Space

[Mr. Clean]

Whoa... Get your for real face on before you read this lol.




I'm watching stuff about the Hubble Telescope. Man they are talking about some wacky shit. It's so hard to wrap your head around space. I mean we're floating in a nothingness, and if you get bored go look at what Hubble captures... it is like something straight out of some crazy graphic designers head. The images are LIGHT YEARS wide! And by seeing light formations they are basically chasing time. They are literally seeing the past. They are capturing light as it is still traveling into nowhere so therefore they know how long ago it happened and even what it came from! I'm not going to lie... I would do just about anything to see space in person. Like I would be more than happy to drop everything and go in a shuttle and just jump out of that bitch in a suit and float around until I explode (or implode... not sure about how what you do with no gravity and no suit). I know this sounds ridiculous, but I've really just been awe struck by the thought of space here lately. With so many things being explained in this world by some of the smartest people to ever step foot on the earth, and then to hear them say they just don't know what the hell some of this stuff is, is crazy. They just discovered an area where things literally speed up for no reason. The guy gave the example of throwing his keys in the air:

On earth you throw them up and they fall due to gravity
In space you throw them and they move up at a continuous speed theoretically forever
In this area (I can't remember its name) you throw your keys and they move up and then begin to speed up exponentially.

WTF! that is ridiculous.

And there are real black holes (I've known this but I didn't realize what they were) They are areas of mass that are so dense that they literally EAT everything that comes near it...ie: light, stars, rocks and they disappear! holy fucking shit.

Feasting Black Hole Blows Bubbles from Galaxy NGC 4438:

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2000-21-a-web_print.jpg

And NO I'm not high lol. If I were, I would probably be able to figure it all out haha. Just watching too much TV and it's really interesting.



Pics from hubble:

1) A brilliant white core is encircled by thick dust lanes in this spiral galaxy, seen edge-on. The galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light years from Earth. :eek: :eek: :eek:

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2003-28-a-1024_wallpaper.jpg

2) The Horsehead Nebula is a cold, dark cloud of gas and dust, silhouetted against the bright nebula IC 434. The bright area at the top left edge is a young star still embedded in its nursery of gas and dust.

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2001-12-a-1024_wallpaper.jpg

3) The Veil Nebula, left behind by the explosion of a massive star thousands of years ago, is one of the largest and most spectacular supernova remnants in the sky. This is only a small section of it.

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2007-30-d-1024_wallpaper.jpg

4) This detailed picture of the Helix Nebula shows a fine web of filaments, like the spokes of a bicycle, embedded in the colorful red and blue gas ring around this dying star. The Helix Nebula is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth, only 650 light years away.

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2003-11-a-1024_wallpaper.jpg

5) When a massive star exploded, spewing out its gaseous layers into a turbulent, star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, it left behind this chaotic cloud of gas and dust. The star that produced this supernova remnant was probably 50 times the mass of our Sun.

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2005-15-a-1024_wallpaper.jpg

6) A Sun-like star ends its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which form a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center.

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2007-09-a-1024_wallpaper.jpg



To see these things with my own eyes would be so overwhelming. I truly don't know what I would do. This is some deep shit here, I mean there aren't really words to describe how I would feel. I think that's as close to realizing how complex we are as people and how amazing life as we know it is.


That just happened.

[BKgen®]

fuck yeah space is awesome. Mass Effect is awesome too.

[puregroove]

awesome stuff... I''m awestruck.

[bookthief]

I remember my brother and I used to watch these space shows on discovery channel.
So much information, so much mystery, so much AWESOMENESS!
Space is so interesting, indeed.

[dabuilding]

is that where the varsity meet is? lol

[soul]

and were the only intelligent life forms in this massive universe.............. lol

[yungdz]

no doubt. if star fleet was real I would definitely enlist lol

[soul]

no doubt. if star fleet was real I would definitely enlist lol
it will be around eventually way after our time. 21st century ftl

[Dev]

that is some wicked shit right thur!

[DunDunSkeert]

My head just blew up... thanks alot.

[redrumracer]

your just getting on the awesomeness of the space wagon?

[soul]

#4 is a damn giant eye

[Miranda]

Yeah, but space isn't nothingness...

There's dark matter, dark energy, and all that other fun stuff that quantum physics is interested in...

look up M theory and multiverse discussions and levels 1-4 parallel universes.

[Mr. Clean]

your just getting on the awesomeness of the space wagon?

lol. i think i'm just now to the point where i understand it enough to be amazed by it. i mean when you're a kid it's just kinda cool and whoa there's planets, but when you get older you really understand all the complexities.

and when i say nothingness... i mean it basically is. i mean space is a complete void of anything. there truly is no basic suspension system for our planet. it's just there lol.

