The Universe

[Proper]

Anything related to our mysterious universe should be posted in this thread; from discussion to pictures. I'll start off with a couple of pictures and then once everyone has admired the pictures, we can discuss anything!

Pulsar Neutron Stars: They're basically planets or stars omitting radiation in a blinding "strobe-light" fashion.
http://www.williamsclass.com/EighthScienceWork/ImagesEighth/Pulsar.jpg


Magnetars: They're another type of neutron stars omitting radiation more wildly and they also have a very powerful magnetic field.
http://encarta.msn.com/othermedia/Features/Magnetars_425x283.jpg


Pulsars and Magnetars combined: Self-explanatory.
http://www.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/230242main_pulsar2_sm.jpg

Hypervelocity Stars: They are the legitimate "shooting stars"
http://encarta.msn.com/othermedia/Features/HyperVelocityStars_425x283.jpg

Dark Energy: Scientist believe dark energy is gradually pulling the universe apart with ever increasing speeds. In theory, the energy will rip apart the entire universe one day, planet by planet and atom by atom.
http://encarta.msn.com/othermedia/Features/darkenergy_xray_425x283.jpg

This is some of my favorites from the universe, feel free to add your favorites as I will be doing the same.

[anti-anti-crime]

that magnetar looks good enough to fuck. no joke.

[Mr yarbles]

Anyone think this 2012 thing is gonna go down?
I havea friend who talks about the shit all the fucking time, but he actually got me thinking

[Loki X Sho]

constellations...<3
http://www.revelationofjohn.com/SCORPIO_files/image018.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7GmGsoSS-g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyCCd8MCcZY

^^2012...the movie...dun dun dun lol
this is going to scare a lot of people man

[Proper]

Eagles Nebula: Is a young open clusters of stars found in the constellation of Serpens. Mostly composed of star-forming gas and dust. The "Eagle" is about 57 trillion miles tall.
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/assets/eagle_nebula.jpg

Black Holes: Not to be confused with the lame Raiders' fans. [Ha!] I assume everyone knows what a black hole is. Recently, Stephen W. Hawkins said escaping a black hole is possible, although extremely rare and difficult, the feat can be accomplished. It cannot be "confirmed" but he is the greatest thinker of our time.
http://www.nrao.edu/images/supermassiveBlackHoleRip510.jpg

Super Earths: Are planets larger than our own Earth but not large enough to be considered gas giants. There are several different types of "super earths" and scientists are hopeful they can theoretically host life.
http://www.mibadesigns.co.uk/images/Images/planet%28small%29.jpg

[SALVO]

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c133/Salvo131/earths-size-compared-to-larger-star.jpghttp://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c133/Salvo131/?albumview=grid&fullsize=earths-size-compared-to-larger-star.jpg

[ESKiMO2]

2012 = Stupid way to scare the general public into buying shit.

Anyone read A Brief History of Time? I haven't because I'm not that educated yet.

[Loki X Sho]

its like the y2k thing lol....

http://www.history.com/minisites/universe/images/gallery/08ring-nebula.jpg

[Proper]

2012 = Solar flares.

They are more common than people realize.

[SALVO]

The planets will all be aligned in December of 2012. Pretty sure thats why people all have their panties up their ass holes.

[Mr yarbles]

I knew about the solar flares.
Idk i think people are stupid they think cus some big ass mayan calender ran out that that means we're all gonna die.
My friend says that some shit goes down every how ever many years and it's been enough years or something he thinks the world is going to like implode or osmething

[Tony]

my dad got me into looking at stars and planets and shit when i was a little kid, always taking me outside to show me stuff on the telescope or something..

http://leisureguy.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/crab-nebula.jpg
crab nebula

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/screen/heic0615a.jpg
2 galaxies merging

[vegimite on toast]

i always found this video nuts
really puts the size of the known universe into perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGxRWCmwSDE

at the end it starts talking about a divine creator and thats up to you to decide...
but ignoring that....its a great demonstration
mind blowing

[Loki X Sho]

damn mayans and their calendars..

[DENO.ONE!]

Best thread on BS. And was this opened cause its galileo's telescope 400th anniversary? Thank you google for informing me.

[Proper]

Horsehead Nebula: Picture is too big to post.
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d4/horsehead.jpg

Large Magellanic Cloud: One of the brightest galaxies known to man.
http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/fuse_mc/LMC_3col_sm.jpg

[vegimite on toast]

traveling for 10 billion years at 186 000 miles a second
you can't fuck with that

[diggy64]

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/30/08/2749225b9da0f40f03ea7110.L._AA240_.jpg
Stephen Hawking - The Universe In A Nutshell (Audiobook) (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CU5WYNSP)

Highly recommended if you are into this shit.

Also, try and get through the 10 Dimensions of the Universe Video (http://www.wimp.com/tendimensions/).

[Proper]

The String Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

Read up.

[Loki X Sho]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4A9r9yKkkNs/Sf07tPaoW_I/AAAAAAAACuU/G-Owkk61FPw/s400/Crop+Circle+Avebury+Manor,+nr+Avebury,+Wiltshire.+ Reported+15th+July+2008.jpg

this crop circle shows the suggested formation of the planets on 2012...
pluto is off a few degrees because its predicted something might hit it.
most crop circles are ancient symbols and designs....

[SALVO]

www.propersucks.com

Read up.

[vegimite on toast]

Hahaha

[Aesir]

damn mayans and their calendars..

The only reason why the mayan calendar stopped was because they ran out of people.

[SALVO]

The calender stopped because proper sucks.

[Loki X Sho]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHs7hu9hgKc

pretty neat.


proper is tha man

[Proper]

www.propersucks.com (http://www.propersucks.com)

Read up.

I legitimately clicked the link and expected to enter an actual website. :(

[SALVO]

Maybe I should buy the domain name and dedicate the site to you.

[Mr yarbles]

The String Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

Read up.

THANK YOU
I love the string theory It's really fuckign interesting
Everyone should read upon it

[Loki X Sho]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197

[Proper]

Maybe I should buy the domain name and dedicate the site to you.

That would be... awesome!

[Spraycan Stories]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197

I love this movie, but i think the 9/11 part is a bit exaggerated, but thats not what this thread is about.

[Loki X Sho]

random thought branch after watching the big bang machine

[LeaksOne]

old bump on the 2012. first off theres way too many senarios goin around to believe anything. like salvo said its just a year thats expected to have alot of solar flares. were all suppose to die because the mayan calendar says so but were not even in sync with that calendar anymore and how is the world guna end when theres a huge time difference on different sides of the earth??

on a brighter note proper your my hero for this thread <3 :D

[peacebomb]

plutos always been going off like that, duing what ever the fuck it wants.
Theory of reletivity anyone? I Read a book on that. Really really realllllly interesting stuff.
My cousin is having a Bunker built as an extension off his basement for the 2012 bullshit. He is dead fucking serious. Right now there is a big fucking hole in the side of his basement. I dont believe in it though.

[LeaksOne]

lets make pluto a planet again!! pluto for planet in 2010!!

i heard at one time they found like 90 somethin more planets in our galaxy. maybe i was trippin but i swear i read it somewhere.

[-Empty-Can-]

Astronomy has been my favorite subject since i was little. This shit is sooo interesting.

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/universe.html

That site is cool. you can see the whle visible universe.

i think that 2012 is bullshit. All these diffferent calenders are ending but what is that supposed to mean? I think if the world was gonna end it would be suddenly and unexpectant. So nobody could prepare we would as just die and have no worries.

[creatureofthenite]

well in my own opinion, no man will ever live long enough to truely understand the way the universe works.
e.XTEND t.HE m.IND

[KidReny!]

