Over 10,000 Galaxies In This One Picture

One day idiots will believe photoshop was invented in the early 18th century or somesuch nonsense

 

this is what nasa has to say about it:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html

 

Ah, so complete fabrication of photos over a period of a decade. Right.

 

And your point is?

 

As long as nasa says so the majority will believe it while in sad reality you could have put 10 photos of paintings with colored splotches all over the canvas, a nothing painting that sells for millions, black most of it out and if a nasa person said that was a picture of 10,000 galaxies the majority would still believe it.

 

we apparently already have some who think it existed in time for the live nationally televised first moon landing.

 

Area milky way covers is about 0.1 trillion trillion kilometers

Upper estimate number of planets around 1/2 trillion

Roughly one planet every 1/4 trillion kilometers

Grand scheme of things is mostly nothing

 

Never mind the actual photograph - What matters is that all those places in that direction (a tiny fraction of our sky, remember) are actually very very big indeed (see the recent huge photo of the Andromeda Galaxy for an idea of how big galaxies are) and that what we can actually see in the night sky (as per Orison319's post above) is only what's nearest to us.

An analogy would be what I can see right now - I can see my hands and my laptop while I'm typing (the equivalent of our night sky viewed from a town or city) but I can look around and see the sofa I'm sat on, the TV and bookshelf and the other contents of this room (equivalent to our night sky in a rural area). I can glance out of the window from here and see grass out there, and a low hill on the other side of the road (equivalent to looking through a small telescope). If I stand up and go to the window I can see the sea not far away and the Isle Of Skye beyond it (equivalent to the recent huge photo of Andromeda - especially since I can use a telescope to see individual cars and houses on Skye even though it's thirty miles from me). I cannot see mainland Scotland from here, as it's below the horizon. But that doesn't mean Scotland is not there. Neither does your opinion of the XDF or any other Deep Field images change what's depicted in those images. The galaxies are there, we all know that, and it's wonderful to be able to see them.

Or perhaps you think they don't exist? I've never seen the USA, but I have no doubt that it's there.

 

Mostly nothing indeed, but if you apply the same reasoning to fish in the ocean, you would say that nobody will ever find any fish because the oceans are so big. Or a chocolate bar in a shopping mall - how does anyone ever manage to find those in such an enormous place?

 

Is there a lol in there? This is really true. When I am in the city I don't bother to watch the nightsky except for the moon. In the countryside you can watch so much more! And there still is a lot of horizon/light pollution in the dutch countryside too.

It is argued that this 'dark matter' stuff is not really nothing. It could be it is the thing that holds everything in the cosmos together. And I agree with Harpo, perhaps the (relative) tiny little spots where there is an abundance of life (even if there might be only one) make up for the vast emptiness.

 

i couldnt find the lol one.. I think it goes "I went outside expecting this (right) what I got was (left)"...

 

I wonder how sure that observation is (is it a measurement or based on some visual?). And how we can know with certainty how sure it is

 

Given the scope of the universe it looks pretty sure. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is everywhere. The best way I can relate it is like an temporal X-Ray of the universe.

 

Maybe nasa is deceiving us. Maybe there is no XDF. Maybe nasa has never launched any rockets into space at all, it's just that the feeble minded have been tricked. Maybe the earth is really flat, and the photos of earth from space have been faked.

I suppose that we all believe or disbelieve things for our own reasons. Barring sound evidence from conspiracy theorists, I'm more inclined to believe nasa.

 

Maybe the earth is round and they've really been to space and the moon, and NASA could still be deceiving us about other things. Not that I think all those Hubble pics are fake btw

 

:unsure:

 

You only think you know the galaxies are there because that's what you've been told and chosen to believe.

Personally I don't know really know they're there at all. My telescope doesn't see them, only pictures and video on documentaries have I seen them. With digital imagery these days who knows, we'll never know for sure whether a man really lands on Mars or the moon again. We are still up in arms over footage that looks fake 60 years ago and now with CGI... Once again it'll be personal perception.

As for me, I'm not stating I don't think that the galaxies exist, I do in fact believe they're probably all there though I hold doubts about the numbers and statistics.

I also believe in Nessy.

 

Well we are living in a holographic universe, so just maybe we’re seeing what they want us to see


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