The Universe is mind blowing. - Page 3

Site Notices

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - The Universe is mind blowing. (Page 3 of 5)

Posted: 11/19/2019 5:11:19 AM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
I'll never be able to wrap my head around how things work. How we are far enough away from the sun to not fry but at the same time have a sustainable life. How it took 500 million years for the sun to simmer down to the point it's at now. What was there before the universe? And what was there even before that? I get anxiety just thinking about this shit.

View Quote

Our whole universe was in a hot dense stateThen nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool
The autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall (we built the pyramids)
Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery
That all started with the big bang!

Posted: 11/19/2019 5:12:44 AM EDT

[#2]

Quote History

Quoted:
Our solar system is in a relatively empty part of the milky way, in the dark space between the spirals. Imagine living on a planet near the core, there would be no such thing as night time. Even facing away from your star, the night sky would be filled with so many stars that your flesh and eyes would need some kind of protection from the extra cosmic radiation/light.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-caLZdLGjjEQ/VeEhehZAgUI/AAAAAAABARo/nVY8CIIRHLY/s1600/MilkyWay-665x365.jpg

View Quote

Not only is our planet in the Goldilocks zone of our solar system, we're also in the GZ of our galaxy. Too close to the core of massive black holes, or too far away... ??? Another thing to consider is we have a perfect birds eye unobstructed view of the rest of the universe! We could have been blocked by huge dust clouds of our galaxy, but we're not. Imagine if for some reason we couldn't see past our own solar system or galaxy.

Posted: 11/19/2019 5:20:40 AM EDT

[#3]

How the Universe is Way Bigger Than You Think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7NzjCmUf0

Posted: 11/19/2019 6:02:22 AM EDT

[#4]

Yes, we are in the era of watching planets orbit other stars. HR 8799 harbors four super-Jupiters orbiting with periods that range from decades to centuries. Motion interpolation was used on 7 images of HR 8799 taken from the Keck Telescope over 7 years to create this image

View Quote

Posted: 11/19/2019 6:38:29 AM EDT

[#5]

Quote History

Quoted:
https://i.imgur.com/LySCSwm.gif

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Yes, we are in the era of watching planets orbit other stars. HR 8799 harbors four super-Jupiters orbiting with periods that range from decades to centuries. Motion interpolation was used on 7 images of HR 8799 taken from the Keck Telescope over 7 years to create this image

https://i.imgur.com/LySCSwm.gif

That's cool.

What has been discovered about planets outside our own solar system is awesome, especially with how recently the first one was found.

Posted: 11/19/2019 6:41:22 AM EDT

[#6]

Quote History

Quoted:
Well God, so.....

View Quote

Well it sure the fuck ain’t Mohammed the prophet

Posted: 11/19/2019 7:28:07 AM EDT

[#7]

Quote History

Quoted:

If that gives you anxiety just think about all the planet killer sized asteroids out there and how we have no clue where they're all at.

View Quote

Want to really rustle the jimmies? Watch a documentary called "The Rea Death Star". There are regular gamma radiation fountains in the distant heavens that can sterilize entire galaxy swathes. The problem with these is that they come in at the speed of light, so there is no way to predict them or protect yourself ahead of time. You go from fat, happy cow, to cindered carbon dust in an instant. These were first detected during the Cold War with the use of satellite gamma sensors.

Posted: 11/19/2019 7:31:39 AM EDT

[#8]

Quote History

Quoted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7NzjCmUf0

View Quote

Cool vid for distance comparison.

At about 10:20 though he says voyager1 wont break out of our solar system for another 30k years. Its already been announced voyager1 is in interstellar space.

Posted: 11/19/2019 7:47:07 AM EDT

[#9]

Quote History

Quoted:
https://i.imgur.com/QeiTidZ.jpg

View Quote

Posted: 11/19/2019 7:48:31 AM EDT

[#10]

Quote History

Quoted:

Or that the atmosphere is relatively thin and just one puff of what, solar wind, could blow it away and we'd lay here gasping until dead.

But for millions of years the thin layer of gas still hangs on.

View Quote

Magnets. How do they work?

