Mind boggling

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LBltePDZw&feature=player_embedded

I was out in the garden until one in the morning all weekend but never saw one of those meteorites from Perseid, so they can fuck off next year.

the biggest of your assumptions is that WE could travel the 20 million light years

 

if we could travel at the speed of light it would take 20 million years

 

Humans have been around for about 50,000 years so for us to travel 20 million light years we would have to travel for 400 times longer than Humans have walked the earth

 

The Earth is only 100 million years old so we would have to travel 1/5 of the life of the earth just to get there

 

thats alot of dielsel

 

I get your drift, but the earth is 4.54 billion years old and the earliest modern human fossil found in Ethiopia was 200,000 years old.

 

Another thought provoking fact is that if the human race continues to evolve and is around when the earth is eventually encompassed by the sun expanding into a red giant, then at the current rate of evolution mankind today would look to them as we look upon the first bacteria that formed around sulphuric mud pools.

Prove it

 

All of it

 

Come on.

 

 

Hopefully some spastic doesn't say "it's boring".

 

 

We were down in Devon again last weekend at 'our' yurt on the Blackdown hills.

 

Wonderfully clear night on Friday, you just sit or lie there staring upwards as it's getting darker and darker then find that once you can see the billions of stars up there it's really quite bright.

 

I was sitting there with my lads watching shooting stars and satellites whizz across the sky and see the milky way. 10 year old asking question after question about aliens and shit, I told him that seriously, if every one of those stars had a planet or two orbiting it then surely there's life out there.

 

Then it got on to quasars and parallel universes and stuff which was only vaguely understandable by him keep bringing me fresh bottles of Doom Bar.............

 

Cloudy on Saturday night so no meteor shower for us but we did witness a rather amazing three hour lightning storm before we thought it prudent to get inside rather than sit in the middle of a field with a long steel pole in my hand.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ti9BJiyvs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

I love this video, partly for it's retro 1970's goodness, but mainly because nothing has ever come close in summing up the scale of the universe for me.

 

It's a 5 minuter - just a warning for those with a short attention span.

the biggest of your assumptions is that WE could travel the 20 million light years

 

if we could travel at the speed of light it would take 20 million years

 

Humans have been around for about 50,000 years so for us to travel 20 million light years we would have to travel for 400 times longer than Humans have walked the earth

 

The Earth is only 100 million years old so we would have to travel 1/5 of the life of the earth just to get there

 

thats alot of dielsel

 

'tis true that we'd need to travel for 20 million years at the speed of light...a little longer than the 20 years I mentioned!

 

Maybe we should invent something that travels faster than the speed of light then. Or would we then go back in time?

 

Or, we could send some people into black holes to test whether they really are shortcuts through the universe. We could send Piers Morgan as the guinea pig to map the entire universe for us.

 

Even then he'd still be a cnut.

Maybe we should invent something that travels faster than the speed of light then.

 

What about your Audi TT?

the biggest of your assumptions is that WE could travel the 20 million light years

 

if we could travel at the speed of light it would take 20 million years

 

 

but you wouldn't age by 20 million years

What about your Audi TT?

 

Unfortunately, being a diesel, it didn't possess the necessary acceleration. It has since been replaced by another car equally incapable of travelling faster than the speed of light.

What have you got now a Suzuki Cappuccino?

I have decided to skateboard everywhere these days. There's just as much carrying capacity as the TT

 

 

but you wouldn't age by 20 million years

 

Not if you were travelling close to the speed of light as time would slow down for you relative to somebody on earth. If you could travel at light speed, essentially you wouldn't age. Unfortunately, you'd also have zero mass.

Maybe another medium for measurement instead of time and distance could be employed?

 

The septics could employ some blue sky thinking and push the envelope, think outside the box like then run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.

 

Or we could just knock summat up over a weekend in a shed as usual.

Isn't there a 'Space and the Universe for Móngs' book a few have mentioned before?

 

I find it fascinating/baffling.

Isn't there a 'Space and the Universe for Móngs' book a few have mentioned before?

 

I find it fascinating/baffling.

You could try Bill Bryson's book. It's still mind blowing though.

how do you know anything is going on behind you,if you cant see it?