[Closed] Just wow-Universe content

My 9 year old has gone space mad over the last few weeks. I'm about to melt his brain with all that! Thanks for posting, great link!

Have a go on this then:

[url= http://scaleofuniverse.com/ ]Scale of the Universe[/url]

Good for kids too.

Now the question is where are all the aliens? 😆

Some say they don't exist others say our brain is too small to comprehend that possibility.

For the rigid minded we are the "universe" we are intelligent because there are no other possibility ...

Space is big. Really 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.

Now the question is where are all the aliens?

Is this like a really, really hard Where's Wally?

I love all this stuff. Kind of puts our little lives into perspective.

chvck - Member

Now the question is where are all the aliens?

Is this like a really, really hard Where's Wally?

What's your answer? Stop pussy footing with a question.

🙄

I sometimes hate that one climb on my regular local loop. In reality it's not that far at all really 😀

I sometimes hate that one climb on my regular local loop. In reality it's not that far at all really

Talking about the aliens?

Now the question is where are all the aliens?

I don't know where they are! A galaxy far, far away maybe...

Now the question is where are all the aliens?

Some say they don't exist others say our brain is too small to comprehend that possibility.

We're not invited to the party

I recently bought the [url= https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/star-walk-2-guide-to-sky-day/id892279069?mt=8 ]Star Walk 2[/url] app, as well as the satellite addons, for me iPhone.

Spent a pleasant, and mildly drunken, evening over the weekend checking out all the bits and bobs. As it works like a window onto the stars depending on where you point the phone.

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Amazing how often we forget to look up and go whut?

...as well as down, of course.

...click to make biggerer.

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[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nj48v/voyager-to-the-final-frontier ]BBC iPlayer - Voyager[/url]
Brilliant program, some truly mind boggling numbers

@maccruiskeen - thanks for that short, hadn't seen it before.

Now the question is where are all the aliens?

On their own planets, which are all a really really really really long way away.

molgrips - Member

Now the question is where are all the aliens?

On their own planets, which are all a really really really really long way away.

I bet they consider us parasite yes? 😀

Looking at the grand scheme of the universe we are insignificant.

Looking at the grand scheme of the universe we are insignificant.

Dazzling insight of the day.

I didn't know Uranus was so big.

Spin - Member

Looking at the grand scheme of the universe we are insignificant.

Dazzling insight of the day.

There there you learn something everyday so from now on please refer to mankind as nothing but parasite.

I think any aliens who find us would just sigh and move on quickly:

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I bet they consider us parasite yes?

Why would they?

Why wouldn't they be parasites too?

Why wouldn't they be just like us?

Where are the aliens?
Consider this photo:

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The Hubble Ultra Deep-field image, a series of exposures taken of a tiny section of sky in Ursa Major. Apart from a couple of very bright stars, every thing in the photo is a galaxy, going back in time about thirteen billion years.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field
Just imagine how many galaxies fill the sky in every direction, and how chuffing far away they are, with how many hundreds of millions of stars in each galaxy, and how many possible planets.
It's the distance thing that's the issue here, not where are they.

'Where are all the aliens'
Dunno but I'd bet a weeks pay they'd dress in black loose clothing, wave guns about, yap on about some god or another & go around chopping peoples heads off.

molgrips - Member

I bet they consider us parasite yes?

Good questions.

Why would they?

Because they found us first so they can define mankind as they like.

Why wouldn't they be parasites too?

They might be themselves but then why would they consider themselves that way when the underdeveloped beings can only consuming themselves to death?

Why wouldn't they be just like us?

If they are like us then we are all doomed because we harvest the weak.

CountZero - Member

Where are the aliens?

Look the mirror ... there might be one there.

😆

Where are the aliens?

Is this like spot the ball? What do I win?

Ohh they're out there, pray VERY hard they never find you.

Uncle Fermi had [url= http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html ]this[/url] to say when I asked where the aliens were.
(he's not my real uncle, in fact he didn't even write the article)

Ming the Merciless - Member

Ohh they're out there, pray VERY hard they never find you.

The one that found us are the "good ones" but wait until the ones with similar mindset like us find us ... then we get harvested. 😯

eulach - Member

Uncle Fermi had this to say when I asked where the aliens were.
(he's not my real uncle, in fact he didn't even write the article)

Good article that I should enjoy reading it later on ... 😀

Voyager has left our solar system and travelling at 50,000 mph the next star is 40,000 years away 😯 space is definitely BIG

chvck - Member

I don't know where they are! A galaxy far, far away maybe...

Missed that response.

I wonder if one galaxy is only capable of maintaining one type of intelligent being? Yes? Otherwise, we would have seen our long lost "cousins" if there are more than one type of beings? 😛

If you have a decent PC, have a shuftie at Space Engine, a free planetarium type program. It's really rather ace

I bet they consider us parasite yes?

Imagine aliens belonging to a society with technology so advanced that it's indistinguishable from magic.

I bet they've finally agreed on a wheel size standard.

My brother sent me a link to an article that said for every grain of sand on earth, there are potentially 100 habitable planets. And that you have three stages of civilisation and we've yet to make it to one.

[url= http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html ]By god here it is...[/url]

So it’s not that we can’t pick up the signals from Planet X using our technology, it’s that we can’t even comprehend what the beings from Planet X are or what they’re trying to do.

Planet-X, damn them and their cheap carbon

Civilisations hang around for such a short amount of time, that it's very unlikely another civilisation will exist by the time we receive any signal they've emitted.

We've only been producing radio signals for 200 years, so only those stars very close to us have received those signals.

As a slight aside there are mathematically (though not practical whilst actually playing) more variations of a game of chess (10 to 123) than number of atoms in the observable universe (10 to 81)

And on a board somewhat smaller!

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The wonder of our universe both intricate and infinitesimal is fabulous? Ìt is nothing without a chil?'s understanding

Bm'd for laters on when the Nephews come around, ta

So it’s not that we can’t pick up the signals from Planet X using our technology, it’s that we can’t even comprehend what the beings from Planet X are or what they’re trying to do.

I am not so sure, tbh. I think it's quite likely that alien beings will look quite like us, due to convergent evolution.

Civilisations hang around for such a short amount of time, that it's very unlikely another civilisation will exist by the time we receive any signal they've emitted.

We've only been producing radio signals for 200 years, so only those stars very close to us have received those signals.

Signals powerful enough to make out of the solar system have, I think, only been produced since the 1930s