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04-17-2009, 02:17 PM
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#1 | | SFICC-03*
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so i was sitting here at work, having some problems trying to get some computer software issues to work. getting stressed out over an order that's been giving me problems.
i took a break and saw this, and it made just about everything in life seem so damn trivial.
even when i get on an airplane and look out the window and see all the little dots moving around on the streets, and see the mountains and fields, it makes you feel so small.
looking at this picture and trying to grasp the scale of things just makes me feel so insignificant. enjoy!   | 
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04-17-2009, 02:18 PM
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04-17-2009, 02:24 PM
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It blows my mind how small our Sun actually is, compared with other stars.
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04-17-2009, 04:05 PM
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Incredible. Nice post.
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04-17-2009, 04:06 PM
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#5 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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my tiny little brain cannot comprehend all of it lol...
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04-17-2009, 04:10 PM
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#6 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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always wanted to be an astronomer, but i'm sure accounting is just as fun.
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04-17-2009, 04:29 PM
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#7 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Grain of sand on a beach.
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04-17-2009, 04:30 PM
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#8 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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This picture is the most IMPORTANT PICTURE ever to have been taken in Human history.
This picture proves the existence of Alien life away from our planet Earth.
There's no way, we are the only intelligent life in this Multiverse. That is beyond ignorance to think that way, and even more ignorant to think we're intelligent.
If any of you guys are interested, start learning from Dr Michio Kaku.
This guy is real. He makes impossible concepts into very simple analogies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyXVCggV6EU | |
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04-17-2009, 04:33 PM
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#9 | | Banned (ABWS)?
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Originally Posted by ienhz always wanted to be an astronomer, but i'm sure accounting is just as fun. |
^ and a lot easier.
I can't imagine the calculations astronomers have to do to even get any of their datas.
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04-17-2009, 05:10 PM
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#10 | | I subscribe to the Revscene NWS thread(s)
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Originally Posted by ynot-llat This picture is the most IMPORTANT PICTURE ever to have been taken in Human history.
This picture proves the existence of Alien life away from our planet Earth.
There's no way, we are the only intelligent life in this Multiverse. That is beyond ignorance to think that way, and even more ignorant to think we're intelligent.
If any of you guys are interested, start learning from Dr Michio Kaku.
This guy is real. He makes impossible concepts into very simple analogies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyXVCggV6EU | how does that "prove the existence of Alien life"?
it is plausible that there are aliens, but i don't think there is any hardcore evidence that aliens exist. it would put aliens and ufos on the same level as religion
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04-17-2009, 05:54 PM
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#11 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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Originally Posted by ynot-llat He makes impossible concepts into very simple analogies. | Attributes of a genius right there.
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04-17-2009, 07:08 PM
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#12 | | I bringith the lowerballerith
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04-17-2009, 07:12 PM
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#13 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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we are so insignificant
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04-17-2009, 07:17 PM
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Your mind is the key to visualizing and understanding the universe/multiverses.
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04-17-2009, 08:00 PM
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w0w cool post, this stuff is cool once you start getting deep into it
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04-17-2009, 09:27 PM
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#16 | | DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
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Originally Posted by ynot-llat This picture is the most IMPORTANT PICTURE ever to have been taken in Human history.
This picture proves the existence of Alien life away from our planet Earth.
There's no way, we are the only intelligent life in this Multiverse. That is beyond ignorance to think that way, and even more ignorant to think we're intelligent.
If any of you guys are interested, start learning from Dr Michio Kaku.
This guy is real. He makes impossible concepts into very simple analogies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyXVCggV6EU | I watched the whole thing, but I don't understand nearly enough to give an educated response.
So this is gonna sound really immature,
but he says "white" like Stewie from Family Guy says "Whip"  | |
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04-17-2009, 09:52 PM
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#17 | | Banned (ABWS)
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LOL, just like my science teacher. Haa-what.
Anyways, that fucking picture reminded me of some nightmare that I can never remember. Pretty cool stuff.
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04-17-2009, 10:02 PM
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#18 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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shit, wasnt there a youtube video on here a while back that did a zoom-out of earth and showed the stars in relation to earth. that blew my mind.
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04-17-2009, 11:16 PM
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#19 | | Need my Daily Fix of RS
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It's so amazing how insignificant we are. There has to be another Earth 2 billion years away, right?
I used to believe each country was it's own planet and that you had to travel through space to go to another country. Oh the uneducated 5 year old me...
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04-18-2009, 12:30 AM
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#20 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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Originally Posted by Carl Johnson my tiny little brain cannot comprehend all of it lol... | +1
btw anyone ever wonder if all those galaxies may be some sort of optical illusion? it said the size of that galaxy is so large it defies the laws of current physics... and at 800million years old the universe should have still been expanding at a tremendous rate, so the tiny little spot there, since we're looking 13billion years into the past, could actually make up more of the universe than we think
plus, mankind's knowledge of optics is tiny compared to its knowledge of physics, which is still really small, so maybe we shouldnt trust what we see as much as we should trust good old laws of physics?
anyone got any feedback?
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04-18-2009, 02:15 AM
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#21 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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Actually, if you consider how old the Universe is from Big Bang onwards (prior to which matter did not exist, and all energy/matter was focused on a critical mass, which then exploded and continues to expand outwards from this focal point), and the time which Earth developed and life flourished, its possible that since the Big Bang, there have been many planets such as ours which developed life and already died before we even came to being.
E.g.
Life of Universe = 8 B years
Life of our solar system and Earth = 2 B years
If you take this into account, its incredibly silly to even think of putting research interests into anything but Astronomy/Applied Physics. In the end, those are the only "real" sciences as it does not get anymore micro than that.
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04-18-2009, 02:22 AM
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#22 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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04-18-2009, 02:34 AM
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#23 | | noob
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Try to wrap your brain around this. Good stuff!!
We're basically as irrelevant as the grains on a beach.
Mind Fuck?
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04-18-2009, 03:05 AM
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04-18-2009, 03:11 AM
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yea... i love the universe... so vast..
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