the scale of the universe

my favorite discovery was the Eridanus Supervoid, a gap in the universe 1,000,000,000 light years across.

holy fuck.

dark ambient album 2012?

  On 2/14/2012 at 2:24 AM, YO303 said:

  On 2/14/2012 at 2:23 AM, modey said:

I get kinda depressed when I think that humans probably won't be capable of deep space exploration within my lifetime. Looking at those distances just makes it seem totally impossible.

 

Probably? you'll be lucky to see us parachute from the moon.

I did say probably won't

  On 2/14/2012 at 2:23 AM, modey said:

I get kinda depressed when I think that humans probably won't be capable of deep space exploration within my lifetime. Looking at those distances just makes it seem totally impossible.

those distances at light speed seem totally impossible

  On 2/14/2012 at 2:45 AM, A/D said:

my favorite discovery was the Eridanus Supervoid, a gap in the universe 1,000,000,000 light years across.

 

holy fuck.

 

dark ambient album 2012?

  On 2/14/2012 at 3:25 AM, jules said:

  On 2/14/2012 at 2:23 AM, modey said:

I get kinda depressed when I think that humans probably won't be capable of deep space exploration within my lifetime. Looking at those distances just makes it seem totally impossible.

 

 

those distances at light speed seem totally impossible

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worm holes? thats how aliens travel to earth, innit.

  On 2/14/2012 at 2:45 AM, A/D said:

my favorite discovery was the Eridanus Supervoid, a gap in the universe 1,000,000,000 light years across.

 

holy fuck.

 

dark ambient album 2012?

Everything that page links to in related articles is just as interesting and awesome.

yeah the edge of the visible universe is 822,989,974,000,000,000,000,000 MILES away from us.

and it grows by 267,840,000 miles every day.

that is a number that is impossible to parse.

if the sun were a centimeter wide, the nearest star would be right around 250 miles away.

the earth would be slightly smaller than the head of a pin.

basically we are totally insignificant.

  On 2/14/2012 at 6:34 AM, disparaissant said:

basically we are totally insignificant.

Perhaps, but is anything really significant? It's all relative!

well actually i was being flippant

to paraphrase carl sagan, in the vastness of the universe, we're the only intelligent beings that we know of

so

in that sense, we are INCREDIBLY significant.

I think you mean bill-yuns.