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A pretty big bang...
18 years ago
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Today on "Astronomy Pic of the Day" (located at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ in case you're interested), they feature a two-part photo of a tiny section of sky. It's sort of a before/after image showing a supernova popping up where there was only darkness three months earlier.
I find this kind of thing really amazing. This event happened nearly 5 billion years ago. It has taken the light that long to travel here, and yet it's such a massive explosion that it's still pretty damn bright after the light has traveling this far.
This is the kind of thing that really makes me think about our place in such a fantastically vast universe...and how silly the notion that an anthropomorphic god-figure created it entirely for our benefit truly is. Now, for you Christians, Jews and Muslims out there--I'm not putting forth an argument against there being a God. I'm only saying that I find certain narrow interpretations of the human-centric purpose of the universe to be, well, laughable.
PS: Speaking of laughable--I am going to post the #0 issue of Rocketship Rodents on this site. For anyone who never picked up the issue of FN Magazine it was in, but DOES have the latest issue of the RSR comic, it explains the first encounter with a certain character that is a major part of that story. It'll be up...one page a day, starting as soon as I get it organized.
*Hugs*
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I find this kind of thing really amazing. This event happened nearly 5 billion years ago. It has taken the light that long to travel here, and yet it's such a massive explosion that it's still pretty damn bright after the light has traveling this far.
This is the kind of thing that really makes me think about our place in such a fantastically vast universe...and how silly the notion that an anthropomorphic god-figure created it entirely for our benefit truly is. Now, for you Christians, Jews and Muslims out there--I'm not putting forth an argument against there being a God. I'm only saying that I find certain narrow interpretations of the human-centric purpose of the universe to be, well, laughable.
PS: Speaking of laughable--I am going to post the #0 issue of Rocketship Rodents on this site. For anyone who never picked up the issue of FN Magazine it was in, but DOES have the latest issue of the RSR comic, it explains the first encounter with a certain character that is a major part of that story. It'll be up...one page a day, starting as soon as I get it organized.
*Hugs*
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On RSR #0: Since i had a LOT of problem getting my first 2 copies of FN, i have opted out of buying any more (though i remember the Space dragon and the...oh wait, is that RS#0?)
If you find any of this confusing...join the club!
If you want to attribute these "works" to God, I have no problem with that...although I don't share the belief.
Supernovas, cuz they're so damn far away
the Speed of Light, and how it never seems to change.
ad hoc excuse: "oh god put the photons in place to make it look like that"
or.. "the speed of light was faster in the past"
Total Energy in the universe...
4x10^69 Joules < infinity
yup... God really aint that great
there is life out there.. wheather we will ever see it or they see us is questionable
-JM
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And it was the prototype...so some of it looks a bit different.
BTW--the first page is up!
(there's more powerful stuff than that out there...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging
If you want something to really screw your head up good, check this... the double-slit experiment. Simple, but if you think about it it's creepy as hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double.....lit_experiment
The saddest thing I could contemplate is that we're alone here. And the most oddly terrifying thought (one that many a film-maker has exploited) is that we're not. Because I doubt any other species out there is gonna be any nicer than we are. And I'd rather come across almost anything besides human hate in a darkened ally.
I've had friends murdered, and the police didn't bother to investigate. And this wasn't the '40's or the '50's; this was within the last ten years.
So maybe Angels live out there. Maybe the other races out there are all greatly advanced, and peaceful. But I wouldn't bet my life on it. Sure is pretty (and deadly) out there.
By the time anyone can sail across the great vastness of the ocean they will be technologically advanced enough to be evolved to such a high level they wouldn't be capable of cultural genocide.
I'll take cold over desperate to appropriate our planet and its resources and drop the equivelant of small-pox laced blankets out of their interstellar ships.
"If it is just us....seems like an awful waste of space."
It's actually from "Contact" with Jodie Foster.
That thought brightens my day.
but anyways :P i loves the stars....
i wanna learn more abouts them >.=.> but i cant write for nuttin... >.=.< cuz ... i suck i never got a A in english just math and science... and stuff..
*visions complete chaos in the goal to get to a new star*