The Universe..

[tapeworm]

Hi guys I bet this has been posted somewhere before, but if it hasn't it's worth a look. I love this stuff!

http://izismile.com/2009/03/13/plane...y_30_pics.html

[karj]

You might also enjoy this.

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

[MITCHAY]

Thanks for sharing. I really love all this stuff.

I actually saw the ISS moving across the sky a few weeks ago. Just to know that we humans have that up there is profound and that is just one of many things to do with space.

I also saw the transit of Venus the other week too. Something I will never see again in my lifetime.

The sun is actually quite small through the filters still a bit bigger than the moon and the fact that you could see a tiny dot that was a whole another planet about the size of Earth gives a good scale of just how big and far things are in space.

I really hope we are able to see man step onto another planet in my lifetime.

[XR6WGN]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Thanks for sharing. I really love all this stuff.

I actually saw the ISS moving across the sky a few weeks ago.

Here's one for you - uses an overlay of Google earth to show where the ISS is at the moment

http://iss.astroviewer.net/

[Geez Louise]

This stuff fascinates me as well. I loved Stephen Hawkings - Understanding the Universe show. There is so much about it that we just don't understand.

[Riksta]

Thanks for the link, had seen something similar before but lost it, was looking for it recently but couldn't for the life of me find it.

Bookmarked now.

Amazing stuff.

[2011G6E]

"Heavens above" website...you can put in your location, and it tells you what time and where the ISS (and any other sattelites) will be coming over your location. Great stuff!
http://www.heavens-above.com/

[XR6WGN]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

"Heavens above" website...you can put in your location, and it tells you what time and where the ISS (and any other sattelites) will be coming over your location. Great stuff!
http://www.heavens-above.com/

just clicked on the link and had a chuckle with the first paragraph i read:

Venus Transit
The transit is now finished. Please check this space again in 105 years!

Think I might just do that

[pottery beige]

its bigger than me.. its bigger than you.. i wish i had a spaceships to cruise the galactics...

[basteve]

Wow that makes me feel real small compared to what's around me!

[Falcman0o7]

Oh no.....This gets my mind working overtime!!!

I try not to talk about it anymore it's just to full on, The answers we seek would astonish us! Nothings happning as far as answers go so I just don't think about it. Well I try....

[Falcman0o7]

We are a grain of sand on a beach when compared to whats out there I just wish another civilization out there would come and say " we are here to ! "

[Chopped]

Originally Posted by Falcman0o7

We are a grain of sand on a beach when compared to whats out there I just wish another civilization out there would come and say " we are here to ! "

They reckon there are far more stars out there than grains of sand on our planet !

I love looking up at the nights sky and just staring at it, especially when in the outback.

I would really love to see an Aurora.

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by Chopped

They reckon there are far more stars out there than grains of sand on our planet !

I love looking up at the nights sky and just staring at it, especially when in the outback.

I would really love to see an Aurora.

It's been said that there are millions of stars for each grain of sand on earth. Mind boggling.

This link is very cool -

http://scaleofuniverse.com/

Kind of makes you feel pretty insignificant.

Also, given that the age of the universe is approx 14/15 billion years old, and that the observable universe from Earth is 40 odd billion light years in any direction from Earth, it's almost certain that there could be other life forms SOMEWHERE in the universe (not just our observable universe - remember, we are most likely NOT in the middle of the universe as it stands).

The likelihood that ET had developed a form of light speed travel is unlikely and even if they had, they would have to travel at the speed of light for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years to reach our little blue marble, which is also unlikely in itself.

Another thing is that the chances of intelligent life existing at the same time as Man's relatively (compared to the age of the universe) short time on earth is small.

I'm not saying that there couldn't be life out there somewhere, but I doubt they have the technology or the lifespan to ever be able to reach us. And that's okay by me, aliens friggin scare me.

[rancidpunx]

Thanks for posting.

I also like to look up and wonder. Its very frustrating to know that I will never know the answers to the bigger questions.