Anyone think this 2012 thing is gonna go down?
I havea friend who talks about the shit all the fucking time, but he actually got me thinking

I dont but there will be a shit load of crime around that time and people killing each other who think that, but if it does happen shit keep them bibles close

[-Empty-Can-]

^^I've had like 8 years of religious classes. And of my teachers once said that nobody knows when the world will end. So since everybody "knows" its gonna happen in 2012, it won't. Like when peopke said 2000 was gonna be the end. So when it does end people will all be surprised.

[Thrice]

I love you proper for making this thread, im a huge cosmology nerd. Yo check out michio kaku, he's a physicist that's a big pioneer for string theory.

Quasar Blackholes
http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect20/h_accretion_disk_02.jpg

Gamma ray blasts will destroy our planet one day, they can generate more power than 9,000 supernovaes.

Oh and if you think Arcturus is big check this out, arctutus is like the 3rd sun on there.
By the way this is only identified suns in our solar systems, much biggger ones exist.
http://www.kiroastro.com/images/perspective/stars.jpg


Also the solar flare expected on 2012 is only dangerous to our satellites, we should be fine.

[Thrice]

Check out the Large Hadron Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

Also check out the National Ignition Facility, we are going to harvest the power of a star and will allow us a unlimited powerful and clean source of energy, not radioactive wastes are going to be emitted because we are fuzing atoms, not splitting.(fission)

[Loki X Sho]

yeh the big bang machine...check out the vid of it that I posted on the previous page...that thing is insane

[Thrice]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197

Please get your piece of shit Leveyan satanic NWO nazi crap out of here. That video is retarded. Blame the federal reserve issue on Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernarke (both of which are jews, not christians) and the 9/11 on islamic Sunni terrorists, again they aren't christians. Also why the fuck did they compare Horus, the sun god to the son of god. Completely different, and how about all the other made up crap in that anti-jesus part. I don't care to call out all the mistakes, so i'll leave you with a video of someone who has just done that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMhkTBbgwwE&feature=channel_page

[Loki X Sho]

wrong videooo bud...I was talking about the Big Bang machine oneeeee...You dont have to watch it if you dont like it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHs7hu9hgKc
Thats one of five...but its worth watching if you have the time

[fannypack uprock]

if you've got an issue with the viewpoint on religion that zeitgeist delivers, the response video you posted isnt the way to go about it. just as they criticize the zeitgeist video for not citing sources and such, they themselves do not provide many. if you're going to try to 'debunk' a claim, you cant simply say "they are wrong because this is how it is." if they say its unfounded, present some foundation on your own claims. otherwise, why would anyone be any more apt to give credibility to one over the other?

im not saying i like one any more than the other. just my two cents.

[Loki X Sho]

I dont even wannnnna talk about zeitgeist today...my b for bringing it uppp..I wish I was sleeping honestly. and plus...I just love the intro...Explosions and wack animations..I accept everything, my mind is a sponge Im sorrrrrry. lol...

http://www.nightskyinfo.com/solar_eclipses/eclipse_nso.jpg
my favewitttt

[fannypack uprock]

it shouldnt be in this thread anyway.

[Loki X Sho]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525695,00.html


That would be pretty cool to see

[STUTERS-DAILY]

anybody get a chance to see the perseids meteor shower? i think it was sometime last week or two weeks ago, i didnt stay up late enough but i wish i had..

[FuLa]

you are all tools of satan himself... Our lord and his son live in the firmament, nothing else. these things you post were put up there by God himself to test your faith in his one and only son. Same as dinosour bones, you are all becoming the tools of the devil by spreading his hate and not acknowledging that the world is only 3000 years old. May the lord have mercy on your all's souls.


just kidding, BUT I've actually been told things like that by crazy religious people before....I love this shit.

loki x sho...crop circles are done today, they might symbolize something, just like any piece of artwork.. but it's people today who are doing them, you could go out and do them yourself if you had the time and wanted to..they're nothing ancient or extraterrestrial...(unlike the nazca lines in Peru)

^stuters-daily....I did...I didn't even know it was coming but I was skinny dipping a lot that week in a lake and caught at least 20+...good stuff

[LeaksOne]

one thing thats kind of annoying is im smarter then my sister and they dont believe that some of the stars in the sky may in fact be planets.

ive seen a special on nat geo where they had people do crop circles over night to test if it was possible to do in one night they they made a pretty convincing one. just googled the nazca lines and those are pretty scary if i say so myself.

[Proper]

Rigel, illuminating the Witch Head Nebula.
http://starmatt.com/gallery/astro/witch.jpg

[Proper]

Close-up of the Witch Head Nebula.
http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/apod/image/0612/ic2118_dss_big.jpg

Too big to post as a picture.

[C H E N Z O]

once again .. i tried to get a similar sort of thread approved at the opening of the Large Hardon Collider. naw. that got dingied. buuttt nooo big properlish gets his. ppffftttt.

its all fuckin politics here.

ill come back on tomorrow n post somethin good n positive n contribute to this thread tho.

[Proper]

once again .. i tried to get a similar sort of thread approved at the opening of the Large Hardon Collider. naw. that got dingied. buuttt nooo big properlish gets his. ppffftttt.

its all fuckin politics here.

ill come back on tomorrow n post somethin good n positive n contribute to this thread tho.

I never saw it, cuh. I love the universe, I would have opened that sucker in a second.

[fannypack uprock]

I love the universe

http://api.ning.com/files/xf5gGk8YQ7gzprwLijH65eegaOPzOUVMfnnbcOqcY0V6YQVNef x5AmONx5gymJY2sjR9RYi61gGf*CC4LkAexs7HWhjS0YMz/hippy.jpg






jay kay. i know what you mean. just sounded funny.

[-Empty-Can-]

ive seen a special on nat geo where they had people do crop circles over night to test if it was possible to do in one night they they made a pretty convincing one. just googled the nazca lines and those are pretty scary if i say so myself.

I seen that before too.

I just searched the nazca lines too. Those are sweet. amazing how these ancient civilizations could do this without modern technology.

[Proper]

http://api.ning.com/files/xf5gGk8YQ7gzprwLijH65eegaOPzOUVMfnnbcOqcY0V6YQVNef x5AmONx5gymJY2sjR9RYi61gGf*CC4LkAexs7HWhjS0YMz/hippy.jpg






jay kay. i know what you mean. just sounded funny.

That's the nicest thing anyone has called me on BS. <333.

[PRIMEape]

this is a really cool thread. i love space, its a big inspiration for my personal art work.
also one of my favorite things to do is to get on my roof at night, smoke a bowl, put my headphones and tune out while staring into space. one time i saw a shooting star go by right after i finished the bowl, it was intense

[DestroyLA]

i always found this video nuts
really puts the size of the known universe into perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGxRWCmwSDE

at the end it starts talking about a divine creator and thats up to you to decide...
but ignoring that....its a great demonstration
mind blowingthats how big my penis is.

[anti-anti-crime]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw

old, but awesome.

[drOping]

in 2012 the planets don't align...it will be a galactic equinox, the soloar system will be passing through the most intense gravitational area of the galaxy... youtube it or someshit

[Spraycan Stories]

I cant find the full documentary, but this is an interesting part that has been put on the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KoR2t-iM9k

[SAID]

My friends friend dropped everything cause he seriously thinks its all gonna go down in 2012. Coke, speed, e every single night, beer, hard shit hookers wakes up on the street and shit tells everyone to fuck off, fights, prison all that shit blah blah it goes on..

[Mr yarbles]

Fuck that
If I was afraid of 2012 I'd start doing as many drugs as I could.

