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Shrinking the Milky Way to NY to LA, Voyager 1 has only traveled 3.84 inches
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:22 am
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:22 am
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Pretty crazy to think about. Since 1977 Voyager 1 has travelled 12.8 billion miles, and if you shrunk the size of the Milky Way to fit into the span of NY -> LA, it would have only travelled 3.84 inches during that time.
What's even more mind boggling is that is just the Milky Way, one galaxy out of billions in our universe.
Pretty crazy to think about. Since 1977 Voyager 1 has travelled 12.8 billion miles, and if you shrunk the size of the Milky Way to fit into the span of NY -> LA, it would have only travelled 3.84 inches during that time.
What's even more mind boggling is that is just the Milky Way, one galaxy out of billions in our universe.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:24 am to DavidTheGnome
Stuff like this makes me think there's gotta be something else out there
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:26 am to TigahJay
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Stuff like this makes me think there's gotta be something else out there
Or we're all alone which is just as scary.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:29 am to TigahJay
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Stuff like this makes me think there's gotta be something else out there
Given just how many stars are out there, and each star potentially has multiple planets orbiting them, I don't see how there's any way possible that we are alone in the universe.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:30 am to 1BamaRTR
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Or we're all alone...
This is more scary
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:31 am to 1BamaRTR
If it's true we're alone, then that's an awful waste of space.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:33 am to SeafoodPlatter
Not to me. See fermi paradox.
The silence of the night sky is golden.
The silence of the night sky is golden.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:35 am to DavidTheGnome
We have to find a way to break ourselves up into particles, shoot ourself in a beam of light, then reassemble the everything at a different point.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:10 am to AUCE05
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We have to find a way to break ourselves up into particles, shoot ourself in a beam of light, then reassemble the everything at a different point.
the energy required to break atomic and quantum bonds is too great to overcome
the computing power to store the information about the position and spin of every subatomic particle in a human body is incomprehensible.
the only way a teleporter could work would be to vaporized you, store your information, beam that information to another location and the reassemble you from organic and inorganic matter supplies.
you would essentially be a copy
this topic and others is discussed in a great book called the Physics of Star Trek.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:12 am to Tiguar
So when did the paradox occur? Are we a few generations too late?
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:18 am to DavidTheGnome
I traveled to the center of the galaxy in 30 hours with the help of Sean Murray
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:20 am to bayoutiger225
The paradox is currently occurring as long as we don't see life.
It revolves around the concept of a "great filter" that keeps life from advancing. We hope the great filter is behind us.
If we discover life, it removes a myriad of great filters behind us and increases the likelihood it's in front of us.
We're first, we're rare, or we're fricked.
It revolves around the concept of a "great filter" that keeps life from advancing. We hope the great filter is behind us.
If we discover life, it removes a myriad of great filters behind us and increases the likelihood it's in front of us.
We're first, we're rare, or we're fricked.
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This is why Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom says that “no news is good news.” The discovery of even simple life on Mars would be devastating, because it would cut out a number of potential Great Filters behind us. And if we were to find fossilized complex life on Mars, Bostrom says “it would be by far the worst news ever printed on a newspaper cover,” because it would mean The Great Filter is almost definitely ahead of us—ultimately dooming the species. Bostrom believes that when it comes to The Fermi Paradox, “the silence of the night sky is golden.”
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Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:20 am to joshnorris14
If Adam would have never sined there would have been no death and we could have lived long enough to travel to any galaxy in the milky way with in our lifetime.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:22 am to Salt Lick
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If Adam would have never sined there would have been no death and we could have lived long enough to travel to any galaxy in the milky way with in our lifetime.
Some people don't need to live forever.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:26 am to Tiguar
The fermi paradox is fricking retarded. I can't believe the internet has taken it as gospel.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:28 am to GeauxxxTigers23
You're retarded. You fight for something that will literally never happen.
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Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:34 am to DavidTheGnome
I'm actually surprised it's that far.
Posted on 10/2/16 at 4:13 am to Tiguar
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See fermi paradox.
Fermi was obviously an Alien.
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