I'm humbled after seeing this - Hubble Telescope related

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that is incredible. for some reason looking up at the stars and looking at pictures and so on always makes me think about death, not really sure why. any thoughts, anyone? :huh:
 
gareth brown said:
that is incredible. for some reason looking up at the stars and looking at pictures and so on always makes me think about death, not really sure why. any thoughts, anyone? :huh:
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I'm the same - very confused after I first saw it. I guess in our own world, we feel important and significant, yet when you see something like this, you realise that as a planet we are very insignificant and as individuals, even less so. I think the minds capacity to deal with things like this, the enormity of it all - even thinking about the fact that in that tiny space in the sky, there are 10000 galaxies .... I can't get my head around it.
 
gareth brown said:
that is incredible. for some reason looking up at the stars and looking at pictures and so on always makes me think about death, not really sure why. any thoughts, anyone? :huh:
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"Memento mori" (Latin: ""Remember that you are mortal," "Remember you will die," or "Remember your death").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori

Space, in many ways, is the most morbid reminders that we have. Not only is it completely cold and lifeless (out of the observable universe that we know about), but nearly everything that we see of it is so old as to probably no longer exist.

And pictures are quite the same, really. They "capture" the light of something that has long past.

Melon
 
Yes, seeing that made me feel very small! But things like that are fascinating, and make me think people who dimiss the idea of aliens and such must be wrong. Look at all those galaxies, there must be someone out there somewhere!
 
Since there is no other life out there, it makes me even more powerful and important here on Earth. Go ahead and be humbled fools - the power is all mine!
 
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Party Boy said:


There has to be thousands if not millions of other worlds out there. The scary thing is that to start going looking for them - unless we get some form of light-fast transport, we are never going to find them!!
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What if they find us first....:uhoh::shifty:
 
Dwight Schrute said:


If it's so stupid, then why don't you go out and find some other life.
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The american office sucks badly, dwight is a poor character.

Has no one ever seen sci fi films ? we dont look for them , they look for us!!!!.
 
vaz02 said:


The american office sucks badly, dwight is a poor character.

Has no one ever seen sci fi films ? we dont look for them , they look for us!!!!.
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the american office does suck badly, it almost doesnt even suck at all.

i love sci fi movies but just in case, 'did you check your butt?'
 
Its super scary to think their is soo many galaxy's out their :sad: .

Imagine a universal war :lol: Poor Earth would be treated like a 3rd world Society
 
I've seen that picture before. The oldest photographed object in the universe is in the bottom right of that image, a proto-galaxy almost 15 billion light-years away. It's just a tiny speck on that shot, but it's unbelievable to think that it's probably been gone for nearly 10 billion of those 15 billion years, and we're only just now getting the light from it.

Reminds me of an Animaniacs episode.
 
OMG! I :love: you for remembering Yakko's Universe!!!

Everybody lives on a street in a city
Or a village or a town for what it's worth.
And they're all inside a country which is part of a continent
That sits upon a planet known as Earth.
And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
Which is out there spinning silently in space.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals
And also the entire human race.

It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It's big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It's a big universe and we're not.

And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley's Comet too.
And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.

And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the way.
'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!

It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
You might think that you're essential
Try inconsequential
It's a small world after all!
 
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