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Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:31:44 2011 No.3553612 [Reply] [Original]

So I recently found out about the Pillars of Creation, and how they no longer exist but we will still be able to see them there for another millennium or so, oh and of course the fact that the largest pillar is 4 FUCKING LIGHT YEARS LONG

this notion has been driving my mind with thought, i can't seem to wrap my head around this idea that something THAT fucking large ever existed, i mean by comparison i don't think were anywhere near atomic size, i mean 4 fucking light years....FUCK, people on this earth say "when i look at the ocean it seems to stretch forever" what would seeing the pillars be like?!? I mean just wow.... I don't even... is there anything found in recorded history that is bigger than these godlike behemoth pillars??

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:34:44 2011 No.3553626 >>3553612 somebodys going to make a joke about their penis they do look like 3 giant penises though

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:35:44 2011 No.3553632 >>3553626 if thats what your penis looks like... well, you should probably have a doctor take a look at it...

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:35:44 2011 No.3553633 >>3553612 Well obviously the universe is bigger. If thoes pillars are within a galaxy then a galaxy would be bigger. etc etc

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:36:44 2011 No.3553638 >>3553612 what do they have to do with creation anyway

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:36:44 2011 No.3553641 the fact that we'll be able to watch their destruction in slow motion is awesome to me (it the old timey sense of "awesome")

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:37:44 2011 No.3553646 >>3553638 autisticfag cannot into poetic language

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:37:44 2011 No.3553647 >>3553633 well yes of course, but I mean any other clouds or cosmic entities, things that are considered one unit, galaxies and the universe aside

>>	‮ suomynonA‪‪‪‮‪‪‬‬‬‬‬ Fri Aug 12 02:39:44 2011 No.3553653 >>3553626 Well, too late for that. Anyway, does this count? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman-alpha_blob

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>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:40:44 2011 No.3553661 I've never seen these before, but they are fucking beautiful. Thanks, OP.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:42:44 2011 No.3553676 File: 11 KB, 265x297, 1239676878688.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >some are more than 400,000 light years across fuck this gay earth, im going to kill myself and the haunt the universe as a ghost to see such sights

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:47:44 2011 No.3553699 >>3553676 herp derp, i was referring to >>3553653

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‮ suomynonA‪‪‪‮‪‪‬‬‬‬‬ Fri Aug 12 02:49:44 2011 No.3553713
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>>3553676
>fuck this gay earth, im going to kill myself and the haunt the universe as a ghost to see such sights

Hell, if I could, I'd give everything up to be only a spectator of everything in the universe.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:51:44 2011 No.3553724 File: 1.45 MB, 3939x2459, 1264765438038.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] birth

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:52:44 2011 No.3553725 >>3553676 You know what would be awesome though? The fact that mountains look like they take forever to get to and they seem so big close up. Imagine what these are like.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:53:44 2011 No.3553737 File: 3 KB, 184x172, 1289459747707.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3553676 Ifuckingknowthatfeelbro.exe.jpg.mp4.7z.rar.zip.mp5.mp4.wav.flv.dat.bat

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:54:44 2011 No.3553745 Given the size of the objects and mass required to occupy such a large volumes of space I doubt they are composed of a "single entity" as you probably envision them to be.

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Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:54:44 2011 No.3553747

>>3553725
these would be seemingly endless and some time after you have delved into a trance traversing it, you reach the end, you look back, and you can't even remember starting your journey or how long its been, all you know is that you've reached an end after a journey that words cannot describe in length or awe

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:55:44 2011 No.3553749 >>3553724 these are colour-enhanced. Real stuff isn't that bright and cool, kinda dull for our eyes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:57:44 2011 No.3553756 >>3553749 And? It's pretty as fuck. Why let human limitations keep me from enjoying the wondrous environment that is space?

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Anonymous Fri Aug 12 02:57:44 2011 No.3553759

>>3553745
once again of course not, not technically, i mean the pillars are clouds, which are made of gas which of course is millions of particles, but a cloud is considered one unit made up of several smaller units no? as in its one body, when i say one unit, i think you know what i mean... you're either vaguely trying to troll or are just being dense

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Anonymous Fri Aug 12 03:13:44 2011 No.3553823
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>i can't seem to wrap my head around this idea that something THAT fucking large ever existed

If you think that's awesome, the Crab Nebula wasn't even visible to us over a thousand years ago. Mankind witnessed the supernova that created it. The nebula has been growing outward from that cataclysm ever since.