now that i have your attention, this is pretty cool:



http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg

[Edited on April 14, 2009 at 8:55 PM. Reason : .]

4/14/2009 8:55:00 PM

yes, we were all really expecting underage nude pics

and wait, are we supposed to be able to read that?

4/14/2009 8:55:45 PM

OH MY GOD

YOU JUST BLEW MY MIND

4/14/2009 9:04:07 PM

i actually thought venus was a tan/brown color. Didn't know it looked like a flaming fireball.

4/14/2009 9:04:50 PM

coolest thing I've seen in a while.

4/14/2009 9:12:18 PM

even cooler? the Cosmological Horizon...the fact the universe we can observe is only as big as what we can see...there are galaxies out there that are so far away their light hasn't reached us.

in fact, it is theorized that the universe contained within our Cosmological Horizon is about the size of a quarter on the face of the earth

[Edited on April 14, 2009 at 9:28 PM. Reason : .]

4/14/2009 9:28:24 PM

If you could put a zoom-in function so that we could see the Shawn Johnson pics, that would be great.

4/14/2009 9:33:10 PM

Makes life precious and worthless at the same time based on your perspective scale. I lean more towards the precious and would rather stare in awe at it.

I am most intrigued by the fact that when viewed at a scale large enough to see a chunk of space everything appears to repeat itself. Atomic and lattice structures etc. And despite all the hoopla about dark matter and dark energy, looking at it makes sense again to simply think of opposite forces. Electron/Positron - Gravity/Anti-gravity. Forces like this would be "dark" since it would repulse light and fit the bill. Sadly I don't think in any of our lifetimes we will ever understand enough of it to create a unified field theory simply because we are still boggling ourselves with how big it is; the farther we look the more we find. The more we find the more current laws we break.

4/14/2009 9:45:12 PM

you tease us with that title and then post pictures to prove how big uranus is?

4/14/2009 9:56:46 PM

Quote :

"i actually thought venus was a tan/brown color. Didn't know it looked like a flaming fireball."

looks like they are showing it without an atmosphere.

4/14/2009 10:37:37 PM

you turds can keep gettin all philosophical and shit, but all i'm concerned with is how many pixels the next fish i catch is gonna be

4/14/2009 10:39:03 PM

i'm not really that small

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

4/14/2009 10:42:17 PM

great view/reply ration

4/20/2009 9:20:10 PM

that's kinda crazy that those might have burnt up and exploded and whatever thousands of years ago and we won't know for a long time.

4/20/2009 9:33:42 PM

fatty

4/20/2009 9:35:04 PM

This thread did not deliver.. but sometimes its okay

4/20/2009 9:49:11 PM

i think i'm having an existential crisis because of that picture

4/20/2009 10:28:10 PM

That picture makes me feel like Zaphod Beeblebrox.

4/20/2009 10:31:27 PM

Meh, any time I see a picture like that, I realize that I might live in a small part of the universe, but I don't feel insignificant because it's the only important part we know about.

Does an oasis feel insignificant compared to the desert surrounding it?

[Edited on April 20, 2009 at 10:52 PM. Reason : ]

4/20/2009 10:51:39 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex#Total_Perspective_Vortex

4/20/2009 10:52:09 PM

Quote :

"That picture makes me feel like Zaphod Beeblebrox."

Yeah, I guess I should have know that Douglas Adams didn't create Betelgeuse.

4/20/2009 10:53:52 PM

At a glance I read this as "Shawna nude pics leaked"

4/20/2009 10:56:50 PM

I don't feel insignificant...
However, that was an interesting picture.

4/20/2009 11:06:16 PM

mindfucked.....

i don't think i can even comprehend the size of VY Canis Majoris

4/20/2009 11:09:34 PM

to me, anything bigger than a good-sized mountain is just BIG, and might as well be infinite.

kinda like all numbers bigger than 5,000 start to look the same.

4/20/2009 11:12:24 PM

would have been better with less assy pictures of the planets and galaxies

4/20/2009 11:12:24 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk

4/20/2009 11:33:20 PM

this view to reply ain't shit

4/20/2009 11:34:32 PM

Quote :

"kinda like all numbers bigger than 5,000 start to look the same."

I used to be able to comprehend infinity and eternity, but now I cry when try to do it now.

4/20/2009 11:34:59 PM

Quote :

"i think i'm having an existential crisis because of that picture"

4/20/2009 11:57:33 PM

Quote :

" i think i'm having an existential crisis because of that picture "

[Edited on April 21, 2009 at 12:15 AM. Reason : "]

4/21/2009 12:15:11 AM

Pure bunk. The universe is only 5000 years old.

4/21/2009 12:16:41 AM

If you're doing the YEC thang, you're still off by 1000 years.

4/21/2009 12:18:15 AM

I just looked up VY Canis Majoris and it is pretty damn amazing. I had never heard of it before now.

4/21/2009 12:18:20 AM

so how big is the universe exactly?

4/21/2009 2:19:51 AM

4/21/2009 3:01:32 AM

^^ Who cares we will all be dead before it even matters.

4/21/2009 3:03:07 AM

amazing, looking up at teh night sky is the best free entertainment out there
i need to find a way to charge for it

4/21/2009 3:14:02 AM

Quote :

"University of Minnesota professor Roberta M. Humphreys[13] estimates the radius of VY CMa at 1,800 to 2,100 solar radii.[8] To illustrate, if our Sun were replaced by VY Canis Majoris, its surface might extend to the orbit of Saturn. Assuming the upper size limit of 2100 solar radii, light would take more than 8 hours to travel around the star's circumference, as opposed to 14.5 seconds for the sun. It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 Quadrillion) earths to fill VY Canis Majoris."

4/21/2009 3:20:09 AM

Cassini pictures. Two more series are linked.


From series 2/3



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4/23/2009 12:06:21 PM

i'm scared.

4/23/2009 2:02:19 PM

That's pretty sweet.

4/23/2009 2:11:53 PM

reminds me of this video i found a while back trying to find a flash game site

http://www.kontraband.com/videos/13853/We-Are-VERY-Tiny/#show

4/23/2009 2:13:17 PM

that is so freaking awesome! I am actually glad I clicked this thread now.

4/23/2009 2:14:07 PM

Hamilton theory of infinite scale.

Every item no matter how large or small part of something much larger on a completely different scale of reference.


That being said.... I bet the LHC Is causing some crazy genocide in a microscopic scale.

4/23/2009 2:54:38 PM

i click every time

4/23/2009 3:24:00 PM

thats awesome but i just died a little inside.

4/23/2009 4:22:04 PM

that video is cool... i'd like to show it to my kids. (too bad astronomy is not in the standard course of study)

4/23/2009 4:24:02 PM

pre set

4/23/2009 4:27:07 PM

em up

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

4/23/2009 4:27:32 PM