Astronomy / Space Ohmy.... it's full of st..NO.. it's full of Galaxies out there !! O_O

Sterlino

Sterlino
Look at this picture taken from hubble and blow your mind:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/large/heic1408a.jpg

The universe is huge... incredibile enormous, shocking immense...

what is suppose to do (now maybe) 8 billion of little ants on a rocky little planet into a similar vastness of space ?

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ergh... help me, my sanity is gone...
 

Iain M Norman

Iain M Norman
Sterlino said:
Look at this picture taken from hubble and blow your mind:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/large/heic1408a.jpg

The universe is huge... incredibile enormous, shocking immense...

what is suppose to do (now maybe) 8 billion of little ants on a rocky little planet into a similar vastness of space ?

avatar_6622d08ea050_128.png


ergh... help me, my sanity is gone...
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The problem is, a mind blowing as that image is, the universe is probably a lot lot lot bigger than that.

Sorry. :)

Oh and then some more.
 

Ayo

Ayo
To make matters worse, the universe is bigger than the greatest distance that light could travel in the time since it all began and the expansion is accelerating. In other words there are places in the universe that can't and will never be seen by anyone in this galaxy and eventually no other galaxies will even be visible.
 

Yaffle

Volunteer Moderator
Yaffle
Ayo said:
To make matters worse, the universe is bigger than the greatest distance that light could travel in the time since it all began and the expansion is accelerating. In other words there are places in the universe that can't and will never be seen by anyone in this galaxy and eventually no other galaxies will even be visible.
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This bends my mind. Phil Plait's book "Death from the Skies" has a great chapter about the far future, how the local group will look, and then eventually theories on how it will all end. It amused me that he ran out of similies and superlatives to describe the timescales involved in all, essentially confessing that even to an accomplished astronomer it's just big numbers after a while.
 

Enride

Enride
Sterlino said:
Look at this picture taken from hubble and blow your mind:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/large/heic1408a.jpg

The universe is huge... incredibile enormous, shocking immense...

what is suppose to do (now maybe) 8 billion of little ants on a rocky little planet into a similar vastness of space ?

avatar_6622d08ea050_128.png


ergh... help me, my sanity is gone...
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And that image is only a tiny dot of the sky we see above us, a dark "empty" dot between the stars we can see.

What we can do?
Make the absolute most of our lives, we are here for an unfathomable short time, make that time count :)
 

Riedquat

Riedquat
Attackmack said:
And that image is only a tiny dot of the sky we see above us, a dark "empty" dot between the stars we can see.

What we can do?
Make the absolute most of our lives, we are here for an unfathomable short time, make that time count :)
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Can I re-roll and start in another galaxy? , this one is too crowded and is too much of an effort to make gold.
 

Susimetsa

Susimetsa
Sterlino said:
actually this is our universe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrMubFvV-VU
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That was one of the best visualisations I've ever seen and the flow lines were new to me (only read a mention of them before, but never really thought of what it means). And shows how tiny and unimportant we are: even if we some day populated this entire Milky Way galaxy, we'd _still_ be insignificant.

As humanity is now realising that as long as we inhabit only one star system (let alone one planet), humanity is in constant danger of decimation. Perhaps we'll someday realise that as long as we inhabit only a single galaxy, we are in much the same danger...
 
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