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- macosta5811, on 06/16/2008, -2/+10We are seeing the past every night.
- matt510, on 06/16/2008, -1/+9Happy 13th Anniversary to APOD!
What a great shot of the Coma Cluster! Much better than this APOD from 2000: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000806.html - wynja, on 06/16/2008, -1/+8My God, it's full of stars.
- mr.gates, on 06/17/2008, -0/+6I know there is no evidence either way but seeing such vast distances and such an astronomical number galaxies and magnitudes more stars and even greater magnitudes more planets I can't help but think, "How can we be alone." I know it is intellectually dishonest to form an opinion with so little--and in this case no--evidence but it does warm your heart a bit when you look at one of the beautiful spirals in that image and think there could be a planet full of life and beings making the first steps on their moon.
- sam8988378, on 06/16/2008, -0/+5Happy Aniversary to APOD! My browser is set to open APOD as one of its additional pages.
Also, yet more cheers for Hubble, as well as hopes that it can be repaired & continue to send us more. Just looking at this pcture today, how can anyone think that in all those galaxies, we are the only sentient life? - MillionsLivio, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5Anyone else hear Carl Sagan's voice in their heads when reading the description of the image?
- mythsnlegends, on 06/16/2008, -2/+7lovely..... :)
- gimmeslack12, on 06/16/2008, -1/+5It is so incredibly large! How many other beings are out there looking right back at our Local Cluster..... I really like pondering on that.
- fyngyrz, on 06/16/2008, -1/+4No, you just think too small.
- KatAttack, on 06/16/2008, -0/+3http://youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ
That is a good watch - it makes you feel really small, and talks more about a similar picture. - idavidtang, on 06/16/2008, -0/+3Where's the trade routes?
- bouche, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3I've got news for you. ANY of the APOD submissions (regardless of their quality), are much more interesting the most of the posts that appear on the Digg front page.
And ONE post a day can be SOOOOO hard to ignore, I know. But just try to use the time it takes to write your lame complaint and just move along. - dmkirt, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2SOB!!! I need bigger EYES!!!
- gimmeslack12, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2You would probably melt the Earth.
- inactive, on 06/16/2008, -2/+4The universe is too ***** big.
- SpinCaster, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2Causes pause for reflection and insight
- Marijuana, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2The human race is just the Universe trying to understand itself.
- pantsbandit, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2If you could convert all those galaxies into the most efficient computers possible, and program them appropiately, just imagine how many forums you could spam with lame anti-republican jokes...
- fyngyrz, on 06/16/2008, -0/+2Assuming they're out there, the odds that they go between galaxies seem... low. Those distances are quite a different set of challenges than the distances between stars, and further, given the number of stars in the average galaxy, I doubt you'd run out of places to visit such that galaxy-crossings would seriously be considered.
- gllopc, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1The possibility of two lines intersecting is great. When this happens, it does not mean that Jesus was involved.
The symbol of the cross predates Christianity. As you can see, it existed millions of years ago in nature, long before Christ. - mikerichardson1, on 06/16/2008, -1/+2A very lovely and intriging photo.
- ultraJesus, on 06/16/2008, -1/+2The ones that look like crosses are stars BTW.
- Runningclaire, on 06/16/2008, -1/+2Beautiful......and Happy Birthday APOD!
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Fat Chance.
- Hellothere123, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1I can see two galaxies colliding somewhere in the lower right.
- MillionsLivio, on 06/17/2008, -1/+2*Whoosh*
- mx13punk, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1Oh how I love a new background. Kudos APOD, I love you dearly.
- matt510, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Eh, that is probably what he mean, but I would still argue that "improbable" is an inappropriate word as well. While I may personally think there is life on other planets, it is impossible to talk about probability when we have no way of knowing any of the variables. We can say "if things are this particular way" then yes, we can say they probably exist. But there is no way for us to know any of those things at this point.
- monoa, on 06/17/2008, -1/+2The picture shows thousands of galaxies. In each galaxy there are billions of stars. Around each star there will be planets. Some of them will be like earth. Some of them will support life - it's impossible to imagine any other reality.
- Dadamantastic, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1it'd be nuts if one day we gain the ability to search every single square of existence, only to discover we really are alone.
- gllopc, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Look at his user name. Do you think that's what he was referring to?
- cutright, on 06/19/2008, -0/+1Gotta disagree with you there too... It is certainly possible to talk about probability of extra-terrestrial life. I might suggest checking out the book "Many Worlds in One". It does a great job summarizing inflation, the multiverse, and a few of its philosophical implications about life outside of Earth. You don't need to know all the variables... just some of them to assess probability. If you don't believe that... then you've never heard of a little place called Las Vegas.
- cutright, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Agreed... I can certainly imagine there being an infinite number of life sustainable planets without any life at all. Not that I necessarily believe that to be true... perhaps he meant improbable to be the case.
- stephenhacking, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1If earth did not have an atmosphere we could probably see those clusters
- matude, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Where there's one, there's many.
The odds of us being the first and only ones are highly lower than the odds that some other planet or solar system has similarities with ours.
We've so far seen like.. 50 planets (actually a lot less?) and out of them many have had water on them, at least 5 are about as far from their star to have temperature between -50 to +50. And about 2 or so have huge gas planets in their solar system to protect them from meteors.
So out of billions of billions of billions planets, the odds are at the very least about a million should have life on them?
Although odds are also very high that we will never get to know them. - Jumbo2608, on 06/17/2008, -0/+0That old pic is awesome. Great comparison, thanks Matt510.
I wish the pic of today focused on that bright thing in the top right hand side... things look a little more exciting over there. - sym666, on 06/29/2008, -0/+0And how many pasts! If you look at the nearer part of a galaxy you are looking at a distant past, but if you look at its other end, you can add another 100000 years. Images like this one are difficult to grasp, to me at least. If we are not alone, how many species are we looking at, staring at a picture like this? It is deep billions of ly, so how many people, how many civilizations phases? It's a overwhelming picture :-)
- matt510, on 06/17/2008, -1/+1I don't think you understand what "impossible" means.
- 471776, on 06/16/2008, -3/+2Those are galaxies, if you read the description.
- Fuzzycop, on 06/17/2008, -1/+0Don't worry. In a few hundred billion years, it'll be small again.
- cutright, on 06/17/2008, -1/+0What are you talking about? He was just referring to the fact that star light "bleeds" as they are effectively a point-source at that distance.
- larryk12308, on 06/19/2008, -1/+0long ago, in a galaxy far far away . . .
- DirtPile, on 06/17/2008, -2/+0I can see my house from here.
- marialiciaf, on 06/16/2008, -4/+2Amazing... incredible... how small we are...
- ninjarr, on 06/17/2008, -2/+0What makes you so sure that space is divided into squares?
- Elwayish, on 06/17/2008, -4/+0yea and only the 5th time this has been on the front page of dig ... come on ..
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