Have you really tried to imagine the pure vastness of our universe?

[Melkane]

This will likely get moved to the Science section before long, but I wanted to put it here so a few more people may see it first. I took this clip from a Documentary series I'm currently uploading for my Video topic in the science section. This small clip does a great job of giving a good progressive view of just how vast the universe is.

YouTube - The Size of the Universe



I'll have the actually documentary series up as soon as possible and post the links in my normal topic. Enjoy.


Side note: How do you embed a youtube video onto the message board?

Melkane Reviewed by Melkane on 08-20-2007. Have you really tried to imagine the pure vastness of our universe? This will likely get moved to the Science section before long, but I wanted to put it here so a few more people may see it first. I took this clip from a Documentary series I'm currently uploading for my Video topic in the science section. This small clip does a great job of giving a good progressive view of just how vast the universe is. YouTube - The Size of the Universe I'll have the actually documentary series up as soon as possible and post the links in my normal topic. Enjoy. Rating: 5

[mamma puffpuff420]

i didnt check out the youtube site yet
but i think about the universe alot
it just totaly boggle's my mind
i do believe there other inhabited planet's out there somewhere

[JeKo]

Nice, thanks for adding these Melkane . What you said in the other thread about how if people realized how vast the universe was they wouldn't get so worked up over petty little earth matters made me really think.



To add Youtube videos
1. Copy the Random Numbers after http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
2. Hit the little YouTube button on the 2nd row, far right
3. now just past the random numbers that you copied


[youtube]EjVoUZL0KAI[/youtube]

[sam44]

nice vid

[ghosty]

yeah i took an astronomy class last year, it was great, did a lto of shit that helped you see just how fucking HUGE space is... the professor I had was one of the heads of stronomy department for the whole state too so he knew his shit, his lessons and demonstrations were awesome.

[Oneironaut]

Our monkey brains are waaaaaay too puny to begin to comprehend something like the vastness of the universe. I've tried, but it can't be done. The largest field of vision that I can really comprehend is the view from a mountaintop...maybe a few miles. I can't get a good mental image of how big my county is, or my state, or my country, or the planet. Over the distances I can imagine, light seems to move instantaneously. The farthest objects we can detect are 13.7 billion light years away. That's the distance light has traveled in 13.7 billion years, a stretch of time I cannot imagine for similar reasons. If my whole lifetime up until now (22 years) represented the age of the universe, my birth would have occurred a little over one second ago. There is no possible way any human could imagine that kind of vastness, so there's no point in trying. There was no evolutionary advantage in being able to wrap our minds around things larger than the environment we lived in. Some numbers are just too big for us. The ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for "million" was a man with his arms raised in astonishment (see pic).

[The Dude Of Life]

78 billion light years.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw[/YOUTUBE]
Dont worry about the numa numa shit in the middle... its only for a minute lol. Weird people...

[Oneironaut]

Well yeah, the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, but the light emitted from the farthest objects we can see was emitted 13.7 billion years ago so they have effectively traveled 13.7 billion light years.

[Demeter]

When I was little I used to lie on my back in the yard and look at the sky like we all did, and I would try to imagine the infinity of space, and I would feel dizzy! It almost seemed like I could feel the earth spinning under me. Some days I still can
Our minds know so little of the universe/time, and are not equipped to know "everything" - but I like to think we are evolving to a state of understanding more.
It is wonderful to contemplate. I was watching a show recently about the rings of Saturn - manic superhighways of icerocks rollerderbying their way around the giant planet! And all of that going on behind the dark we see when we look up at the night sky.
It seems self-evident that in all this vastness, there are other beings similar to ourselves...how unlikely for us to be the only sentient ones? Certainly there are places with smarter and sweeter folks than the average human? I hope:hippy:

[Spoken Word]

All the time. Miami has vast open skies at night and it's simple to stare out into the night. Especially, if you are smoking.
it's one of the biggest mysteries and we take it for granted.

and those were pretty cool videos.