring in the theories of Parallel Universe's or Multiverse's. :aok
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Makes me sad that people fight wars with the knowledge that they are dust particles.
Rest assured, there are different types bacteria fighting over some unknown location on your body too. That should put things in perspective. :cool:
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Rest assured, there are different types bacteria fighting over some unknown location on your body too. That should put things in perspective. :cool:
Right, but those bacteria don't make the decision on whether to kill or not. We can, but we do it anyway. But hey, maybe in some parallel universe, everyone hold hands, sing kumbaya and poop rainbow and roses. :lol
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Makes me sad that people fight wars with the knowledge that they are dust particles.
Go into the LWA and play your war game. That should cheer you up. :aok
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the universe maybe so big that I cannot comprehend but at Christmas time there's only 1 star that always cheers me up when I see it since I was a child.
midway
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Go into the LWA and play your war game. That should cheer you up. :aok
I prefer Skyrim. :D
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The universe is far beyond what we really know, and possibly far beyond what we want to know. My senior level astronomy class may have only lasted one semester, but think of this.
We could be remnants of other civilizations. A star supporting life on another planet similar to ours could have super-nova'd and as a result blew everything over there to bits and those carbon atoms and all of that other good stuff just so happened to land on Earth after who knows how long of a trip. There's a million possibilities but we'll probably never know.
Space is big, but humans will never know how big until we can travel faster than the speed of light. Possible? Maybe. We just have to find out how to do it. There's only 200 billion something planets in our galaxy alone, so at least another one of them has to be habitable, right? We cant be the only ones here. Maybe those aliens (If they exist) will figure it out one day.
:banana: Who else just loves the universe? :banana:
Oh, and here's a list of pictures off of the NASA website of random space stoofs.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/universe_images_archive_1.html
Pretty darn cool.
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People have to be mind boggling stupid to look at all that and still think we're the only intelligent life form out there.
and that there is a god that created it all.. :rofl where was god when he created it? :rofl simple minded sheeple
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and that there is a god that created it all.. :rofl where was god when he created it? :rofl simple minded sheeple
Seriously dude? Let's keep it on topic and try not to offend half the people here. (Including me)
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God didn't spend 7 days making the world, he spent 13.7 billion years and waited till ~2000 years ago to announce his work. :old:
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Seriously dude? Let's keep it on topic and try not to offend half the people here. (Including me)
+100
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The Andromeda galaxy that is going to collide (or perhaps pass right through) our Milky Way galaxy is the furthest away object visible to the naked eye. My only regret is that I live now instead of a billion years or so years from now when the Andromeda galaxy will fill the sky at night. Just like the view from the end of The Empire Strikes Back. That would be really friggen awesome.
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http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
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I thought we were all decedents of the people from the planet Golgafrincham that crash landed on earth back in the caveman days
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The Andromeda galaxy that is going to collide (or perhaps pass right through) our Milky Way galaxy is the furthest away object visible to the naked eye. My only regret is that I live now instead of a billion years or so years from now when the Andromeda galaxy will fill the sky at night. Just like the view from the end of The Empire Strikes Back. That would be really friggen awesome.
ahhh...but if you think about it.....the energy inside you will still be alive...hence so will you.
but yes you are correct that would be phenomenal.... :aok
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I was listening a discussion on Coast To Coast radio about this subject; They said, what we see in space with our eyes and instruments is what we call "normall matter", but this is not "normal" in Universe because makes only a small fraction 5% mass, the rest 95% is cocktail of dark energy+ dark matter.
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The universe is so mindbogglingly beautiful and fantastic that I wholeheartedly agree with Tim Minchin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
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Space is big, but humans will never know how big until we can travel faster than the speed of light. Possible? Maybe.
