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Still finding my way |
The Hubble Deep Field image. My favorite too. It actually is a millimeter square on your finger at arms length for reference. You are actually looking back in time at the formation of these galaxies billions of years ago. I can look at this image and understand the magnitude of what it represents. That makes us significant. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
You have a better alternative? Sit around, build a campfire, and sing a couple of songs? We are flailing about, yes, but it's better than doing nothing. MUCH better. | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
More mind boggling is that the picture was taken in a spot that has always been a dark area that no other telescope was able to capture anything. Think about that. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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| Still finding my way |
I think about that all the time. The mysteries of the cosmos and our explorations of it are my passion. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
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The distance between stars has always fascinated me. It's almost inconceivable that there is that much empty space out there. No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
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I don't think the human mind is capable of grasping the concept of infinity, or the size and scope of the universe. With billions of galaxies, each containing billions upon billions of stars, it is inconceivable and beyond arrogant to think we are the only intelligent life. Maybe too far away for us to ever make contact, but it's out there. The images of the Hubble telescope are amazing. | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon |
It solidifies my belief that there is a creator. All of that matter didn't come nothing prior to the big bang. That is if you believe in the big bang theory. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Loves His Wife |
Nah. I'm a pretty big fuckin deal. Just ask my dog. This message has been edited. Last edited by: BRL, I am not BIPOLAR. I don't even like bears. | |||
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| 186,000 miles per second. It's the law. |
This is a really great interview. I enjoy the part where Al describes what he saw on the dark side of the moon. "So there was a little space around the far side of the Moon where I was shadowed from both the Earth and the Sun and that was pretty amazing. I could see more stars than I could possibly imagine. It really makes you wonder about our place in the Universe and what we’re all about. When you see that many stars out there you realize that those are really suns and those suns could have planets around them and all that kind of stuff. The sky is just awash with stars when you’re on the far side of the Moon, and you don’t have any sunlight to cut down on the lower intensity, dimmer stars. You see them all, and it’s all just a sheet of white. As you know, we’re part of the Milky Way galaxy and we look at it sideways, we look through it. I saw so many stars looking out that it was very hard to make out anything like a Milky Way. In fact, there were so many stars that I had some difficulty finding any of the 37 brighter stars we used as navigation guide stars because they were so bathed in starlight from all the other stars around them. Avi: So, for example, you would try and find Sirius and… Al: …and it would be very difficult to find. And there were times when I had to let the guidance computer drive the sextant to the star that I wanted to use for navigation because I had difficulty finding it with all the other stars out there that just washed everything out." https://medium.com/learning-fo...-glance-89d094f6d40f | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Since we see equal distances in all directions, it is quite obvious that we're in the center.... flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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I concur a great photograph and to think that it has taken billions of years for the light from those galaxies to get here where we see them! They may not even exist anymore, or exist in the state we are seeing them now. Any planets and/or civilizations there may have been born, peaked or declined, then ceased to exist long before that light came to earth! Jim | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Those are the molecules next to us Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
Great photo in the OP. I love such things. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I just want to know where the universe is. I'll take that question to my grave. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
It'd be great if there was a more polite version of this to wear as a shirt. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Ever since Gary retired from his Far Side cartoons, I switched my calendars from Far Side to Astronomy pics. It gives me comfort to know that what I'm doing, the results of which may be spectacular failures or successes will not mean one thing in the big scheme of things a million years from now. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
We couldn't be more insignificant in a universal context. Teeny, frail, and insignificant. Yet we are pretty badass and interesting and capable, just the same. And we have made a ton of progress in a relatively short time frame. I want to stand on the moon or some other celestial body once in my life. Just give me an hour or so to ponder things and take it all in. Maybe one-day. | |||
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Doesn't the idea of a "creator" actually imply that it did come from nothing? If not, the Creator was just rearranging what was already there. | |||
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