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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 by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
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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.
Posted by TigahJay
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2015
10551 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:24 am to
Stuff like this makes me think there's gotta be something else out there
Posted by Jtigers99
Holly Beach, USA
Member since Dec 2014
1841 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:24 am to
I just threw up
Posted by 1BamaRTR
In Your Head Blvd
Member since Apr 2015
22517 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:26 am to
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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 by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
29148 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:29 am to
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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 by SeafoodPlatter
Member since Jul 2012
663 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:30 am to
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Or we're all alone...

This is more scary
Posted by Wally Sparks
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2013
29130 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:31 am to
If it's true we're alone, then that's an awful waste of space.
Posted by Tiguar
Montana
Member since Mar 2012
33131 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:33 am to
Not to me. See fermi paradox.

The silence of the night sky is golden.
Posted by AUCE05
Member since Dec 2009
42558 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 12:35 am to
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 by Cruiserhog
Little Rock
Member since Apr 2008
10460 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:10 am to
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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 by bayoutiger225
Member since Nov 2009
466 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:12 am to
So when did the paradox occur? Are we a few generations too late?
Posted by joshnorris14
Florida
Member since Jan 2009
45205 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:18 am to
I traveled to the center of the galaxy in 30 hours with the help of Sean Murray
Posted by Tiguar
Montana
Member since Mar 2012
33131 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:20 am to
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.

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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.”
This post was edited on 10/2/16 at 1:22 am
Posted by Salt Lick
Bath County
Member since Aug 2016
1646 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:20 am to
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 by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:22 am to
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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 by GeauxxxTigers23
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Member since Apr 2013
62514 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:26 am to
The fermi paradox is fricking retarded. I can't believe the internet has taken it as gospel.
Posted by Tiguar
Montana
Member since Mar 2012
33131 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:28 am to
You're retarded. You fight for something that will literally never happen.


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Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
51896 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:34 am to
I'm actually surprised it's that far.
Posted by GeauxxxTigers23
TeamBunt General Manager
Member since Apr 2013
62514 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 1:37 am to
Patriarchy is coming.
Posted by Charlie Arglist
Wichita, Kansas
Member since Nov 2012
5550 posts
Posted on 10/2/16 at 4:13 am to
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See fermi paradox.


Fermi was obviously an Alien.
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