Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

[The_Real_Crunk]

[Goyle]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

Welcome to Astronomy 101. I love how big the universe is. :3

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

damn thats a ton of places. i like how that one galexy just ****** all over our current physic laws. yeash, that really is a mind ****.

somewhere out there in the vastness of space - which may have already collapsed as far was we could ever tell - there could be a blue ball filled with the slimy ooze that we slipped out from. with our luck the bastards are at the bloody other end of the damn thing.

[Magus]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

Here's the YTMND edition:
http://sizeofworldse.ytmnd.com/

More spacey goodness:
http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/

http://stellar-beauty.ytmnd.com/

[Ωbright]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

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

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

Playing Mass Effect was a bit of a trip at first seeing how big the galaxy was, and then seeing hundreds of smaller galaxies and solor systems in the backgrounds you cant get to.

[Duel]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

The universe laughs at us

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

I think I've seen this before.



But yeah that galaxy that's too big to exist by current theories, it reminds me of how people talk about how even with so many stars and planets the probability of another planet with the requirements to form life is still infinitesimal. They seem to forget that everything we think we know about what is required to form life, how many stars there are, how many planets each would have, etc is based on what we've deduced based on what we've observed so far. All those ideas are a work in progress and we're still babies that haven't learned how to roll over yet when it comes to space exploration.

[JLaCroix]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

Thank you Crunk, that was pretty cool.

[Jeroak Nelave]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

That was pretty cool, i wish my love of astronomy as a child had stayed as fervent, maybe i would have been the person to tell Hubble to look there...maybe.

[Adrian Foley]

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[Toaster]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

There are more stars in the blackness of space than there are grains of sand on earth.

[Chrono]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

Eh, the gif exaggerated a bit, not that the Hubble Deep field is any less amazing.

What is more amazing is that all we know only really applies to about 3-5% of the known universe.

[Denmo]

Re: Hey, whos up for a mind ****?

Astronomers are some of the most humble people you'll ever find, because they can see the biggest picture, and even that picture isn't big enough to describe how big it all really is.