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Amazing, isn't it?

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ReedSkis~
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/13/huge-exoplanet-news-items-pictures/

Turns out that we have just captured the first EVER photos of planets outside of our solar system

amazing isn't it?
Nov 13 2008 11:16PM
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Happy.
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Space is probably this sickest thing ever, so much to think about/question.
Nov 13 2008 11:18PM
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J-mo44
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first! thats amazing, im pumped to see some aliens, before i die that is
Nov 13 2008 11:22PM
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timmi
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space is soo fucked.
Nov 13 2008 11:27PM
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solitaryman
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"FIRE ZE MISSILEZ"





Oh shit nevermind, we had an election.  My bad.
Nov 14 2008 12:05AM
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fsscott
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dude space never ceases to amaze me
it's endless and is the reason why religion doesn't make sense for me
pm me if you want me to go into detail im to lazy right now haha
Nov 14 2008 12:07AM
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ReedSkis~
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just thinking about something being endless is amazing

ENDLESS..................
Nov 15 2008 12:20AM
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A.R.
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space is scary man.
Nov 15 2008 12:32AM
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Malcolm
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sick now someone has to make a space cult so i can join it

Nov 15 2008 10:39AM
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yellav
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uh next solar system? nigga i terraform planets for colonization err day!
Nov 15 2008 10:45AM
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Pippin
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yes, but scary in an intriguing fashion.
Nov 15 2008 10:45AM
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richards
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it never ends.. what the fuck

Nov 15 2008 2:09PM
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notomatoplz
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correct me if im wrong but i think most theories are that it does eventually end at some point because it is ever expanding, but i guess the real answer is we dont really know for sure?
Nov 15 2008 2:14PM
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richards
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i dono,.. but if it ends what the fucks after that
Nov 15 2008 2:49PM
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notomatoplz
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nothing, according to most scientists atleast... space is everything and it is expanding into nothing... yea its wierd
Nov 15 2008 2:52PM
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2814
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Its kind of hard to conceptualize. The universe is expanding. But it is not expanding into anything. There is nothing outside. The universe is infinite in space, and maybe even time. And if the critical density ratio =1 or is
Nov 15 2008 6:49PM
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grams.
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That's freakin ridiculous, and scary. Screw it , I don't even want to think about it.


And I want that lense that took the picture of the planet. Just imagine the high resolution shots...
Nov 15 2008 7:01PM
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popNfresh44
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thats awesome but frankly im surprised they havent gotten an image of one before.
Nov 15 2008 7:04PM
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SirFryanator
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I'm pretty sure that if you go in a straight line through the universe you will end up where you started. read "a short history of nearly everything" by bill bryson. suchhhh a good read, and it explains a lot about life, planet formations, extinctions, and what's going on now.
Nov 15 2008 7:10PM
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gmack24
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imagine how many other life forms there are out there. it's absolutely mind boggling. I also read about a theory that there are parallel universes mirroring our life/planet, and they said that maybe if you nearly got in an accident that could kill you, in the parallel universe, because time is a little different, you may have actually been killed. Crazy to think about
Nov 15 2008 7:16PM
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.jon
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The best explanation I've ever heard of how/if space ends is that the answer is beyond the thinking power of the human brain.

Just as a dog will never understand how a car runs, the human brain will never be able to fully understand how/if space ends.
That brought a little bit of closure to it for me... but it's still insane to think about sometimes haha
Nov 15 2008 7:21PM
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Scott~
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Well the universe is mathematically infinite, so thats kind of the idea. Look up "critical universe". Anyways im stoked on this news but it really isnt that incredible. We havent been able to directly photograph a planet but as far as I know we have detected the other ones through "silhouettes" or something of the sort. Either way this doesnt tell us a lot. Good press though, maybe NASA will stop wasting 60% of their budget on fucking space exploration sometime soon. I think in the next few years NASA is putting out a new telescope designed for detecting planets, should yield much better results than we have had in the past. Good find though OP, hadnt heard about this, thanks~
Nov 15 2008 7:25PM
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2814
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The only way you will end up at the same point is if we exist in a closed universe where the critical density ratio is greater than one. Basically, if our universe can be mathematically expressed as a sphere then that theory holds true.

The consensus right now, though is that we live in a 'critical' universe, which is basically a flat plane. You will just go on forever because since space expands, essentially, faster than light, you will never reach an end, if there is one.
Nov 15 2008 8:10PM
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hartig
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i think my head just exploded
Nov 15 2008 8:45PM
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Scott~
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I forget who but some physicist calculated the probable distance between our universe and these other hubble volumes, something like 10^36 lightyears or something. Id have to look it up, anyways, its fun stuff~
Nov 15 2008 9:08PM
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currentwestman
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i just threw some numbers into the calc and according to my calculations it would take about 145 days to get to mars from earth going about 10000 mph when earth and mars are at their closest.  that seems like NOTHING to me when you consider the possibilities! whats keeping us from landing there? we have the technology don't we? i realize it would cost billions, but, again, the reward would by far outweigh the cost....
Nov 15 2008 9:30PM
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Steazel
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so many things to talk about when you think about space, would go into it in more detail but im bit tired, nice find though
Nov 15 2008 9:43PM
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twin-tip-hero
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just wow. 

Nov 15 2008 9:55PM
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huge-go
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People shouldn't even try to understand the physics behind the universe. The mathematics behind the physics is so mind boggling, it's ridiculous. At one time, there are probably only like a couple hundred people on Earth, if that, that can understand the math.
Nov 15 2008 10:05PM
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Scott~
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I completely disagree and there are far far more than a couple hundred people who understand the math~
Nov 15 2008 10:32PM
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Happy.
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I have to disagree with you. Noone knows where the universe is expanding into, or if we even are expanding for sure, everything is just an 'educated guess'. The whole everything expanding into nothing is basically a sort of oxymoron. Yet people tell us thats whats happening...shits nuts. You could go on for days debating this stuff. One thing i wanna do before i die is read a shitload about sapce, eat a ton of shrooms then just sit there and talk about it with someone....and record it. It would be amazing
Nov 16 2008 1:52AM
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Mooserz
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hey, your period button better be out of your keyboard if your using ~'s as periods!
Nov 16 2008 1:56AM
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jibbits56
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thats the perfect way to describe it...
Nov 16 2008 2:13AM
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Scott~
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I was disagreeing that this type of physics is not meant to be understand, but yes, actually we do know that the universe is expanding. Maybe not what it is expanding into, but the evidence is substantial for the theory that the universe is expanding~
Nov 16 2008 2:14AM
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