[quote]RSGZ wrote:
It would suck if we found the edge of the universe and realized there was nothing else out there. Seriously.[/quote]
Seriously. What more are you hoping for? We dont even know 1/1000th of what goes on in the universe that we do know exists let alone what goes on in parts we havent seen/theorized about/calculated on. I just hope someone out there has giant robots, but ones that dont want to kill us like in War of the Worlds or the Matrix…[/quote]
I’m hoping for other planets that can support life in the same way this one does, with a universe that can be infinitely explored. Chances are the human race won’t reach survive that long, but hey, that’s not the point.
I saw a documentary the other night that showed how comets are composed of a lot of ice, which essentially means that if a comet was to land on another planet with a similar climate, there is a good chance that the water could start life elsewhere - at least that was the theory.
Comet’s could also be used a “refueling stations” in long distance space travel since they contain certain elements that could be used as energy.[/quote]
I think they’ve also found hydrocarbons and amino acids on comets as well.
By the way, there are about 100 billion estimated galaxies out there, each one containing anywhere from a few billion to a trillion stars. That means each star could potentially harbor a planet with life. I personally believe there is a very good chance life is out there somewhere else in the universe, just it is too far away for us to discover.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
It would suck if we found the edge of the universe and realized there was nothing else out there. Seriously.[/quote]
Seriously. What more are you hoping for? We dont even know 1/1000th of what goes on in the universe that we do know exists let alone what goes on in parts we havent seen/theorized about/calculated on. I just hope someone out there has giant robots, but ones that dont want to kill us like in War of the Worlds or the Matrix…[/quote]
I’m hoping for other planets that can support life in the same way this one does, with a universe that can be infinitely explored. Chances are the human race won’t reach survive that long, but hey, that’s not the point.
I saw a documentary the other night that showed how comets are composed of a lot of ice, which essentially means that if a comet was to land on another planet with a similar climate, there is a good chance that the water could start life elsewhere - at least that was the theory.
Comet’s could also be used a “refueling stations” in long distance space travel since they contain certain elements that could be used as energy.[/quote]
I think they’ve also found hydrocarbons and amino acids on comets as well.
By the way, there are about 100 billion estimated galaxies out there, each one containing anywhere from a few billion to a trillion stars. That means each star could potentially harbor a planet with life. I personally believe there is a very good chance life is out there somewhere else in the universe, just it is too far away for us to discover. [/quote]
That would make sense. I mean, just going by the above video, it would be incredibly difficult to find that one lone planet without some seriously advanced technology.
We’re just a bunch of little lemmings on a level that the universe has put us on.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
It would suck if we found the edge of the universe and realized there was nothing else out there. Seriously.[/quote]
Seriously. What more are you hoping for? We dont even know 1/1000th of what goes on in the universe that we do know exists let alone what goes on in parts we havent seen/theorized about/calculated on. I just hope someone out there has giant robots, but ones that dont want to kill us like in War of the Worlds or the Matrix…[/quote]
I’m hoping for other planets that can support life in the same way this one does, with a universe that can be infinitely explored. Chances are the human race won’t reach survive that long, but hey, that’s not the point.
I saw a documentary the other night that showed how comets are composed of a lot of ice, which essentially means that if a comet was to land on another planet with a similar climate, there is a good chance that the water could start life elsewhere - at least that was the theory.
Comet’s could also be used a “refueling stations” in long distance space travel since they contain certain elements that could be used as energy.[/quote]
I think they’ve also found hydrocarbons and amino acids on comets as well.
By the way, there are about 100 billion estimated galaxies out there, each one containing anywhere from a few billion to a trillion stars. That means each star could potentially harbor a planet with life. I personally believe there is a very good chance life is out there somewhere else in the universe, just it is too far away for us to discover. [/quote]
If the above animation is anything to go by, estimates of the number of galaxies are probably underestimates.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
So if we had better equipment we’d be able to see 93 billion light years away?
If they believe that then why do they say that the universe is only 14 billion years old. Wouldnt it have to be older if it was that much bigger? Im getting more confused thinking about it. shit[/quote]
Maybe the milky way is 14billion years old, whats beyond the heliosphere may be much older.
Like most people I was always interested in space but when I got a telescope it really kicked it up a notch. It’s a shitty reflector but seeing the rings of Saturn for the first time was very cool. Pointing out constellations in the sky for friends when I’m camping or something is always funny cause once you point them out they always go “how did I not see that before, Orion if fucking huge”.
That gif that mattlebee put up always makes my jaw drop everytime I see it. Too bad I don’t have enough brain matter to make heads or tales of this stuff most of the time lol. I still try though.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
It would suck if we found the edge of the universe and realized there was nothing else out there. Seriously.[/quote]
We dont even know 1/1000th of what goes on in the universe that we do know exists let alone what goes on in parts we havent seen/theorized about/calculated on. [/quote]
and yet we know much more about space then our own oceans.
[quote]horsepuss wrote:
Does size of the universe mean how big the inside of our heliosphere is or beyond that.I dont think we can measure beyond that.[/quote]
The heliosphere only relates to our sun, so is tiny compared to the universe. You’re probably thinking of the light (or particle) horizon, which is the limit at which we can see, because the light from anything further away hasn’t reached us yet.
The whole universe is bigger than the observable universe, but we obviously can’t see how much bigger.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
So if we had better equipment we’d be able to see 93 billion light years away?
If they believe that then why do they say that the universe is only 14 billion years old. Wouldnt it have to be older if it was that much bigger? Im getting more confused thinking about it. shit[/quote]
Maybe the milky way is 14billion years old, whats beyond the heliosphere may be much older.
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The universe is that age, but there are complications when working out sizes. The oldest light we can see set off around 13,700,000,000 years ago, but whatever emitted it was moving and has carried on moving (at an unknown speed) so is now waaaaaay further away.
This basically just means we see the universe in the past when it was smaller. In the present it’s much bigger, but no-one knows for sure how much bigger. In the universe we can see, the expansion is fastest in the oldest, most distant, parts. The even older, even more distant bits that we can’t see should be expanding even faster - making a size prediction very hard.
The sizes involved here are truly mind boggling. The speed of light in vacuum in 186282.397 miles per second. So light travels 16,094,764,800 miles every day. 16 billion miles a day. 5,874,589,152,000 miles every year. so 5.8 trillion miles every year. Then multiply that by 14 billion more… That’s a long fucking way off.
Really puts things in perspective, and also makes me find it harder and harder to believe that we are alone. Not saying their is some alien federation or some shit, but still there has to be more than just us.
[quote]VerbalHologram wrote:
Really puts things in perspective, and also makes me find it harder and harder to believe that we are alone. Not saying their is some alien federation or some shit, but still there has to be more than just us.[/quote]
One planet out of like a possible quatrillion-billion-dillion to only have “life”? There HAS to be other life.
[quote]VerbalHologram wrote:
Really puts things in perspective, and also makes me find it harder and harder to believe that we are alone. Not saying their is some alien federation or some shit, but still there has to be more than just us.[/quote]
One planet out of like a possible quatrillion-billion-dillion to only have “life”? There HAS to be other life.
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Life can be bacteria living on other planets, Like when they found ancient bacteria on Mars. Maybe there was life on other planets but their ecosystem died out. All we really know from outer space is the pictures we’ve obtained from Hubble. There’s no telling if other life is aware of our existence, or if that other life has the technology to look beyond their own atmosphere. Believing we are the only life in the whole universe is pretty self-centered, but it’s all we know as of now.
