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The most important image ever taken, wow...

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Diluted	Posted: Sep 14 2006, 12:54 AM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 140 Member No.: 2 Joined: 5-September 06	I saw this and thought I should add it to the "Deep" section, though no one probably cares about it apart from me and Gurdy, because we had a chat like this in a tent after seeng the stars... The Hubble Space Telescope stared at a section of space that from earth looks completely black. It took an image over 11 days. This is what it captured. Our sun is a star, smaller than most in the milky way - it looks bigger as we are relatively close to it. there are 8 planets orbiting the sun (pluto is officially no longer a planet). this is our galaxy. In that image, every single point of light, is a galaxy. NOT a star, but a galaxy with millions of stars in it. There are almost certainly planets going around these stars. In that image, there are over 10,000 galaxies. Theres a video about it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw That is one small section of space. Amazing no? Surely in one of these galaxies, there has to be another planet like earth, just the right distance from a star to have to correct atmosphere for life to evolve. Maybe even human. Maybe they havent evolved to humanity yet, maybe they are ahead of us by millions of years. Or contradictory to that, maybe we are the only intelligent life-forms in the whole universe. I still can't decide whether that makes me feel amazing to be human because I could be part of something unique to the whole universe, or whether I feel depressed by it because I am one insignificant life in the middle of 78 billion light years of space. Discuss. If thats not deep, what is. NINJA!

Thumper	Posted: Oct 3 2006, 12:02 AM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Member No.: 11 Joined: 2-October 06	Forum theif. It is pretty crazy when you think about it. People wonder whether there is life out there, when really there is no question. Take the famous 'infinite number of monkeys typing for an infinite number of years' shakespeare example. The disturbing truth is they're already among us infiltrating society with unsettling messages like "Fuck the Voodoo Man". Weird bastards. I doubt anyone will ever know what that means...

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Posted: Oct 3 2006, 12:12 AM

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QUOTE (Thumper @ Oct 3 2006, 12:02 AM)

Forum theif.

It was Ian

halo	Posted: Oct 3 2006, 10:52 AM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 189 Member No.: 3 Joined: 6-September 06	Yeah it was Ian m'lud we knew nufink about it. Anyway back on topic this is deeper: That higlighted dot is Earth taken by Voyager 1 as it left the solar system. We are nothing in the grandest schemes of things.

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QUOTE (Diluted @ Oct 3 2006, 12:12 AM)

QUOTE (Thumper @ Oct 3 2006, 12:02 AM)

Forum theif.

It was Ian

He's a mere mod

Ian

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QUOTE (halo @ Oct 3 2006, 10:52 AM)

Yeah it was Ian m'lud we knew nufink about it.

Anyway back on topic this is deeper:

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That higlighted dot is Earth taken by Voyager 1 as it left the solar system.

We are nothing in the grandest schemes of things.

hate to tell you but thats not deeper, as you said thats only on the edge of the solar system.
the original image is looking 78 billion light years into space.
with a telescope, we can see our solar system, it took 11 days for the hubble to capture the original image from an area of sky that just looks pitch black from earth.