[King Gizzard]

you gotta have the patience to watch it through...we're tiny lol

[Smithy]

God made Saturn
And He Liked It
So he put a ring on it

[Stu]

Betelgeuse. Aint that where Ford Prefect is from.

Astronomy is pretty humbling stuff. Moreso than any religion. Look up some of Carl Sagan's stuff on YouTube.

[GypsyGoth]

I didn't know suns were that big.

[ILoveTRW]

have you only just realised this

[King Gizzard]

no..its just amazing

[setanta]

And people say that there can't be any other intelligent lifeforms out there? Bollox to that.

[Shaun]

I'll be honest, I haven't heard of any of the ones bigger than Sirius.

[\PJ/]

i didn't know there were that many planets.

[LemonJam]

It's incredible.

[Princess]

Wowwwwwwwww

[Stu]

Originally Posted by .PJ.

i didn't know there were that many planets.

Planets? They are stars. Nobody knows how many planets are out there. If you took the Earth as the entire universe, the planets we do know go from where you are currently sitting to the wall in front of you. And that's probably being way too generous. The cosmos is beyond comprehension.

[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by setanta

And people say that there can't be any other intelligent lifeforms out there? Bollox to that.

more to the point, people think theres a god? Bollox to that

[Jack_]

Astronomy is fascinating, and there's definitely life form out there somewhere

[Tom]

I'm fascinated by astronomy as well (and astrology even if thats a load of crap). I had no idea of the scale of stars though

[Stu]

And what you have to remember is the universe as you know it is not the universe. Nobody could possibly imagine what the various different dimensions would look like from an outside perspective. Everybody seems to go about their daily lives completely oblivious to the fact that what their eyes see is only a perception of what things really look like.

I love all these ideas. Heck, who knows, the whole general mish mash could be a collective dream we are all experiencing from another plane.

I'm going to have to go and read some Hitchhiker now.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot

And what you have to remember is the universe as you know it is not the universe. Nobody could possibly imagine what the various different dimensions would look like from an outside perspective. Everybody seems to go about their daily lives completely oblivious to the fact that what their eyes see is only a perception of what things really look like.

I love all these ideas. Heck, who knows, the whole general mish mash could be a collective dream we are all experiencing from another plane.

I'm going to have to go and read some Hitchhiker now.

We only have a limited perspective of the world anyway. There is so much we can't see/hear e.g. we can't see UV rays or hear high pitched noises. They could be happening constantly for all we know.

[King Gizzard]

[setanta]

Originally Posted by ILoveDC

more to the point, people think theres a god? Bollox to that

That's a different discussion altogether really and, although I find it hard to believe that there is any God that resembles the ones preached by the various religions of our time, I've always believed that there's things out there that we haven't got the faintest understanding of and it would be ignorant, no arrogant for us to assume that we know definitively that no greater or higher power exists.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Nathan

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That's insane.

Originally Posted by setanta

That's a different discussion altogether really and, although I find it hard to believe that there is any God that resembles the ones preached by the various religions of our time, I've always believed that there's things out there that we haven't got the faintest understanding of and it would be ignorant, no arrogant for us to assume that we know definitively that no greater or higher power exists.

Word. Who are we to pretend we know a damn thing when confronted with images like these.

[ILoveTRW]

you do realise none of those galaxies exist

[Stu]

Originally Posted by ILoveDC

you do realise none of those galaxies exist

Do go on. I could do with a laugh ...

[setanta]

Originally Posted by ILoveDC

you do realise none of those galaxies exist

So what our those lights in the sky then? Angels or God or Transformers? Either way you look at it we don't know for sure, that's the bottom line.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by setanta

So what our those lights in the sky then? Angels or God or Transformers? Either way you look at it we don't know for sure, that's the bottom line.

They are certainly very galaxy shaped lights. And we do know that an unknown, huge number of galaxies exist out there. So I really don't know where ILoveDC is coming from.

[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot

Do go on. I could do with a laugh ...

well the light from them has taken so long from them to get to us (billions and billions of years) that they have probably all exploded, and maybe even the new stars that were created from those explosions have exploded as well