What's your favorite thing about space?

[Yisroel.Rabin 16,224]

What is your favorite thing about space?

Being that I love space, I study it quite a bit, from reading books, to fun things like watching videos about space. So my question to you is, if you even find ANYTHING interesting about space, what's the most interesting thing to you? Zero gravity, the universes massive size, space in between objects, darkness, black holes, the continuous expansion of the universe, or anything. If you'd like, start a whole discussion on space, I'd be glad to join the discussion. 

 

PS: I'm hoping many of you enjoy the universe as much as I do, and don't let this topic die after 4 days of it's creation.

 

Fun facts:

And just to keep the topic running, every once in a while, I'll post a random fact about space, which will also be posted in the spoiler below:

 

(1) Water-world planet

Imagine your on a boat, in middle of the ocean, you can't see any land, all you can see, is water. No matter how far you sail out, all you'll see is water. That's exactly what a planet larger than Earth, but smaller than Uranus is, it's name is GJ-1214b, and it's entire surface is nothing but water, even its atmosphere is made up of a thick layer of steam.

 

(2) Carrington event

In 1859, Richard C. Carrington was observing the Sun when he noticed a giant cluster of sunspots (sunspots are giant, slightly cooler areas of the sun). After a while, he noticed a sudden eruption of the massive sunspots. The creepy thing about this explosion is that it was so powerful, it can wipe out anything electronic on Earth, thankfully, back in 1859, we weren't as dependent on electricity as we are today.

The creeper thing is that this almost happened in 2012. The thing is, the explosion happens about every 100 years, and when the explosion occurred in 2012, the explosion went straight thru Earths, fortunately, Earth was on the other side of it's orbit and missed the whole thing.

Edited March 31, 2016 by Yisroel.Rabin

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Edited March 25, 2016 by hhgb

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The Scale of The Universe

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I really love space! my main interest and question is: Are there another galaxies behind that black hole? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole). I guess we need to discover more. However, my second favorite thing are planets; As some say that humans, by 2050 or even earlier, might travel to Mars. "Everything is possible!"

[Yisroel.Rabin 16,224]

And 1,000,000,000 Earths can fit in the sun, and 2,100 suns can fit in VY Canis Majoris (the biggest start ever found).

 

The Scale of The Universe

And just imagine the next scale: the actual current full size universe.

 

I really love space! my main interest and question is: Are there another galaxies behind that black hole? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole). I guess we need to discover more. However, my second favorite thing are planets; As some say that humans, by 2050 or even earlier, might travel to Mars. "Everything is possible!"

Black holes are a plain mystery, all we know about them is that if anything get's to close, it's doomed. There's been theories saying that there are white holes, which spews out the matter sucked up by a black hole (aka the opposite of a block hole: Only matter can escape it, but never enter it, as for a black hole is only matter can enter it, but never escape it).

 

About that Mars mission, it's a big mission compared to all we can do now, but imagine, when we actually get to the Mars, all we'll be thinking about is how to get humans to the Andromeda Galaxy, and after we do that (if done), we'll be thinking bigger, and bigger.

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The Big Bang. 

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Black holes are a plain mystery, all we know about them is that if anything get's to close, it's doomed. There's been theories saying that there are white holes, which spews out the matter sucked up by a black hole (aka the opposite of a block hole: Only matter can escape it, but never enter it, as for a black hole is only matter can enter it, but never escape it).

 

About that Mars mission, it's a big mission compared to all we can do now, but imagine, when we actually get to the Mars, all we'll be thinking about is how to get humans to the Andromeda Galaxy, and after we do that (if done), we'll be thinking bigger, and bigger.

Yes, the black holes were a mystery and still are. White holes... are they further than the black holes?

 

There were already some rovers (Automated motor vehicles) which were sent to Mars. They have discovered new sources, rocks and soils. Who knows... maybe humans will go to Mars and they surely will from our technology.

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All of the space in space. :D

[Yisroel.Rabin 16,224]

The Big Bang. 

