Size of the Universe

[David88vert]

Saw this on another site, figured that I would share. It's a pretty cool animation of showing the scale of the items in the universe.

http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white

[Echonova]

That's pretty awesome.


~waits for debate about science vs. religion to occur~

[Potter]

And people believe there is no other intelligent life forms out there...

[-EnVus-]

That's pretty awesome.


~waits for debate about science vs. religion to occur~
I can kill this...............Both exist

[Browning151]

That's pretty awesome.


~waits for debate about science vs. religion to occur~

lol



It is pretty crazy to sit back and think we're on this comparatively tiny ball floating through a seemingly infinite space, it's hard to wrap your mind around that.

[Browning151]

I can kill this...............Both exist

We know they both exist, the argument comes when someone tries to argue that one or the other is the "be all end all".

[thepolecat]

Nice.

[Echonova]

It is pretty crazy to sit back and think we're on this comparatively tiny ball floating through a seemingly infinite space, it's hard to wrap your mind around that.We are but a grain of sand in the middle of a desert.

[Deke]

Really cool link, thanks for sharing. It blows my mind to think about the scale of the universe. An interesting tidbit I heard on one of those universe shows on the Science channel: If Betelgeuse (one of the largest known stars) replaced the sun in our solar system, it's surface would reach Jupiter.

[Browning151]

Really cool link, thanks for sharing. It blows my mind to think about the scale of the universe. An interesting tidbit I heard on one of those universe shows on the Science channel: If Betelgeuse (one of the largest known stars) replaced the sun in our solar system, it's surface would reach Jupiter.

It's a gif, give it a minute.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/From_earth_to_the_largest_star.gif

[Deke]

Truly awesome

[David88vert]

And people believe there is no other intelligent life forms out there...

If the other forms of "intelligence" out there are behaving as badly as a lot of these "intelligent" humans, then we don't need to know that they exist, or don't exist. We have enough problems here already.

[David88vert]

It's a gif, give it a minute.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/From_earth_to_the_largest_star.gif

I've seen that one before, but didn't know where it was to find it again. It's a good one.

[Browning151]

If the other forms of "intelligence" out there are behaving as badly as a lot of these "intelligent" humans, then we don't need to know that they exist, or don't exist. We have enough problems here already.

lol, If they're anything like us I think I'd rather not know them, we're overloaded with nut cases already.

[blaknoize]

Awesome site!! I'll be on that all night.

[blaknoize]

still there!!

[98blackcivic]

im really into astronomy and the cosmos..ive been staring at the skies since the age of 7!

[Halfwit]

at the end, i wonder how they "estimate the size of the universe" the grey area they cant see but know how to estimate the size of. how?? what makes it ever stop?

[Got Milk?]

It doesnt stop, its just something they havent explored yet, so they assume that's that, best theory for it.

[Echonova]

Everyone knows the universe is a flat surface, just like the Earth.


It has to end somewhere... Duh.

[Got Milk?]

I was referring to the gray area... that it does not stop there....

[Echonova]

How do you know?

[David88vert]

It doesn't matter if the universe is finite or infinite, if you cannot observe the end. People argue it all the time, but in reality, we cannot observe the end, so it really doesn't matter.

Here is NASA's take on the question. http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html

[Got Milk?]

How do you know?

It's a theory.


But if you really know that it stops there and that's it, and you have definite proof for it, sir, you are one rich man.

And NASA supports my theory: "We now know that the universe is flat with only a 0.5% margin of error. This suggests that the Universe is infinite in extent; however, since the Universe has a finite age, we can only observe a finite volume of the Universe. All we can truly conclude is that the Universe is much larger than the volume we can directly observe."