[SAID]

Exactly what hes doing..
Heroin, crack..

[Mr yarbles]

Ohh haha sorry I read that completely wrong
I thought they were trying to turn their lives around or something
BUt shit what if 2012 dosn't go down
Then they're just gonna have a shitload of problems.

[Proper]

Being afraid of death is pointless. Live your life, only the way you want to live and then cease to exist.

The Size of Our World (http://sizeofworldse.ytmnd.com/) - pretty cool video. VY Canis Majoris is fucking huge and in our own galaxy.

[-Empty-Can-]

^^ yeah man I used to always think about it. I dont as much but its pretty scary to think about it.

This thread needs some more pics.

[Proper]

^^ yeah man I used to always think about it. I dont as much but its pretty scary to think about it.

This thread needs some more pics.

The thought of never being able to feel, see, taste, touch, and hear anything ever again is intimidating. I agree.

Here's a scale of our Sun compared to VY Canis Majoris. [The largest star in the known universe. Also located in our galaxy.]
http://whatdoyoucare.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/sizeofworld.jpg

[Mr yarbles]

Proper you seem like the kind of guy I'd talk to in real life
I always like having discussions on this type of stuff
But everyone around here is just kinda dumb.

Idk I've come to terms that when you die you die
There's nothing after.
I feel like it's a joke to tell my self something else.
I think the thing I struggle most with is knowing how to live my life

[-Empty-Can-]

http://www.spacedaily.com/images/universe-galactic-distribution-desk.jpg

http://activistchat.com/images/HowBigAreWe.jpg

How big we are.

[Bombing With Insurance]

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/2012-no-killer-solar-flare/

[SAID]

Ohh haha sorry I read that completely wrong
I thought they were trying to turn their lives around or something
BUt shit what if 2012 dosn't go down
Then they're just gonna have a shitload of problems.

WORDD
hes just spending hard earned money on everything man shits fuckeddddd up

[Proper]

Proper you seem like the kind of guy I'd talk to in real life
I always like having discussions on this type of stuff
But everyone around here is just kinda dumb.

Idk I've come to terms that when you die you die
There's nothing after.
I feel like it's a joke to tell my self something else.
I think the thing I struggle most with is knowing how to live my life

Thanks man. I love talking about the universe and life to my friends and family but they don't share my fascination so they tend to lose interest, rather quickly.

About after life: I'm still stuck on neutral grounds. I want to believe there's more after we die because it would be fantastic to live an eternal life but I also realize how slim the possibility of that is. On the other hand, if we truly are the only intelligent life form in the universe, there very well could be a creator.

I don't understand anything enough to definitively say "there is no God" or "there is a God."

[-Empty-Can-]

On the other hand, if we truly are the only intelligent life form in the universe, there very well could be a creator.

Thats what I believe. We are the only life form because why would god make tons of different planets with different people and get people to follow the same religion or something. It would be amazing if there were other life forms. But in a religious point of view i dont think there should be.

[SAID]

I totally believe in reincarnation.
I believe that I have onced lived long long time ago and that my soul was worthy enough to live again, and is still worthy to reincarnate and live on in many ages. Maybe not this planet, maybe not this realm, but I truly believe Ill live again.
As far as God goes, Im neutral also.

[Proper]

Thats what I believe. We are the only life form because why would god make tons of different planets with different people and get people to follow the same religion or something. It would be amazing if there were other life forms. But in a religious point of view i dont think there should be.

This is why I tend to keep an open mind. I want to be able to make my own decisions on what I firmly believe, whether others disagree.

Reincarnation is really hard for me to believe and understand. Possibly because I never really paid much attention to it.

[SAID]

To believe in reincarnation, or pretty much any beliefs, you really have to put your mind to it. I can't really explain it, but if it seems possible in your mind with the exceptions of the couple of doubts that the human body cannot avoid making, then stick to it and research theories and such..

[Proper]

V838 Monocerotis compared to the Firefox logo.
http://img2.wiredvision.jp/news/200804/2008041419-1.jpg

[Mr yarbles]

I totally believe in reincarnation.
I believe that I have onced lived long long time ago and that my soul was worthy enough to live again, and is still worthy to reincarnate and live on in many ages. Maybe not this planet, maybe not this realm, but I truly believe Ill live again.
As far as God goes, Im neutral also.

I slightly believe in reincarnation But I often wonder if I'm just setting myself up because I can't deal with nothingness.
I do kind of have the belief that energy can be transfered and that kind of thing so maybe our energies are transfered.
Alot of times I think maybe our body is just protecting our energy

I don't believe in a god so much.
How can something so powerful be present, yet so many things go on where you wonder why the fuck didn't he step in
WHy do so many prayers go unanswered?
Things like that.

[Thrice]

When you try to think how little we are in our own galaxy makes you rethink the term Micro.

[Proper]

I don't believe in a god so much.
How can something so powerful be present, yet so many things go on where you wonder why the fuck didn't he step in
WHy do so many prayers go unanswered?
Things like that.

Being raised Catholic, you are thought that God gave humans "freedom." Freedom to chose their own lives and believe what their minds want to believe and because of this, God will not interfere in our daily lives. You are given the Ten Commandments as God's only interference in our humanly lives.

Now, I don't know how much truth is in this but this is what Catholics are told in religious learning classes.

Anyway, this is a universe thread and I will continue to post random pictures for everyone's knowledge.

LBV 1806-20 - possibly the brightest star in the known universe. It has a variable luminosity of up to 5 million times greater than our own Sun's.
http://esoriano.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/lbv.jpg

[Proper]

When you try to think how little we are in our own galaxy makes you rethink the term Micro.

I don't know if I misunderstood this but while I was watching a strings theory program, they proposed a scale to make you understand just how small a "string" really is. There example was if you scale an atom as our sun, a string would be the size of a human!

I hope that makes sense...:confused:

[La Coka Nostra]

maybe all the galaxies in our universe just make up something way bigger.
can you imagine?

[Thrice]

^Yeah i know what you mean, strings travel on the 11th dimension or something, been a little rusty on my string theory. Hyperspace gravity was kinda mind boggling. Not trying to push the God envelope here but something cool to think about on your perspective of life in our universe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zidVyQe7NCo&feature=channel_page

[Proper]

maybe all the galaxies in our universe just make up something way bigger.
can you imagine?

What if, a black hole transferred you to another universe? A little extreme but I can imagine. The possibilities are endless!

[La Coka Nostra]

pretty sure a black hole would just kill you, but your idea's cool too!
:)

[Spraycan Stories]

What if, a black hole transferred you to another universe? A little extreme but I can imagine. The possibilities are endless!

I always thought of that, if we discover how to get to a black whole i would be willing to give my life to see what happens when you go into it directly.

[Proper]

Haha, way to lay me down gently.

I always thought of that, if we discover how to get to a black whole i would be willing to give my life to see what happens when you go into it directly.
Kamikaze style!

[Thrice]

Wormhole, or basically parallel black holes i believe. Some guy claims to have fallen in one and met himself in the future.
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL3hBX27-7o

[Proper]

Wormhole, or basically parallel black holes i believe. Some guy claims to have fallen in one and met himself in the future.
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL3hBX27-7o
I am bummed that there aren't futuristic buildings or landmarks in the background. :(

[Thrice]

Hubble Telescope images
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/48356main_MM_Image_Feature_79_rs4.jpg
http://www.photopumpkin.com/wp-content/uploads/hubble-space-telescope-4.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/img/galleries/hubble/NO8_350x312.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OJl6ATsGFco/Rxe_BBvErGI/AAAAAAAAB8Y/zsk93qj3Elo/s320/Death_star1.png

[Mr yarbles]

I lol'd

[Proper]

The Triangulum Emission Garren Nebula
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l348FedSjGU/Sn8W4TKUbXI/AAAAAAAAEN8/Wsrd0-KOUDo/s320/The+Triangulum+Emission+Garren+Nebula.jpg

The Flame Nebula
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Ngc2024_2mass.jpg

The Omega Nebula
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Omega_Nebula.jpg/739px-Omega_Nebula.jpg

The Cat's Eye Nebula
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/NGC6543.jpg

The Red Rectangle Nebula
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/PIA04533.jpg

[Thrice]

They infamous "eye of god"
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/wp-content/eye-of-god.jpg

[Proper]

The hand of God?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/images/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo_big.jpg

One upped. ;)

[Thrice]

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/touchingthevoid460.jpg
heh, it was worth a try....

