The Universe is AWESOME!

Kermit.de.frog · 18-04-2018 1:21am #1

In the image above taken by the Hubble Space Telescope there are 10,000 visible galaxies each containing billions and billions of stars.

If you took a needle out and held it to the night sky and looked through the hole on the end - that is the equivalent portion of space in the picture.

To cover the whole sky the same techique would have to be used roughly 40,000,000 times.

Captain Red Beard · 18-04-2018 1:28am

Uranus is awesome.

JupiterKid · 18-04-2018 1:31am

It is indeed OP. That’s why I’ve had an interest in astronomy since I was about 17.

Just look at this close up image of the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, taken by the orbiting Juno probe. Surreal!!:cool:

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SmartinMartin · 18-04-2018 1:41am

I fcuking hate that word. Fascinating, incredible, amazing, spectacular, magnificent, etc, but awsome? Septics have ruined that word through overuse and trivialitization.

4068ac1elhodqr · 18-04-2018 1:51am

The little Milky Way alone is flush with billions of potentially habitable planets - and that's just one sliver of the universe (there are billions of other galaxies to choose from).

In total around about 6 sextillion (x21 zeros) possible habitable planets in the universe, more than there is individual specs/grains of sand on all of the earths beaches combined.

Outlaw Pete · 18-04-2018 1:51am

Franz Von Peppercorn · 18-04-2018 1:53am

That rug really tied the room together.

endacl · 18-04-2018 1:56am

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

That rug really tied the room together.

Kermit.de.frog · 18-04-2018 2:10am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkktE_fs4NA

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 18-04-2018 2:18am

JupiterKid wrote: »

It is indeed OP. That’s why I’ve had an interest in astronomy since I was about 17.

Just look at this close up image of the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, taken by the orbiting Juno probe. Surreal!!:cool:

Triiippppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!

pleas advice · 18-04-2018 2:20am

SmartinMartin wrote: »

I fcuking hate that word. Fascinating, incredible, amazing, spectacular, magnificent, etc, but awsome? Septics have ruined that word through overuse and trivialitization.

It's massiv, innit?

Liamalone · 18-04-2018 2:21am

Fake news

PandaPoo · 18-04-2018 2:22am

SmartinMartin wrote: »

I fcuking hate that word. Fascinating, incredible, amazing, spectacular, magnificent, etc, but awsome? Septics have ruined that word through overuse and trivialitization.

I would say this is the epitome of awesome.

jaxxx · 18-04-2018 2:22am

The universe is awesome, humans suck. Yup!

Outlaw Pete · 18-04-2018 3:16am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1-OmAICpU

pleas advice · 18-04-2018 3:24am

Kermit.de.frog · 18-04-2018 4:33am

Stars are like people. They are born, they live and they die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFe7120dl4

jaxxx · 18-04-2018 4:36am

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Our Sun will have a pretty bad result for us but not a Supernova at least as it does not have the size or mass. Stars are like people. They are born, they live and they die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFe7120dl4

Ah old sunny still has a few billion years of hydrogen left to burn. I'll be well dead thankfully! (I hope anyway!!)

18-04-2018 6:15am

Ah, it's alright..

Kermit.de.frog · 18-04-2018 7:14am

Tarantula Nebula is a star nursery producing many super massive stars which will go on to create black holes which will devour us all.

Kermit.de.frog · 18-04-2018 9:19am

Carina Nebula nursing infant stars.

SmartinMartin · 18-04-2018 9:25am

PandaPoo wrote: »

I would say this is the epitome of awesome.

Did I say it wasn't?

Boom_Bap · 18-04-2018 9:45am

Do flat earthers think the Universe is flat as well?

Kermit.de.frog · 18-04-2018 12:08pm

How could they after this?

Relikk · 18-04-2018 12:14pm

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Did I say it wasn't?

