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[rlmergeuser]

Beautiful and zoom-able pictures of our small galaxy, among the 130 billion galaxies (as far as we know...) in our maybe not so unique universe

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmoo...a/vvvgps5.html

Associated article :

http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/news/milky-wa...stars-27-03-12

Another mind blowing picture :

http://media.skysurvey.org/openzoom.html

[IFTHISTHENTHAT]

Thanks for sharing, I like this one better though.

The Scale of the Universe

http://htwins.net/scale2/

[rlmergeuser]

Thanks for sharing, I like this one better though.

The Scale of the Universe

http://htwins.net/scale2/

Impressive !! Thanks !!

[Colors_of_Life]

[mutetus]

Hey, I can see my house!

[rlmergeuser]

Good Video Yoshi!!! Thanks

[rlmergeuser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

[rlmergeuser]

Thanks for sharing, I like this one better though.

The Scale of the Universe

http://htwins.net/scale2/

This really got the wheels turning. It's interesting that our own size in relation to other known objects in the observable universe is smack dab in the middle. Surely this is not because we actually are in the middle, but because our powers of observation only go certain levels smaller and larger than ourselves. "Big" and "small" are relative terms based on perception. If we could change our perspective so that a quark is not small, but is the size of a planet, how much deeper would our observations take us? On the other hand, is there a reality so "large" that our entire universe is observable only through a microscope? If we were able to gain these perspectives, could we not then repeat the process in either direction? Our universe seems to us to be rather spread out and spacious, but there is a perspective from which it is very small and dense. Could our planets, stars, and galaxies simply be comprising something that exists as a single material object in a larger spacial spectrum? If this were theoretically possible, then that perceptive adjustment could be repeated an infinite number of times in either direction, so there could a literally unending number of universes within universes. Of course one would think that the smaller your perception became, the more unstable and chaotic things would be, but that also might be a false conclusion based on our perspective.

The question of intelligent life on other planets is a fun question to consider, but what about intelligent life on another spacial spectrum?

[rlmergeuser]

One giant Bump! for mankind. This thread is significant.

[rlmergeuser]

I'm significant. I make grown men cry.