Kudos to Jupiter, once again jupiter got our back.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/touchingthevoid460.jpg

Jupiter took another bullet for us, many meteors that were on path to hit and destroy Earth were interfered by jupiter.

[Spraycan Stories]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnwZmWoymeI

Who knows?

[El Chupacabre]

What if, a black hole transferred you to another universe? A little extreme but I can imagine. The possibilities are endless!

once again, this is a worm hole. I believe worm holes can connect universes.

[Thrice]

They can take you to the other end of our universe, a sort of shortcut if you will, but not sure they can take you from universe to another.

[Kayone707]

what the fuck is this topic? "google space images"

sheeeet son.
i might as well play

Horse head nebula
http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/cetinbal/KO/HorseheadDETAIL.jpg


on another note.... best 'space movie' ever
http://www.impawards.com/2005/posters/hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy.jpg
http://gingerhypo.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-the-20050113043117430.jpg

[thedudeman]

finally we have a thread like this! anybody watch the universe?? i forgot what channel i think like nat geo or discovery or sumthin but yea i love that show.. i love this sort of thing especially when youre with 2 or 3 friends after a session..

[ESKids]

this should be stickied for how well its been takeing offhttp://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z257/lady_selena/zrfgxh.jpg

[Kayone707]

this should be stickied for how well its been takeing off

Nagga is u high?

[El Chupacabre]

hahaha, u no it!

[-Empty-Can-]

Kinda late but I think reincarnation couldbe possible. I think you would become an animal rather than a human again. but since animals dont think in words like we do we would have no idea that we were a human before. I still dont believe in it but thats what i think.

Im really not sure what to think about wormholes. To me it seems hard to understand. If its like a tunnel that can take you to different universe then how would they be connected? They cant be side by side because you can observe around the worm hole. These things are amazing.

post flix

http://www.cosmos4kids.com/misc/photos/saturnplan2.jpg
saturn
http://www.personal.psu.edu/cmc418/Titan%20big.JPG
titan
http://www.astrosurf.org/luxorion/Sciences/black-hole-star.jpg
black hole taking in a star
http://www.gweep.net/~jedi/pmwiki/pub/skins/monobook/black_hole_lores1280.jpg
black hole

[sux_OT]

Big thread

[Thrice]

Not sure how parallel or worm holes connect to each other but they can be shortcuts to the other side of the universe. We live in a 3 spatial Dimensional world, but there are 7 other spatial dimensions in our universe, so our perspective and out look on the universe is limited. It's like a 2D figure on a sphere trying to get to the middle/core, but it can only move on the surface.

[-Empty-Can-]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090826/ap_on_sc/us_sci_suicidal_planet

[Thrice]

^Read about that, pretty interesting. Although I usually avoid science related articles from Yahoo because they exaggerate or take things out of context. NY Times has good science articles.

[Proper]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090826/ap_on_sc/us_sci_suicidal_planet

Thanks for the article. Great read.

[Proper]

My thread shall not die!

Pelican Nebula.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/22/pelican_nebula.jpg

Hourglass Nebula.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/MyCn18-crop.png

Boomerang Nebula.
http://www.godandscience.org/images/boomerangnebula.jpg

[Proper]

Rosette Nebula! It's fucking legit as shit.
http://chrislintott.net/wpress/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/rosette_nebula_s.jpg

[Thrice]

Eye of mordor in space?^^
http://www.tolkien-online.com/images/eyeofsauron.jpg

[Proper]

Yeah, it's impressive! It's definitely my favorite thus far.

Rosetta Nebula Lanoue
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Rosette_nebula_Lanoue.png

[Loki X Sho]

i always observe human behavior...
isnt it weird how were all just random creatures lost in space lol

[Proper]

NGC 6302
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3056/22088126.jpg

[-Empty-Can-]

http://www.star.ac.za/graphics/n11lmc_noao.jpg
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/April%20space%20pic%20NASA.jpg
http://rosenblumtv.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/hubble-space-telescope-crab-nebula-2.jpg
Crab Nebula
http://thetechies.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/wormhole_graphic.jpg
Something about wormholes
http://www.gearlog.com/NASA_Black_Hole.jpg
Black Hole

[Loki X Sho]

my heart is a black hole

[Thrice]

Check out Blazars and Super-Massive black holes that are at the center of all galaxies.

[Proper]

Blazars? What an odd name.

Neutrino's are pretty interesting as well. Hundreds of million pass by and through us every second.

[Loki X Sho]

we = creatures lost in space.
Bombing science is made by lonely planetary space creatures who are capable of comprehending symbols and situations....I hate us....but I still love pra

http://i26.tinypic.com/i5ygw6.png

[plumbererer]

my heart is a black hole

LOLOLOL I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. post something worthwhile for once.

[theorist]

haha anyone happen to catch NOVA on KPBS on Tuesday? im pretty sure it was an old episode but it was about the massive black whole at the center of the milky way and how they discovered that black holes will have short periods of time where they spew out energy but, this only happens like once every some billion years.

[caoxueer1r]

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　　Thatching is in fact the oldest of all the building crafts practiced in the British Isles（英论诸岛）. Although thatch has always been used for cottage and farm buildings, it was once used for castles and churches, too.　　
　　Thatching is a solitary（独自的）craft, which often runs in families. The craft of thatching as it is practiced toady has changed very little since the Middle Ages. Over 800 full-time thatchers are employed in England and Wales today, maintaining and renewing the old roofs as well as thatching newer houses. Many Atlantica power leveling (http://www.atlanticagoldsale.com/powerleveling.asp),property owners choose thatch not only for its beauty but because they know it will keep them cool in summer and warm in winter.
　　In fact, if we look at developing countries, over half the world lives under thatch, but they all do it in different ways. People in developing countries are often reluctant to go back to traditional materials and would prefer modern buildings. However, they may lack the money to allow them to import the necessary materials.Dofus Kamas (http://www.topdofus.com), Their temporary mud huts with thatched roofs of wild grasses often only last six months.Thatch which has been done the British way lasts from twenty to sixty years, and is an effective defiance against the heatThe researcher organized an experimental tournament（锦标赛）involving four youth teams. Each match lasted an hour， divided into three periods of 20 minutes during which different referees were in charge.
ffxi gil (http://www.ffxi-gil-store.com),
Observers noted down the referees’ errors， of which there were 61 over the tournament. Converted to a standard match of 90 minutes， each referee made almost 23 mistakes， a remarkably high number.

The researcher then studied the videotapes to analyse the matches in detail. Surprisingly， he found that errors were more likely when the referees were close to the incident. When the officials got it right， they were， on average， 17 meters away from rohan crone (http://www.rohancrone.com),the action. The average distance in the case of errors was 12 meters. The research shows the optimum（最佳的）distance is about 20 meters.

