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- Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -9/+80Dugg for The Kinks, Pink Floyd, and the Numa Numa song all in one video.
- inactive, on 10/26/2007, -23/+87Worst. Comment. Ever.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+54The universe is indeed VERY old, but its hardly a dupe (as far as we know)
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50That's just amazing. That picture says more to me than any religious text.
- Procure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41I am just in awe of this. To just think about the numbers bamboozles me. 10,000 galaxies in a tiny patch of sky? And we are in one arm of one of them? I dont know what to say...Seriously speechless. Awesome description and illustration of size relationships in astronomy. Dugg.
- pjleonhardt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33Speechless as well..
Here are highres images, since the vid wasn't very clear:
Deep Field:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/HubbleDeepField.800px.jpg
Ultra Deep Field:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/HUDF.jpg - sjetha, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37I thought it was a Simpsons reference, actually.
- harvinator24, on 10/12/2007, -7/+34This video puts me in an ahh, just lost for words.
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29As Dave Bowman said, "My God, it's full of stars".
- milomilomilo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25This is why i don't prescribe to religions or mystisism ( not to say others cant, because that is not my decision), because their is so much wonder and mystery in the universe without having to claim magic and saviors did it.
Really want to make clear though that though I'm an atheist I would imagine such a picture could easily lead to a belief in something bigger than all of us, shows how small we are and how big where we are is..... just wow.
Dugg. - gargantuan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Not into the universe? Am I missing something?
- gklitt, on 10/12/2007, -9/+32This made me cry. That's all I can say.
- allien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I'm glad I stayed up tonight to see this video. Yesterday a bum passed me and said: "Smile. It's not all that bad." I get so caught up in my little world of problems sometimes that I don't consider the people or things around me, let alone consider other life on many, many other planets. It's ridiculous how stressed out I have been over finals this week. I don't even realize that I walk around looking miserable. Anyway, I just thought I'd share how that video made me feel. I guess it made me feel at ease.
- crexor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28this is one of those on the front page once a month stories, digg should just make a "top stories of all time" category, and lock it, and put these stories in there.
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20its because we are racist, planetist, and civilizationist.
the 2nd two words aren't actually words yet... we have yet to meet another planet w/ life & civilization that we can hate yet. but don't worry, when we find it, we'll hate em good. - jollygreengiant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Yeah how many thousands of galaxies out there and people still think we're the only planet with life on it. Talk about being closed minded.
- nauzilus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21God damn it your POST is a dupe, people have already said that in this very thread.
Don't you find it rather hypocritical you're bitching about people reposting the same things as before when you don't even read the fricken thread? Besides as others have said not everyone sees everything posted on digg. Get over it! Oh wait... - Tanath, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Only in this case, it's full of galaxies... and each one is full of stars...
And each star is likely to have a number of planets. - gr4v3d1gg3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I remember a pbs program describing galaxies gathering in galaxy like formations. I guess they have never seen anything like that yet though.
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15you need a hug.
- fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16"am I missing something?"
No, but the poster you replied to sure is. :) - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13For those curious about how we could have a universe with a 78 billion LY radius but is only 13-15 billions years old, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size_of_the_universe_and_observable_universe
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams, HHGG
I - freff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I missed it months ago, so I'm glad it was reposted. I don't know why everyone complains about old diggs getting reposted. If it's cool, and someone missed it, then it's a great digg, end of story.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The Hubble Ultra Deep Field survey - here's a sample image: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/56543main_hilight_large.jpg
Each blotch of light is a galaxy. The photo was taken in an area of the sky that has, from Earth, no apparent stars or anything in it. Hubble stared for 10 days to get the exposure. - Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Yeah I almost turned the video off when that came up, thinking it was some kind of joke. Then when the Hubble stuff came back I realized he was just making a point. Very good video over all.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Two amazing facts that they didn't mention: 1) The image is of an area of the sky equivalent in size to about the size of a dime held 75 feet away. 2) It's not particularly different than any other similar size area of the sky.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/01/ - superdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13That sounds great. It really makes me wish I had more inspirational bums in my life.
There's really no way to make that sound sincere, but it is! - fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Sadly, the distance here is so great that the structures you see are now so much older that if there were planets with life, they've long since been burned to death by their suns going red giant, nova, or frozen by their suns flickering out, etc. The pictures are fabulous, but the light is.... old. Old in the same way that you feel impressed by the sizes and distances implied; old beyond imagining.
The good news is the same thing applies to our local neighbors, and the light we see coming here is new enough so that we can expect that what we see is a reasonable approximation of what is still there.
