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CrimsonNagus said:
This one looks like a painting. So beautiful.

This stuff is amazing and mesmerizing. All those galaxies which all have billions, maybe trillions, of stars, which may have billions or trillions of planets. In our galaxy alone there are estimates of tens of billions of potentially habitable planets. Look at all those other galaxies in these images with their tens of billions of potentially habitable planets. No way we are the only living sentient creatures in all this wonder.
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We may never know (Fermi's Paradox).

I truly hope we aren't, one way or another.

Either way, part of the impact for me is to reinforce how precious the gift of life is (however screwed up it also is).
 
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CrimsonNagus said:
This one looks like a painting. So beautiful.

This stuff is amazing and mesmerizing. All those galaxies which all have billions, maybe trillions, of stars, which may have billions or trillions of planets. In our galaxy alone there are estimates of tens of billions of potentially habitable planets. Look at all those other galaxies in these images with their tens of billions of potentially habitable planets. No way we are the only living sentient creatures in the universe.

It blows my mind to think that in these images could be other civilizations that we will never know about and they will never know about us.
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By the time we traveled there, the inhabitants would be gone.
 
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DzynKingRTR said:
By the time we traveled there, the inhabitants would be gone.
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Yep, and the same applies to them traveling towards us. Even these images are basically a time capsule because of how old the light is when it hits the telescope's lenses. Lets say there is a planet with life somewhere in one of these images. Our image would probably be before their planet had life and they are actually millions of years more advance then us.

It fascinates me to think about the time it takes for light to travel to us. We will never be able to see a current picture of our universe. These images are looking into the past and some of these things may not even exist anymore. The farthest detected galaxy on record is 13.5 billion light years away so any faint image we have of it is what it looked like 13.5 billion years ago. Plenty of time for a civilization to rise and fall.

I mean, we all know that Stars Wars is really a documentary about long lost civilization in a galaxy far far away.
 
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CrimsonNagus said:
Yep, and the same applies to them traveling towards us. Even these images are basically a time capsule because of how old the light is when it hits the telescope's lenses. Lets say there is a planet with life somewhere in one of these images. Our image would probably be before their planet had life and they are actually millions of years more advance then us.

It fascinates me to think about the time it takes for light to travel to us. We will never be able to see a current picture of our universe. These images are looking into the past and some of these things may not even exist anymore. The farthest detected galaxy on record is 13.5 billion light years away so any faint image we have of it is what it looked like 13.5 billion years ago. Plenty of time for a civilization to rise and fall.

I mean, we all know that Stars Wars is really a documentary about long lost civilization in a galaxy far far away.
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It boggles the mind. Plus all the stars we are seeing are suns in another galaxy. It just crazy.


Side note: Is your tidefans name a Star Trek TNG reference?
 
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DzynKingRTR said:
Side note: Is your tidefans name a Star Trek TNG reference?
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TNG/DS9/VOY, it is a Trek reference. The Grand Nagus was the leader of the Ferengi Alliance, and the financial leader of billions of Ferengi. I love the Ferengi on DS9. Quark is one of my favorite Star Trek characters, although he wasn't the Grand Nagus.

I am the Crimson Nagus, leader of the Crimson Alliance, and the financial leader of billions of online Alabama fans.
 
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TNG/DS9/VOY, it is a Trek reference. The Grand Nagus was the leader of the Ferengi Alliance, and the financial leader of billions of Ferengi. I love the Ferengi on DS9. Quark is one of my favorite Star Trek characters, although he wasn't the Grand Nagus.

I am the Crimson Nagus, leader of the Crimson Alliance, and the financial leader of billions of online Alabama fans.
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I thought so. I may not have ever watched Star Wars but I have watched a lot of Star Trek. I actually just finished DS9.
 
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Live launch feed - a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon 2 spacecraft on its fifth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Launch happens today (July 14) at about 7:45PM CST.

 
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And the craziest thing is the first few images were test images. Test Images! The further we can go from here is astounding. This is a huge deal.
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You know when I started teaching many years ago, I taught Earth and Space Science. There were no pictures like this. Of course we didn't have computers either. The kids would love this stuff now because they can SEE it. It would totally change their thought process about space.
 
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(Name Redacted, Person 1):

Has anyone noticed this galaxy cluster. Looks like 6-8 young galaxies orbiting one another. This image is so amazing.

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(Name Redacted, Person 2):

That's actually the Iron Man Cluster. Excuse the rudimentary drawing.

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