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    How small we are in this universe (Awesome .gif)

    I saw this awhile back and just stumbled across it again and thought I'd share it with all you jokers.





















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    yeah ive seen this. but still amazing to see again

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    Awesome, puts it all in perspective!
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    Thats amazing. All the bodies that I don't recognize are those planets we've discovered using out technology like the hubble and whatnot ?

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    Yeah, but those other stars were taking performance enhancing substances. Our sun is all natural!

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    No, the stuff after the planets in our solar system are all stars actually. The only planets they put on their are the one in our solar system. It's just crazy to see how small and almost insignificant one human being is in comparison to the biggest things in the universe.

    As far as size of planets in other parts of the universe though, I know that there are hundreds of them with many of them being the size of Jupiter and even bigger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vetteman08 View Post
    Yeah, but those other stars were taking performance enhancing substances. Our sun is all natural!
    LOL, nice

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    Quote Originally Posted by vetteman08 View Post
    Yeah, but those other stars were taking performance enhancing substances. Our sun is all natural!
    LMAO!!!

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    vetteman08 that was good lol

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    Wow that was amazing... Never seen that before

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    The gravity fields surrounding those larger stars must be just incredible!

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    Uranus is huge!

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    Quote Originally Posted by HitIt View Post
    Uranus is huge!
    Yeah, but don't tell DSM!

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    Quote Originally Posted by vetteman08 View Post
    Yeah, but those other stars were taking performance enhancing substances. Our sun is all natural!
    lololol

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    Thats a big anus

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    The width of some of those super stars is incredible, some of them must be thousands of light years in diameter.

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    So here is a question that I have always wondered. Does space just go on forever? Is it infinite and thus so are the number of stars and planets out there or does it just become empty after a certain point? The thought of something that vast beyond Earth is mind blowing to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jbran23 View Post
    So here is a question that I have always wondered. Does space just go on forever? Is it infinite and thus so are the number of stars and planets out there or does it just become empty after a certain point? The thought of something that vast beyond Earth is mind blowing to me.
    The universe is actually still expanding from the "Big bang" - scientists are measuring distances between stars and galaxies and they're finding that they are moving apart. Given this information..... I would think the universe is finite and has an end someplace.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazard View Post
    The universe is actually still expanding from the "Big bang" - scientists are measuring distances between stars and galaxies and they're finding that they are moving apart. Given this information..... I would think the universe is finite and has an end someplace.

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    I had a feeling you would be the one to answer this Haz. So by an end, what do you mean? It just becomes empty or some sort of void?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazard View Post
    The universe is actually still expanding from the "Big bang" - scientists are measuring distances between stars and galaxies and they're finding that they are moving apart. Given this information..... I would think the universe is finite and has an end someplace.

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    Ok so the universe is like a giant fish bowl so big its beyond comprehension. I guess I could buy into that.. I mean if you look at planet earth if the rest of the universe is somewhat like this then it has to be finite.

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    our universe is just another galaxy in another universe which is just a galaxy in another universe, which is just another galaxy in another universe which is one of an infinite number of realities all occuring at once....

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    Quote Originally Posted by jbran23 View Post
    I had a feeling you would be the one to answer this Haz. So by an end, what do you mean? It just becomes empty or some sort of void?
    well i'm not sure really.....

    If it's finite than what happens when we reach the edge? Your guess is as good as mine..... but I do believe there is an end point to the universe. Maybe if we reach one end we wrap right now around to the other end? LMAO idunno.....

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    It's like trying to figure out the fastest speed to travel .
    I thought it was speed of light , but the dark was there first .

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    Quote Originally Posted by HitIt View Post
    our universe is just another galaxy in another universe which is just a galaxy in another universe, which is just another galaxy in another universe which is one of an infinite number of realities all occuring at once....
    I can buy that one.

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    posted before, this one is much further in detail..good post

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    added note, i dont think we as humans can understand these sizes.

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    where is jbm's planet?

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    One word "Wow". Now the next task is to find where another life form is present, i'm sick of humans.

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    Neat. Bring on the new life forms.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazard View Post
    The universe is actually still expanding from the "Big bang" - scientists are measuring distances between stars and galaxies and they're finding that they are moving apart. Given this information..... I would think the universe is finite and has an end someplace.

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    I've always been of the belief that almost everything is finite, something always has a beginning but the universe is different and is literally infinite. Here is why. Size defeats the human mind. People ask "what is beyond our solar system" and someone says some more stars. Someone then says what is beyond the stars, the galaxy. Beyond that, other galaxies. Beyond that, no one knows. But size can work both ways. People used to think atoms were the smallest known thing in the Universe, but that's changed now with discovery of Quarks and Tachyons, which is basically the "material" that atoms are made of. But then, what are Quarks made of? Then what is the stuff that Quarks are made of, made of? And so on. And that, is infinite..

    EDIT: The Universe itself might be finite as it is expanding, but I think the space it is expanding into is infinite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flagg View Post
    EDIT: The Universe itself might be finite as it is expanding, but I think the space it is expanding into is infinite.
    Im with Flagg on this one I think. But then again, who is to say that in all that vastness there isnt places where another "big bang" happened in the exact same way as in our universe? I am of the belief that space is infinite and when you sit there and think about something that goes on FOREVER it becomes hard for the brain to grasp. To think that you could get into a rocket and fly at light speed in one direction past all the stars and planets and possibly into just a nothingness of darkness and continue until basically you die of old age and you still havent come to a definitive end. It hurts my brain a bit to think about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flagg View Post
    EDIT: The Universe itself might be finite as it is expanding, but I think the space it is expanding into is infinite.
    I like that.....

    At the same time tho..... it's sooooo hard to fathom that there is just open space forever and ever. I'd like to believe that when we reach the edge of space - it sort of wraps around to the opposite end. Almost like the eath...... If you started at one spot on the equator and walked in a straight line..... you'd never reach an end..... you'd just keep going and going and going.

    Then theres the theory that we live in a membrane and the big bang is nothing more than 2 membranes colliding. Now if this is the case..... then what's beyond our membrane? Is the space where the membranes are, infinite?

    mind boggling really.....

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    The truth is that the universe is finite and infinite at the same time. The fishbowl picture is the best one I think... although we know there is an end to space and time, we can never escape from it. If we go on a straight path from the Earth into the universe, after some time we will be back at the same place we were before. We'll never escape it, we'll just go around it...

    EDIT - just read the post above. That analogy with the Equator works better lol. And outside the universe there is nothin. No light, no space, no time.

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    Heres an interesting fact by Steven Hawkins. (Somehow he proved this mathamatically)

    That at the moment before the big bang all matter in the entire universe (yes all matter, including all those huge stars at the top of this thread) was compressed to the size of a marble (the kind you used to play with when you were a kid).

    So everything we can think of that exists in space was compressed into something that would have fit in the palm of your hand.

    Im not sure how this would be possible but he has proven it in his Big Bang theory.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazard View Post
    The universe is actually still expanding from the "Big bang" - scientists are measuring distances between stars and galaxies and they're finding that they are moving apart. Given this information..... I would think the universe is finite and has an end someplace.

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    From what I remember, have read/heard they figure at some point it may stop expanding and then begin to collapse and then start all over again eventually. Speculation is this is what has happened before and will again.

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