The big bang theory is... interesting. It basically means that the universe began from nothing, which I don't find possible. That brings us into a whole different discussion, if the universe was created from something, what was it? Let's say "X" created the universe, then, what created "X"? But if I do recall, there was once a discussion like this, but it lead to discussion of religion, which is against the rules, so let's not discuss that right now...

 

Yes, the black holes were a mystery and still are. White holes... are they further than the black holes?

 

There were already some rovers (Automated motor vehicles) which were sent to Mars. They have discovered new sources, rocks and soils. Who knows... maybe humans will go to Mars and they surely will from our technology.

White holes are a theory, to answer the question, where do stuff that enter black holes go, it's basically saying that black holes are teleportation machines, or better known as wormholes. In other words, according to the theory, anything that enters a black hole, ends up on another side of the universe, in the process, bending time and space.

 

 

 

 

Quote from Wikipedia:

 

"In general relativity, a white hole is a hypothetical region of spacetime which cannot be entered from the outside, although matter and light can escape from it. In this sense, it is the reverse of a black hole, which can only be entered from the outside and from which matter and light cannot escape."

 

 

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Finally no more claustrophobia?

 

 

Space is awesome! It contains at least one billion (1.000.000.000) Galaxies, one being the MilkyWay our own Galaxy.

Our own Milky Way contains about 4 billion stars of various sizes and brightness. One of them our Sun.

 

So are we alone in the Universe? One billion Galaxies X at least one billion stars per Galaxy = nope, we are not alone :)

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MilkyWay? no sir. I prefer CoffeyWay. 

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The big bang theory is... interesting. It basically means that the universe began from nothing, which I don't find possible. That brings us into a whole different discussion, if the universe was created from something, what was it? Let's say "X" created the universe, then, what created "X"? But if I do recall, there was once a discussion like this, but it lead to discussion of religion, which is against the rules, so let's not discuss that right now...

True, it will lead to discussion...why start it?

 

"It basically means that the universe began from nothing, which I don't find possible."

 

Not less plausible than a God starting from nothing I think.

[Lord-of-the-Snipers 1,620]

MilkyWay? no sir. I prefer CoffeyWay. 

Bounty plz

 

(I should have said Mars because of the subject...)

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Finally no more claustrophobia?

 

 

Space is awesome! It contains at least one billion (1.000.000.000) Galaxies, one being the MilkyWay our own Galaxy.

Our own Milky Way contains about 4 billion stars of various sizes and brightness. One of them our Sun.

 

So are we alone in the Universe? One billion Galaxies X at least one billion stars per Galaxy = nope, we are not alone :)

But if we are alone, then we are doomed because we are idiots.

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Space is awesome! It contains at least one billion (1.000.000.000) Galaxies, one being the MilkyWay our own Galaxy.

Our own Milky Way contains about 4 billion stars of various sizes and brightness. One of them our Sun.

 

So are we alone in the Universe? One billion Galaxies X at least one billion stars per Galaxy = nope, we are not alone :)

I can agree on the fact that space is awesome. There are about 50 galaxies in the Local Group.

 

Do you guys believe in living things which are somewhere far away in Space? well, I recently read that astronomers have discovered a new planet called Gliese 581 c. It is the most Earth-like planet ever found. It orbits a star and may have habitats capable of supporting life. NASA hopes to find 50 more Earth-like planets by the end of the decade, all of which increases the chance that alien life has begun elsewhere.

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I can agree on the fact that space is awesome. There are about 50 galaxies in the Local Group.

 

Do you guys believe in living things which are somewhere far away in Space? well, I recently read that astronomers have discovered a new planet called Gliese 581 c. It is the most Earth-like planet ever found. It orbits a star and may have habitats capable of supporting life. NASA hopes to find 50 more Earth-like planets by the end of the decade, all of which increases the chance that alien life has begun elsewhere.

By the end of the decade? That would be awesome!

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3mbKvSVDI

 

 

 

[Yisroel.Rabin 16,224]

Finally no more claustrophobia?

 

 

Space is awesome! It contains at least one billion (1.000.000.000) Galaxies, one being the MilkyWay our own Galaxy.

