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wanna feel small and worthless? (amazing space pictures)

spatspat Posts: 644
edited April 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg

this stuff blows my mind
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  • bmwweirdoguybmwweirdoguy Right of Seattle Posts: 228
    I'll see your composite - and raise you an Image taken in 1990 from the Voyager spacecraft - bluedot.jpg
    That little spec of light is the Earth from deep space...
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Damn...

    And we are egotistical enough to believe that god made us and only us "special" :)
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  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    i prefer feeling small and insignificant rahter than worthless. ;)
    seriously...i LOVE stuff like that, and even right here on earth........being at the grand canyon, the grand tetons, etc......definitely feel like 'my small self.' personally i kinda find it comforting. we truly ARE so unquantifiably small/insignificant in the scheme of things. i mean i live in a HUGELY populated area....so pretty 'small' right here....then think on a state, country, continent, global scale.....and then add in the infiniteness of space?! :? :shock: yea......there is no vocabularly to properly address just how 'small' each of us is as an individual.....and yet, we ARE so important to ourselvs and our little worlds. i love that.
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  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    spat wrote:
    http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg

    this stuff blows my mind

    Awesome. I emailed it to my brother and some friends.
  • spatspat Posts: 644
    i especially like the part where it says the one galaxy is so large it technically shouldn't exist :shock:
    i can't even wrap my mind around the existence of that statement!
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  • Jeremys SpokenJeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    This pic has been going around. I LOVE deep space, and everything having to do with the planets, the galaxies, the cosmos and such.
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  • Tom KTom K Posts: 842
    Thanks .. that was neat..
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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,305
    God sure got a lot done in 7 days!!!



    ;)
  • FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,963
    Thanks Spat, that was really amazing. Kinda puts it all in perspective.
    We're all just a tiny grain of sand on a very small beach in a very big universe. :ugeek: :D
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    That's amazing.
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  • Phantom PainPhantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    I feel that way every morning when I look into the mirror...thanks for reminding me

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  • lephtylephty Posts: 770
    there is definitely NO CHANCE of life out there.....










    /sarcasm off
  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    How the hell do they know this shit?!?!?!? Honestly.

    Its so unbelievable that I don't think I really believe it.
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  • PearlOfAGirlPearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    Wow! :shock: That's unbelievable! :o

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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    I'm speechless and awed all at the same time. Especially the pics from the Hubble space telescope from 13 billion light years away. Absolutely amazing.
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  • Jimmydean55Jimmydean55 Posts: 1,444
    cropduster82 wrote:
    I'm speechless and awed all at the same time. Especially the pics from the Hubble space telescope from 13 billion light years away. Absolutely amazing.
    +1
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    mca47 wrote:
    God sure got a lot done in 7 days!!!



    ;)


    6 days wasnt it? i thought he had a rest on the 7th? he shouldnt even have had a rest on the 7th... he should have fixed the earths moveable plates so that things like volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc wouldnt kill humans and animals indiscriminately... but thats god for you... too lazy to do a decent fucking shift..
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    dunkman wrote:
    mca47 wrote:
    God sure got a lot done in 7 days!!!



    ;)


    6 days wasnt it? i thought he had a rest on the 7th? he shouldnt even have had a rest on the 7th... he should have fixed the earths moveable plates so that things like volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc wouldnt kill humans and animals indiscriminately... but thats god for you... too lazy to do a decent fucking shift..

    He probably left it like it was for job security... As long as there are natural disasters, there are always reasons for people to pray.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    cropduster82 wrote:
    I'm speechless and awed all at the same time. Especially the pics from the Hubble space telescope from 13 billion light years away. Absolutely amazing.

    Uh yeah, I'm speechless right now...that was sooo damn cool. But I do feel very insignificant now. It just goes to show that the human race hasn't even made a dent in exploring what could truly be out there, granted our technology has improved beyond extraordinary levels in the just the past 150 years...
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    So did god make all these planets right?
  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    :o

    so cool, i love space!
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  • HinnHinn Posts: 1,517
    I BrisK I wrote:
    So did god make all these planets right?
    Just earth. The deities from other planets made their own places to fuck over.
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  • yokeyoke Posts: 1,440
    I love all of this stuff... I am fascinated by space and what not. I actually photograph stars(well star trails) in my spare time. I found this video(actually audio) very cool and quite relaxing. check it out.



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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,305
    blackredyellow wrote:

    He probably left it like it was for job security... As long as there are natural disasters, there are always reasons for people to pray.

    Hahahahaha! :D
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    thank you for sharing.

    People thought folks a few hundred years ago were foolish for thinking the earth was flat.... how foolish are we to think that we are the only place life can happen?
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