Outer Space...

Drop The Leash 10

It's so hard to fathom that something could have no end. I have my own theory on how the Universe came to be.. but it's truly incredible how little and insignificant we are. Makes you wonder...

Ok, carry on.

Dissidentman

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

It's so hard to fathom that something could have no end. I have my own theory on how the Universe came to be.. but it's truly incredible how little and insignificant we are. Makes you wonder...

Ok, carry on.

some of these threads have no end...

SatansFuton

It's harder for me to fathom how scientists can shrink a guy in a capsule down to microscopic size and inject him into Martin Short's body...

Lizard

it's hard to imagine how these people survived being lost in space!!!!!!!!

Dissidentman

SatansFuton wrote:

It's harder for me to fathom how scientists can shrink a guy in a capsule down to microscopic size and inject him into Martin Short's body...

That was the 1st movie I went to see without a parent!

DS1119

It's hard for me to fathom he hit that.

BinauralJam

DS1119 wrote:

It's hard for me to fathom he hit that.

and Princess Ardala

SatansFuton

DS1119 wrote:

It's hard for me to fathom he hit that.

Never underestimate Buck Rogers.

BinauralJam

JonnyPistachio

I just saw this recently, pretty awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0 ... r_embedded

catefrances

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

It's so hard to fathom that something could have no end. I have my own theory on how the Universe came to be.. but it's truly incredible how little and insignificant we are. Makes you wonder...

Ok, carry on.

i suspect that just like in the truman show if we go far enough out we will hit a dome.

DS1119

It's hard for me to fathom that Arnold Jackson was in outer space.

brianlux

JonnyPistachio wrote:

I just saw this recently, pretty awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0 ... r_embedded

Very, very cool. Thanks, JonnyPistachio!

conman

http://jordanhall.co.uk/wp-content/uplo ... -scale.jpg

he still stands

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

It's so hard to fathom that something could have no end. I have my own theory on how the Universe came to be.. but it's truly incredible how little and insignificant we are. Makes you wonder...

Ok, carry on.

best book to read on the subject, for the layman; "A Brief History of Time." (Hawking) It really isn't that difficult of a read and one of the most enlightening books I've ever read.

There is no good answer to the question, "does the universe have no end." Technically it does, but there is "nothing" outside of it, no space/time. Also, you can never reach the "end" of it, because you'd have to go faster than the speed of light (which is impossible according to Einstein's relativity) to reach "the end" of the universe. This is because the universe is expanding at the speed of light. Since space and time are interconnected, the same could be said of time.

But yeah... read the book... I'm horrible at explaining this stuff

chadwick

to have an ending one must have understanding and a form of simplicity. the universe is not simplistic nor is the universe understood, therefore, it is in fact as incredible as you suggest and more.

are we insignificant? i have always thought we were for sure specks of shit crawling a rock of life as if apes or bugs on crack. could it be that we are of great importance to the wellbeing of this grand planet as well as the wonderous expanse that lays spread out before, behind, under, above, and inside of each and every one of us, past, present, and future?

these are the questions most of us have philosophied over, yes/no?

rollings

Do you realize we're floating in space?

Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?




















--Lips O' Flaming

brianlux

chadwick wrote:

to have an ending one must have understanding and a form of simplicity. the universe is not simplistic nor is the universe understood, therefore, it is in fact as incredible as you suggest and more.

are we insignificant? i have always thought we were for sure specks of shit crawling a rock of life as if apes or bugs on crack. could it be that we are of great importance to the wellbeing of this grand planet as well as the wonderous expanse that lays spread out before, behind, under, above, and inside of each and every one of us, past, present, and future?

these are the questions most of us have philosophied over, yes/no?

Oh yes, very much. One of my favorite thoughts on this subject from Alan Weisman's The World Without Us. (And I should mention, SPOILER ALERT: though I don't think reading this here spoils this wonderful book- still, you should know this does come from the book's coda.):

"Since the late 19th century, when, beginning with electrons, we got down to manipulating the fundamental particles of the universe, human life has changed very fast. One measure of how fast is that, barely a century ago-until Marconi's wireless and Edison's phonograph- all the music ever heard on earth was live. Today, a tiny fraction of 1 percent is. The rest is electronically reproduced or broadcast, along with a trillion words and images each day.

Those radio waves don't die- like light, they travel on. The human brain also eminates electric impulses at very low frequencies: similar to, but far weaker than, the radio waves used to communicate with submarines. Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen.

That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer. The eminations from our brains, like radio waves, must also keep going- where? Space is now described as an expanding bubble, but that architecture is still theory. Along its great mysterious interstellar curvatures, perhaps it's not unreasonable to think that our thought waves might eventually find their way back here.

Or even that one day- long after we're gone, unbearably lonely for the beautiful world from which we so foolishly banished ourselves- we, or our memories, might surf home abroad a cosmic electromagnetic wave to haunt our beloved Earth."