[SSD-85]

Ah, to gain the immortality to explore the infinitely expanding Universe & beyond. There is nothing more in existence I would desire.

The Event Horizon lies ahead....

[BHDOGS]

Qapla bik poon choo star fleet dogs you will pay pew pew!

[xbxd351]

Its good to see other people think about this stuff too! I thought people were too busy tweeting and updating their facebook status these days to think about the universe. The concept of space and time in particular really fascinates me. I always try and get my head around if space and time are infinite or if they end at some point. To even try and imagine that is mind boggling!

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by xbxd351

Its good to see other people think about this stuff too! I thought people were too busy tweeting and updating their facebook status these days to think about the universe. The concept of space and time in particular really fascinates me. I always try and get my head around if space and time are infinite or if they end at some point. To even try and imagine that is mind boggling!

I had the chance to speak with an astrophysicist recently, so I asked him what was around before the big bang. Literally nothing, apparently. There was no space or time.

THAT'S mind boggling.

[xbxd351]

Originally Posted by Peuty

I had the chance to speak with an astrophysicist recently, so I asked him what was around before the big bang. Literally nothing, apparently. There was no space or time.

THAT'S mind boggling.

I am still trying to find someone who will give a more detailed answer to that. If you can pinpoint the exact time and location of the big bang then surely there would have to at least be another time and location just before that well thats how things work around this neck of the woods anyway. Its just hard to imagine time and space springing up in an instant out of nothing. I would really like to have witnessed that

[buggo]

Originally Posted by Peuty

I had the chance to speak with an astrophysicist recently, so I asked him what was around before the big bang. Literally nothing, apparently. There was no space or time.

THAT'S mind boggling.

I've heard that mentioned before, that before this universe existed there was 'nothing'. But I want to know what nothing is, I guess as humans we associate nothing as just emptiness, but emptiness is space so it can't be that. The opposite of emptiness is pure solid form, but then that would be something.

And the whole time freezing thing is really interested as well.
What if before our universe became to be, there was another universe before us. And one day that came to a point where it's time ceased, where everything stopped.
Maybe this caused everything that has mass to revert back to the centre of it's 'big bang' (while no time passed) and this sudden mesh of energy and matter and time in a zero sized space that doesn't exist caused the big bang of our universe. To go and repeat the cycle of everything.

Obviously I have nothing to base that on but I like thinking about and researching this topic, I was raised in a religious family so the notion of god doesn't appeal to me and prefer science. (Absolutely no offence intended to anyone that's just my chosen belief.)

[Rodp]

Originally Posted by Peuty

I had the chance to speak with an astrophysicist recently, so I asked him what was around before the big bang. Literally nothing, apparently. There was no space or time.

Unless you believe this guy..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-Big-Bang.html

Interesting to see what becomes of this theory.

[buggo]

Originally Posted by Rodp

Unless you believe this guy..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-Big-Bang.html

Interesting to see what becomes of this theory.

Ah cool seems my idea wasn't that out of reach after all. I've never read this theory before so cool to see other ideas are being explored.

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by Rodp

Unless you believe this guy..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-Big-Bang.html

Interesting to see what becomes of this theory.

Pretty interesting!

I think man needs to resign themselves to the fact that we may never know the real origin of our universe. But you never know!

[BHDOGS]

Latest theory is that time is slowing down and will eventualy stop altogether freezing everything in an instant

[mik]

Originally Posted by BHDOGS

Latest theory is that time is slowing down and will eventualy stop altogether freezing everything in an instant

i heard on the grapevine it was the unions fault !

[mik]

yes it really puts a perspective how insignificant we are in the scheme of things.

[BHDOGS]

I prefer the time freezing theory its alot nicer then a cataclysmic end

[BHDOGS]

Unions im surprised people havnt blamed the carbon tax or hoon laws haha

[BHDOGS]

Wat was before or even was is something they dont know which is were faith and god enter to explain the unknow however as we learn more and more the answers will be revealed scientificly even if the answer is as fantastic as god himself created it