The universe.

Lazer LXXVII

Lazer LXXVII

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The universe.

Does anyone else have a huge interest in the universe?

Everything to me has always just blown my mind.


How there are so many galaxies, and we have only visited such a tiny portion of our own.

How all of these planets and galaxies even came to exist.

Is there any other life out there, will we find out in our lifetime.

And all of those phenomenons and concepts that occur in space, that we could not imagine occurring on our own planet.


Its always been an interest of mine. Just thought id make a universe discussion topic.
 
llad12

llad12

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Re: The universe.

If you are interested in Space forums, try this one



With my compliments,

Llad
 
lAmebAdger

lAmebAdger

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Re: The universe.

also, this one kind of got lost in a sea of monster posts near the end: http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=387722

but wth, i'll just share some opinion briefly...

speaking under the premise that whatever science and observation have "taught" us about the universe is as mind-blowing as it's said to be
i'd say we'll likely never experience anything of that mind-blowing stuff beyond our present borders in quite some time...

i mean, we have our own problems and likely can't afford too big a project (actually walking on Mars, discovering life an extreme number of light years away...)

these things are all a bit ... removed from RL

well the concepts of space should, in some way, affect our planet albeit not in a gigantic scale (imagine one of our neighbour stars dying)

about life somewhere else... it's really too much of a coincidence (don't mind determinism here, you know what i mean by coincidence ;) ) that this earth actually got so multi-inhabited, and it's even more of a coincidence that we (of all life forms) have such a "developed" conscience.

the sheer scale of the universe would make it EVEN more of a coincidence if our sentient life form inhabited planet was one of a kind (as in, there are no other multi-inhabited planets), ... that is what i feel, there should be something else out there... they likely also won't have the means to do any "big projects", so star wars is still science-fiction
 
Ariadne

Ariadne

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Re: The universe.

I'm afraid I get the same, but since I'm not particulary bright (though I wouldn't go as far as to call myself stupid!) it usually doesn't go any further than indeed wondering about the things that are out there - how they came to be, but most of the time I get lost thinking about the vastness and the size of it all.
Most of the time the earth's more than big enough for me, thinking about a planet the size of Jupiter can be dazzling as I try to imagine it in my head and then can't.
 
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Spinns

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Re: The universe.

If our sun was the size of a golf ball the biggest known sun would have the diameter equal to 4 times the size of the golden gate bridge
 
Ariadne

Ariadne

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Re: The universe.

Spinns said:
If our sun was the size of a golf ball the biggest known sun would have the diameter equal to 4 times the size of the golden gate bridge
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It's things like that that make my mind explode.



 
llad12

llad12

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Re: The universe.

IMHO, one of the most crowning achievments of the 20th century was man's landing on the moon. Those who are old enough to recall will always remember where they were when Neil Armstrong set foot upon the moon's surface that summer's eve of 1969.

It was glorious.

I will not likely be around to witness it, but heed my words people: When we finally set foot upon the surface of Mars, you will always remember it.
 
ffejrxx

ffejrxx

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Re: The universe.

Vivi said:
:no: not nice, that thing with the cat in the upper right corner.
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don't worry, even if it fell twards the earth at the speed of light, it would take a few hundred-billion years to *splat*



 
Lazer LXXVII

Lazer LXXVII

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Re: The universe.

To me its like an extremely addictive though that i get two or three times a year. Something will make me start thinking about the universe, and then i will sit at the computer for hours and hours just looking things up, trying to see if anything makes sense.

Even though it wont happen, i hope we make sense of it all in our lifetime. Its just one of those things that i HAVE to know.

Is anyone else like this?
 
tarnok

tarnok

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Re: The universe.

This is something I posted on another site in response to the question "What do you think about a lot?"

How far away the stars are. It's a long way. A very long way. But I want to go there.

Really, I don't think many people really think about this. They are a long ****ing way away. Even further than that. North Carolina is big, but America dwarfs it. And America is barely a patch on the Earth. And you could make one of those "guess how many jelly beans" jars out of the sun by stuffing it with things the size of the Earth. And the distance between the sun and it's closest neighbor makes both of them look positively microscopic. The distance is so big that by comparison this thing, the bigness of which we can't even properly grasp, is utterly inconsequential.

Ok, here we go: If the sun were the first page in a book, there would be roughly 25,228,800 pages between it and the next closest star. That's about 17,399 copies of War and Peace.

It takes light four years to get from one star to the other! Four years at about 300,000,000 meters per second. Even that speed, which is completely meaningless to the average person, is totally inadequate to cover the distance in any reasonable length of time.

It's a long ****ing way to borrow a cup of sugar.
 
Dondrei

Dondrei

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Re: The universe.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

ffejrxx said:
to completely blow things out of proportion

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"In retrospect they shouldn't have sent a poet"

Grr... I know I know where that's from...

llad12 said:
I will not likely be around to witness it, but heed my words people: When we finally set foot upon the surface of Mars, you will always remember it.
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Well, maybe they won't flub their lines this time.

But it won't be as good.



 
lAmebAdger

lAmebAdger

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Re: The universe.

ga... i kinda gaped at the line "radio signals from earth have reached this far"...

when have they begun sending those signals and how much time till they finally escape the galaxy?

also, if they ever escape the galaxy, they likely will pass hundreds of galaxies on the way before they actually enter another one if we were even a wee bit off with the direction measurements (that's not to say humans will live long enough to see them pass a couple of other galaxies...)

maybe the way they're taking was accurately calculated before sending them out and some of them will actually reach another planet in our neighbour galaxy... it's still like searching for a pin in a straw stack the size of the pacific...
 
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