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Topic: Wow. Just wow...

Posted By: DeTrevni
Subject: Wow. Just wow...
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 4:09am

Saw this on the Automags forum. I just had to share it. I love astronomy!

http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/ - http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/

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Posted By: Belt #2
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 4:13am

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.

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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 5:05am

Not necessarily true. Hubble's more artsy photos were of objects that didn't provide enough wavelengths to construct a full color image. Many of Hubble's images are originally in color. Ultra Deep Field (what you see in that YTMD) is probably an actual color photo.

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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 9:11am

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.

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Posted By: battlefreak
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 9:30am

My god

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Posted By: RicWhic414
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 9:39am

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

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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 9:54am

Unreal. I used to have nice picture of Earth taken from a satellite as my wallpaper, one of our I.S. techs who never usually talked commented how nice it was. I said, 'thanks, I took it myself last summer' to which she replied, 'really, can I have a copy of it?' - I gave her a copy.

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Posted By: Squishey
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 10:28am

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

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Posted By: Thatoneguy123
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 10:41am

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.

Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 11:06am

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.

Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 11:12am

A hall of fame YTMND.

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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 11:29am

Originally posted by Monty Python, The Galaxy Song

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.

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Posted By: benttwig33
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 1:00pm

Wow thats awsome.

I want a giant telescope

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Sig is WAY too big.

Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 3:19pm

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

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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 3:24pm

Jesus God I am so small.

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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 3:45pm

Anyone else think of Star Wars while watching that?

Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 6:09pm

I thought it was going to be a screamer.......

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Posted By: STOcocker
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 6:21pm

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

Posted By: battlefreak
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 9:49pm

It says that the pic is so far a way its from 800 million years after the universe came around, so does that mean if we keep looking even farther we will see the beginning of time??

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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 9:52pm

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...

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Posted By: battlefreak
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 9:55pm

DeTrevni wrote:

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...

Ima have to research this.

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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 10:11pm

battlefreak wrote:

DeTrevni wrote:

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...

Ima have to research this.

Yes, it is possible. Like I mentioned earlier, the light you see from the closest star to earth was generated 6 million years ago. That means that you are seeing what the star looked like before humans existed. So, yes if you see something far enough away you will see the light from it being created.

Posted By: battlefreak
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 10:13pm

WGP guy2 wrote:

battlefreak wrote:

DeTrevni wrote:

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...

Ima have to research this.

Were gonna need a bigger scope!

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Posted By: a5Tpp789
Date Posted: 28 December 2006 at 10:25pm

wow that is amazing

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