MUCH faster then Lightspeed, even with double or tripple lightspeed it would still take forever ;)
and i dont talk about reaching the next galaxy, flying from one end to the other end in our own galaxy
takes aprox 100 000 years with lightspeed. (Einstein's time dilation not included)
Dont even think about to reach the "end" of the universe in the near future :D
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Gh0stFT
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The universe is so mindbogglingly beautiful and fantastic that I wholeheartedly agree with Tim Minchin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Crap....i think i dated Storm
Excellent post :aok
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MUCH faster then Lightspeed, even with double or tripple lightspeed it would still take forever ;)
and i dont talk about reaching the next galaxy, flying from one end to the other end in our own galaxy
takes aprox 100 000 years with lightspeed. (Einstein's time dilation not included)
Dont even think about to reach the "end" of the universe in the near future :D
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Gh0stFT
It'd take 3000 light years to go from the end of the galaxy we're in now to the other end if we did it by the width. I think we'd have to be going at least 1000x the speed of light to be able to zip around in our own galaxy first.
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It'd take 3000 light years to...
Light years is not a measure of time, and it would take more than a hundred thousand years to cross the Milky Way at the speed of light.
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Crap....i think i dated Storm
You poor soul... Was it worth it? ;)
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and that there is a god that created it all.. :rofl where was god when he created it? :rofl simple minded sheeple
I, however, believe that the Universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure. I live in perpetual fear of the time that I call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief"
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and that there is a god that created it all.. :rofl where was god when he created it? :rofl simple minded sheeple
You don't know. You can't explain the origins of the universe any more than anyone else. So until you can, your just as simple minded as everyone else. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, smart boy. :rolleyes:
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"An alternative, favored by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis. " - Terry Pratchett
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You don't know. You can't explain the origins of the universe any more than anyone else. So until you can, your just as simple minded as everyone else. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, smart boy. :rolleyes:
Holy crap! Are you stalking me, because I just did?!?!
:noid
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/0125130941_zpsdd362f69.jpg)
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Not wanting to fan the flames, but there is a big, big, difference between claiming you know the answer, and claiming you're searching for the answer and have a theory.
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You poor soul... Was it worth it? ;)
Absolutley....i was 18, wasnt her mind i was intrested in :O
Im reading a really good book at the moment....Lawrence Krauss' A Universe from Nothing.... Its about how all the mass and matter in the universe could have come a singular point of infinate mass, as described from an astrophysics point of view.....Basically hes discussing the principles behind the Big Bang......Its a pretty good read if your into that kind of stuff. Available on Kindle for under 10bucks.
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Absolutley....it was 18, wasnt her mind i was intrested in :O
Im reading a really good book at the moment....Lawrence Krauss' A Universe from Nothing.... Its about how all the mass and matter in the universe could have come a singular point of infinate mass, as described from an astrophysics point of view.....Basically hes discussing the principles behind the Big Bang......Its a pretty good read if your into that kind of stuff. Available on Kindle for under 10bucks.
Hey! That was in the recommended books on my list in my Kindle. Let me know how it is, I may purchase that. It look interesting.
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Haha... Good for you mbailey ;)
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Makes me sad that people fight wars with the knowledge that they are dust particles.
The thing is in man's reality, all those clusters of galaxies to him are just dust particles.
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This always blew my mind.....There are more galaxys in the universe, than grains of sand on the Earth.
or
A teaspoon of a Neutron Star would weigh as much as a mountain
http://io9.com/5805244/what-would-a-teaspoonful-of-neutron-star-do-to-you
How about one of those Neutron stars spinning at 714Mhz? When my machine is idle it looks for pulsars through the Einstein@home project. Gotta love it. AN object about 14km across making 714 rotations per second.
A massive star has seconds to live the instant it fuses silicon into iron. Amazing how even one of the smallest objects can wipe out one of the larger ones.
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How about one of those Neutron stars spinning at 714Mhz? When my machine is idle it looks for pulsars through the Einstein@home project. Gotta love it. AN object about 14km across making 714 rotations per second.
A massive star has seconds to live the instant it fuses silicon into iron. Amazing how even one of the smallest objects can wipe out one of the larger ones.
714Mhz is 714, 000, 000 rotations per second
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Yeah. The fastest recorded is 1122 Hz, but even that is unconfirmed.
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714Mhz is 714, 000, 000 rotations per second
:eek: :O
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Sorry, it was Hz not Mhz. Still freakin fast for an object that size.
The 1122 Hz one supposedly is not possible due to physics. Maybe it is actually 2 very close together at the end of their death spiral.