Ran across these images on the net. While i did learn all this in school i hadn't quite visualized it until i saw these pictures. it shows how insignificant the earth is in our solar system and makes you wonder how we could possibly be the only intelligent life out there. Which then leads to other questions...
I was at a astronomy "lecture" at Bryce Canyon National Park a few years back - you know, not a lecture so much as a talk by one of the Park Rangers followed by getting to use their sweet telescopes while they point at things with those super-charged laser-pointers... ...anywho, they were talking about the farthest we've seen into space. Which is with the Hubble Telescope. To put it in perspective, he said if you look up at the sky on a nice, clear day, hold a nickel in your outstretched arm, we may have seen that much of space as the nickel represents of the entire sky. And, in that little nickel, there are still BILLIONS of galaxies. It is truly mind-bottling (Blades of Glory reference).
The title of this thread should be Dropin' Spelling I kid, I kid. Very cool find. Someone post the video where it zooms out to show the whole universe and then zooms down to show a single atom.
There's got to be other life forms out there and probably much more advanced than humans. If there was God(s) out there, why would he care about this puny little planet? Makes one wonder.
There is a bunch of other earths out there just like this one. Of course none of them have the internet, or we would know about it.
Umm, how exactly did you get that conclusion from?? They could even have interplanetary network and we would have no idea from here because we are not part of their interglacial network!
