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- mcottier, on 10/12/2007, -5/+57There are probably at least 100 civilizations in there.
- P3ST4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45This is an image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370, if anyone was interested.
- spartan018, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43i love images like this.
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44Stephen Hawking is not a "creationist".
- nudgemedia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39whoopity do. It's brutally compressed. "Hi Resolution" sure, but this JPG is crappy.
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -7/+42Thats because you're not a trained astrophysicist or cosmologist.
- billymachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Sorry, but you aren't in it. That camera was pointing AWAY from Earth.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23You have a 6031x4456 monitor?
Lucky bastard! - devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24My god - It's full of stars!
Here's the full hubble gallery, it's full of stuff like this. It's a big universe....
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/ - kakwakas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22I realized that RIGHT when I had 1 second left to edit. =[
- DolphinGL, on 10/12/2007, -10/+32Actualy photo, pictures like this conclusively disprove the bible's definition of creation. That galaxy is much further than 6000 light years away. And yet, if the universe is only 6000 years old, as the bible claims, then the light from that galaxy would not have reached us yet and we wouldn't be able to see it. The only thing left is to accept creationism as symbolic or scrap the whole silly thing altogether.
- diktator279, on 10/12/2007, -15/+30I love images like this: *Insert pornographic website of choice*
- kakwakas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15It needs one of those "You are here" dots/arrows. I'm lost. :/
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14The features you're seeing are real noise in the image, not JPEG artifacts.
- OpCzar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The image is definitely spectacular.Let's put it all into perspective:
http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/ - Lane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The hubble space telescope is one of the most incomprehensibly important instruments and its a good thing its being serviced once more.
- rtbenson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I've been in an existential crisis for the last month. Images like these don't help. (It's still cool though!)
- z00k, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15And this is why i have such a fast internet connection now.
Very good image.
-Zook - toastydeath, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignorance
Sweet, sweet irony. "Not understanding something" is the dictionary definition of ignorance.
The argument that god exists or does not exist has nothing to do with the age of the universe. It has everything to do with a fanatical few desperately searching for rebuttal against observations that are eroding the "facts" in their chosen belief system. Believe in whatever you want in the metaphysical world. Science and engineering tends to stay the hell away from that. The trouble occurs when someone comes in and starts to make unfounded, unobserved, and unverifiable claims with no understanding (hey, there's that ignorance thing again) of the concepts and math involved.
Science works around theory, not a fixed set of arbitrary facts generated thousands of years ago. Religion tends to propose facts, and then sticks by those facts regardless of physical evidence to the contrary. Scientists alter, or create, a new theory to make use of the new information. Researchers don't have a problem being wrong, they just demand proof.
If you don't want proof, I've got a sister going to medical school in Nigeria who needs some bills covered. - toastydeath, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15photography4me:
You don't understand. If you went through the research required to understand, it would make more sense. "I don't understand..." doesn't work as an argument for anything. It's a declaration of your own ignorance, not a rebuttal. Look the words up in Webster's.
Don't understand how a car works? Must not exist. Don't understand how evolution works? Must not happen that way. - apache2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7yeah, high resolution, but lots of compression too, it's only around 2mb
- dirtmaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7new wallpaper!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7hmm i didnt even have to wait for it to download it just appeared. yay cablevision!
- FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Maybe he was talking about his vacation house?
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I can see a house on that little planet around that blue star to the top right, you know, the one next to that other blue star.
Stone walls? Haha, we have more technology than you! - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10DolphinGL:
Exactly. The human calculation that the world is only 6000 years old seems wrong.
(God didn't even tell us the age, theologists calculated it from events in the bible)
The speed of light has been measured, it is a constant, even if being emitted from moving objects, the speed of light is the same. The light would have had to have been traveling for billions of years to reach us.
Source:
Carl Sagan - In his Cosmos Series. - djjuice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com
uses the same picture but with some explanation - AZTriGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's a great, big universe
and we're all really puny
just a tiny little speck
about the size of Mickey Rooney... - StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The stone walls you see were from millions of years ago... by now they could probably kick our ass, assuming they haven't driven themselves to extinction yet.
:) - greatcaffeine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Get your own website.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Spock lives in the milky way.... dumbass
- capitocapito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Wow! Perfect fit for my monitor!
- EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3...each one of those lights is a star...and many of those stars will have planets...and although the possibility that any specific one is inhabitable is low, there must be a few that would be inhabitable by life...
And people think it's possible there is NOT some other form of life in this universe? That is just one other galaxy! There are thousands or millions of other galaxy's out there as well in the universe! - bettermentflux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think this one is my favorite from the Hubble collection: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/01/image/q
Just gorgeous! - Vanden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I feel so very small.
- lazza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Awesome......Awesome to the max!
- ethanfortes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Guys, you realize that we're all screwed. Everything. Like the whole world. Everything that we have, we have taken for granted! Our world will die soon, like in 100 years! This beautiful thing will die, because be thought we're so smart that we can make these crazy technologies, overlooking the fact that if we made them, we would destroy the world! Everything, everywhere, will eventually be gone. There are so many factors that prove this, like greenhouse gases, o-zone getting destroyed, over population, gas running out. We're screwed.
- bakagaigin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's the best ytmnd I've seen in a while.
- Supaman223, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i could have had a normal day without seeing a greasy face at an extremely high res!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I just learned my new least-favorite word: Prosumer.
- DoTheFandango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yay for 2001: A Space Odyssey references!!!
- voiceofcheese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/
Features HUGE fullsize originals in jpegs and .TIFF files that are hundreds of megabytes.
Definition of high res. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sometimes there is gravitational lensing... gravity bends light.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A very cool picture, but large X by Y size != high resolution.
The resolution is actually pretty crappy. - toastydeath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2killinger777:
You are clearly trolling at this point, as one can read and understand published theories. The theory doesn't have to be complete for a person to fully understand it or the mechanism by which it operates. Your wording indicates you don't fully understand what a theory is, or that the big bang is one. I (incorrectly) assumed everyone was working on the basis that the big bang was a theory to be understood and discussed as such.
As with any theory, no scientist would hold big bang theory as absolute truth. Instead, one would endeavor to understand it as best as it is published and work within the framework it provides. Rebutting a theory based on full understanding of the theory as published to date is an effective and acceptable means of argument. This is, of course, compared to your apparent support of "I don't know how it works," which is not.
Since you seem to be quite content to post short, trollish statements of no real substance, I'll kindly bow out from discussing this. - wabbiteh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2UnrealAlex:
You're trying to compare png and jpg, so you save a file as a png and a jpg, take a screenshot of each, then compress those screenshots, and save them?
...*what*?
Wouldn't it have been easier to just save the picture as a jpg and a png, and host those files? - dziban303, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There are enormous photos on there. This .tiff I'm looking at is like 440MB. 15852 x 12392 pixels
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Their images are usually gigabytes, even when compressed.
Even then they are broken down into sections.
There is a lot more light then whats visible... Radiation, infrared, ultraviolet, radio are all spots on a huge spectrum.
What we see, is a tiny tiny section of it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Aliens are real... But the chance that they're HERE, especially here while we're here, is very close to 0.
Somewhere there's a planet with 6 billion beings on it saying "I wish we could go visit Earth"
Problem is, they're saying that 100 million years in the future... or in the past. - asmitty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Further info on that specific pic:
Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370, Home to Supernova Seen in 1994
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy_collection/pr2003024a/
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2003/24/image/a -
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