The largest known star in the Universe

[ThaBronxBully]

milky way is here:

and that's all we can measure so far

why do people think we're alone?

Cause Maybe They'd Like To See Proof...?

 

[Guile]

Surely an advanced life form has been thinking this for eons if it/they existed before us. Wouldn't that've been solved by now??

We would have to be around that long to have any idea.

 

[DontDoIt]

 

[morris]

We would have to be around that long to have any idea.

No, no, no.

In that instance, they were/are around. I am not thinking imperialistic when thinking of greater scheme of things. And even when thinking like that, the proof is not there. Those who believe in life are those that believe in a higher power. Same difference.

 

[hayesc0]

I definitely believe that we are not alone.

We may even have life on some of the planets/moons within our own solar system.

Hell we're still discovering species underwater and on remote islands.

It would be so cool to be alive to see all of this.

Yep this its funny how little perspective people have on life in the universe its crazy to think theirs no life on other planets. Yes we cant prove it because we dont yet have the technology.

 

[Loop Ba$eCrawler]

milky way is here:

and that's all we can measure so far

why do people think we're alone?

How are they getting pics of the Milky Way from outside of it?

 

[DontDoIt]

How are they getting pics of the Milky Way from outside of it?

It's more like trying to take a picture of the inside of your house while you are inside it, and while your house is cluttered with a bunch of junk to boot!

Because we are inside the Milky Way, we don't get to take any pictures of it from an angle "above" the Galaxy—for example, like this beautiful picture of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. (However, we can make an educated guess as to what the Milky Way might look like from such an angle—for example, see this artist's illustration.)

Instead, we only get pictures in which we see the structure of the Milky Way edge-on, from inside of it. Examples of these pictures in many different wavelengths of light can be found here. Each picture is a panoramic photo—if you want an idea of what we really see, imagine taking each picture and wrapping it in a big circle around you. The photographer has simply chosen to "cut" and "unfold" this circle such that the Galactic Center (the brightest part of the Milky Way) is in the picture's center. This might give the illusion that we are looking at an edge-on picture of the Milky Way from the outside, but in reality we are not—the left and right edges of this picture simply represent material in the Milky Way that is located in the opposite direction of the Galactic Center from our point of view, and since we ourselves are pretty close to the edge of the Milky Way, there isn't much to see in this direction.

You can also see from these pictures how much "stuff" there is in the Milky Way which prevents us from seeing through to the opposite side. For example, the optical picture has a bunch of dark dust clouds that almost completely block our view of anything within the galaxy. Luckily, these dust clouds are much more transparent to other types of light (for example, infrared and radio) so we can use these wavelengths to look at objects on the other side of the galaxy from us.

 

[hayesc0]

How are they getting pics of the Milky Way from outside of it?

They dont know exactly how it looks for sure but its and educated guess.

 

[ORDER_66]

Maybe the vulcans was right we're not ready to travel to the stars...

If we're not able to get past all our differences and form the technology for space flight we're too dumb to leave.

 

[hayesc0]

Maybe the vulcans was right we're not ready to travel to the stars...

If we're not able to get past all our differences and form the technology for space flight we're too dumb to leave.

 

[FSP]

They dont know exactly how it looks for sure but its and educated guess.

This is such a beautiful photo

 

[Spyro]

If we find bacteria its guarenteed there is advanced life breh. The thing that is mind blowing is how the fukk bacteria was created in the first place because it is alive in a sense. How is anything around for that matter. I was arguing with a physicist once and fine he was smarter than me in that field no doubt but he was telling me how life "just is" or anything like atoms and shyt "just is" like wtf does that even mean. Something created everything that is the only explanation, something beyond comprehension.

I don't see how some God creating life and the universe is more stupid than life just appearing out of thin air and trillions of planets just appearing for no reason whatsoever

Fukk atheists, yall gonna burn in hell for rest of eternity

 

[FSP]

How are they getting pics of the Milky Way from outside of it?

It's not a real photo. Actually you'll know that many of the photos released by NASA with vibrant colors, black holes, pics outside of the current view of the milky way etc...are post processed a lot. They're photoshopped basically, but they're supposed to represent somewhat of an accurate portrayal.

 

[Lord_nikon]

fukk !.... I thought VY Canis Majoris was the biggest


thanks

 

[Remote]

Because we're a fukking Speck of cosmic dust on an intergalatic beach...


There's No proof of life doesnt mean there isnt life on the other side... But we dont have the capabilities to reach that far yet...

So is that how you live your life?

You believe things exist before the are proven to be?