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[WillyFive]

If God was real I'd beg him to take me on a trip throught the entire galaxy so I can see all this shit.

If we could live forever, there'd be nothing to stop us.

After all, if we have no time limit, not being able to go faster than light isn't much of an issue*.

*other than patience

 

[Messypandas]

I still want a 3hr epic, IMAX 3D movie featuring nothing but travelling through space and all its little divine oddities; to the sound of Philip Glass. Tree of life will have to suffice

 

[CrazyDude]

If we could live forever, there'd be nothing to stop us.

After all, if we have no time limit, not being able to go faster than light isn't much of an issue*.

*other than patience

Ships would still have to work, unless you feel like swimming through space for a very long time.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Not to spoil anyone's fun, but aren't these pics enhanced by artists, and the raw image looks rather uninteresting? wouldn't mind being shown otherwise.

Is this true? I want raw images. Anyone?

 

[Centurion]

Is this true? I want raw images. Anyone?

yea, i believe they enhance the observed radiation and color it in... but technically, everything in the pics represents what's there.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

yea, i believe they enhance the observed radiation and color it in... but technically, everything in the pics represents what's there.

I just found this.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/assets/swf/1/hubble-telescope/01-howi.swf
haven't read it

 

[Agnostic]

Not to spoil anyone's fun, but aren't these pics enhanced by artists, and the raw image looks rather uninteresting? wouldn't mind being shown otherwise.

Click>Launch Interactive button
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/hubble-telescope.html

Edit: Too slow.

 

[WretchedTruman]

Dude, what the fuck. It's even bigger than I imagined.

and, given the fact that it's all constantly expanding, it will continue to be bigger than you ever imagined. Forever.

I mean...some of this stuff....

 

[From The Dust]

apparently someone from an outside dimension is peering in :O

 

[speculawyer]

No way. As it stands, we are the only known advanced life form. I'd say that's significant.

We are legends in our own minds.


Consciousness is amazing and neat. I'm sure it is pretty rare but given the size of the universe, there could be a lot out there. We just don't know. Everything is so far away and disperse.

 

[Devolution]

Space is amazing, makes you wonder if something is looking back.

They left out this constellation.

 

[Edmond Dantès]

Seems like a appropriate thread to post this in.

 

[Glasswork]

And to think, on our own little planet we have so many beautiful landscapes, my brain just melts thinking about how many Grand Canyons a larger planet would have, never mind a galaxy ;A;

 

[FOOTE]

Astronomy is one of my favorite hobbies, and it's one that I know I will not ever grow tired of.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Infrared changes things a lot:

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

We are legends in our own minds.


Consciousness is amazing and neat. I'm sure it is pretty rare but given the size of the universe, there could be a lot out there. We just don't know. Everything is so far away and disperse.

Sure, the more we find out about the makeup of our galaxy and other galaxies, the more it seems we are most likely not alone. But that has yet to be proven and until that scrawny, big-headed turd polisher from outer space sets foot here, we are the kings of the fucking universe. We should enjoy it... .while we can.

 

[AbsoluteZero]

This was always a Youtube favorite of mine.

 

[Kinitari]

Seems like a appropriate thread to post this in.

I've seen the maw of hell.

 

[antonz]

I've seen the maw of hell.

 

[Kraftwerk]

FUCKFUCKFUCK

My brain.

I'm on the verge of crying.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

.........




.........


The Chaos Dimension!!!!

 

[WretchedTruman]

Infrared changes things a lot:

We just need to see it in person and decide for ourselves. It's the only way to be sure.

 

[speedpop]

The first picture of the galaxies merging is incredible.

Kinda surreal knowing that Andromeda and the Milky Way are going to do the same dance in billions of years time.

 

[-viper-]

How do they get the pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope? It doesn't return to earth. What kind of signal is transmitted from the telescope?

Also, what about batteries? I'm assuming it'll be solar powered?

 

[Escape Goat]

Space is amazing, makes you wonder if something is looking back.

If they are they've been dead for a few billion years!

 

[CrazyDude]

If they are they've been dead for a few billion years!

So would we. D:

 

[Escape Goat]

So would we. D:

Crap. We're already dead.

 

[Boonoo]

And it's expanding.

Well it's not like the expansion is creating more stuff, just more distance. What's actually going to happen is that galaxies that aren't gravitationally bound together are going to move so far apart that they'll literally become invisible to one another. In the distant cosmic future people won't be able to see anything beyond their own galaxy, and they'll have a completely different cosmology because of it. All evidence of a Big Bang will have dissapeared, for example.

Here's an utterly fantastic talk on it.
The whole hour is worth watching. He really gets into the stuff I mentioned above in the last third or so.

 

[CrazyDude]

Crap. We're already dead.

I'm too young.

 

[zon]

How can you guys not see it? I couldn't even make out the man riding bear thing before someone lined it out. Though now I can see a bear with his paws up in the air too.

One last try then.

 

[Lucky Forward]

We are so small and insignificant.

Scene 8. Int. Frogstar

[The Total Perspective Vortex door opens]

ZAPHOD:Hi.

GARGRAVARR: Beeblebrox! You’re…!

ZAPHOD: Fine, fine. Could I have a drink please?

GARGRAVARR: You’ve been in the Vortex?!

ZAPHOD: You saw me kid.

