Posted on 03/13/2015 12:45:02 PM PDT by beaversmom
Video Link: Gigapixels of Andromeda
What a great writer, I got to read that book one day. Didn’t he write the book specifically for the movie? I think he worked with Kubrick on the screenplay as well.
Oh cool about HD!
I hear ya. And that’s just one section of the galaxy Andromeda!!!
I like this short space vid (2:10 min) and how the narrator ends it. Gives me chills and cracks me up at the same time. Starts with us on Earth, then MOOOVES outward...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGuUt6xRbqI
I don’t know about that. I should, ‘cause I love that movie and the book...one of the few books I have read. I’ll have to look up about that. Kubrick was also a genius.
I know! And what's holding the universe? Your description makes me think of Horton Hears a Who. ;)
Oh wow that was wild! “This is the Universe...It’s really REALLY big!” LOL! I like when he says “..the visible universe” meaning there’s more we haven’t seen yet. I think that’s because its light hasn’t reached us yet which I believe is one of the pieces of evidence they use for the big bang. If the universe always existed, then the light from every star in the universe would have hit us by now, at least those stars that didn’t form too recently, and it would light up the sky like day. But there are stars that are so far out there that even though the universe is 13 billion years old the light from those stars still hasn’t reached us yet. How freakin’ insane it that? Light travels at 186,000 miles per second and 13 billion years still ain’t long enough for that light to reach us which is mind blowing to me how insanely vast it is.
This was beautiful. And humbling.
I’m so glad you posted it. Thank you
It hurts my brain GJMY. It really, REALLY hurts my brain. But like how sometimes pressing on owie can be kinda pleasurable, I like “thinking” about it. :)
You’re welcome. Thank you for telling me. :)
I actually wanted to be an astronomer when I was young. Everything was fine until Algebra 2. I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Therefore I couldn’t do Physics, so I couldn’t be an astronomer.
Ah, bittersweet on you dream. Do you do it as a hobby? You could still try as an adult, maybe?
Oh yes, as a hobby.
Where I live there is too much light pollution but I’m able to go to the local university’s telescope when they have open houses.
You get something to drink, a cookie, and a telescope. Life is good.
That's really cute! :) I'm happy for you.
That was cool. Thanks.
You’re very welcome. Love it when people enjoy something I enjoy.
How I like to think is because it’s so ridiculously over the top vast, then it wouldn’t be crazy to think that it could also be incredibly over the top small as well. If the universe runs by that kind of insane logic/system of being so ridiculously vast, then maybe it also is serving a higher purpose such as being just a sub-atomic particle in an atom of another universe. I mean why not? The universe is already completely over the top ridiculous in size. For all we know we could be traveling in a carbon atom in a bead of sweat down a mans face. I mean the smallest sub-atomic particle they have ever detected? Or ever theorized about? Neutrinos? Well for all we know we could be one of a billion universes inside a neutrino, we are so small we are basically energy and when we come together the Higgs Boson takes over and makes mass in another universe.
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The vastness; the ‘BILLIONS and BILLIONS’ of possible planets; the Possibilities...
It almost numbs the mind, as much as it excites.
I can’t believe that there are not planets out there with intelligent ‘be-ans’ sorta like us - or, intelligent but different.
Everything I know about Earth, tells me that Nature is endlessly prolific, Life is irrepressible, and God adores Creation and Creating.
There has to be other life.
But it’s just so far away...
-JT
amazing
Serious question. I’m not sure what I was looking at there. The stars I can understand, but what were all those small grainy pebble looking things? There couldn’t be that many little moons or planets or asteroids or whatever, could there? I wish there were an explanatory narration along with the video similar to the NASA ones our friend Sunken puts up here on FR frequently.
Of course there could!
I’m not an astronomer, or even very smart or educated about this stuff; but from what I’ve been able to find out via Google, there are about 1 Trillion stars in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Just think about that...think of all the planets, moons, asteroids, etc. (Even ‘Space Junk’? :-)
-JT
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