Wow. Just wow...

Yeah, I've always been amazed by those hubble photos.

Although they are all taken in black and white, you have to admit, NASA does one heck of a job colorizing them.

 

 

Pretty amazing. Really makes you think that there has to be other life out there somewhere. The statistics seem overwhelmingly in favor of it if you think about it.

Ya thats crazy... It makes my head hurt when I think about it...

Warp Speed Captain

i had to watch it 3 times to get a chance to read everything lol. pretty cool. now i just gotta build a slingshot big enough to get me there 

Thatoneguy123 wrote: I hope that during my lifetime we'll be able to travel in space to other galaxys, planets or whatever, just how we do when we fly a plane to another state.

Well think about this.  In a lifetime, we went from an airplane that could fly a few feet, at 10-20 knots to an airplane that could fly many thousands of miles at 500 knots.

Traveling that far would make it necessary to have so much new technology though.  The biggest problem would be the propulsion I think.  We already have the equivalent of "impulse drives", however, just traveling to other planets in OUR solar system takes years.  Without the development of faster propulsion devices, when the ship reached its destination, it would probably be the origional crews grandchildren and great grandchildren.  Who will want to jump on a ship, knowing that they are going to die on it?

The closest star (possible center of a solar system), which is IN our galaxy is 6 million light years away.  That means if we had the capability to fly at the speed of light, it would still take 6 million years to get there.


Edited by WGP guy2 - 28 December 2006 at 11:08am

Monty Python, The Galaxy Song wrote:     Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,     And things seem hard or tough,     And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,     And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...     Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving     And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,     That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,     A sun that is the source of all our power.     The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see     Are moving at a million miles a day     In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,     Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".     Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.     It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.     It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,     But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.     We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.     We go 'round every two hundred million years,     And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions     In this amazing and expanding universe.     The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding     In all of the directions it can whizz     As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,     Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.     So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,     How amazingly unlikely is your birth,     And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,     'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

I love this one.


Edited by brihard - 28 December 2006 at 11:30am

And some people believe there isn't life out there.

Anyone else think of Star Wars while watching that?

We are such a tiny part of a HUGE world. It really puts life into perspective looking at that.

Actually, that's freakishly possible. And cool.

If you want something to really blow your mind, look up black holes. Oh. My. God. I did a research project on them. Amazing...