There is a reason i have the Alias Cosmic....i enjoy Cosmology, the Universe etc.
This puts how small and insignificant we really are on the cosmic scale of things into perspective!







Antares is a Red Super Giant and the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is what our sun will look like in 5 billion years!

That's quite fascinating. We are just another germ in the universe. Perhaps a disease.

ur the only disease here charlie

CharlieFTW wrote:

That's quite fascinating. We are just another germ in the universe. Perhaps a disease.

feeling a bit misanthropic?


hey cos you may be interested in these:

648megapixel photo of the milky way:
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/11/photo-stunning.php

i also had a link somewhere showing the distance between planets scaled down on a webpage and you had to scroll for fucking ages to find each one.
cant find it atm

CharlieFTW wrote:

That's quite fascinating. We are just another germ in the universe. Perhaps a disease.

Yes Charlie, in fact we are more like a parasite, using up the natural resources of our environment, consuming it for our own gain......sad but true.

Nice Dog......gezz that guy is dedicated, 3000photos to make one!!
Nice link.

the thing that amazes me is the fact our sun will expand to be that large, albeit less dense, and consume pretty well almost everything in the solar system.

By then though we'll be on the run from cylons looking for 'new' earth

^ have fun with that, i'm gonna captain the enterprise!

or choose from some of these other guys

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=728521&d=1248091923

Im gonna be captaining an intergalactic destroyer, something the would eat the gay ass enterprise for brunch.

For gods sake PLEASE dont go into ANOTHER Intergalactic Destroyer VS Enterprise bullshit arguement.

But it would be cool to see :-D

there ya go cossy

after seeing that pic of the executor class super destroyer....how could the enterprise even stand a fleeting chance lol.

yeah i have to agreee, super star destroyers would kick the shit out of any federation starship. if a normal destroyer can issues a delta base zero in an hour a super star destroyer could probably take out a star.


although it would come down to whether ion cannons and lasers could take on phaser beams and photon torpedoes

Borg would fuck them over

omg... star trek geeks.

so is everyone else who knows what we're on about.

meh I only really watched Voyager and a little TNG, more into stargate and battlestar if we're talking sci fi.

Wounded wrote:

this awesome thread turned GAY as soon as there was talking of space ships fighting

Agree'd.

Wounded wrote:

this awesome thread turned GAY as soon as there was talking of space ships fighting

+1

spaceships ftw, spock would vulcan death grip u to DEATH if u said that to him...yea!

we all know flying in outer space is going to happen one day, apart from gay ass nasa crap.

We'd be out in the cosmo's, so it's parrallel with the topic!

lol

Wow That Is Cool

FFS lol.

MarllyFTW wrote:

there ya go cossy

Thx Kellz very nice

thought you might like this Cos

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/default.aspx?wtml=http%3a%2f%2fwww.worldwidetelescope.org%2fwwtweb%2fgoto.aspx%3fobject%3dM13%26ra%3d16.695%26dec%3d36.46666667%26zoom%3d2.16353510180383%26wtml%3dtrue

Captain Planet > Star Trek

As far as I'm concerned EVE-O is good for internet spaceships, but I don't play it anymore.

Note: Antares is one big damn star.... or is it? (Relatively speaking)

Edit/PS: What is with some stars being white in those pics?

i think the white stars are called 'White Dwarfs' of what i know theyre very dense and small for theyre size.

Spot on about what White Dwarfs are, Virt, but I think the stars appearing white or any colour is just how we percieve them. White Dwarfs aren't hot enough to be very visible, usually quite feint in the sky.
Also aren't necessarily white =P

I know this kind of stuff is reposted alot, but I like computer generated videos over infographics sometimes =P

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT POSSIBLE?!

Virtuoso X wrote:

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT POSSIBLE?!

how is what possible?

whitedevil's youtube video posted above his

yeah what about it?
im so confused.

this cant be like that cup of concrete thing

look at the complexitty of the telescope "whateveritis" and virts "unbelievable " reaction. he is suprised at the telescope. lol dog

Man his mind will be blown when he finds out they make some mirrors and lenses so smooth for telescopes, they have to be "polished" by firing beams of atoms at them to keep them smooth on the atomic level.
You can't even touch then with your bare hands because you'd fuck them up immeasurably

your dog wrote:

this cant be like that cup of concrete thing

Bahaha you crack me up

Kel wrote:

your dog wrote:

this cant be like that cup of concrete thing

Bahaha you crack me up

i do what i can =P

Thats truly amazing, we are just a spec in the vastness of the galaxy, and that too, a spec in the wider universe, and possibly that too a spec - truly mind boggling of how things came to be.

Virtuoso X wrote:

Thats truly amazing, we are just a spec in the vastness of the galaxy, and that too, a spec in the wider universe, and possibly that too a spec - truly mind boggling of how things came to be.

everytime i fart a new galaxy is created, so thats about 100 new galaxys a day

wow truly amazing xD

As if you didn't know Virt, you were born in one of the first farts lol

the big stink, and he said let there be plentiful of farts!