GARGRAVARR: And you saw the whole infinity of creation?!

ZAPHOD: The lot baby - it’s a real neat place you know, heh-heh.

GARGRAVARR: And you saw yourself in relation to it all?!

ZAPHOD: Yah, yeah, yeah.

GARGRAVARR: And what did you experience?!

ZAPHOD: It just told me what I knew all the time: I’m a really great guy! Didn’t I tell ya baby, I am Zaphod Beeblebrox!!



Has anyone seen this? I saw it at Best Buy, but I wasn't about to drop $30 on a blind buy.

 

[Escape Goat]

Zoom in and enhance!

 

[Amir0x]

god space is so amazing

 

[NumberTwo]

It's things like this that make it impossible for me to believe that we are the only life in the universe. Off to read Contact by Carl Sagan for the 4th time.

 

[From The Dust]

god space is so amazing

well, heaven is said to be the shit

 

[CrazyDude]

god space is so amazing

Too bad it can kill you in a million ways.

 

[Joel Was Right]

Seems like a appropriate thread to post this in.

Been staring at this for some while now. Closest I'll ever be to it

 

[Amir0x]

Too bad it can kill you in a million ways.

A million amazing ways.

Has anyone seen this? I saw it at Best Buy, but I wasn't about to drop $30 on a blind buy.

Some cool images but it's really more like an education tool for elementary school classrooms - very light on actual information, more like astronaut hero worship with a bit of amazing footage thrown in at every turn. But at only 40 minutes long it's really short on that. And with dreadful narration by Leonardo DiCaprio.

And the video focuses almost entirely on the mission to fix Hubble. They could have added an hour extra alone on analyzing all the amazing footage Hubble has captured over its life. Really weak overall.

 

[CrazyDude]

A million amazing ways.

True, I would love to die by being sucked in a black hole.

 

[crazy monkey]

This one looks like some epic throwdown between the gods.

The front one looks like

 

[Lamel]

I'm literally in awe.

 

[Lucky Forward]

Some cool images but it's really more like an education tool for elementary school classrooms - very light on actual information, more like astronaut hero worship with a bit of amazing footage thrown in at every turn. But at only 40 minutes long it's really short on that. And with dreadful narration by Leonardo DiCaprio.

And the video focuses almost entirely on the mission to fix Hubble. They could have added an hour extra alone on analyzing all the amazing footage Hubble has captured over its life. Really weak overall.

Oh well...thanks, glad I asked.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Damn shame none of us will really get to experience any of this in our lifetimes, nor will our descendents even 20 or so generations down the line.

fucking hell that can't be real. freaky shit i tells ya

 

[Relix]

So... who believes the bullshit there isn't at least one other life form out there? Maybe.... not "advanced" as us, but I do find that unlikely. Dude... there are TRILLIONS of planets out there... we cannot even wrap our head around that. And we are alone? Fuck that shit, its impossible.

 

[mclaren777]

Still no sign of alien life forms. The Hubble fails.

None exist so you really shouldn't be blaming Hubble.

 

[CrazyDude]

So... who believes the bullshit there isn't at least one other life form out there? Maybe.... not "advanced" as us, but I do find that unlikely. Dude... there are TRILLIONS of planets out there... we cannot even wrap our head around that. And we are alone? Fuck that shit, its impossible.

Or is it.....?

 

[Amir0x]

So... who believes the bullshit there isn't at least one other life form out there? Maybe.... not "advanced" as us, but I do find that unlikely. Dude... there are TRILLIONS of planets out there... we cannot even wrap our head around that. And we are alone? Fuck that shit, its impossible.

of course there's other life*

it just hasn't visited us yet






*The odds of that life being intelligent, at least in the traditional sense, still seems to me to be slim. There were a billion variables that had to take place for us to spring up, incredibly lucky astrological events which cannot be shrugged by mere right place/right time. It's not as easy to get to us as it is to get to life, imo

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

None exist so you really shouldn't be blaming Hubble.

Right you are. I take it back.
At least it's good for pretty pictures I can use as desktop backgrounds. But it's probably the most expensive desktop background generator in history.

 

[Relix]

*The odds of that life being intelligent, at least in the traditional sense, still seems to me to be slim. There were a billion variables that had to take place for us to spring up, incredibly lucky astrological events which cannot be shrugged by mere right place/right time. It's not as easy to get to us as it is to get to life, imo

Yeah I perfectly understand this. But then again.. there are other trillion planets out there with their own chances. Life doesn't necessarily need to start as we know i... hell we don't fully understand our planet how we will understand the vastness.

OR maybe there is simply no other intelligent life and they will pop up in 2 billion years somewhere else as conditions settle?

OR there is some basic form of life like perhaps "fishes" and small living forms somewhere that will slowly evolve?

OR we simply are alllll alone in our little dark corner of the universe.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

of course there's other life*

it just hasn't visited us yet






*The odds of that life being intelligent, at least in the traditional sense, still seems to me to be slim. There were a billion variables that had to take place for us to spring up, incredibly lucky astrological events which cannot be shrugged by mere right place/right time. It's not as easy to get to us as it is to get to life, imo

The number of stars and planets in the universe would dwarf even the billions of variables to bring life by several fold, though.

Over a hundred billions stars in our galaxy among the 100 plus billion galaxies in the universe.