[On_Her_Face]

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r79/takashi04/ChappelleShow-BlackPresident.jpg

[BKgen®]

your just getting on the awesomeness of the space wagon?

You're

[Nemesis]

multiverse discussions and levels 1-4 parallel universes.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414Y6T8SHBL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

[The Ren]

sweet!!1 btw mr. clean you should check out my picture thread from Formula D

[DJ Maestro]

Space Saver, the final Nissan Frontier. These are the fantastic voyages of the Jefferson Starship, Enterprise Rent-A-Car. :goodjob:

[Ed]

post moar pics!

[Dirty Octopus™]

damn Justin... i didn't know i liked Space until i read this.
thanks for giving me something else to like :goodjob:

[DJ Maestro]

Here's a song about space....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvkX3t5LgVI

:goodjob:

[Jecht]

Look into everything more - just as Miranda said, there are many more things that are interesting to read about. Its entertaining to keep up with the latest theories on things like the cycle of the universe expanding and contracting.

[cornercarver78]

I've been reading the fabric of the cosmos by Brian Greene. It is an overview of physics theories and explains a lot about time and space in laymen's terms. If you pick it up, just be prepared to take your time, and read things over because it is kind of heavy if you don't have any background in the material.

[RL...]

astrology is truly amazing stuff....too bad were not going to be advanced to being able to travel to other galaxies in this lifetime....

[Elbow]

Yes, space, use to be my only interest. It's a crazy thing.

[cornercarver78]

astrology is truly amazing stuff....too bad were not going to be advanced to being able to travel to other galaxies in this lifetime....

Do you mean astronomy? :thinking:

[Bus Driver J]

The thing about space that interests me the most is this:
You are standing in a random spot outside in an open area. If you were to shine a strong and focused light straight up into space, it will NEVER end. Theres no dome we live in. We arent enclosed in anything. Its never ending and goes FOREVER.
I can easily grasp other galaxies and such but the fact that it doesnt end bewilders me.


I've been reading the fabric of the cosmos by Brian Greene. It is an overview of physics theories and explains a lot about time and space in laymen's terms. If you pick it up, just be prepared to take your time, and read things over because it is kind of heavy if you don't have any background in the material.
Thanks man, Il def look into that book. I enjoy reading complex things but sometimes I dont want my head to explode while reading. Im big into philosophy and religion books but something like this would be awesome.

:edit: I just bought this book on eBay for $6.36 shipped, LOL. Goodwill of San Fransisco FTW!!

[Sir_Christopher]

The Horsehead Nebula reminded me of a monster from that one game colossal but everything is pretty gangster!!

[Mr. Clean]

lol. i've def. found a new station that i will stay locked on. Science HD. always something awesome on there. about to watch something about massive black holes.

[blaknoize]

Check out an Event Horizon if u wanna try to understand something WILD

[RL...]

Do you mean astronomy? :thinking:

Yes...I totally just got owned by myself...:headslap:

[Mr. Clean]

oh yeah just watched about super massive black holes.

basically dust eventually (by something unknown) starts to rotate... after that step it creates a massively dense center with a gravitational pull that is so great that it begins to suck in everything around it in. so with this gravitational pull it accelerates the gases and rock and anything else around and therefore creates so much friction that it super heats the area immediately surrounding the center or "the singularity" and therefore creates immense light. with this process it creates stars from the gravitational pull making the dust clumps around the hole super condense and explode. so basically every galaxy had a black hole that birthed the entire galaxy... even ours.

they found the relationship by measuring the speed of rotation of the outermost stars in the galaxies compared to the size of the black hole. they found that the larger the hole, the faster the outermost stars were, which means that at some point in time they were directly related.

[blaknoize]

Yes, I said Event Horizon and world lines even anti-matter and negative energy

[blaknoize]

lol. i've def. found a new station that i will stay locked on. Science HD. always something awesome on there. about to watch something about massive black cocks.

wut? wait... oh... nevermind

[Magnus213]

Everything IN space is pretty incredible and all, but it's the idea that it just keeps going and going that really gets me.

And if it doesn't just keep going and going, what's around it?

[Mr. Clean]

Everything IN space is pretty incredible and all, but it's the idea that it just keeps going and going that really gets me.

And if it doesn't just keep going and going, what's around it?

heaven :rolleyes:

[DJ Maestro]

Everything IN space is pretty incredible and all, but it's the idea that it just keeps going and going that really gets me.

And if it doesn't just keep going and going, what's around it?


Everyone knows that all of space floats in an infinite sea of lime jello. :goodjob: