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Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:02:44 2011 No.3331730 [Reply] [Original]

>that feel

;_;

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:05:44 2011 No.3331743 one day my son, one day

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:08:44 2011 No.3331752 File: 584 KB, 614x453, Pale_Blue_Dot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] \|:O

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:09:44 2011 No.3331755 File: 1.15 MB, 4000x1290, Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] O.O

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:12:44 2011 No.3331766 File: 494 KB, 2401x3001, hs-2004-07-a-print.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:14:44 2011 No.3331775 File: 167 KB, 470x478, techpriest.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that feel

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:16:44 2011 No.3331785 File: 1.95 MB, 3801x1155, Panorama.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3331730

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:21:44 2011 No.3331801 my friends, where are you. i hope i'm not alone :(

>>	Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 Mon Jul 4 13:22:44 2011 No.3331803 >>3331766 Why discs though... When I was in high school I theorized that galaxies and solar systems were planar because of the electronic motion, like the Bohr model, but as I learned about orbitals that theory went out the window.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:23:57 2011 No.3331807 File: 94 KB, 399x388, original.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw we will never get to see universe wide exploration and colonisation. we will never reach the ends of the universe and solve the ultimate question.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:24:44 2011 No.3331810 >>3331803 Good question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_formation_and_evolution#The_formation_of_disk_galaxies

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:24:44 2011 No.3331811 File: 17 KB, 381x235, realization.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3331730 >Last picture >Observable universe >Observable As in there's more, that I will never, ever see -

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:24:44 2011 No.3331812 can someone give me the answer, are we alone?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:25:44 2011 No.3331814 >>3331785 >>3331755 Sorry, really stupid question here. Why is the milky way bent in a half circle? Is it an all-angle picture that's been flatted out?

>>	Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 Mon Jul 4 13:29:44 2011 No.3331831 >>3331810 Doesn't explain the geometric structure, though.

Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:29:44 2011 No.3331832

>>3331811
Yep. Crazy, huh? Even if you take off at light speed in one direction, there are still locations so far away that the expansion of space is causing the distance to increase even faster. You will never see it, unless the effects of dark energy change over time such that the universe contracts again.

Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:31:44 2011 No.3331837

>>3331831
It tells you that
1) It's still under investigation
2) It's probably just a result of conservation of angular momentum in contracting dust clouds with certain initial conditions. Not all galaxies are discs.

However, a ball of gas without much angular momentum would just become a black hole (given enough mass).

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:35:44 2011 No.3331847 File: 18 KB, 379x214, okwiththis[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that feel when, someday, the atoms that make up your body will someday inhabit the bodies of people who will travel the galaxy

>>	Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 Mon Jul 4 13:35:44 2011 No.3331854 >>3331837 How did the gas cloud in a vacuum acquire an axial angular momentum?

Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:37:44 2011 No.3331861

>>3331812
I want to know as well.

Are we alone?
Will we ever find other live beings in this universe?
Even if we did, could we communicate and work together?
What if we are more advanced than them?
What if they are more advanced than us?

Why is it in this massive universe did there just so happen to be a group of local super clusters, in the Virgo super cluster, in a galactic group, in a galaxy, in a cluster of stars, in a solar system of planets there just so happened to be one particular planet, not too far away from the Sun, not too close to the sun, with a perfect atmosphere, overall temperature, and land masses with vegetation and weather capable of supporting us?

I just don't get it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:37:44 2011 No.3331862 >>3331854 Because of viscosity?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:38:44 2011 No.3331867 >>3331854 Random fluctuations in the initial conditions of the universe, probably due to quantum effects. IIRC that's the best explanation so far.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:38:44 2011 No.3331868 there is a black whole in the center of our galaxy and it is sucking all the suns around it until it blows up in our face>>3331814 >>3331814

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:40:44 2011 No.3331879 >>3331814 No one?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:41:44 2011 No.3331887 >>3331861 God.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:41:44 2011 No.3331884 >>3331868 >sucking all the suns

>>	Sceak !!LciZj2frsW6 Mon Jul 4 13:42:44 2011 No.3331892 >>3331862 Fair enough.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:42:44 2011 No.3331895 >>3331861 Because this is an ideal place for us to exist. That is why we are here. It's almost evolutionary.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:47:44 2011 No.3331910 >>3331895 We exist because we are in an ideal place that supports our existence. Isn't that circular logic? There are people who know way more about this stuff than me. I'm doing my best to ask questions and understand.

Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:49:44 2011 No.3331921

>>3331910
It's really not that mysterious. We live in a place that supports life because we wouldn't be here to ask the question otherwise.

But here's the related train of thought that I don't think ultimately has very much useful to say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:51:44 2011 No.3331925 >that feel when out of all the sextillions of stars in the observable universe ours is the only one with ununoctium. SUCK IT, SPACEBITCHES

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:53:44 2011 No.3331936 Thank god that i am alive

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:53:57 2011 No.3331935 >mfw you will never experience alien sex

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:53:57 2011 No.3331941 >mfw we will never experience alien sex

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:55:44 2011 No.3331948 >>3331861 anthropic principle.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 13:58:44 2011 No.3331966 >>3331948 >>3331921 Thanks for the term and the link.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 14:05:44 2011 No.3331993 >>3331925 >this is what humans actually believe

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 14:13:44 2011 No.3332028 ITT: neckbeard virgins with boring lives

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 14:14:44 2011 No.3332036 >>3332028 You mean ITB.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 14:19:44 2011 No.3332066 >Implying I won't upload my mind into a robotic body capable of enormous power and live forever

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 14:50:44 2011 No.3332238 >No one It's a time lapse photo, see the two suns, when you look up on a clear cloudless sky, the milkyway is a cloudy straight bar across the sky, because of the time lapse and the earths rotation, the bar is bent in the picture

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 14:51:44 2011 No.3332242 >>3332238 meant to be @ >>3331879

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 14:53:44 2011 No.3332256 >>3331847 only if you're cremated

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 15:15:44 2011 No.3332363 >>3331730 Would you really prefer the opposite? All I see is that the way things are, space exploration is ensured not to get bored and stagnate for the next few generations. >affien society.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 16:25:44 2011 No.3332684 >>3332363 wow, thats actually a good point, the universe is so huge you can never see it all, there's always something new to explore Optimistic, in a way

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