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Old 12-18-2009, 05:32 AM   #1
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Default The known universe
The Digital Universe Atlas

Too cool for words.
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Old 12-18-2009, 05:41 AM   #2
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I love stuff like this, thanks for posting, I added this video to my favorites [thumbup]
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Old 12-18-2009, 06:02 AM   #3
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And people honestly think that this is the only planet with life on it.......
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Old 12-18-2009, 06:05 AM   #4
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And people honestly think that this is the only planet with life on it.......
No ****, theres too much real estate in the universe to believe we are the only ones, Ive always thought that to be an arrogant belief
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Old 12-18-2009, 06:14 AM   #5
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For anyone that wants to explore it themselves:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
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Old 12-18-2009, 06:27 AM   #6
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that ****in rocked!
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Old 12-18-2009, 07:36 AM   #7
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For anyone that wants to explore it themselves:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
thats a cool program, not sure how it works just yet, still gettn the hang of it
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Old 12-18-2009, 10:19 AM   #8
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OH damn that's awesome! I love space. It's so "the more we get to know we only realizes that know almost nothing.."
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Old 12-18-2009, 12:26 PM   #9
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That was awesome. Thanks for sharing. [thumbup]
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Old 12-18-2009, 12:40 PM   #10
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Did you guys hear about the new earth like planet they just discovered?

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It seems that up to this discovery it was known that planets like earth could ONLY exist in systems that had a similar star as our own, and this star is nothing like ours....goes to show how wrong we can be about a many things and how little we know outside our own solar system.
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Old 12-18-2009, 02:27 PM   #11
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Did you guys hear about the new earth like planet they just discovered?

LINK

It seems that up to this discovery it was known that planets like earth could ONLY exist in systems that had a similar star as our own, and this star is nothing like ours....goes to show how wrong we can be about a many things and how little we know outside our own solar system.
JUST discovered? lol that was almost a year ago. The one they JUST discovered wasn't even discovered by NASA, it was some independent group of people I forget who.

The recent discovery is orbiting close to an M dwarf(red dwarf), a star much smaller and dimmer than the G type our sun is, so planets can be in closer and stay within reasonable temperatures. It's also only 2.5x the size of Earth, though it's mass is still being calculated as it seems like it is lighter than it should be. Scientists are speculating it could be a water planet with a smaller rocky core beneath the great ocean somewhere, as it is in a habitable range from it's parent star for water to exist in it's liquid form. It's also only 40 lightyears away I think. I saw it on Daily Planet yesterday or the day before.

Pretty damn neat IMO.

Here found a link to a short blib on it. Daily planet had an exclusive on the scoop so there is prolly not much on the net about it yet. Try googling yourself to find more.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ea..._away_999.html
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Old 12-18-2009, 02:34 PM   #12
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JUST discovered? lol that was almost a year ago. The one they JUST discovered wasn't even discovered by NASA, it was some independent group of people I forget who.

The recent discovery is orbiting close to an M dwarf(red dwarf), a star much smaller and dimmer than the G type our sun is, so planets can be in closer and stay within reasonable temperatures. It's also only 2.5x the size of Earth, though it's mass is still being calculated as it seems like it is lighter than it should be. Scientists are speculating it could be a water planet with a smaller rocky core beneath the great ocean somewhere, as it is in a habitable range from it's parent star for water to exist in it's liquid form. It's also only 40 lightyears away I think. I saw it on Daily Planet yesterday or the day before.

Pretty damn neat IMO.

Here found a link to a short blib on it. Daily planet had an exclusive on the scoop so there is prolly not much on the net about it yet. Try googling yourself to find more.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ea..._away_999.html
yea thats the one I meant, sorry bout the wrong link above


p.s. almost a year ago I think would qualify as "just" discovered
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Old 12-18-2009, 02:42 PM   #13
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yea thats the one I meant, sorry bout the wrong link above


p.s. almost a year ago I think would qualify as "just" discovered
Well true but I knew the one you were talking about so to me that was wrong
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Old 12-18-2009, 03:07 PM   #14
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After watching this video the Delta Quadrant doesn't seem that far away anymore...
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Old 12-18-2009, 03:57 PM   #15
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Basically we know f*ck all about what's out there. It is supremely arrogant of us as a race to assume that another planet has not managed to evolve as much as our own. I have a hard time thinking about space. My brain just can't handle the fact that there are probably a million other galaxies and worlds out there. It actually starts to ache to be honest. After a while a I just end up so confused I need a beer and a lie down.
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Old 12-18-2009, 04:22 PM   #16
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Basically we know f*ck all about what's out there. It is supremely arrogant of us as a race to assume that another planet has not managed to evolve as much as our own. I have a hard time thinking about space. My brain just can't handle the fact that there are probably a million other galaxies and worlds out there. It actually starts to ache to be honest. After a while a I just end up so confused I need a beer and a lie down.
yeah it gives me a black eye just thinking about it
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Old 12-18-2009, 04:29 PM   #17
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yeah it gives me a black eye just thinking about it
That's fighting talk...
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Old 12-18-2009, 04:29 PM   #18
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That's fighting talk...
...lol
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Old 12-18-2009, 04:31 PM   #19
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hows the eye pongo ?
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Old 12-18-2009, 05:17 PM   #20
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Ha, it's not particularly sore but I'm going to my parents this weekend so I'm more worried about having to explain the situation to every single person I bump into. Plus, I'm inevitably going to end up with the nickname "rocky" within 3.4 seconds of entering my local pub.
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