Falcs
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You monster!!
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Just look how big our universe is.
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Ken Masters
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I find this to be much more fascinating
neoism
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If only half the military budget went towards science.
word... truly a shame Space is fuckawesome.
Once we've ravaged our planet irreparably, perhaps then (reminds me Trigun anime).
HamPster PamPster
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I've never heard of Eris, Makemake or Haumea. This dwarf planet nonsense is keeping perfectly good planets down! They should be taught in schools - My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets Ever More Honestly
LaserBuddha
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Just watch the beginning of Contact.
FalsettoVibe
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The universe's size is mind blowing........lol@the last pic.
*tips fedora*
SCULLIBUNDO
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If only half the military budget went towards science.
Then the miltary would come to collect on any of the developments and we'd end up killing ourselves off, that much quicker.
I guess some are of the thought that we burn through our martial tendencies until they're no longer necessary, and then we will have a new golden age of science and discovery. Of course it won't work that way, but today right now we need to buy more tanks, because peoples' lives depend on it or something.
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what if the aliens won't let us leave until we resolve that pesky nuclear weapons issue? Fucking North Korea...
Evolution_1ne
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I love the ever so subtle Cthulhu
Trent Strong
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Meh. I'm not impressed.
Size queen.
TacticalFox88
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Until you fully understand exactly WHAT that budget goes to you can't just arbitrarily cut the budget in half without a game plan or your going to have extreme repercussions, the sequester already fucked a lot of the military as it is. Cutting it in half? Disaster isn't even the appropriate word to describe it.If only half the military budget went towards science.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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Inwards and outwards, this 'world' is so fascinating.
Trent Strong
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I...don't know what that means.
That's what she said.
I love images like this, reminds me how small and vulnerable we are..
JakOfTheShadows
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I find it funny that this is basically the exact opposite of the "enhance" meme used in all the crime shows on TV.
HammerOfThor
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This is so unbelievably amazing. Words can't even describe.
With that said, I wonder how many other 'intelligent' life forms there are somewhere out there. Or how many have lived at one point but have since perished.
With that said, I wonder how many other 'intelligent' life forms there are somewhere out there. Or how many have lived at one point but have since perished.
superfamicom
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These pictures doesn't do justice to the inconceivably vast distances of empty space between objects.
That's really the more terrifying thing about space. For as large as galaxies (clusters) are, they don't even come close to the sheer emptiness in between them.
And that emptiness isn't truly empty, either. Evidently a large portion of the universe's mass is created by quantum fluctuations. Matter pops into existence and pops out very quickly.
This is a very strange place.
this is what I LOVE about videogames.
they let me experience something I might never experience in real life.
after we get more data on numerous planets, we'll be able to travel on them with 3D goggles....skipping planet to planet when ever we want.
then if we want to travel deep into the ocean, devs in the future will model some of these "freakish" beautiful ocean creatures, that we'll be able to poke with our submarines.
I know some didn't like or were really interested in games like Afrika or Aquanaut's Holiday because of clunkyness or glitches (mainly Afrika) but it was totally worth it for me for just the experience. And at least the effort was there....I hope Sony doesn't give up on this type of approach each new gen.
they let me experience something I might never experience in real life.
after we get more data on numerous planets, we'll be able to travel on them with 3D goggles....skipping planet to planet when ever we want.
then if we want to travel deep into the ocean, devs in the future will model some of these "freakish" beautiful ocean creatures, that we'll be able to poke with our submarines.
I know some didn't like or were really interested in games like Afrika or Aquanaut's Holiday because of clunkyness or glitches (mainly Afrika) but it was totally worth it for me for just the experience. And at least the effort was there....I hope Sony doesn't give up on this type of approach each new gen.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I imagine there must be quite a few, after all someone had to name all those stars.
At the risk of sounding dumb, what technology do we use to see this shit.
Holy fuck balls.
Powerful telescopes?
Space drones?
I know space is a big place, but damn, I am more fascinated and thankful that I'm living during a time that mankind has come to a point to know that all this exist.
Holy fuck balls.
Powerful telescopes?
Space drones?
I know space is a big place, but damn, I am more fascinated and thankful that I'm living during a time that mankind has come to a point to know that all this exist.
If only half the military budget went towards science.
A lot of what they spend IS on research and development. And a lot of that goes towards funding basic research (look it up, it isn't what it seems) projects. That research generally leads to great applied research projects. For example, the idea of the internet was created back in the 1940s by the US military that stemmed from basic research.
Buckethead
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Hahah. Excellent.
sleeping_dragon
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What if I tell you that there are other Universeres out there?
Winterfang
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If I know correctly, every far out space picture you see is Photoshop. Kind of like an artists recreation of Dinosaurs, Using the info we have to try to put things in perspective.
Stellactic
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Isn't most of it educated guesses. Yeah we have a telescope and yeah we can see pretty far, but only so far until things are just too far away. We really don't know how big the universe is, but we can guess and hope humans after us will not laugh when we are wrong.
oneils
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muhahahahahaha!
Troll post?
Jim Harbaugh
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What is outside of the universe? Is the universe a grain of sand?
Winterfang
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You don't seriously believe some of the wildest, farthest graphics are nothing more than guesses and approximations don't you?
Heck you can go to google and check the planets on the solar systems and you will see renders with different colors, Uranus for example something you see it ringless, sometimes the rings are vertical, sometimes horizontal.
This lecture I think is relevant to this topic. Its long but mind blowing and highly recommended.
A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaB-zq864-c
A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaB-zq864-c
Can Crusher
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Kinda renders stuff meaningless sometimes.
Like the hat?
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Clearly shows that we are the center of the universe. God 1, atheists 0
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