There also seemed to be an optimum speed. Correct decisions came when the referees were moving at a speed of about 2 meters per second. The average speed for errors was 4 meters per second.
9Dragons Gold (http://www.9Dgolds.com),
If FIFA， football’s international ruling body，wants to improve the standard of refereeing at the next World Cup， it should encourage referees to keep their eyes on the action from a distance， rather than rushing to keep up with the ball， the researcher argues.
world of warcraft power leveling (http://www.levelingshop.com/Wow_Power_Leveling.html),
He also says that FIFA’s insistence that referees should retire at age 45 may be misguided. If keeping up with the action is not so important， their physical condition is less critical.

Thatching is a solitarycraft,

[Proper]

Someone delete that ^ from my beautiful thread!

[Loki X Sho]

second that...
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/glowing-sun-sun-prominence-ga.jpg
ahhh, the sun.
(interesting, but I still hate the light!)

[iselldope]

if there wasn't a sun we would freeze to death so we would be fucked without the sun.

[Loki X Sho]

nahhh for reals..I thought the earth would continue to prosper.
haha, I just hate heat. Cold n dark is my thing man

[Proper]

if there wasn't a sun we would freeze to death so we would be fucked without the sun.
Someone please remove this fucking tool from my thread.

[Tony]

why dont you?




oh, right

[Proper]

Shut the fuck up Slushi. Aren't there any roofs in need of roofing?

[Proper]

Good for you?

Good edit :)

[DoctorOfCrime]

I hope the world does end in 2012. I want every one to die. I like this forum because there are people who agree with me on it. Graffiti, Drink, Smoke weed, Dont sleep. Used to talk to another people fuck doing that shit only do it now when im buying or smoking other peoples weed. I just need a night job doing some thing so i can buy more weed and extra petrol for my car so if i need to get some out for jew burning i can.

[-Empty-Can-]

wat.

I 2nd that.

[Tony]

http://www.graphics.com/modules/Gallery/albums/album258/Dec2012jpg.sized.jpg

[Loki X Sho]

hahah thats an ill pic...

what if we're just a giant science experiment

[Vagrant]

what if souls are real, and are the 3rd dimension representation of something that exists in a higher dimension, possibly a sort of afterlife not necessarily divided into heaven/hell
similar to the thought of gravity, magnetism, etc. being effects on our 3rd dimension from a lower or higher dimension.
furthermore, considering other dimensions have effects on each other, what if all matter is connected to each other through these other dimensions, thus astrology and the placement of large bodies of mass (planets, stars) in our universe can have effects on us via the other dimensions?

[Loki X Sho]

No. You did not just say that. I always thought something like that..

[Vagrant]

srsly
the history channel has had a lot of space shows on lately and i started thinking about it

i've come up with a pretty in depth theory which works together several different ideas

[Loki X Sho]

"...the perceptible Universe exists as a cluster of clusters, irregularly disposed."
--Edgar Allen Poe

[Proper]

I'm going to post pictures of life because as far as we know it's the strangest "thing" in the universe, Earth being the only hostess planet.
http://www.ck-blog.com/.a/6a00d8341c71f853ef0115709635eb970b-300wi
http://very-bored.com/pics2/cuteanimals/cute-animals-1.JPG
http://www.vedicsciences.net/design/bacteria5.jpg

I hope that while I'm still alive we can discover life on other planets or moons. I would die a happy man.

[Loki X Sho]

you know pra, they found a specimen on Mars that has microscopic bacteria fossils, estimating that there may have been life mannnnnnnny years prior...i forgot how many.

http://i27.tinypic.com/akeqhf.png

[Proper]

If the universe is really infinite, then we haven't nor will we ever see that much.


http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/153212main_128-pad-425-2.jpg
Commander Rick "C.J" Sturckow, Pilot Kevin Ford and Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Jose Hernandez are seated on Discovery's flight deck this evening, while Danny Olivas, Christer Fuglesang and Nicole Stott are seated in their seats on the lower level or middeck. Radio checks are continuing for the crew while the countdown clicks down on schedule for a liftoff at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Technicians at the launch pad will soon close and latch the hatch on the side of Discovery. The crew can open the hatch from the inside during an emergency. While the preparations continue as planned, weather concerns remain, particularly for anvil clouds.


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

[Proper]

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/378367main_spitzer20090812-516.jpg
This composite image, combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the star-forming cloud Cepheus B, located in our Milky Way galaxy about 2,400 light years from Earth.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/spitzer-20090812.html

Nasa's website is pretty awesome, I must say.

[Mr yarbles]

My history teacher was telling us they found dinosour bones n shit on mars
When i tried to tell him he was wrong he got mad
Fuck teachers.

[Proper]

Hahaha, your teacher is a doucher.

[Mr yarbles]

It was so stupid he was like
Yeah they found mammoth bones on mars or something
I was like
I don't think that's what it was it was like bacteria
then he told me to be quiet and was being a dick all day.

But he did go to woodstock he even had pictures so I guess that makes him an alright guy

[Vagrant]

they found my bone on Mars







































it's that long

[Spraycan Stories]

This is pushing it a bit but, have you ever thought that all the dimensions, forces, and theories are not true because they are backed by numbers that the Human Race has created. So most knowledge is created and backed by each other. But then if UFO's are real the aliens cracked the code using their own numbers.
Or im just half retarded.

[thedudeman]

before i fell asleep last night i proved a scientific theorie wrong.. e=mc2 which basically means no matter can travel faster than light.. but yet there is another theorie that states that there is more matter/stars/planets outside our field of vision but we cannot see it because its light hasnt reached us yet(that means that its more then 14 billion light years away since the universe is 14 billion years old) but that is impossible because that would mean that the matter wouldve had to travel faster than light to get that far... so do i get like a nobel prize now??

[thedudeman]

http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/wp-content/eye-of-god.jpg
eye of god

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/images/090406-hand-pulsar-nebula-photo_big.jpg
hand of god

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/screen/heic0615a.jpg
penis of god???

both one upped!!
ba dum chh

[LeaksOne]

If the universe is really infinite, then we haven't nor will we ever see that much.

what if the universe isnt infinite?? what do you think would be beyond our universe? maybe another universe?? but i too would love to be alive when or if they find life anywhere else besides earth. i would be a happy little girl if they found intelligent life.

anybody else pumped for the new hubble goin out after this hubble is done? its goin past the moon and its guna have a larger lens for better zoom and better picture quality so were guna wee ALOT more pics of the universe.
and did anyone know that the universe andromeda ,i think is what its called, is gettin closer to the milky way

[Loki X Sho]

andromeda galaxy dear..and its kinda near us anyways...
but Im going to bed...too high to function <3 yous

[Proper]

before i fell asleep last night i proved a scientific theorie wrong.. e=mc2 which basically means no matter can travel faster than light.. but yet there is another theorie that states that there is more matter/stars/planets outside our field of vision but we cannot see it because its light hasnt reached us yet(that means that its more then 14 billion light years away since the universe is 14 billion years old) but that is impossible because that would mean that the matter wouldve had to travel faster than light to get that far... so do i get like a nobel prize now??

What the hell are you talking about honestly? I couldn't understand anything you were rambling about.

[LeaksOne]

yea i said that but its gettin closer despite the dark matter thats either pushing galaxies apart or expanding the universe. they say our universe could end in in like trillions and trillions of years but what would be after that? same thing all over?

[Proper]

It's dark energy that is expanding our universe, cuh.

It's eventually going to tear atoms, piece by piece. That's some serious hatred towards the universe, lol.

[LeaksOne]

lol you sure its energy? i coulda swore it was matter. time to pull out the astrology mags

[Proper]

In physical cosmology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_cosmology) and astronomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy), dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy) that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy#cite_note-peebles-0) Dark energy is the most popular way to explain recent observations that the universe appears to be expanding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space) at an accelerating rate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceleration_parameter).