Posted: 11/19/2019 7:49:31 AM EDT

[#11]

Quote History

Quoted:

Ever stop to think about the actual motion of the planets? You know the sun is always moving too...

View Quote

What's the blue thingy?

Posted: 11/19/2019 7:50:18 AM EDT

[#12]

Quote History

Great stuff!

Posted: 11/19/2019 7:54:03 AM EDT

[#13]

Quote History

Quoted:
Statistics (odds) don't work that way. For most distributions, both absolute 0 and 100 percent probabilities are infinitesimally small, making them the closest thing to impossible that statistics can describe.

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:

The odds are 1:1. All we can say is that there was a 100% chance of it working, because it worked. To say that the odds were any worse would require knowledge of other universes that failed to start under the same circumstances.

Same thing for the development of life on Earth. Until we find other Earth-analogous planets that are devoid of life, we can assume that there is a 100% chance of life developing on planets like ours. There is no evidence to the contrary.

Statistics (odds) don't work that way. For most distributions, both absolute 0 and 100 percent probabilities are infinitesimally small, making them the closest thing to impossible that statistics can describe.

Looks like 0.0001% was all the odds we needed.

Assuming the variables are consistent throughout the universe, that still leave billions of planets with life on them scattered throughout.

Posted: 11/19/2019 7:56:47 AM EDT

[#14]

Quote History

Quoted:

Want to really rustle the jimmies? Watch a documentary called "The Rea Death Star". There are regular gamma radiation fountains in the distant heavens that can sterilize entire galaxy swathes. The problem with these is that they come in at the speed of light, so there is no way to predict them or protect yourself ahead of time. You go from fat, happy cow, to cindered carbon dust in an instant. These were first detected during the Cold War with the use of satellite gamma sensors.

View Quote

I heard that if a gamma ray burst from a hypernova 3,000 light years away hit us, it would be bad - real bad. 3,000 light years is a long way away, relatively speaking.

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:01:56 AM EDT

[#15]

Quote History

Quoted:
The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

View Quote

Ever have surgery where they put you under? Same thing, except you never come out of it.

Try this next time (even if you have to wait until you are old enough for a colonoscopy). They say "okay we are giving you the anesthetic now" and you think "okay, I am going to stay conscious as long as I can: one, two, th.."

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:19:12 AM EDT

[#16]

Quote History

Quoted:
Our solar system is in a relatively empty part of the milky way, in the dark space between the spirals. Imagine living on a planet near the core, there would be no such thing as night time. Even facing away from your star, the night sky would be filled with so many stars that your flesh and eyes would need some kind of protection from the extra cosmic radiation/light.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-caLZdLGjjEQ/VeEhehZAgUI/AAAAAAABARo/nVY8CIIRHLY/s1600/MilkyWay-665x365.jpg

View Quote

By the time you got to observe that it might not even look like that.

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:23:55 AM EDT

[#17]

I encourage anyone interested in this to go take (audit) a beginner’s Astronomy class at your local community college. I took one when I went back to school prior to transferring to a University, and loved every minute of it.

My takeaways? Space is vast. Why aren’t we developing technologies to be out there exploring it?

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:24:24 AM EDT

[#18]

Quote History

Quoted:
The post just prior to yours specifically stated not to do that

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:
Tug on your willie for a few and everything will be right again

The post just prior to yours specifically stated not to do that

And Jesus never said "Don't masturbate."

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:28:56 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
I'll never be able to wrap my head around how things work. How we are far enough away from the sun to not fry but at the same time have a sustainable life. How it took 500 million years for the sun to simmer down to the point it's at now. What was there before the universe? And what was there even before that? I get anxiety just thinking about this shit.

View Quote

500 million more years and the sun will be hot enough to burn off the Earths Oceans.

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:30:48 AM EDT

[#20]

Quote History

Quoted:

Allow me to spice things up a bit.

Photosynthesis uses quantum entanglement.

Birds use quantum entanglement to navigate.

View Quote

This it true. Just think, if you had 2 entangled particles on opposite ends of the Universe and you colored one white, the other one would turn white too!

Spooky particles at a distance indeed!

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:39:54 AM EDT

[#21]

Quote History

Quoted:

That's cool.

