This picture makes my head explode.

[DreadedFist]

How about you?

Read about this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_deep_field

[stucknot]

So many galaxies, so many billions of stars. I wonder if we as a species will ever get to travel distances that big..

[M0nkeyMark]

So many galaxies, so many billions of stars. I wonder if we as a species will ever get to travel distances that big..

the japanese invented the fastest car (skyline).. im sure they're cooking up a recipe for extreme space traveling somehow

[Oakville]

after thinking about what else is out there...I start to feel weird to say the least. about how insignificant we are...yet when im not thinking about it, how little problems that wont mean jack 2 months from now seem to control my life. then I move my way on to how "this is the end" for me, as stated in 'friday night lights' :l lol, how once youre out of highschool, its never the same, you dont have those friends there with you like you did, and so on. It all kinda scares me...but I digress. one day I wont be stressing about this, i hope.

[CanadianGTR]

What really makes my head explode is thinking about how that beyond the universe, there's just nothing. Not deep space nothing, not dark room nothing, absolutely NOTHING... a complete absense of ANYTHING. It's pretty incomprehensible.

Personally I believe that collectively, the human race is only able to comprehend a certain amount of information about our environment and that certain things are simply beyond out knowledge - for now at least. Heck it took us about 200,000 years to come up with superstring & m-theory, about 199,000 years to realize that the earth wasn't flat, we STILL haven't explored our entire planet, etc etc It's almost ignorant to believe that our current view of the universe is total and all-encompassing.

There once was a time that the earth was all we knew, then it was the solar system, then it was the galaxy, then it was the universe... what's next? Multiple universes? Although if you adhere to either school of thought (singular universe, or the inverse, infinite "universes") it's still pretty crazy... either you have absolute desolation and the absense of time, space, energy, light, matter etc... or you have an infinite system of stratum. Multiple planets in a solar system, multiple solar systems in a galaxy, multiple galaxies, quazars, nebula, black holes, dark matter etc in a universe, multiple universes in a gigaverse? etc etc?

Maybe it's just like Mario and once you reach one side, you pop up on the other?

I love thinking about this sort of thing and could do so all day and night...

[Wootang]

Not to sound like the bad influence here, but halucinegetics (spell that right?) can open that door of thought beyond anything you could ever imagine. As we have all grown up, our minds have slowly started adhering to thinking inside the box, which is a terrible, terrible thing! With something that is as complex and limitless as our mind, why should we be thinking inside the box?

How long did we believe that the smallest you could go was what was visible to the naked eye? Magnifying classes changed that, and microscopes did it yet again with plenty more on the way. We are told the electrons circling the atom are as small as it gets, but that is slightly ignorant, don't you think? There has to be something smaller, there just has to!

What if we did a 180 degree spin and went the other way? As CanadianGTR mentioned, we believed that the earth was all there was at one point. we now see that there is an entire universe out there... why cant our view cant keep growing?

Yeah... That one will keep you going for a while, I know it does with me.

[DreadedFist]

Woah man. The Milky Way (our home) galaxy is 100 thousand light years across. Light tavelling at 186,000 miles per second (300,000km per second) for one year is a light year. And we're talking 100,000 of them.

And then in this tiny tenis ball sized part of the sky alone, there are 3,000 galaxies. Both bigger and smaller than our own. I need tylenol.



Watch the entire gif :P

PS: I believe that the universe is like the earth. If you start at one point, get on a plane and fly long enough, you will return to where you started. You'd just need a really fast spaceship to pull that one off in any reasonable amount of time :P Only unlike earth, you can't generate enough thrust to lift off and away from the "start here, end here" aspect of things. Is there anything outside of the universe as we know it? No Nothingness can't exist but... FUUUUUCK

[CanadianGTR]

You guys should read up on M-Theory... 11 dimensions.
Fun stuff.

[doublejceballos]

[ColinR33]

Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light-years side-to-side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick
But out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth

c/o Monty Python's Meaning of Life

[Wootang]

CanadianGTR... I just watched the BBC mini documentary on M-theory... wtf. Membranes, leaking gravity, multiple string theories... oh man.....

[GabAlmighty]

Ya, that looks about right.