Dark energy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy)

[LeaksOne]

dont be a dick about it :P wrong word but i know what i was talkin about

[DoctorOfCrime]

I hope the world blows up and every one on earth dies. But 24 hours before it blows up every one gets high on LSD. That would be awesome. Is there any other point of living life besides getting high ?

[Proper]

I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, just trying to correct you.

If you tune to the NASA channel, they're currently airing videos and information about the recent shuttle launch. They just had live footage from the International Space Station hovering over the Pacific Ocean. It was quite the sight!

[Proper]

I hope the world blows up and every one on earth dies. But 24 hours before it blows up every one gets high on LSD. That would be awesome. Is there any other point of living life besides getting high ?

Why hasn't someone banned this guy? GTFO of my topic, douche.

[LeaksOne]

the worlds not just guna blow up... its not packed with dynamite. if anything we will destroy ourselves along with natural disasters. the mega quake that may or may not happen but will hit the entire west coast predicted to be about 10 to 15 magnitude all the way up the coast or yellowstone that people predict will demolish everything west of yellowstone along with some parts to the east or possible mega tsunamis or asteroids all those are possible but the world just exploding without the help of nuclear bombs seems unlikely

[LeaksOne]

I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, just trying to correct you.

If you tune to the NASA channel, they're currently airing videos and information about the recent shuttle launch. They just had live footage from the International Space Station hovering over the Pacific Ocean. It was quite the sight!

i know i know i was playin. i try to watch universe videos on youtube....big mistake... everytime ill get good videos then they start progressing and progressing then im watchin a video about 2012 then conspiracy thoeries...pretty gay. im thinkin about gettin some universe podcasts for my ipod. portable knowledge eh :D

about that shuttle lauch..did you hear they are tryin to make ships powered by plasma to be able to have enough energy to actually leave this universe the only thing is if they get stuck out there then....well you know. but if they mastered that could you imagine the possiblities and new discoveries...man oh man

[Proper]

I don't see how that would be possible? I think you're referring to galaxies and not the universe, right? Well, traveling at the speed of light [186,000 miles per second] it would take 10,000 years [give or take] to exit our own galaxy.

That would be some fucking experiment.

[Proper]

Check out this video. It's a fucking trip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FON1IA14vXU&feature=related

Not to be taken serious.

[LeaksOne]

I don't see how that would be possible? I think you're referring to galaxies and not the universe, right? Well, traveling at the speed of light [186,000 miles per second] it would take 10,000 years [give or take] to exit our own galaxy.

That would be some fucking experiment.

fuck me. i keep gettin words wrong and switchin shit around. but you knew what i meant. i heard about it awhile ago and i duno if there still trying but it would be amazing if they mastered it and was able put enough energy in it to visit other galaxies and return home without obliterating the astronauts

[Proper]

The idea of sending astronauts to other galaxies is very outlandish. It would take hundreds and hundreds of years to exit our own galaxy traveling at the speed of light! Although interesting and ambitious, the idea is completely ludicrous. We should talk about sending other astronauts to the moon and possibly Mars before entertaining the idea of shipping off humans on a journey that wouldn't even be completed by those on board.

I don't even think we can travel at the speed of light, right? The article you read must have been satire.

[LeaksOne]

no they didnt specify im just thinkin shit. we cant travel at the speed of light. it would be best to put a cam on it. even to find out what else is in our own galaxy before searching other ones. i think the moon landing was staged. i saw some pretty convincing reasons on why it was staged.

[STUTERS-DAILY]

any of you guys though of dreams as another "reality",, or like a portal sorta into another dimension?? i find this interesting to think about.

leaks, care to share the reasons as to why you believe it was staged?
i havent done much research on that and wanna learn some about it

[LeaksOne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories

this article is contradicting due to someone trying to prove they really did land there. i think if they really landed there they should be able to do it again with no problem. and out of ALL the apollos they lost the data to apollo 11.....41 tapes and they record over them... who the fuck would purposely record over something so ground breaking? i think they have one tape and its the one everyones seen. but its not convincing to me. everyone has there own opinions though so dont go off my word

[Vagrant]

Moon conspiracy theories are interesting, but completely bullocks.
We absolutely landed on the moon. Proof?
On one of the missions they placed mirrors on the surface of the moon, and using high power lazorz on earth, they aim at the mirrors on the moon and reflect the beam back.
They do this to measure the distance between the moon and earth, which is slowly getting bigger.

There's your proof. Conspiracy shattered.

Most of the claims within the moon landing conspiracy don't hold up when you really examine them anyways.

For instance, some claim that in pictures, shadows go in different directions proving more than one light source, which means studio.
They have no idea what they're talking about.
If there is more than one light source, there will be more than one shadow cast off a single object.
All objects have one shadow. One light source.
They only go in different directions because of the topography of the land they are cast on.

The moon conspiracy theory is based on ridiculous claims and assumptions by people who have no education on the things they are talking about. They would rather believe many stories that dumb down the geniuses at nasa, and demonize the politicians in government, all based off shoddy evidence that is collected only to prove their point.

PS: Dark Matter was invented, out of the blue, by theoretical physicists, because they honestly have no idea why the universe acts the way it does.

[Vagrant]

Stdp

Furthermore, it's claimed that the entire vehicle (lander and LIM) only had the computational power of a small calculator, thus making the journey impossible.

This makes perfect sence. Space rockets are extremely expensive. The more weight you have, the more rocket fuel you need, equals more weight, equals more fuel just to lift the fuel.
They needed to make the craft as light as possible. To so all the computaions were done on earth.
Besides, the astronauts weren't qualified to make the computations anyways. They were just there to push certain buttons and be passengers.
They were there to walk on the moon, not get there.
We already got to the moon several times before sending men.

[vegimite on toast]

The idea of sending astronauts to other galaxies is very outlandish. It would take hundreds and hundreds of years to exit our own galaxy traveling at the speed of light! Although interesting and ambitious, the idea is completely ludicrous. We should talk about sending other astronauts to the moon and possibly Mars before entertaining the idea of shipping off humans on a journey that wouldn't even be completed by those on board.

I don't even think we can travel at the speed of light, right? The article you read must have been satire.

its impossible to travel at the speed of light
apparently time slows down the closer you get to the speed of light
so if you traveled at 99% of the speed of light for say 5 years and returned to earth, some thousands of years would have passed...
this is relativity...and im not pretending that i understand it properly but it is some crazy shit

if you are interested in it this is a good article that trys to explain it as simply as possible
http://www.costellospaceart.com/html/time_and_the_speed_of_light.html

[bountyhunter113]

psssh, once we figure out how to use wormholes then we can go to other galaxies ez

[Vagrant]

Go jump in and tell me how it goes...

If wormholes actually do connect to another part of the universe through the fabric of space, then it could take millions of years to find out. We would have to wait for the signal from whatever got sent in to reach all the way back to the start point IF it did pop up somewhere else in the universe.
But there's no telling where the wormhole would go, if it did go somewhere.
I think the wormhole is just a really really massive object in a single point.
Like proper's mom's ass.

[anti-anti-crime]

Zing!

[Mr yarbles]

That joke was set up perfectly vag
5/5

About the moon conspiracy
I think people just love to try and disprove things
They strive for that kind of stuff
Just like with 9/11 or anything else
All theyw ant to do is question it cus they've got nothing better to do.