What has been discovered about planets outside our own solar system is awesome, especially with how recently the first one was found.

View Quote

Coming up on 4500 exoplanets found as of now.

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:45:38 AM EDT

[#22]

Quote History

Quoted:

If that gives you anxiety just think about all the planet killer sized asteroids out there and how we have no clue where they're all at.

View Quote

Jupiter's mega strong gravity pulls in lots of asteroids that could come close to Earth.

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:46:19 AM EDT

[#23]

... read up on the BanachTarski paradox

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:47:07 AM EDT

[#24]

Quote History

Quoted:
And it all happened just perfectly by accident, some would say. Imagine the odds, that'll boggle your mind even more.

View Quote

The odds are really good that it happens often. More stars than grains of sand on all the beaches and most stars have planets.

They are out there but distance and time prevent us from ever contacting each other.

We are each alone in a vastly populated universe. No one is coming to save us. Our only hope is one day we learn to save ourselves.

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:48:09 AM EDT

[#25]

"People don't think the Universe be like it is, but it do." - Black Science Man

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:48:50 AM EDT

[#26]

Quote History

Quoted:
This it true. Just think, if you had 2 entangled particles on opposite ends of the Universe and you colored one white, the other one would turn white too!

Spooky particles at a distance indeed!

View Quote

I know thats an over simplification, but is that true in any respect to partical behavior? I remember reading how this could revolutionize communication if it was figured out; essentially you could communicate vast distances faster than the speed of light??!

Posted: 11/19/2019 8:55:28 AM EDT

[#27]

Quote History

Quoted:
Wait, there’s a universe?

View Quote

Yeah my wife told me it revolves around me

Posted: 11/19/2019 9:10:55 AM EDT

[#28]

Quote History

Quoted:
What's the blue thingy?

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/25/75/65/257565f3c27722162eb945c49e65b091.gif

Ever stop to think about the actual motion of the planets? You know the sun is always moving too...

What's the blue thingy?

Such a dick.

lol

Posted: 11/19/2019 9:15:55 AM EDT

[#29]

Quote History

Quoted:
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/58363/xlarge_web_jpg-1166076.JPG

all those lights are galaxies.

View Quote

And there are probably more where the light hasn’t reached us yet
There is a diagram of our Galaxy that shows how far our radio transmissions have reached. It is just an insignificant distance in the scheme of things

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:13:31 AM EDT

[#30]

Quote History

Quoted:
The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

View Quote

Not sure I am on board with nothingness.. Time doesn't make sense when used with nothingness. Looking at the big bang itself - if it were an infinitely small massive point that exploded and started everything, well what was there before? Nothing? If nothing, there was time associated with it - if infinity, well, there was infinitely nothing until there wasn't? As beings were we infinitely nothing until we were something, then only something for a fraction of time relatively, then going to be infinitely nothing again?

I don't think that there is such a thing as nothing. Even nothing is a thing.

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:14:55 AM EDT

[#31]

There is a theory, that if the universe is ever figured out, it will be replaced by something even more bizarre.

There is another theory, that this has already happened. Twice.

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:16:16 AM EDT

[#32]

If you are not ok with the unknown, there are some pretty good story books to fill in the gap.

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:16:25 AM EDT

[#33]

Quote History

Quoted:
If ever anyone needed proof . . . the universe: there you go.

I got faith.

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:
Well God, so.....

If ever anyone needed proof . . . the universe: there you go.

I got faith.

The fact they the Earth is so incredibly perfect for life is proof enough. The odds of that happening randomly are literally Incalculable.

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:16:32 AM EDT

[#34]

Quote History

Quoted:
If the Universe is constantly expanding in every direction at all times, what is it consuming?

View Quote

When you inflate a balloon, what is it consuming?

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:18:54 AM EDT

[#35]

Quote History

Quoted:
The fact they the Earth is so incredibly perfect for life is proof enough. The odds of that happening randomly are literally Incalculable.

View Quote

It's perfect for life as we know it. There are organisms on earth that live in conditions that would be fatal to just about anything else.

Other planets that may be 100% inhospitable for us may be perfect for other forms of life...

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:21:05 AM EDT

[#36]

Quote History

Quoted:
When you inflate a balloon, what is it consuming?

