... speechless ...
this is what I've been trying to express for so long
http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/53235/
this is my God
posted by steve @ 3:51 AM
the smell of canadian rain
A place to share your voices with janis so she can write them into a new play. What does Canadian rain smell like? Stars, apparently.
11.07.2006
http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/53235/
this is my God
the smell of canadian rain
A place to share your voices with janis so she can write them into a new play. What does Canadian rain smell like? Stars, apparently.
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9 Comments:
Cool video. Pretty damn huge. I only have one problem with that video and I'm sure you've guessed what it is. 78 billion lightyears across, says the video because that it the farthest the hubble has ever seen. It seems silly to me to say that 78 billion is the size of the universe just because that's as far as we have seen. What if the hubble stared at a blank spot of that "most important image ever taken"? What if it looks for twenty days, or two years? How far will it see then? Just because we can't see any further than 78 billion lightyears right now, that doesn't mean there's not more out there.
But it was a brilliant video. I especially liked the music selection.
yes. that movie was amazing. i loved it. i agree with danny though about the 78 billion lightyears is the size of the universe. quite unlikely. i liked the "keep looking up" at the end too.
wow. that really makes you think though doesn't it? what with the life on other planets and all. although i heard once that the possiblilty of life, even on this planet is astronomical. it is technically impossible, so if the odds are that small here, what are the odds of it happening twice? so when you look out into space and see so many stars and so many galaxys, and you know there are bilions of other planets out there - but, what if we really are the only ones? what if we are truly alone in such a vast space? mind boggling.
and here we are screwing up the only planet that supports life.
humans are morons.
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Earth is not the only planet that supports life, its the only planet for a a ways a way (human perspective of distance and how far we can travel) that can inhabit human life.
Life on earth began with a random thunderbolt (i believe hand of god) striking a pool, which just happened to have just the rite amount of inorganic material in it and at just the right ramifications that single celled organisms burst into life, what are the chances of lighting well ure more likely to get hit than win the lotery and people do wint he lottery, so in the unlimited space and mass of the universe it must of happened atleast billions of times...and were not even talking about the mutliverse yet...for humans to even have remote ideas of being the only life in the universe is to flatter ourselves to the extreme...thats my opinion
oh i do agree. but just think though - what if?
and just thinking about all that space and all those planets really is very humbling
Very cool video, Steve. Thanks for sharing.
I was also curious about how it is that scientists believe they've acutally measured the size of the universe. I mean with something that large, how does one even go about measuring it?
As for life inhabiting other planets, the sheer size of the universe sure makes it seem likely. Like Molly, I find it pretty terrifying to think that we might be all alone out there in all of that space.
And KK, maybe what's so egotistical about us is not just that we believe we might be the only life in the universe, but that we believe life itself must resemble the life we know and understand -- life such as our own.
Perhaps in other solar systems or other dimensions, there are organisms nothing like humans or animals or plants but that are very much alive.
Maybe dreams and memories and other forms of energy have life somewhere outside of Earth.
Maybe we should stop judging things based on what we see and listen to those tones for a while.
I was thinking about something we discussed in chemistry a few weeks ago about how electrons move in orbitals around the nucleus in many energy levels. And how the things we touch are mostly empty space, but we can't go through them becuase it's just so dense. Like I think it was JJ Thompson's experiment with the gold foil and shooting stuff at it and it shoulda gone straight through like a bullet through tissue. But it didn't. Some were deflected and some bounced straight back, indicating something extremely dense in the center of atoms. So the atom was proved to be mostly empty space but there is a very dense center. What we thought was that there's a chance that, one day, the electrons'll be in such a position on a wall or something that someone will walk right through. Somehow, the electrons and protons on the wall and those in your body will be positioned JUST RIGHT so that we can pass right through. Because we are technicaly all empty space. But the chances is so low that this hasn't occured yet. I like to think of it as a lottery and if everyone in the world tried out for one, the chances are 1 in like..4 billion, but since we have 6 billion people, we can almost guarantee a win. However, the chances of us passing through a wall is just way too low to occur within our existence. So what I think is maybe this is the possibility of life developing on another planet. OK, so there are SO MANY out there...but what if there aren't enough to substanciate more than one of earth's conditions? What if we've already walked through that wall and this is it? I mean, I see how we can say it's almost ridiculous and self-centered to think that we're the only life in the entire UNIVERSE, but I'm also thinking about what could possibly BE the probability of life existing? That it's so low that even all the stuff in the universe can't easily produce even two with life.
quote of the week:
"What if we've already walked through the wall and this is it?"
I'm particularly found of the wall analogy since, as a writing exercise, I often visualize myself walking through a wall so that I can get to another dimension -- the dimension where the characters live -- and observe.
If we have already walked through the wall then I think much more is possible than we think. Heck, if we can walk through a wall once, think of all the other things we might be able to do that we never thought we could. Humans taking flight doesn't sound that far fetched anymore, does it? We are mostly empty space... we just need the right breeze to come along...
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