[Proper]

its impossible to travel at the speed of light
apparently time slows down the closer you get to the speed of light
so if you traveled at 99% of the speed of light for say 5 years and returned to earth, some thousands of years would have passed...
this is relativity...and im not pretending that i understand it properly but it is some crazy shit

if you are interested in it this is a good article that trys to explain it as simply as possible
http://www.costellospaceart.com/html/time_and_the_speed_of_light.html

I heard something like this but couldn't really rely on that because I didn't have any sources to back up the claim.

If that's the case, once we figure out how to travel at the speed of light, we've essentially figured out how to make time stand still [almost].

[sketch3]

i got get time to stop in its tracks with a penny if it was a jew

[Spraycan Stories]

So the speed of light is the speed of time?

[thedudeman]

i still dont understand that theory.. just because i go fast doesnt mean time slows... if i went to the sun and back traveling the speed of light it would take me 8 minutes to get their and 8 minutes back... the earth would say i was gone for 16 minutes and i would also say i was gone 16 minutes... this theory isnt clicking with me.. i dont think speed and time have anything to do with eachother..

[vegimite on toast]

yeah well if you don't understand it, it can't possibly be credible
thanks dudeman

i hate to be one of those people who just posts links to wikipedia pages to try and back up something they're saying, but the truth is i don't feel educated enough to explain the theory anyway....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele-Keating_experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox)

this might help you a bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2VMO7pcWhg

i don't understand it entirely either...
it may be hard to get your head around, cause it sounds like complete fiction...but that doesn't mean that it is
all it means is that there's people out there a hell of a lot smarter than me and you

i guess trying to explain this is like trying to tell a 14th century pope that earth isn't the centre of the universe
regardless of whether you actually understand it, some pretty credible people agree with it, and in the end its a pretty cool idea to think about....
time travel...backed up by science

[thedudeman]

i understand that it does work.. i just dont understand why. all the research ive done always talks about light being relative which i can totally understand.. i just dont get why or how time can be relative. i guess i just have to keep at it until i can finally understand...

[Loki X Sho]

whatever.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/CxEMM_SITE/index.html
Fun

[Proper]

You frequent the NASA website?

[Loki X Sho]

and the channel.

[Proper]

Nice.

I've been putting on the [NASA] channel and looking at the videos from the International Space Station before I go to sleep. Since there isn't much talking, I can just relax with my music and stare at our oceans through our eyes in space.

It's sweet.

[Vagrant]

i used to watch the nasa channel all the time when i had satellite tv.
i don't get that channel any more with my basic cable package

[Loki X Sho]

mission kepler....our little planet hunter. Its capable of detecting earth like planets...

[Thrice]

^Namek anybody?

[drOping]

I was reading this book that is Called Fabric of the Cosmos:Space, Time, and the texture of reality. It talked alot about spacetime...they refer to this as one single thing. Instead of thinking about just one or the other think of them as an interwoven fabric that greatly influence each other. An example that helps me understand it is this:

Think of space being an arrow pointing north, and time being an arrow pointing east. If we were traveling at the speed of light we would pretty much be traveling on that arrow pointing north, therefor we would bairly be moving east at all (maybe a tiny fraction) so essentailly time would be standing still (our time). But since we are traveling no where close to the speed of light in our everday lives, I like to think that we are traveling between the to arrows, but mostly east. Lets just say NorthEastEastEast. So we are moving mostly on that time arrow, but a little on the space one.

The book is crazy..and i have not yet finished it. But it also brings up a point somewhere on the lines of this...try to stay with me...i dont even fully understand what im about to say but its something i think about...but blah here it is.

So what is the present? is it like a nanosecond in time (or perhaphs even smaller...so small we cant even measure it). Lets say that chewbacca is in another galaxy far away...but hes cutting lawns everyday like i do. so were pushing a lawn mower at the same time right? but since he is so far away it's like he is back in time, and vica versa, to him, I am back in time. Since even traveling at the speed of light would take thousands(or millions) of years for our eyeballs to even see wtf is going on. So its like were doing shit at the same time...but we are so far away, that we are both in the past to each other ya know? so therefore space and time must be related.

But think about this...what is actually happening right now? I feel that what is actually happening right now, is only relevent to me. I'm taking the same concept i talked about with chewbacca or stars being really far away and bringing it down to an earth level. You look at a streetlight (turning on) that is really far away...it still takes time for the light to reach your eye doesn't it? So isn't the street light flicking on...in the past while you are in the present?

the farther away something is...the farther back in time it is (essentially). So you can't see the present? I say essentially because, yes things can be happening in the present at the same time...but who could see it?)

I like to think of time as like a force field around me, and the present is a microscopic point in my brain. It spreads out in all directions from my body to the universe. Since we are all on earth, and really we cant distinguish the speed of light, it is almost the same as thinking about time being a force field around earth instead of my brain. (since hey what difference does it make if the point of the present is the size of the earth or a microscopic point in my brain...its still smalll as FUCK)

What about two people who were born the same day and died the same day...one turned out to be a jet pilot, the other a 9-5 desk job. Lets say they pilot travels possibly hundreds of thousands more miles in his lifetime then the other guy. Would he be traveling through more space and less time? I think essentially yes in my opinion. So would the pilot have essentially lived a longer life in the same period of time?

I don't think clocks represent time well....for our tiny little earth lives yes...but universally no. I try to make my time on this world more valuable by realizing how crazy time is, and by getting out and exploring the world while others sit on there ass.

[El Chupacabre]

tl;dr

[-Empty-Can-]

I don't think that we'll ever be able to understand the universe. Even if we could travel faster that the speed of light, it still is impossible to explorer the whole universe. No human would ever be able to go to different universes unless scientists created something that made people live hundreds of thousands of years we wont go very far. We can barely make it to Mars. If the universe is infinite, we could never find out.

Lets say that a space ship did reach the end of the universe. You wont rip through it like a piece of paper. I think it would almost be like getting stuck. You wouldn't be traveling any distance but it would look as if you just stopped moving. Kind of like the universe is one big mirror.

I think the theory about how time slows down when traveling at the speed of light is true Were moving so fast it seems as time slows down. Almost like when your driving next to a car on the highway and you look at the wheel and it looks like it is moving half the speed.

[Loki X Sho]

read about the kepler mission.

and i read about mars recently...it would take 6 months to get there, they would stay until the end of rotation, and then when earth and mars are to be aligned, they leave...6 months home. All in all a 2.5 year mission.

[EST2007]

I don't think that we'll ever be able to understand the universe. Even if we could travel faster that the speed of light, it still is impossible to explorer the whole universe. No human would ever be able to go to different universes unless scientists created something that made people live hundreds of thousands of years we wont go very far. We can barely make it to Mars. If the universe is infinite, we could never find out.

faster than the speed of light is impossible, keep in mind that once an item approaches the speed of light, the mass of that item increases infinitely.

[-Empty-Can-]

^Yea. And once your at the speed of light, anything faster is still slow.

Example: Speed of Light 186,000mph Now when another object travels at the speed of light right next to it. They're going 0. Now if one object speeds up. Lets say to 190,000mhp. Now really its only going 4,000mph because its only 4,000mph faster than the speed of light.

(Sorry if my units are off or my example sucks)

[EST2007]

^Yea. And once your at the speed of light, anything faster is still slow.

Example: Speed of Light 186,000mph Now when another object travels at the speed of light right next to it. They're going 0. Now if one object speeds up. Lets say to 190,000mhp. Now really its only going 4,000mph because its only 4,000mph faster than the speed of light.

(Sorry if my units are off or my example sucks)
but since it's impossible to reach the speed of light, everything you just said has no basis

[-Empty-Can-]

^^true

It would be amazing if we could reach the speed of light. Space travel would be much quicker and humans would be able to explorer wayyy more.

