Author Topic: Forget Earth or Saturn.... (Read 2011 times)

GmanJoe · « **on:** May 02, 2007, 02:26:54 AM »

Titan · « **Reply #1 on:** May 02, 2007, 10:13:56 AM »

That deep space field I guarantee either doesn\'t look like that or doesn\'t exist.

GmanJoe · « **Reply #2 on:** May 02, 2007, 10:17:24 AM »

Quote from: Titan

That deep space field I guarantee either doesn\'t look like that or doesn\'t exist.

"I want to believe"-- Mulder

Viper_Fujax · « **Reply #3 on:** May 02, 2007, 10:48:19 AM »

you dont think theres a bunch of galaxies like that?

« **Reply #4 on:** May 02, 2007, 12:36:16 PM »

Quote from: Titan

That deep space field I guarantee either doesn\'t look like that or doesn\'t exist.

I don\'t get it.. this isn\'t exactly sci-fi, and it\'s not like they\'re putting a picture that has stars spelling out hello or something..... it\'s basic science, you can see more and more with better and better telescopes yourself, just try it. By the time you get to a university sized 14-20 incher, you\'ll be seeing all sorts of stuff that was invisible to the naked eye.

Titan · « **Reply #5 on:** May 02, 2007, 12:42:40 PM »

Quote from: FatalXception

I don\'t get it.. this isn\'t exactly sci-fi, and it\'s not like they\'re putting a picture that has stars spelling out hello or something..... it\'s basic science, you can see more and more with better and better telescopes yourself, just try it. By the time you get to a university sized 14-20 incher, you\'ll be seeing all sorts of stuff that was invisible to the naked eye.

Oy. That wasn\'t my point. They were there billions of years ago but they were saying they were like 100 billion years or so. The galaxies could have merged, died (through natural star deaths), or migrated. Nothing you saw in that picture looks that way today because of the time it took light to take to reach here. I also heard one theory that it was the older universe (dunno how true that is).

On a side note, NASA is making a new telescope thats supposed to be even more powerful than the Hubble. Look forward to that within the next 10 years.

« **Reply #6 on:** May 02, 2007, 01:09:18 PM »

aren\'t we supposed to get hit by an asteroid in 2030?

Evi · « **Reply #7 on:** May 02, 2007, 03:49:16 PM »

Quote from: Titan

Oy. That wasn\'t my point. They were there billions of years ago but they were saying they were like 100 billion years or so. The galaxies could have merged, died (through natural star deaths), or migrated. Nothing you saw in that picture looks that way today because of the time it took light to take to reach here. I also heard one theory that it was the older universe (dunno how true that is).

On a side note, NASA is making a new telescope thats supposed to be even more powerful than the Hubble. Look forward to that within the next 10 years.

Isn\'t the universe only like 17-20 billion years old?

CHIZZY · « **Reply #8 on:** May 02, 2007, 04:07:23 PM »

I think I\'m gonna go hug my child, then get stoned.

Titan · « **Reply #9 on:** May 02, 2007, 04:58:15 PM »

Quote from: CHIZZY

I think I\'m gonna go hug my child, then get stoned.

Should you be smoking pot with a child in the house? She may get the wrong impression......man I can\'t wait until tomorrow when finals are done and I can blaze

« **Reply #10 on:** May 02, 2007, 07:03:46 PM »

I was going to point out the dichotomy of hugging a child then smoking (anything) around them, but to each their own.

Plus, you\'ll get your comeuppance.... when your child is rebelling and smoking and you can\'t get them to listen to you anymore.

Titan · « **Reply #11 on:** May 02, 2007, 08:14:10 PM »

Either that or he\'ll smoke with her

GmanJoe · « **Reply #12 on:** May 03, 2007, 04:20:22 AM »

Quote from: Evi

Isn\'t the universe only like 17-20 billion years old?

All this is still, no pun intended, up in the air. Everytime they peer out into deep space, the age of the universe gets older coz...well...turns out we were wrong about its age last time we looked.

clips · « **Reply #13 on:** May 03, 2007, 04:56:33 AM »

Quote from: GmanJoe

All this is still, no pun intended, up in the air. Everytime they peer out into deep space, the age of the universe gets older coz...well...turns out we were wrong about its age last time we looked.

which begs the question AGAIN....do you think there is intelligent life forms outside of our solar system? and i\'m not talkin\' simple cell life, i mean humanoid type beings....i know it\'s been asked a million times, but it does make for some interesting conversation...

Titan · « **Reply #14 on:** May 03, 2007, 06:24:49 AM »

I wonder if the universe even has an age. Mathematically speaking, if the time of the universe is a line (not a ray), then there is no beginning or an end. I think the universe has always been and that our minds can\'t conceive an age to the universe. Because then what created the universe? What created that? And that? We\'ll just keep going back further and further, like a line and never reach the answer to the question.

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