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Hubble Ultra Deep Field aka blow you little mind...

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FerrisBueller
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Us humans, pointed our greatest telescope at the darkest part (or what we thought) of the night sky to reveal the most astounding discovery we have ever made (or so I believe). Every pinpoint of light (with exception to a few stars in our own galaxy) is a galaxy containing between 100 million to 10 billion stars in each one. The Hubble Extreme Deep Field was Released on September 25, 2012 and it took 10 years to compile the images and shows galaxies from 13.2 billion years ago. The exposure time took approximately 23 days. Blow your mind...Imagine the infinite possibility...

Hubble Extreme Deep Field

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Hubble Ultra Deep Field

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Zoom in on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

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The HUDF used to be the deepest image of the universe ever taken and it will be used to search for galaxies that existed between 400 and 800 million years after the big bang.

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In order to understand this thread fully you must know some basic astronomy and physics such as the speed of light and the proposed expansion rate of the universe...

Every galaxy you see here probably no longer exists as we see them here, and have probably been swallowed by black holes or combined into even larger galaxies. Every star within every Galaxy pictured had the possibility to harbor a planet with liquid water on its surface in the habitable zone of its system. Infinite other realities were created and then destroyed over the billions of years.

To think it all is the evolution of hydrogen bound by some mathematics and laws really makes you wonder to the depth of human cognition.

Repost or whatever, it should be just as epic as the last time you saw it if you truly comprehend the significance.
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FuckAllOfYou
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one of those galaxies could be star wars

a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
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Bogs
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Again, my imagination isn't limited in the slightest.

Like i said, the concept of infinite possibility in the universe is mind-blowing, but these pictures are not. I've known about the infinite possibility of the universe for a long time, so seeing pictures that merely provide more proof for it just confirms something i already know, it doesn't blow my mind.

I guess, for me, for something to be considered "mind-blowing" it has to be something i've never seen, known, or even considered before. So, while incredibly cool and a good reminder of how big and unknowable the universe is, these pictures aren't mind-blowing.
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Bogs
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I highly doubt that's the problem
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FerrisBueller
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Yesss either there are an infinite number of universes or our universe is infinite, one or the other
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FerrisBueller
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dude the way I see it, star wars did happen on one of the galaxies, somewhere at some point - if the universe is infinite, then it must have.
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FerrisBueller
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Fuck yeah fluffy ass powder on a planet with a little less gravity + ability to boost shit way bigger holy fuck talk about future spins...they could be so much more advanced at skiing (or whatever they call it)

That would be the sickest shit to ski with another intelligent organism.... :O
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FerrisBueller
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fuck yeah coming down on acid and checking this shit out is awesome
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FerrisBueller
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To me, our universe is infinite, just our observable horizon is 13.7 billion years in length (age)

It just never stops...woah
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FerrisBueller
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This
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FerrisBueller
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hahahaha
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howlongcanausern
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thank you US taxpayers for yet another scientific breakthrough
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bdarb207
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Our tax dollars go to free loaders. I heard so on the news.
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THUNT836
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The only thing more numerous than the amount of galaxies in that image is the number of times it has been fucking reposted.
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FerrisBueller
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refer to my original post


"Repost or whatever, it should be just as epic as the last time you saw it if you truly comprehend the significance."

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THUNT836
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OP was tl;dr
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Charlie_Kelly
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I saw his post and before even reading it wanted to post something like this.

Shut the fuck up watts, no one cares what you have to say about anything. If we were to meet in person, I would befriend you, earn your trust, then steal your identity and ruin your credit until you acknowledge me as leader of the hunt.
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Charlie_Kelly
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Double post but I always get mind fucked when thinking about scale. Like we as humans like to think that the earth is large, our sun is larger, our solar system is even larger, etc. right? Well our scale is only based on our perception. To think there could be living beings possibly the size of say, earth, and that the likely hood of a being that large existing being very likely is mind blowing.

Then you get into the idea that our known universe could, in theory, just be an atom in and even larger system and that the "space" we have come to know is just like the "space" between atoms.

Or that maybe the big bang was an atom that split (which we know causes a massive explosion) and the known universe is the result.

Fuck you Ferris.
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FuckAllOfYou
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yeah yeah yeah you ponder it enough it kind of loses its sting and then you move on in life. really phenomenal stuff though. I love this shit
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worstmemberever
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This is not true. An exhaustive universe must indeed be infinite, but an infinite universe is not necessarily exhaustive. Follow me?
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Bogs
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i don't doubt it
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worstmemberever
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Due to physiological constraints, even under very low gravity conditions, a living thing anywhere near the size of earth is highly unlikely. Think of an elephants thick legs. The are that thick because when you get that big the cross sectionional area in the leg bones has to grow proportionally to the mass (if i remember correctly). So an organism the size of earth would have legs so heavy it wouldnt be able to move. Underwater presents a different proposition, but there are likely constraints there as well if you are considering a near infinitely sized organism.
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FerrisBueller
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Yes but I disagree, in an infinite universe every possible thing that can happen either did happen, does happen or will happen. If you truly understand what infinite is.
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Charlie_Kelly
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But are you considering that the gravitational force present on a planet where these creatures could exist could differ from our own allowing for something to grow that big? Idk it was just a thought, we really know very little of the properties of the universe.
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FerrisBueller
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this is the best assumption...we can't really prove or disprove anything
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elinde
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I like the Ancient Greek way of thinking about it, with the layer of chaos starting at the bottom then the layers of Nyx and Erebos and Gaia and Tartarus (among others) forming. Obviously not accurate but it's strange how similar that idea is to image in the OP.....

What I really love about cosmology and astronomy is that it gives me hope. As beautiful as our world is, I feel there is nothing significant enough to justify existence (actually I don't necessarily think this, but something inside me needs to break free of the bounds of this earth and discover impossible things.)
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LjayCinema
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baked & MIND BOTTLED.
you gotta cool perspective cole.
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FerrisBueller
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thanks doood
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