I thought that one particle accelerator could reach speeds close to the speed of light?

[Mr yarbles]

Even going the speed of light there's still mad shit we couldn't reach
That trips me out a bit

[ESKiMO2]

^^true

It would be amazing if we could reach the speed of light. Space travel would be much quicker and humans would be able to explorer wayyy more.

I thought that one particle accelerator could reach speeds close to the speed of light?

Well, the only way a particle can be moved even slightly slower than the speed of light needs to have little to no mass. So, it's really unreasonable to think humans will ever be able to do that.

[La Coka Nostra]

all this is proof that aliens are real as fuck.

[El Chupacabre]

truth^

[Vagrant]

The odds are astronomically against aliens not existing.

I believe the current definition of the shape of the universe is that it is "Finite, yet boundless"
meaning it has a definite limited area, but doesn't ever end, rather just curves back on itself.
Much like walking around the earth.
The earth is limited, yet you could walk in one direction forever.

[Proper]

Wow, the conversation in this thread is fucking lame. Thread killers.

I "googled" "awesome space pictures" and so I will share my findings:
http://static.desktopnexus.com/wallpapers/24943-bigthumbnail.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3268/2709283401_a71264814c_o.jpg
http://www.ig-headquarters.com/Green%20Aurora.jpg
Their invading!
http://julien.danjou.info/blog/public/img/awesome/invaders_2cjm.png

[Thrice]

http://www.allposters.com/-st/Astronomy-Posters_c6644_.htm

Dope stuff^

[jaketherake94]

Anyone think this 2012 thing is gonna go down?
I havea friend who talks about the shit all the fucking time, but he actually got me thinking

i doubt it how the hell would mayans or aztecs or whoever they were, how would they be able to predict that

[Vagrant]

research the topic...

it's not a prediction
it's a calculation

[MAST]

and it's technically not supposed to be the end of the world. it could be anything phenomenally significant and transformative. no telling.

[-Empty-Can-]

I dont believe in that shit. I think the mayan calender ends because they fucking dissapeared. They dont know what happened to them so maybe they didnt have time to finish their calender.

[Vagrant]

I find it hilarious how nobody understands why old native civilizations just disappear.

[Proper]

Blazars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasar)
http://setterfield.org/ZPE-Plasma_model_clip_image002_0004.jpg
http://www.bu.edu/blazars/bllac_files/bllac_highres.jpg


Quasars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar)
http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/quasar-by-don-dixon.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/200159main_rs_image_feature_805_946x710.jpg

[Proper]

That last picture is so win.

[vegimite on toast]

One theory is the mayans killed themselves thru their own stupidity.
They used to throw the bodies of those they sacrificed into the cenotes, which are bodies of water linked underground and have holes penetrating the surface.
They'd throw dead bodies into one cenote and use another for their source of water, obviously since they're are linked underground their water source became poisoned.
I'm sorry but if a civilization can't work out that the water from cenotes is linked and not separate you think they're gonna be able to calculate the end of the world? Motherfuckers believed in giant snake gods...cmon.


.....subtle, anonymous, rap hippopotamus,milk homogenous, deeper than a pit that's bottomless...
the knowledge to see usss you must be an astrologist
stars quasars sirus synonymous

[Loki X Sho]

http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/image/0811/hr8799_keck_big.jpg

130 light years away...a sun way larger than ours...3 planets orbiting. Planet d has a rotation time somewhat similar to our Neptune, and each planet is several times larger than our Jupiter.

http://www.planetary.org/exoplanets/images/animations/HR8799.gif

[vegimite on toast]

They've discovered just under 400 extrasolar planets so far...

[vegimite on toast]

Here's something to chew on...

In 1961, University of California, Santa Cruz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Cruz) astronomer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer) and astrophysicist Dr. Frank Drake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Drake) devised the Drake equation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation). This controversial equation multiplied estimates of the following terms together:


The rate of formation of suitable stars.
The fraction of those stars which contain planets.
The number of Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth)-like worlds per planetary system.
The fraction of planets where intelligent life develops.
The fraction of possible communicative planets.
The "lifetime" of possible communicative civilizations.

Drake used the equation to estimate that there are approximately 10,000 planets containing intelligent life, with the possible capability of communicating with Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth) in the Milky Way (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way) galaxy.[29] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life#cite_note-28)
Based on observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, there are at least 125 billion galaxies in the universe. It is estimated that at least ten percent of all sun-like stars have a system of planets[30] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life#cite_note-marcyprogth05-29), there are 6.25*1018 stars with planets orbiting them in the universe. If even a billionth of these stars have planets supporting life, there are some 6.25 billion life-supporting solar systems in the universe.

I wonder if jesus visited those planets too...

[SALVO]

.....subtle, anonymous, rap hippopotamus,milk homogenous, deeper than a pit that's bottomless...
the knowledge to see usss you must be an astrologist
stars quasars sirus synonymous


Whoa dude this blew my mind!

[vegimite on toast]

maybe you were just stoned at the time salvo hahaha

[diggy64]

.....subtle, anonymous, rap hippopotamus,milk homogenous, deeper than a pit that's bottomless...
the knowledge to see usss you must be an astrologist
stars quasars sirus synonymous
What's that from?...I should know. Help or my brain will implode!
EDIT: Got it..Binary Star (of course)

"Subtle, signifying sonnets. Not unlike low flying comets."
-2Mex

[SALVO]

"History has holes however humans hesitate."
-2Mex

[Laurent Proper]

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/427248main_hicksoncompact31-540.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/jurassicspace-20100218.html

I resurrect my thread.

[Tony]

good timing propskii... ive been reading a lot about the moon as of late

it all started last week when i was like... yo... what exactly is the fucking moon made of?

meh.. its mostly a lot of iron, silicone, calcium and magnesium
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Lunar_libration_with_phase2.gif
lunar eclipse
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/LunarEclipse20070303CRH.JPG
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/5678/stereobsolareclipse.jpg
moon passing infront of the sun
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/3964/aldrinapollo11v.jpg
fake?

[-Empty-Can-]

I wondered what happened to this thread.

I learned some cool shit about the speed of light and time today.

[Laurent Proper]

The picture of the moon passing in front of the sun is spectacular.

I believe that man walking on the moon is absolutely fake.

[-Empty-Can-]

Doesn't mean there wasn't good cameras back then. And mythbusters proved the moon landing did hapen so :P

[Laurent Proper]

How did they prove it? Did they fly their own space shuttle to the moon, scavenge the landscape for the flag, and then take pictures of them doing so?

[-Empty-Can-]

They sent some laser signal to the moon at some specific location which had a special reflector that sent back the signal. And then signal came back. I suggest watching that episode.

[Laurent Proper]

^ Does not rely on the Mythbusters for confirmation of actual moon landing.

How about we do it again? 41 years later. We should have it down to a science, by now. :)

[SHER_WON_WTS]

we should go to the moon again and plant a smaller american flag next to the other one...and this time, in HD.

[Laurent Proper]

Absolutely. In high definition, it's like I'm there.

[Thrice]

Not sure i posted this yet....
We are fuckin' small, and this is only the Milky Way...shit gets way biggger.

http://enioangelo.com/Assets/sun%20planet%20size%20comparison.jpg
http://www.tallrite.com/weblog/blogimages/refs2009/Astronomy/AcrturusPolluxSiriusSun.jpg
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb50/froggy98418/comparisonofsizetoearthd.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/23wp99e.png

[CrustOner]

I was reading the first couple of pages.

I lol'd so hard at the picture of the suns, then "Salvo's Penis" done in MS Paint.. haha.

[toxus]

Pretty scary that Thrice

[Sator!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPumskk1dGk

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