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- Dodecahedron0
- Even with all that, there still isn't enough good pussy to go around.boobs
- /end thread.team_zissou
- VectorMasked0
Amazing stuff. We are so insignificant. And to think that some people still think their man-made 'gods' exist.
- fugged0
My brain is hurting.
- reinitialize0
could they have at least made it a little higher res?
(or did they start out making it for 640x480 res 10 years ago?)
- team_zissou0
- I have a better chance of understanding the secrets of the universe than why you are still here.CygnusZero4
- keep searchin and stay thirsty , my friend.team_zissou
- actually a good post thoughfresnobob
- CALLES0
sucks... only been to 8 :(
- Dodecahedron0
I'm sure a lot of people have heard of the stars in the galaxy vs grains of sand on a beach analogy... there are about the same amount of stars in the galaxy, around 200 billion, as there are grains of sand on a beach.
I found it hard to imagine but it is almost about true. Around half a billion grains of sand = about a cubic meter of sand, so times that by 400 and you have 200 billion grains of sand that would = a small sized beach, 400 cubic meters of sand.
Its not easy to understand still... to really get what a galaxy is in terms of size you have to now take all of these grains of sand a let them hover in space with hundreds of meters between each and every single one of them to be proportionally the same as a galaxy. Picture every single grain of sand on a beach with a huge distance in between and let them float in space swirling around. Its a really big cloud of sand.
- I visualize the spread out grains of sand by imagining they are starsribit
- not sure exactly how many meters would be in between the grains, i didn't do the math. it would be dozens of meters if not hundreds though.Dodecahedron
- ...not hundreds.Dodecahedron
- and it wouldn't even be a cloud of sand it would be like one grain here ...and one grain way over there etcDodecahedron
- cannonball19780
As of last December, the estimated number of known stars in the universe was roughly 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 300 septillion.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.co…- dust in the wind...aliastime
- 000duckseason
- what the fuck?! That shit blows my mind.sureshot
- CygnusZero40
I dont talk about the universe with anyone anymore. It took me 30+ years to realize we're just not supposed to understand it.
- But look how far we have come in our understandingali
- Im talking about how it all got here, I dont know if thats a question humans will ever be able to answer.CygnusZero4
- Don't agree. That's like them saying 1000 years ago we're just not supposed to understand the earth.set
- Attitudes like that will get us nowhere!set
- ukit0
Question: where does the universe end? Are there other universes? If so, where do they end?
- Answer: We have no idea.
At all.
It's great!detritus - It's a problem that seems unsolvable by basic logicukit
- It only makes sense with extremely esoteric theoretical physics and even then nobody really gets it and its still not verifiableDodecahedron
- ...verifiable experimentally ot observationally.Dodecahedron
- enter Large Hadron Collider with the answers.Dodecahedron
- our brains can't fathom something that never begins and never ends, doesn't mean it can't exist, mind.set
- Logic is a regional anomaly.Horp
- our brains can fathom it, its a circle. We used ot think we'd fall of the end of a flat earth until we learned about gravity and planetsDodecahedron
- ...and round planets.Dodecahedron
- But stuff still exists outside of the Earth so that doesn't completely workukit
- but space and time is all there is in this universe. the other universes have their own space and time.Dodecahedron
- Actually "the universe" is supposed to represent everything.ukit
- Either way you're faced with the problem of infinityukit
- I guess we probably won't solve it today:)ukit
- for a better infinityDodecahedron
- and beyond!set
- the universe is finite and although it's currently expanding more physicists are saying it will contract/collapse on itself and start cycle overhotroddy
- all speculation.set
- Answer: We have no idea.
- Dodecahedron0
amazing ... and still we will never actually see a huge portion of the universe