Space and stuff

[fozzy]

ffs does this mean my wrist watch will stop if i go to space?

 

[roydo]

If every galaxy in the visible universe was the size of a pea you could fill the Albert hall with those peas.

And what is even more incredible, is that the most sophisticated thing in existence in all those galaxies is on your shoulders.

No, not a chip.

 

[Walter Ego]

Venus spins round the opposite way.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

ok a stupid question from me.

so where was the big bang? as in where is the oldest part of the universe and as its an ever expanding universe where is it expanding from?

ive heard the one theory that it was one big bang every where at once but i still cant get my head around that as there has to be a start/spark point to a bang doesnt there?

That was a good question so i had a look on google and remain as clueless now as i was 10 mins ago!

I think if you take a small round balloon and cover it with dots their is technically no "centre", they are all the same distance apart. Then when you add more air the whole thing becomes bigger, they dots get further away from each other but there's still no centre.

I always thought of the big b ang explosion to be like a normal explosion from 1 point but apparently it wasn't.

 

[Walter Ego]

And what is even more incredible, is that the most sophisticated thing in existence in all those galaxies is on your shoulders.

No, not a chip.[/



Bolloccks

 

[fozzy]

And what is even more incredible, is that the most sophisticated thing in existence in all those galaxies is on your shoulders.

No, not a chip.

i think some one may disagree with that.

 

[roydo]

confused me even more that mate to be honest.

Sorry mate, made sense to me when it was explained, probably better.

Try this. There are 4 dimensions in the universe. Height, weight, depth, and time. Humans are 3 dimensional, so can only think in terms of the first 3. We cannot think in terms of time. We THINK we can, hence, "where did 20 years go", but we cant. Otherwise, the last 20 years could be seen, and understood, like how you know a tall person is higher than a short person just by looking at them.

If we were 2D, say only width and depth, you would be as baffled by a tall person as we are by space.

That any good? @fozzy

 

[roydo]

So what is more sophisticated than the human brain?

 

[Walter Ego]

It is highly likely there's loads of humans just like us not very far away

 

[fozzy]

That was a good question so i had a look on google and remain as clueless now as i was 10 mins ago!

I think if you take a small round balloon and cover it with dots their is technically no "centre", they are all the same distance apart. Then when you add more air the whole thing becomes bigger, they dots get further away from each other but there's still no centre.

I always thought of the big b ang explosion to be like a normal explosion from 1 point but apparently it wasn't.

yeah thats what ive read/seen too.

but i cant get my head around that an explosion can happen with out a spark.

but thats why im not no astronaut i suppose.

 

[fozzy]

So what is more sophisticated than the human brain?

nothing thats been discovered.

but i whole heartily believe that we are not alone.

 

[Walter Ego]

So what is more sophisticated than the human brain?

Massive space ships.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Venus spins round the opposite way.

And that is why it has no moons.

Uranus (I know...) spins on it's side, relative to Earth. It is also the coldest and second least dense planet, after Saturn.

 

[roydo]

It is highly likely there's loads of humans just like us not very far away

On the laws of infinate change, I wouldnt disagree. But nothing, or no one, has managed to bridge the time needed to make a trip to show us have they? The only things in our solar system that were put there by intelligent life have been put there by us. We have never detected radio transmissions from alien life.

Not saying for one minute that we are the only life form in space.

On the other hand, we might just be the only collision of science and conditions that created intelligent life. We might be all alone.

 

[DualityNSNO]

On the laws of infinate change, I wouldnt disagree. But nothing, or no one, has managed to bridge the time needed to make a trip to show us have they? The only things in our solar system that were put there by intelligent life have been put there by us. We have never detected radio transmissions from alien life.

Not saying for one minute that we are the only life form in space.

On the other hand, we might just be the only collision of science and conditions that created intelligent life. We might be all alone.

"All alone in space and time, there's nothing here but what's here's mine", as it says in a Placebo song.

Anyway, we might just be the ones that have science as we know it. There's no proof, as you've said, that there aren't more human civilisations out there, but they're still ages behind (think like - they're still Stone Age, relative to our Modern Age of Discoveries).