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reply posted on 14-4-2009 @ 06:37 PM by Darthorious
reply to post by _damon


The only reason I use parasite is because I can not think of a single thing we do that isn't harmful in someway on the grand scale of things. I guess we make great fertilizer but really whats the point of living, if that is the only reason we would have very short life spans I assume.

Most things in our body if not all have and serve some type of purpose such as repair, fighting off illnesses etc. So I really can't think of anything more in that sense. But I do believe in life after death so I also believe there is a purpose for us being here it's just not scientifically apparent at this stage of the process.

So all I'm left with is the matrix guy calling us an infestation reproducing and gobbling up resources to a point one day we may no longer be able to survive. Hopefully by that time something intervenes. At the rate were going living on other planets is a long way off. So hence the parasite comment lol.


reply posted on 14-4-2009 @ 06:53 PM by weedwhacker
reply to post by spitefulgod


spiteful, great find....I've seen the longer version as part of a lecture...but the 8-minute clip is easier to view, and the Pink Floyd helps too!

In the 'dry' version we hear from the lecturer about how what we are seeing is the large-scale representation of the distribution of galaxies, as observed and catalogued by the HST.

The also mentioned that it took a series of about one thousand processors working three years to render the 3-D portions....



reply posted on 14-4-2009 @ 08:16 PM by ElectricUniverse
This is only what we can see of the known universe.

But as a matter of fact we actually have proof that there is more beyond the known universe, and beyond that there are most probably multiverses, just like galaxies are found in clusters, Universes are found in clusters, what is beyond that, we might never know.

The so called Big Bag was never the beginning, it was just a step in an infinite cycle of steps which the Universe, and all multiverses goes through.

Only mankind with our limited minds could conceive a beginning, and an end, but the Universe, and the multiverss are not confined by man's mind.

Just like the cycles of life, death, rebirth, life, death, rebirth, etc, in an never ending cycle so does the Universe, and the multiverses go through similar cycles.

Anyway, without further due, here is what we have found so far from beyond the known Universe.


Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space

As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered.

Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can't be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon "dark flow."

The stuff that's pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude.

When scientists talk about the observable universe, they don't just mean as far out as the eye, or even the most powerful telescope, can see. In fact there's a fundamental limit to how much of the universe we could ever observe, no matter how advanced our visual instruments. The universe is thought to have formed about 13.7 billion years ago. So even if light started travelling toward us immediately after the Big Bang, the farthest it could ever get is 13.7 billion light-years in distance. There may be parts of the universe that are farther away (we can't know how big the whole universe is), but we can't see farther than light could travel over the entire age of the universe.

www.space.com...


reply posted on 14-4-2009 @ 08:44 PM by Lasheic
reply to post by JohnD


Nice.

I'm not affiliated with any religions, but I've always been fond of a placard that JFK kept on his desk.

"O' Lord, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small."



reply posted on 14-4-2009 @ 09:02 PM by DarkSecret
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
This is only what we can see of the known universe.

But as a matter of fact we actually have proof that there is more beyond the known universe, and beyond that there are most probably multiverses, just like galaxies are found in clusters, Universes are found in clusters, what is beyond that, we might never know.


When scientists talk about the observable universe, they don't just mean as far out as the eye, or even the most powerful telescope, can see. In fact there's a fundamental limit to how much of the universe we could ever observe, no matter how advanced our visual instruments. The universe is thought to have formed about 13.7 billion years ago. So even if light started travelling toward us immediately after the Big Bang, the farthest it could ever get is 13.7 billion light-years in distance. There may be parts of the universe that are farther away (we can't know how big the whole universe is), but we can't see farther than light could travel over the entire age of the universe.

www.space.com...


the universe is infinite. we can only see 13.7 bil light years away (around us in a sphere) with our imaging techniques. however assuming there is a planet with intelligent life just like us observing the universe on the outer limits of those 13.7 bil light years, they would see another sphere 13.7 bil light years around them, and then on any egde of that sphere another civilization will see another sphere that's 13.7 bil light years in diameter.

it's probably hard to understand for those who read this for the first time but you can imagine it like circles touching each other in each direction of space forever and ever. which makes the universe a very very big place.


reply posted on 14-4-2009 @ 09:10 PM by OmegaPoint
Originally posted by AlwaysQuestion
How big is the universe? Well, according to this image then we are very, very small and the universe is in reality incomprehensible...

LINK TO IMAGE

This is a large and very long image.....start at the top and carry on down, hopefully getting that 'wow' feeling.

I know there are many videos similar to this but sometimes it's nice to have a picture.

Apologies if this has been previously posted.

enjoy

Hmph. I guess God really likes variety eh?
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