Our own Milky Way contains about 4 billion stars of various sizes and brightness. One of them our Sun.

 

So are we alone in the Universe? One billion Galaxies X at least one billion stars per Galaxy = nope, we are not alone :)

I believe there's lie out there because thing about this:

Our life exists because our planet has the perfect conditions; right atmosphere, perfect distance from the Sun. Then, there are 200 billion more galaxies, so the chances of there being more planets with the same conditions as ours, isn't to small, we've already found some. And some don't even need the same conditions, it can be twice as far from it's star but have a twice as large atmosphere, and still contain Earth-like life.

 

But think about this, just like the gold box, let's say the chance that we ARE alone is 1/7000, there's always that chance that it will land on 1, meaning, we are alone, so until we find life, the answer is unknown.

 

With that comes a funny fact:

If you don't find life, you can't say there isn't, only when you do, can you say there is. Because even if you looked everywhere in the universe and still haven't found life, there's always going to be somewhere else to look.

 

But if we are alone, then we are doomed because we are idiots.

One chooses to be idiots, we aren't naturally idiots.

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The fact that we know more about space than our oceans amazes me the most

[Lord-of-the-Snipers 1,620]

I believe there's lie out there because thing about this:

Our life exists because our planet has the perfect conditions; right atmosphere, perfect distance from the Sun. Then, there are 200 billion more galaxies, so the chances of there being more planets with the same conditions as ours, isn't to small, we've already found some. And some don't even need the same conditions, it can be twice as far from it's star but have a twice as large atmosphere, and still contain Earth-like life. +

 

But think about this, just like the gold box, let's say the chance that we ARE alone is 1/7000, there's always that chance that it will land on 1, meaning, we are alone, so until we find life, the answer is unknown. True, but the chance that a Goldbox doesn 't fall is much, much larger. Like the chance that there is life is much larger.

Just Google on: "there are more stars in our Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth", and you get a sort of feeling

how much chances for life there really are.

 

With that comes a funny fact:

If you don't find life, you can't say there isn't, only when you do, can you say there is. Because even if you looked everywhere in the universe and still haven't found life, there's always going to be somewhere else to look.

The Universe could be teeming with life, and it also could be sparse and yes maybe, maybe we are alone.

There is no proof, just numbers. And maybe because of the incredible vast distances even in our own Milkyway it might be impossible to

find and proof it. Let alone life in other Galaxies even further far, far, far etc. away

 

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The fact that we know more about space than our oceans amazes me the most

We don 't know much about the deep oceans, though if I hear famous astronomers like Neil deGrasse Tyson

(the man behind this famous meme)

 

we don 't know that much of space either.

 

Space is made of:

Dark Energy about 68%

Dark Matter about 27%

Normal matter that we all know...5%

 

The scientist don 't have a clue what Dark Matter and Dark Energy actually is...so we don 't know that much I think.

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We don 't know much about the deep oceans, though if I hear famous astronomers like Neil deGrasse Tyson

(the man behind this famous meme)

 

we don 't know that much of space either.

 

Space is made of:

Dark Energy about 68%

Dark Matter about 27%

Normal matter that we all know...5%

 

The scientist don 't have a clue what Dark Matter and Dark Energy actually is...so we don 't know that much I think.

There is his show "Dark Universe" at the Hayden Planetarium. It does give some sort of introduction to Dark Matter and how it is theoretically supposed to fit into everything else we have not quite figured out about how the universe is not scattered haphazardly as once thought.

 

I saw the show twice last year.

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Chuck Norris once farted. They now call it the big bang theory

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Everything in space is awesome. I watch videos and documentaries. I especially love those found exoplanets and the search for the real "Planet X" (most earth-like planet)

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True, it will lead to discussion...why start it?

 

"It basically means that the universe began from nothing, which I don't find possible."

 

Not less plausible than a God starting from nothing I think.

God did not start from nothing. Take that idea of time of yours and throw it out the window. Time is a notion we created, so take your head out of your temporal plain and realize there never was nothing, and always something, someONE, who created everything. I am happy to clarify if you need me to. I have the ability to write nice essays.