The universe in sliding-scale

[Ghost]

Go waste some time here:

http://htwins.net/scale2/

If it happens to spark deep thoughts about your place in the universe, good, if not, it's still fun.

Note: you can slide the scale and click on the objects for more details on them.

[dirkterrell]

Very nice.

[bulldog]

Things like this mae me laugh when people think there is no other intelligent life out there! We are but a speck in the universe....

[Ezzzzy1]

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/Ezzzzy1/carlsaganexistence.jpg

[~Barn~]

Nice link. :up:

[Ghost]

Things like this mae me laugh when people think there is no other intelligent life out there! We are but a speck in the universe....

"Other" would imply that we're intelligent...something I'm not wholly convinced of. :p

[Ghost]

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/Ezzzzy1/carlsaganexistence.jpg

Fwiw, Cosmos is on NetFlix

[Snowman]

All depends on what your definition of intelligence is.

I personally believe that any biological life form that is controlled by millions of years emotional development will never be a good candidate to go much beyond the world they grew up on. They would have to take too large of a part of that world with them to want to survive beyond their solar system. So I doubt any two biological life forms will ever run into each other.

However their creations are probably running around most places where life has had half a chance of existing. But what they would consider intelligent would be anyone guess.

[Ghost]

All depends on what your definition of intelligence is.

I personally believe that any biological life form that is controlled by millions of years emotional development will never be a good candidate to go much beyond the world they grew up on. They would have to take too large of a part of that world with them to want to survive beyond their solar system. So I doubt any two biological life forms will ever run into each other.

However their creations are probably running around most places where life has had half a chance of existing. But what they would consider intelligent would be anyone guess.

Given our location in the universe, or even within our galaxy, there should be older worlds that either have or at one point had life.

Assuming these earlier worlds survived their own nuclear age and advanced their technology on a pace at least equivalent to ours, then one could assume that they've already left their homeworld and have begun to explore their own solar system and possibly their near-to-them systems.

If they're even older and/or more advanced (never having had religion, the Dark Ages, being more raw intelligent, having found some key secrets earlier than we did, etc.) then they could well have expanded beyond their home systems and be exploring other parts of their (or our) galaxy even as we speak.

If you look at what we've accomplished in our relatively short scientific period, and if you eliminated our religious/social/financial quagmires that have hindered our true potential, then even we could be off the Earth by now, living in space, the moon, mars, perhaps even exploring the outer planets.

I think there are certain aspects of intelligence that must be universal, and though that doesn't necessarily imply that there are other intelligent lifeforms "out there", I think that given the scope and scale of the universe, and the odds that we exist here, then there must be --statistically speaking-- life elsewhere, and if there's life, then some of it ought to be intelligent.

[McVaaahhh]

very cool, thanks for sharing. :up:

[Ghost]

very cool, thanks for sharing. :up:

Sure thing. I stumbled upon it and hoped at least some of CSC would like it too.

[Ghost]

http://i.space.com/images/i/1412/original/060111_orion_hubble_02.jpg

http://i.space.com/images/i/4975/original/orion-nebula-vista-a-100210-02.jpg

[mdub]

Man i love stuff like this.....Just hope intellegent beings dont inslave us and use us for groceries.

[~Barn~]

I just hope they're not gay.

[mdub]

like these guys

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s180/Sinders666/galaxy_quest_3.jpg

[Ghost]

Man i love stuff like this.....Just hope intellegent beings dont inslave us and use us for groceries.

Meh, depends on the slavery.

If it was sex slavery to one of Kirk's green Orion chicks, I could be persuaded.

Even if it was just something like chauffeuring lazy aliens around in a warp-capable space craft I'd do it to get into space.

Either way beats wage-slavery here.


I just hope they're not gay.

I doubt they're in the UFC

[dirkterrell]

I posted this one when it came out a couple of years ago but it's worth seeing again:

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/

And this is a cool video showing the Moon at hourly intervals throughout 2012. You can see the changing apparent size of the Moon (because of its elliptical orbit) and the librations (wobbling due to gravitational forces):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j_W9MUOGKI

[TFOGGuys]

All depends on what your definition of intelligence is.

But what they would consider intelligent would be anyone guess.

We're fookin doomed....

http://media.nj.com/entertainment_impact_celebrities/photo/shorejpg-a14c0a054689f7f0_large.jpg

[Ghost]

I posted this one when it came out a couple of years ago but it's worth seeing again:

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/

And this is a cool video showing the Moon at hourly intervals throughout 2012. You can see the changing apparent size of the Moon (because of its elliptical orbit) and the librations (wobbling due to gravitational forces):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j_W9MUOGKI

Those are very cool.

I downloaded the video and the pack.

If you have an Android phone (I assume iPhone have something similar) you can d/l Google Sky Map and Moon Phase apps, I have both and they're fun to play with.

[JonnyD]

Things like this mae me laugh when people think there is no other intelligent life out there! We are but a speck in the universe....

One of my favorite quotes:

"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Calvin & Hobbes


Nice link! I just finished watching the discovery channel "How the Universe was made" series, holy crap have things progressed since I was into this stuff.

[Ghost]

One of my favorite quotes:

"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Calvin & Hobbes


Nice link! I just finished watching the discovery channel "How the Universe was made" series, holy crap have things progressed since I was into this stuff.

Yeah, as a kid I had to read "books" on things like this.

I'm actually kinda envious of the internet generation, kids now growing up with all of this at their (virtual) fingertips. For me it was read and imagine, now it's all there for you...

[The GECCO]

That stuff never fails to blow my mind...