Perhaps we are immortals after all.

chadwick

brianlux wrote:

chadwick wrote:

to have an ending one must have understanding and a form of simplicity. the universe is not simplistic nor is the universe understood, therefore, it is in fact as incredible as you suggest and more.

are we insignificant? i have always thought we were for sure specks of shit crawling a rock of life as if apes or bugs on crack. could it be that we are of great importance to the wellbeing of this grand planet as well as the wonderous expanse that lays spread out before, behind, under, above, and inside of each and every one of us, past, present, and future?

these are the questions most of us have philosophied over, yes/no?

Oh yes, very much. One of my favorite thoughts on this subject from Alan Weisman's The World Without Us. (And I should mention, SPOILER ALERT: though I don't think reading this here spoils this wonderful book- still, you should know this does come from the book's coda.):

"Since the late 19th century, when, beginning with electrons, we got down to manipulating the fundamental particles of the universe, human life has changed very fast. One measure of how fast is that, barely a century ago-until Marconi's wireless and Edison's phonograph- all the music ever heard on earth was live. Today, a tiny fraction of 1 percent is. The rest is electronically reproduced or broadcast, along with a trillion words and images each day.

Those radio waves don't die- like light, they travel on. The human brain also eminates electric impulses at very low frequencies: similar to, but far weaker than, the radio waves used to communicate with submarines. Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen.

That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer. The eminations from our brains, like radio waves, must also keep going- where? Space is now described as an expanding bubble, but that architecture is still theory. Along its great mysterious interstellar curvatures, perhaps it's not unreasonable to think that our thought waves might eventually find their way back here.

Or even that one day- long after we're gone, unbearably lonely for the beautiful world from which we so foolishly banished ourselves- we, or our memories, might surf home abroad a cosmic electromagnetic wave to haunt our beloved Earth."

Perhaps we are immortals after all.

astral traveling... astral projection is done and has been done for thousands of years. our minds and spirits are endless, even more so than life. parrallel universes? alternative univeres are or could be on strings or in webs woven together, dangling next to or overlaping one another.

this is a belief of mine on how we see ghosts. the apparition is in fact in a different realm all together, perhaps lost or visiting. what about prehistoric creatures? if all this is the case then dinosaurs are alive and well right in our backyards...doorways folks, doorways.

rollings

chadwick wrote:

brianlux wrote:

chadwick wrote:

to have an ending one must have understanding and a form of simplicity. the universe is not simplistic nor is the universe understood, therefore, it is in fact as incredible as you suggest and more.

are we insignificant? i have always thought we were for sure specks of shit crawling a rock of life as if apes or bugs on crack. could it be that we are of great importance to the wellbeing of this grand planet as well as the wonderous expanse that lays spread out before, behind, under, above, and inside of each and every one of us, past, present, and future?

these are the questions most of us have philosophied over, yes/no?

Oh yes, very much. One of my favorite thoughts on this subject from Alan Weisman's The World Without Us. (And I should mention, SPOILER ALERT: though I don't think reading this here spoils this wonderful book- still, you should know this does come from the book's coda.):

"Since the late 19th century, when, beginning with electrons, we got down to manipulating the fundamental particles of the universe, human life has changed very fast. One measure of how fast is that, barely a century ago-until Marconi's wireless and Edison's phonograph- all the music ever heard on earth was live. Today, a tiny fraction of 1 percent is. The rest is electronically reproduced or broadcast, along with a trillion words and images each day.

Those radio waves don't die- like light, they travel on. The human brain also eminates electric impulses at very low frequencies: similar to, but far weaker than, the radio waves used to communicate with submarines. Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen.

That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer. The eminations from our brains, like radio waves, must also keep going- where? Space is now described as an expanding bubble, but that architecture is still theory. Along its great mysterious interstellar curvatures, perhaps it's not unreasonable to think that our thought waves might eventually find their way back here.

Or even that one day- long after we're gone, unbearably lonely for the beautiful world from which we so foolishly banished ourselves- we, or our memories, might surf home abroad a cosmic electromagnetic wave to haunt our beloved Earth."

Perhaps we are immortals after all.

astral traveling... astral projection is done and has been done for thousands of years. our minds and spirits are endless, even more so than life. parrallel universes? alternative univeres are or could be on strings or in webs woven together, dangling next to or overlaping one another.

this is a belief of mine on how we see ghosts. the apparition is in fact in a different realm all together, perhaps lost or visiting. what about prehistoric creatures? if all this is the case then dinosaurs are alive and well right in our backyards...doorways folks, doorways.

or wormholes

catefrances

Rollings wrote:

Do you realize we're floating in space?

turtles all the way down.

The Waiting Trophy Man

"Space, the final frontier...."

brianlux

catefrances wrote:

Rollings wrote:

Do you realize we're floating in space?

turtles all the way down.

Aye, lad, perhaps the old lady was on to something. But what of the other direction- eagles all the way up?