want to feel that we might not be alone, just zoom into the sharpest ever view of Andromeda

[Cabbage Patch]

yeah its supposed to be one particle or "thing" that makes up all of reality . Its all cool to me gives us stuff to ponder about.

Reality is a hologram.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

I've always said, if we didn't have insane light pollution in the cities and could actually see the milky way and other celestial bodies that our behavior would be altered. If you saw this EVERY NIGHT

you can't help but be humbled and awestruck.

Except man had those views and still went to war over bullshyt.

Beautiful picture.

 

[Malta]

@Malta this pic is amazing

Straight up and to the fact I'll never see more than 1 solar system in my life.

 

[Lion-INI-spear222]

my moms parents are evangelical christians, they would always lament that my fathers religion was astronomy, I think we'd all be better off if that were the only religion out there.

Most religions have humble beginnings, it is not until other social constructs and knowledge influences it that they become a systems of control, etc. This goes for all ideas or concepts that become groups. Astronomy as a religion would suffer the same fate as the rest.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Except man had those views and still went to war over bullshyt.

Beautiful picture.

a fair point but they didn't even know what they were actually looking at, they just thought of it as "the heavens" or thought mythological beings inhabited the sky. I think it's a bit more profound knowing that all you see are trillions of stars that have planets just like ours around them

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Straight up and to the fact I'll never see more than 1 solar system in my life.

I've had a couple crazy lucid dreams where I was essentially flying through space/celestial objects, that's the closest I'll get

 

[Lion-INI-spear222]

Reality is a hologram.

Holographic Universe

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Most religions have humble beginnings, it is not until other social constructs and knowledge influences it that they become a systems of control, etc. This goes for all ideas or concepts that become groups. Astronomy as a religion would suffer the same fate as the rest.

They were essentially saying "science" was his religion

this picture alone is more profound and beautiful than anything religion can give you, this is real and tangible.

 

[Malta]

I've had a couple crazy lucid dreams where I was essentially flying through space/celestial objects, that's the closest I'll get

Try Space Engine


http://en.spaceengine.org/

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Try Space Engine


http://en.spaceengine.org/

I hope that one crazy spaceship/space MMO ends up being good.

 

[Malta]

I hope that one crazy spaceship/space MMO ends up being good.

There's 3 now, well 2 MMO's and another space exploration game.

Elite Dangerous is out and apparently dope as fukk, they're going to add planet landings to it in the future.

No Man's Sky for PS4 with a procedural universe with trillion + stars.

And Star Citizen which is the one you're talking about.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

There's 3 now, well 2 MMO's and another space exploration game.

Elite Dangerous is out and apparently dope as fukk, they're going to add planet landings to it in the future.

No Man's Sky for PS4 with a procedural universe with trillion + stars.

And Star Citizen which is the one you're talking about.

No man's sky looks fukkin amazing. okay, the one i was thinking of is star citizen, I don't think i've even looked up elite dangerous

 

[Lion-INI-spear222]

They were essentially saying "science" was his religion

this picture alone is more profound and beautiful than anything religion can give you, this is real and tangible.

I would beg to differ, would you say that things created through our imagination can't compliment physical reality? I am in awe by the many creation stories that we know of from history. All the interesting worlds artist, games and storytellers have created many people gravitate towards those thing more then what the physical world shows (which is a very small piece of the image).

Then their is the world or images we see when we sleep that shows things that reality doesn't show. Is that world not intangible.

Also I believe that nothing is more beautiful then the memory of that something, because how we remember it is personal and more meaningful to us then true reality can ever be. Isn't that image/memory not real and tangible?

I do believe in metaphysics so intangible things are as important as the tangible.

 

[tmonster]

I know what you mean, Its like when they would show us those "illustrations" of atoms or subatomic particles in our textbook. It wasn't until I finally decided to do my own research that I learned those images was false"

For example this popular model is false.

This is an example of what it really looks like (and this still doesn't show everything)

Even more interesting is the amount of space between the protons, neutrons and electrons. The model in textbooks make it look like they are touching.

you're being too literal, a model is just a model, and your last pic gets the scale wayyyyyyyy wrong too

 

[YaBoy]

But as i've stated in the other thread about life on other planets vs life on earth. the further we go along in science. the more we realize how insane it is that we even exist. we have so many little minute things that have to take place to create life good enough for a cell, let alone an ant, but lets not even talk about US ...humans. Then to sustain such life forms for this long is also insane. So with that, i will never think just because its a lot of space in outer space it has to be filled with other living beings. its just as beautiful without them right now is it not? so why the disappointment if you found out one day that we are really so called alone as living beings?

I dont know maybe its just me. i have never thought space = has to be other living beings out there.

I feel like some people are too closed minded when they assume that life on another planet/galaxy has to be the same as on Earth. The universe is so vast with so many differences & things we're just beginning to understand. Life on another planet could be completely different than anything we're even thinking about.
And also, the universe is so massive, that just from the sheer numbers, there has to be another planet around the same size as Earth, that's orbiting around a sun at about the same distance. Just look again at the pic in the OP. There's an insane amount of stars, each with its own planets, and thats just considering one galaxy