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:
If the Universe is constantly expanding in every direction at all times, what is it consuming?

When you inflate a balloon, what is it consuming?

Energy

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:24:24 AM EDT

[#37]

Quote History

Quoted:

Energy

View Quote

There's your answer.

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:30:17 AM EDT

[#38]

Quote History

Quoted:
The fact they the Earth is so incredibly perfect for life is proof enough. The odds of that happening randomly are literally Incalculable.

View Quote

No they aren’t. We have discovered earth like planets already. We haven’t been able to discover life on those planets, yet.

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:37:09 AM EDT

[#39]

Quote History

Quoted:
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/58363/xlarge_web_jpg-1166076.JPG

all those lights are galaxies.

View Quote

Just think most of the stars in those galaxies probably have supernova already. Just think that light took 100s if millions of years to reach us

Posted: 11/19/2019 10:42:05 AM EDT

[#40]

“The only reason for time, is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

Albert Einstein

Posted: 11/19/2019 11:16:17 AM EDT

[#41]

Quote History

Quoted:
The thought of nothingness just scares the shit out of me. You die, then what happens? Your being is gone your just in a black void of infinite nothingness.

View Quote

Well technically that would mean you just dont exist. Poof. Gone. Like incinerating a hardrive that had loads of source information then its just gone, unrecoverable.

Now imagine this: who you are is actually saved somewhere, call it DNA, a form of consciousness somewhere on a plain of existance above our own....... however it exists, it exists and its workings misunderstood and innaccesable by current tech. Humans evolve another million years and discover a way to snatch that essence of who you are out of the nothingness and recreate you just as you were. Not a copy but a continuance of who you were at the time of death.

If that was the case, would complete nothingness be an issue? Litterally a billion years could go by and once you were "resurrected" it would be as if you woke up a few seconds after you died.

Thats weird.

Posted: 11/19/2019 11:18:26 AM EDT

[#42]

If image(s) travel at the speed of light, are we playing a losing game of catch-up?

ETA: And does that make us living memories?

Posted: 11/19/2019 11:19:40 AM EDT

[#43]

Quote History

Quoted:
When you inflate a balloon, what is it consuming?

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:
If the Universe is constantly expanding in every direction at all times, what is it consuming?

When you inflate a balloon, what is it consuming?

Maybe he meant “what is it expanding in to?” Which is interesting in and of itself.

The balloon analogy fails at that point because at least we know what a balloon expands into

Posted: 11/19/2019 11:27:03 AM EDT

[#44]

Quote History

Quoted:
Maybe he meant “what is it expanding in to?” Which is interesting in and of itself.

The balloon analogy fails at that point because at least we know what a balloon expands into

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:
If the Universe is constantly expanding in every direction at all times, what is it consuming?

When you inflate a balloon, what is it consuming?

Maybe he meant “what is it expanding in to?” Which is interesting in and of itself.

The balloon analogy fails at that point because at least we know what a balloon expands into

Right! Even “Nothing” is “Something” so even if there is nothing beyond the Universe (as we know it), that nothing is something. What is being displaced or consumed or converted?

Posted: 11/19/2019 11:27:18 AM EDT

[#45]

Quote History

Quoted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoW8Tf7hTGA

It's kinda hard to fathom how small we are....

View Quote

Thanks for posting.

Cool

Posted: 11/19/2019 11:37:56 AM EDT

[#46]

Maybe the universe makes prefect sense but our brains just aren't powerful enough to decode it all.

Posted: 11/19/2019 11:42:14 AM EDT

[#47]

Quote History

Quoted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7NzjCmUf0

View Quote

Highly recommended for those who skipped over this.

Posted: 11/19/2019 11:54:23 AM EDT

[#48]

Quote History

Quoted:
There is a theory, that if the universe is ever figured out, it will be replaced by something even more bizarre.

There is another theory, that this has already happened. Twice.

View Quote

Its been said that once man invented stone tools everyone around the world had that ability once it was made.

Posted: 11/19/2019 11:56:47 AM EDT

[#49]

“Far Out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”

What's really mind blowing is that it's just as vast and complicated when you look at the smaller stuff.