The Tarantula Nebula. Think About It.

The Tarantula Nebula is over 1,000 light years wide... that's 10,000 trillion kilometers, which is impossible to even imagine. Yet, this actually exists.



It makes you realize just how insignificant you really are, doesn't it?

 

yup
but it makes me realize how insignificant you are even more so

 

Haha... have you seen pictures of the universe a couple billion years ago?

It looks like a squid!

It's why I'll never eat Calamary... no matter how delicious it is.

 

Not really...
But I do remember the first time I saw pictures from the Hubble. I wanted to go to John Hopkin's and work with it on-site for the longest time. I remember thinking nebulas were the most beautiful things I had ever seen...And they still are.

 

A man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."

-- Stephen Crane

 

No it doesn't... I'm still the center of the universe...

 

Oh, come on! It's 10,000 trillion kilometers wide! You can't even comprehend that, let alone write it off as nothing.

We ARE insignificant. If the earth disappeared right now, the universe wouldn't even bat an eyelash.

 

And getting bigger every second.

I don't look at the universe from a scientific standpoint.
It's purely aesthetical. More interesting that way.

 

our galaxy is like, 10,000 lightyears.... which is like, 100,000 trillion km.. suck it up nancy

 

It Makes you Feel Small, like looking up at a giant

 

Mmmhhmmm... I'm going to die and life will go on.

But I'm the Center of my Universe, just as you are the most important thing in yours. We are significant in our own worlds, which are the only ones that matter.

 

Space is so crazy looking way zoomed out. The scale is amazing.... Imagine seeing it on an even larger scale?

 

You'll love this Lucifer Sam...

Ya know theres been a long long long debate over the past 40 years about wherther the universe is expanding infinitely or will eventually slow down and contract again...

The theroy is... if theres enough dark matter in the universe it'll implode in on itself, and and if there isn't it'll expande into nothingness....

Well appearntly we've been able to determine in the past few years that theres way more then enough dark matter for the universe to implode on itself...

But apparently that isn't happening...

The universe is expanding... which means all those calculations have to be wrong...

But they've been proven again and again...

in fact... the universe is expanding at an even faster rate...

which means...

that theres a force of gravity... outside of the universe... pulling on it...

that means that our universe isn't all of matter...

Scientists have only been able to specualate on what's causing this outside pull on the universe...

the prevalling theroy traces itself all the way down to quantum theroy...

electrons we're once thought to move fast enough to be untracable by modern scientific devices... but now it apperas they actually blink themselves in and out of existance!!!

so the prevailling theroy as insane as it sounds...

Is that qunatum particles from the universe are dissaperaing out of existance... and reapperaing in another part of the universe... to drag the universe out of existance with the force of gravity.

...

I don't really understand.

But its fascinating.

 

I remember seeing something on PBS about the quantum theory and parallel dimensions...I had nightmares about the parallel dimension version of me.

 

I'd hit it.























... Sorry

 

Ahhahahaha!!!!

 

I don't understand it either. But yeah, it's very fascinating.

I really wish the human race would put more effort into learning about space. When you think about it, that is the most meaningful thing we can do right now. Everything else that we do is kind of meaningless in the end if we cannot use it outside of our planet. Someday, the earth will be gone, and what will there be to show for it?

 

I understood that whole thing that Lodui posted... I couldn't explain it anymore.... maybe..

But it does makes sense to me... what does it mean to us? Well, I don't think it really means anything to us... our galaxy would somehow get teleported to another part of the universe.. you'd think that the surrounding area would also would get teleported... would we even notice? Probably not.

 

Nothing... as it should be.

 

anyone see that programme on time travel that was on discovery channel a while ago?...i talks about how, theoreticallt a bunch of light twisted can twist space, and with it twist time...

some guy is developing one, and he expcts when it starts to work, a bunch of elecrons and crap like that will come pouring our from himself in the future...

it was awesome