You insinuated that the word doesn't apply with regard to the subject matter of the thread. It most definitely does apply.

verycool · 18-04-2018 12:16pm

valoren · 18-04-2018 12:19pm

I like to think that with the heat death of the universe after all the stars burn out nothing will be left except the litany of blackholes which have grabbed all the matter they can over trillions of years. Trillions of years later, with no matter left to attract, these same blackholes will eventually come together to form an unimaginably enormous solitary black hole. The singularity at it's centre becoming literally the centre of the universe. Due to quantum fluctuations at it's event horizon, this remaining blackhole, which contains all of the matter the universe once contained will slowly reduce in size over another spate of a few trillion years. In time, it will just become a singularity where time itself stops. Who knows it might, after another trillion years this singularity, now the size of an atom, might just explode and go through the whole process again. And again. And again.........

garbo speaks · 18-04-2018 12:33pm

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

Kermit.de.frog · 18-04-2018 12:36pm

valoren wrote: »

I like to think that with the heat death of the universe after all the stars burn out nothing will be left except the litany of blackholes which have grabbed all the matter they can over trillions of years. Trillions of years later, with no matter left to attract, these same blackholes will eventually come together to form an unimaginably enormous solitary black hole. The singularity at it's centre becoming literally the centre of the universe. Due to quantum fluctuations at it's event horizon, this remaining blackhole, which contains all of the matter the universe once contained will slowly reduce in size over another spate of a few trillion years. In time, it will just become a singularity where time itself stops. Who knows it might, after another trillion years this singularity, now the size of an atom, might just explode and go through the whole process again. And again. And again.........

If the universe is expanding than what is it expanding in to?

Stab*City · 18-04-2018 12:39pm

Fascinating stuff!

Four Phucs Ache · 18-04-2018 12:42pm

valoren wrote: »

I like to think that with the heat death of the universe after all the stars burn out nothing will be left except the litany of blackholes which have grabbed all the matter they can over trillions of years. Trillions of years later, with no matter left to attract, these same blackholes will eventually come together to form an unimaginably enormous solitary black hole. The singularity at it's centre becoming literally the centre of the universe. Due to quantum fluctuations at it's event horizon, this remaining blackhole, which contains all of the matter the universe once contained will slowly reduce in size over another spate of a few trillion years. In time, it will just become a singularity where time itself stops. Who knows it might, after another trillion years this singularity, now the size of an atom, might just explode and go through the whole process again. And again. And again.........

It will be big bang 2.....

The big bang we know of could have been big bang 9 or 28!!!!!

Sin City · 18-04-2018 12:42pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

If the universe is expanding than what is it expanding in to?

The void between parallel universes

valoren · 18-04-2018 12:44pm

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

valoren wrote: »

I like to think that with the heat death of the universe after all the stars burn out nothing will be left except the litany of blackholes which have grabbed all the matter they can over trillions of years. Trillions of years later, with no matter left to attract, these same blackholes will eventually come together to form an unimaginably enormous solitary black hole. The singularity at it's centre becoming literally the centre of the universe. Due to quantum fluctuations at it's event horizon, this remaining blackhole, which contains all of the matter the universe once contained will slowly reduce in size over another spate of a few trillion years. In time, it will just become a singularity where time itself stops. Who knows it might, after another trillion years this singularity, now the size of an atom, might just explode and go through the whole process again. And again. And again.........

It will be big bang 2.....

The big bang we know of could have been big bang 9 or 28!!!!!

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facehugger99 · 18-04-2018 12:54pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

If the universe is expanding than what is it expanding in to?

Your ma.

Because she's so fat or is having sex with the universe.

You can read it either way.

SmartinMartin · 18-04-2018 12:55pm

Relikk wrote: »

You insinuated that the word doesn't apply with regard to the subject matter of the thread. It most definitely does apply.

Great story, needs more dragons and shlt.
I insinuated no such thing and in fact didn't refer to the subject of the thread in any way whatsoever. As an aside I merely expressed my dislike for the overuse of the word by americans.

Kermit.de.frog · 18-04-2018 1:07pm

If the universe is expanding it has to be expanding in to something. Is it just nothing (nothing is something?) ? Infinite space?

