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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7261678 01/11/2013 08:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I bet that is an amazing sight to watch if there is any way to see it from a human point of view. Quoting: BAD WOLF It's not mind-boggling it's the universe and the universe has many gems just waiting to be discovered. I bet there are more things like this out there than just this one or even larger. Things like this definately puts everything in perspective though. Everything we see is only a small amount of the universe. A really small amount. Less than minuscule |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 31998768 01/11/2013 09:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | All this cool stuff and were stuck here on earth under a dictatorship, so how I wish I could blast out in space to see all of these great things and forget the hell on earth in which we currently reside. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11292052 I'm the blue fairy, i heared you have a wish? Well, no. I'm not the blue fairy, neither a Jinn or a Frog with magical powers. And it's unlikely that you will ever come across one of the above. So...how about you do something, instead of wishing? How about now, instead of tomorrow? Right now. |
| zacksavage ~~Unbound~~ User ID: 1264731 01/11/2013 09:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank you OP. Consciousness expanding info is so very, very,... Cool. Z It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. --- AUNG SAN SUU KYI, Freedom from Fear |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 801546 01/11/2013 10:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end. Quoting: JUST HERE The structure is a large quasar group (LQG), a collection of extremely luminous galactic nuclei powered by supermassive central black holes. This particular group is so large that it challenges modern cosmological theory, researchers said. "While it is difficult to fathom the scale of this LQG, we can say quite definitely it is the largest structure ever seen in the entire universe," lead author Roger Clowes, of the University of Central Lancashire in England, said in a statement. "This is hugely exciting, not least because it runs counter to our current understanding of the scale of the universe." Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe. For decades, astronomers have known that they tend to assemble in huge groups, some of which are more than 600 million light-years wide. [link to www.msnbc.msn.com] cool, I think the largest structures in the universe I learned about were super filaments. I think filaments where strings of trillions and trillions and trillions of galaxies. And super filaments were STRINGS of MILLIONS of filaments. Think about that for a second. That is unbelievable. |
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| AwakenedDude User ID: 22665197 01/11/2013 11:04 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | All this cool stuff and were stuck here on earth under a dictatorship, so how I wish I could blast out in space to see all of these great things and forget the hell on earth in which we currently reside. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11292052 Word. Peace. Hey Dude,here is another - ![]() Awesome ;-) Let's shoot LOVE bombs instead, OK? |
| Truthache free and unaffiliated User ID: 1465537 01/11/2013 11:44 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's just too cool. Our entire home galaxy is 100,000 light years across and that Large Quasar Group alone is 4 billion light years across?!?!!??!!!!! Let me put this another way. That THING.....is... FORTY-THOUSAND TIMES GREATER IN SIZE... THAN OUR ENTIRE GALAXY! ![]() in warm pursuit... |
| WitchHazel User ID: 32008881 01/11/2013 11:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great vid... the power of 10 [youtube] [link to www.youtube.com] Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. |
| WitchHazel User ID: 32008881 01/12/2013 12:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [youtube [link to www.youtube.com] Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. |
| ExoPoliChick User ID: 31770180 01/12/2013 12:24 AM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nice. :) Nobody told me there'd be days like these....Strange days indeed! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is our innate solidarity - not some despotism of the sky - that is our source of morality and sense of decency." ~ Hitchens "The essence of the independent mind is not in what it thinks, but how it thinks." ~ Hitchens "A mode of dust suspended in a sunbeam." ~ Sagan |
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| BuggedOut User ID: 32013217 01/12/2013 01:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's just too cool. Quoting: Truthache Our entire home galaxy is 100,000 light years across and that Large Quasar Group alone is 4 billion light years across?!?!!??!!!!! Let me put this another way. That THING.....is... FORTY-THOUSAND TIMES GREATER IN SIZE... THAN OUR ENTIRE GALAXY! ![]() We must destroy it! Before it destroys us! Someone had blunder'd. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. |
| Spittin'Cesium User ID: 14589973 01/12/2013 01:51 AM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's just too cool. Quoting: Truthache Our entire home galaxy is 100,000 light years across and that Large Quasar Group alone is 4 billion light years across?!?!!??!!!!! Let me put this another way. That THING.....is... FORTY-THOUSAND TIMES GREATER IN SIZE... THAN OUR ENTIRE GALAXY! ![]() We must destroy it! Before it destroys us! You'll be needing one of these then - ![]() The thing that hath been, is That which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the Sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1 |
| Spittin'Cesium User ID: 14589973 01/12/2013 01:54 AM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You are not,you are creation,creation is the Uni-verse...it is a whole - Nothing can be separated from it and everything is of it. Here,these are your Neurons - ![]() And here is the large scale structure of the Uni-verse - ![]() It is. The thing that hath been, is That which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the Sun. Ecclesiastes 9:1 |
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| black calx samadhi! User ID: 27504938 01/12/2013 02:04 AM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You are not,you are creation,creation is the Uni-verse...it is a whole - Nothing can be separated from it and everything is of it. Here,these are your Neurons - ![]() And here is the large scale structure of the Uni-verse - ![]() It is. Thanks man I was just making light of the discovery. Why are we here of all places! The entire universe is out there in multiple dimensions and we chose to reincarnate on this earth. I wonder why that is. We're oppressed by a few dominant families here. This big beautiful world. A world that stuns me in every direction when you are out in nature. A world of infinite abundance that's stunted by manufactured scarcity. How did it is come to this I wonder. As for me I plan on getting the hell away from here after I die. My physical form that is. There must be something better than this. I want to connect to the source. We shouldn't be born and have to pay with blood sweat and tears just to live. There must be something more than this. GLP - "We'll do it live!" Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 14244049 01/12/2013 02:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You are not,you are creation,creation is the Uni-verse...it is a whole - Nothing can be separated from it and everything is of it. Here,these are your Neurons - :neurons: And here is the large scale structure of the Uni-verse - :universe: It is. Interesting. I always thought it was amazing how our solar system resembled so much the structure and dynamics of an atom. |
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| darkwolf007 User ID: 3974719 01/12/2013 02:14 AM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Jee, the Architect from the Matrix movies. lol Sorry, couldn't help it. But that is a good question though, TidesofTruth. Attention! Come to the Dark... not only do we have double chocolate chocolate chip cookies, but we have dark chocolate fudge cake... and GLaDOS!! |
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| 404error User ID: 1395091 01/12/2013 02:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This "thing" is 4 billion ly across and the whole universe is estimated to be like 13 billion??? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31909789 13.7 billion years [link to en.wikipedia.org] It's a common mis conception - the universe is this old yes. But it is far bigger than 13.7 billion light years across. "...and that the diameter of the observable Universe is at least 93 billion light years or 8.80×1026 meters..." So really, this object is small in regard to the size of the universe. |