I agree: The most important image ever taken. So far. :) - muvment256, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I've seen the deep field and ultra deep field pics before, but it always makes me wonder: will we meet other life forms before we die? How about before our species dies?
- fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -13/+22To me, that picture diminishes religion from merely unlikely and somewhat silly hubris to outright absurdity.
Religionists don't think big enough. They never have. - stevensj2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's almost heartbreaking to consider those were your thoughts after seeing this.
- trylleklovn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah.. and then one of the youtube comments go..
"Nice THEORY." - dezmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8heck yes, im ready to kill some aliens
- ch33sehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And here's a Carl Sagan quote (in reference to this picture - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA00452.jpg ):
We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
~Carl Sagan, May 11, 1996 - keami, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@ djspanky
Are you saying "god" created the universe for us? How completely arrogant. It is much more incredible to consider that the universe is here all on its very own, and be in awe of the brilliance and majesty of that, without a "god". It is much more motivating to consider that the universe came about without meaning or purpose, and that we must create meaning for ourselves. Unless you want to be a sheep and are too scared of thinking for yourself.
What is so crazy about believing the universe came from nothing? It is much less crazy then believing that some god created it. Where did that "god" come from then? It is overly complicated to think, that "god" originated out of nothing, and then created the universe out of nothing. The simplest explanation is best. Ever hear of Occam's Razor? Human beings have the incredible ability to empathize with inanimate objects. Sure, we all have the desire to believe we are not alone and that the universe cares for us in some way. But that is just not the case.
On another note how can anyone believe the universe is only 6000 years old after seeing the Hubble Deep Field is beyond me.
Idiot sheep with their intelligent design BS. It is ridiculous to believe the universe is less than 6000 years old. On the other hand, if you believe that creation in 7 days is a metaphor, that Adam and Eve's fall from eden was a metaphor. Then Jesus died for a metaphor (original sin), making all of Christianity look really silly.
You might as well be a Scientologist. - bloqmon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10wow lazlonger, you couldnt be more nerdily condescending. get off your hubble high horse.
- Steelfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm not sure about our lifetime, but i'm almost certain before our species dies. We're just too damn smart and we advance quickly.. Just look at how far we've come in the last 2,000 years. *****, look at the past 20 years.
- sandyg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Crexor, I think that is a wonderful idea. It would be a shame if this video got lost in the day-to-day shuffle. It does inspire awe. Beautifully done.
- webphreak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I think you would probably have to be a little crazy to begin with. For someone to have a great mind they almost always need to have a screw loose somewhere, thats what makes them amazing and so different to the rest of us plebs.
- SportBilly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Assuming they're not all cockroaches of course.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -12/+17Hah. Puny human. Your mind is no match for even the weakest simulation of the total perspective vortex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex - milomilomilo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5its the hubble deepfield. essentially hubble photographed a very tiny part of space that looks empty and it shows 10,000 galaxies. google : hubble deepfield or hubble ultra deepfield
- CandidateZero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I demand a 3D rotatable picture of the entire universe!
- becknell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@freff
On government computers YouTube is firewalled unfortunately, and many companies do as well I imagine. I can go there from my personal computer but downtime on the job I have to resort to other means; lucky for me Google Video isn't blocked for some reason, nor some other popular video sites, nor digg...
It stinks because most videos posted are from YouTube. - angulion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Or maybe there isn't, nor ever was a god?
- McShaken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@ fyngyrz -
While it's true that this is a snapshot is of the distant past (since the light we see from this distance takes millions or billions of years to reach us), you make the assumption that no new stars/galaxies have been created... - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6Steelfox: We _think_ we're smart.
- ThankTheCheese, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5wait, am i missing something? what was with the guy dancing to his webcam at 1.30? at first i thought it was a joke, and the first part of the video was just to bait you, but then the documentary continues as normal... Was that video spliced in or actually part of the documentary?
- streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"They should have sent... a poet..."
- keami, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@ diecastbeatdown
"we are part of god, god is everything. god is not something entirely separate from yourself."
Wow. That is a big load of fluffy new age nonsense. Does that help you feel better about yourself, or better the world? Terrorists believe the same ***** as this, and use god to justify their actions. How is there any good in that? People are people. We don't need god or religion anymore, not in today's world.
So where are these "god" particles that exist in everything? According to creation _mythology_, god breathed life into us, giving us a soul. Where is this "soul"? How would you even begin to prove that a soul exists in each of us. Give me some concrete evidence and I'll listen to you. Really.
I do not believe we are part of "god", we are each individuals with our own individuality and sentience. Even if we are part of god, or god is part of us...it would explain a thing or to: god is one of the most violent and malicious fictional characters to ever be written about. -
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