journey to the edge of the universe

[tonynoriega]

has anyone see this program, i think in the natgeo channel..
voice overs by alec baldwin... (not bad, but i like morgan freeman better in those roles.)

anyway, freaking amazing to realize how miniscule we really are, not only in our own galaxy, but the universe....

i just realized that most of those sweet pictures taken by hubble, the eye, the pillars, the exploding nebula, the spider, horsehead.. etc...etc...were all just in our own milky way galaxy...

that there could be possibly hundreds-of thousands of planets like ours just in our galaxy!

mind blowing.

[LifeinAsia]

Or "billions and billions" as Carl Sagan used to say.

[GaryK]

Yep, it's on NatGeo and it's an amazing program. I mean, at one point they talked about having sent a radio message to a nearby solar system that would take 10,000 years to arrive at light speed. Ten thousand freaking light years away. I don't think we're fully capable of conceptualizing those kinds of distances.

[pageoneresults]

Hey! I watched that last night on NatGeo before retiring for the evening. Great piece for sure.

We are just a mere spec in the overall scheme of things. One meteor like those they discussed in the program and poof, we're gone. Makes you appreciate life that much more after watching those shows.

I like the Earth after People one too. :)

[wheel]

anyway, freaking amazing to realize how miniscule we really are

Speak for yourself. I take up quite a bit of space :).

[GaryK]

I like the Earth after People one too.

Life After People was too darned depressing to watch all the way through.

[willybfriendly]

One meteor like those they discussed in the program and poof, we're gone. Makes you appreciate life that much more after watching those shows.

Is that tin hat becoming a permanent part of your attire? ;)

[lawman]

Or our universe could exist inside a black hole inside of a larger universe. :)

[tonynoriega]

oh my goodness... that was even a bigger mind warp...

that we could be living in a black hole inside of another universe...

i looked at my wife and we both just gave this look like.... dughhhhhhhhh...

no, we cant even to begin to comprehend those distances... we can say oh, this star is 500,000 light years away...

a light year travels about 5,878,630,000,000 international miles.

and these are hundreds of thousands of even millions of light years away...

[limoshawn]

our entire universe could be a single cell of some other entity.

[GaryK]

Or we could all be living in a holodeck cube that's sitting on someone's desk on board the starship Enterprise as in ST:TNG, Ship in a Bottle. ;)

[tonynoriega]

Will we ever get to one of these places?

will we even make it to another solar system?

oh... and dont forget that teaspoon of a white dwarf weighs approx. 5 TON..!... a teaspoon....

imagine trying to hold a mg of a white dwarf...

[lgn1]

Well a lot of metaphysics here, which reminds me:

Q: Whats the difference between physics and metaphysics?

A: Around 6 to 8 beer.

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[tonynoriega]

i have to say...

about 3 years ago, i was under the influence and watching a PBS show on String Theory ... then watched Parallel Worlds...

wow... i think my brain literally went into some form of shock.

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