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1 posted on 02/10/2011 1:21:20 AM PST by LibWhacker
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Well, this will negatively affect real estate prices.


2 posted on 02/10/2011 1:28:03 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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How could there be a finite universe? What would contain it?

On the other hand, how could there be an infinite universe?

Either way, I get dizzy just thinking about it.

5 posted on 02/10/2011 2:10:51 AM PST by giotto
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Age of universe = 13.75 years
Photons have traveled = 45 billion light years
Speed = Warp 3?


6 posted on 02/10/2011 2:13:00 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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What this means is that there are physical limits to what we can know. Will the insight provided by this article humble our central economic planners? No chance.


7 posted on 02/10/2011 2:14:08 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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Conversation from sometime back in the 70s...
"Man...the universe...its big...I mean really really big...ya know?"
"Yeah...its big."
"Yeah...big."
"Yeah."
"You want anymore of this?"
"Might as well...can't dance."

Things got a might phi-lo-soph-i-cal at times back then.
9 posted on 02/10/2011 2:44:53 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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Currently, cosmologists believe the Universe takes one of three possible shapes:

* It is flat, like a Euclidean plane, and spatially infinite.
* It is open, or curved like a saddle, and spatially infinite.
* It is closed, or curved like a sphere, and spatially finite.

Correct answer is all three - it just depends on one’s state of mind and which direction one heads out in.


12 posted on 02/10/2011 3:15:10 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk


15 posted on 02/10/2011 4:09:25 AM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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No wonder it’s taking me longer to drive to work each morning.


16 posted on 02/10/2011 4:19:48 AM PST by 3rd of the 12 CAV (Socialized medicine is a 10 month wait for a maternity ward)
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What about Michelle’s rear end?


17 posted on 02/10/2011 4:20:30 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder ("Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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"But what if the Universe turns out to be closed, and thus has a finite size after all?"

Okay... then what would this closed, finite-sized universe be floating in? A petri dish sitting under somebody's microscope?

My vote is that it is spherical with infinite space in all directions.

18 posted on 02/10/2011 4:25:21 AM PST by Hatteras
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That explains Leon


19 posted on 02/10/2011 4:35:22 AM PST by JRios1968 (Laz would hit it!)
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Well, it is early for me, but for some reason, the Nesting Doll notion popped into my snow blown and frozen mind: one universe inside another universe, inside another universe, etc. ...


21 posted on 02/10/2011 4:43:05 AM PST by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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None of these are correct.

The Universe is a Mobius strip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip


22 posted on 02/10/2011 4:44:09 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God 's redemption.)
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Universe Could be 250 Times Bigger Than What is Observable

To “expand” off that slogan of The Discovery Channel slogan:
“The UNIVERSE is just awesome”

Especially as we learn more and more about it.


23 posted on 02/10/2011 4:54:48 AM PST by VOA
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How did a non-spherical shape emerge from the big bang?


24 posted on 02/10/2011 4:57:21 AM PST by fso301
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Size Of The Universe

"It's really, really big."

26 posted on 02/10/2011 5:11:50 AM PST by beaversmom
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ARGH!, ......!


27 posted on 02/10/2011 5:58:02 AM PST by PROTESTBYPROXY (We are manning up!!)
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Galaxy Song lyrics
Songwriters: Eric Idle & Trevor Jones

Whenever life gets 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 enough

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen 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 forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way'

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred 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 whizz
As fast as it can go, 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
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

29 posted on 02/10/2011 6:27:05 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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[...over 250 times the size of our observable universe.]

Dammit, just when I figured out the entire universe, they come out with this.


30 posted on 02/10/2011 7:05:07 AM PST by RetSignman ("It's about saving our Republic, STUPID")
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248.6. I measure it yesterday.


32 posted on 02/10/2011 7:19:29 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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