These are questions so big i'm not sure humans could understand...profound really.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 18-04-2018 2:06pm

garbo speaks wrote: »

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

I’m hoping for more excitement next time.

garbo speaks · 18-04-2018 2:41pm

valoren wrote: »

I like to think that with the heat death of the universe after all the stars burn out nothing will be left except the litany of blackholes which have grabbed all the matter they can over trillions of years. Trillions of years later, with no matter left to attract, these same blackholes will eventually come together to form an unimaginably enormous solitary black hole. The singularity at it's centre becoming literally the centre of the universe. Due to quantum fluctuations at it's event horizon, this remaining blackhole, which contains all of the matter the universe once contained will slowly reduce in size over another spate of a few trillion years. In time, it will just become a singularity where time itself stops. Who knows it might, after another trillion years this singularity, now the size of an atom, might just explode and go through the whole process again. And again. And again.........

I thought Timothy Dalton was a great James Bond.

Hermy · 18-04-2018 8:02pm

SmartinMartin wrote: »

...Septics have ruined that word...

Are you an anti-septic?

Capt'n Midnight · 18-04-2018 9:52pm

"In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded
as a bad move.

Many races believe that it was created by some sort of God,
though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the
entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being
called the Great Green Arkleseizure.

The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they
call The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief, are small blue
creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore
unique in being the only race in history to have invented the
aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

However, the Great Green Arkleseizure Theory is not widely
accepted outside Viltvodle VI and so, the Universe being the
puzzling place it is, other explanations are constantly being
sought."

- Douglas Adams,

Capt'n Midnight · 18-04-2018 10:00pm

garbo speaks wrote: »

I thought Timothy Dalton was a great James Bond.

Time Lords are awesome.

Vinculus · 18-04-2018 10:00pm

Big Bang 2
Bang Harder

gmisk · 18-04-2018 10:02pm

Have you seen the documentary the farthest? Terrific stuff highly recommend it

Yester · 18-04-2018 10:11pm

verycool wrote: »

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I count 43.

10000maniacs · 18-04-2018 10:17pm

Helena Thoughtless Toothache wrote: »

The little Milky Way alone is flush with billions of potentially habitable planets - and that's just one sliver of the universe (there are billions of other galaxies to choose from).

In total around about 6 sextillion (x21 zeros) possible habitable planets in the universe, more than there is individual specs/grains of sand on all of the earths beaches combined.

Intelligent life on other worlds is not inevitable. After 12 billion years there should be billions of unmanned probes randomly traversing the universe if intelligent life is inevitable.
Why have none ever crashed into the Moon or Mars.
Even we have half a dozen floating around in space, a few have already left our solar system. Multiply that by 6 sextillion and some should have come our way after 12 billion years.

railer201 · 18-04-2018 10:31pm

So where do we fit in with all this awesomeness ? We observe it for our life time, and then unless there is an afterlife of some form or other, our memory is no longer - we may as well have never existed, nor the universe itself.

Capt'n Midnight · 18-04-2018 11:26pm

10000maniacs wrote: »

Intelligent life on other worlds is not inevitable.

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

- Calvin

Professor Moriarty · 18-04-2018 11:32pm

10000maniacs wrote: »

Intelligent life on other worlds is not inevitable. After 12 billion years there should be billions of unmanned probes randomly traversing the universe if intelligent life is inevitable.
Why have none ever crashed into the Moon or Mars.
Even we have half a dozen floating around in space, a few have already left our solar system. Multiply that by 6 sextillion and some should have come our way after 12 billion years.

That's an interesting point. Why do you think that we haven't encountered life from another planet?

WoollyRedHat · 18-04-2018 11:46pm

Imagine my disappointment when I tuned into `You`re a star` one day

AllForIt · 19-04-2018 12:31am

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

That's an interesting point. Why do you think that we haven't encountered life from another planet?

Because if they have the capability to either get here or send us a signal from afar then they must be very intelligent and since their very intelligent they wouldn't want to come here, would they.

4068ac1elhodqr · 19-04-2018 1:01am

Diamonds found in a meteorite (ureilite) that exploded over the Nubian desert in Sudan a decade ago, were formed deep inside a “lost planet” (at pressures greater than 20 gigapascals).

This likely was one of the first planets to circle the sun before they collided with each other to create the actual planets we have today.

If a bit of aul meteorite should land upon your foot, it's lucky times. Space rock is worth more than gold.

The Universe is AWESOME!

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