Mind Blowing

[HomerJay]

i dont think a other single subject competes on the same level as this

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19728375

 

i really wish my head wouldnt be fooked up by it all...

[Sweep]

NBs head will fall off when she looks at that

[stevieb]

That is incredible!

[DazBob]

Yeah, but how do they actually know.

[famouswanderer]

surely there's life out there somewhere

[Sweep]

surely there's life out there somewhere

without a doubt, but it's that far away it doesn't really matter

[MickyD]

Further reading of a link on that page, the wold MIGHT end in the year 4,000,002,012

 

(Is that in 4 billion years time or did I miss a group of three 0s?)

[no balls]

The earth isn't even at the toddler stage, Michael

[Sweep]

Further reading of a link on that page, the wold MIGHT end in the year 4,000,002,012

 

(Is that in 4 billion years time or did I miss a group of three 0s?)

 

It is indeed 4 billion years.....there's so much I want to do as well, I'd better get a move on

[Traf]

That's just a close up photo of someone's kitchen worktop.

[kent_white]

And to think that every tiny little dot on that one dark and insignificantly tiny patch of sky is a galaxy, each of which contains billions of billions of stars.

 

My feeble human brain struggles to comprehend the vastness and majesty of it all.

 

 

[Smiffs]

13.7 billion years since the big bang.

 

Fuck me thats a long time.

 

If 1 second = one year then the universe is over 400 years old.

[Smiffs]

And to think that every tiny little dot on that one dark and insignificantly tiny patch of sky is a galaxy, each of which contains billions of billions of stars.

 

My feeble human brain struggles to comprehend the vastness and majesty of it all.

 

I just look at it and think 'huh'.

 

I dont need to know so can't open my brain to understand it.

 

One thing's for sure, I wont be going on a holiday there.

[no balls]

I fucking love this shit!

[kent_white]

I fucking love this shit!

 

Have you ever read Cosmos by Carl Sagan?

 

It's a little old now - but his explanation of the Universe is beautiful. Highly recommended......!

[Atomic White.]

I thought the world was going to end in 2012.

 

I hope so or otherwise i'm fooked of the bank manager!

 

I thought that was official.

[HuffyTheCampfireSlayer]

http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/

 

Contains the original images take by Hubble, Some a huge files but well worth a download.

[Andydee]

without a doubt, but it's that far away it doesn't really matter

 

Or, that long ago?

 

Life could have started AND ended out there since what we are looking at!

[kent_white]

 

 

Or, that long ago?

 

Life could have started AND ended out there since what we are looking at!

 

I reckon it probably has started and died and started again countless times in that one image alone. Even a very conservative estimate would give hundreds of thousands of earth like planets in the Milky Way alone. That's not to say that life has developed on them, but the building blocks are likely to be there.

 

Extrapolate that across the whole Universe and the hundreds of billions of galaxies like our own and your odds on us being the only ones out there start looking very short. The problem is finding the buggers and figuring out some way of communicating which doesn't take millions of years to relay a message!

Edited September 27, 2012 by kent_white

[Smiffs]

Apart from leprechauns and eskimos I reckon there is actually fuck all out there and everything is a mere figment of my imagination, which in itself if a mass-less collection of random thoughts conspiring with one another to generate oft unfathomable electrical senses floating around in absolutley nothing.

[Spider]

Apart from leprechauns and eskimos I reckon there is actually fuck all out there and everything is a mere figment of my imagination, which in itself if a mass-less collection of random thoughts conspiring with one another to generate oft unfathomable electrical senses floating around in absolutley nothing.

 

You need to stop getting your fish suppers from Zorba's.

[little whitt]

were do ADAM and EVE and that NOAH come in to it then

[MickyD]

This is the wrong section LW. You need the Ask Malcolm bit.

[Andydee]

Apart from leprechauns and eskimos I reckon there is actually fuck all out there and everything is a mere figment of my imagination, which in itself if a mass-less collection of random thoughts conspiring with one another to generate oft unfathomable electrical senses floating around in absolutley nothing.

 

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. (Douglas Adams)

 

No more gravy for you!

[DazBob]

BBC4 now, Horizon:Seeing Stars.