Quote:The pictures they get of looking from the outside back at our solar system are those legit pictures or projections of what we think it looks like?
Are you talking about our galaxy? If so yeah they are guessing. The farthest man-made object just passed Pluto so we aren't even close to being able to take a photo of our galaxy. That'd probably take millions of years at the rate we are moving.
Quote:The pictures they get of looking from the outside back at our solar system are those legit pictures or projections of what we think it looks like?
Quote:Are you talking about our galaxy? If so yeah they are guessing. The farthest man-made object just passed Pluto so we aren't even close to being able to take a photo of our galaxy. That'd probably take millions of years at the rate we are moving.
Exactly. The term light year is fairly self-explanatory.
The easiest way to say it is that the human race will not exist long enough to travel by current means to take pictures of that scale. That's how big it is.
Quote:Are you talking about our galaxy? If so yeah they are guessing. The farthest man-made object just passed Pluto so we aren't even close to being able to take a photo of our galaxy. That'd probably take millions of years at the rate we are moving.
Ok yes that was my question, how are we getting "pictures" of our galaxy
Quote:Ok yes that was my question, how are we getting "pictures" of our galaxy
Always wondered that myself. I assume they just took a picture of a spiral galaxy and said this is probably what we look like.
Quote:Always wondered that myself. I assume they just took a picture of a spiral galaxy and said this is probably what we look like.
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good I'm not the only one. I like seeing the real pictures of Earth from so far away, one of the links had some pretty cool shots. I was just wondering how far out do we get and are still able to "send" pictures back to earth. Heck sending them back from mars alone to me is mind blowing, I can't even get my freaking wifi to work outside the house!
Quote:Sometimes I wonder if some of these cosmological theories put forth by theoretical physicists gain acceptance by being completely incomprehensible to the point that other theoretical physicists endorse them in order to avoid admitting they don't understand them at all.
I'm not sure anyone understands any of it. It's like the dialogue they give Sheldon Cooper on
Big Bang - he could be saying anything and we'd just nod knowingly.
Quote:I'm not sure anyone understands any of it. It's like the dialogue they give Sheldon Cooper on Big Bang - he could be saying anything and we'd just nod knowingly.
The show has science advisors who ensure accuracy. Those formulas written on boards in the background? They're real.
It's pretty amazing. We are going to make some great discoveries over the next 20 years that could change the way we look at everything.
Quote:The show has science advisors who ensure accuracy. Those formulas written on boards in the background? They're real.
I figured they were. I assume 98% of U.S. physicists watch the show, and they all dream about getting a girlfriend like Penny.
Too bad all the science talk and board formula are wasted on most of us.
But Sheldon wears cool T-shirts.
And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
Quote:Ok yes that was my question, how are we getting "pictures" of our galaxy
We have never traveled (man or man-made object) out of our solar system. The "pictures" of the milky way are renderings based on studies of similar galaxies and some math. Pretty sure it is at least Algebra 2 :woot:
There are pictures of parts of the Milky Way galaxy from Hubble, but not of the entire galaxy itself.
Quote:We have never traveled (man or man-made object) out of our solar system. The "pictures" of the milky way are renderings based on studies of similar galaxies and some math. Pretty sure it is at least Algebra 2 :woot:
There are pictures of parts of the Milky Way galaxy from Hubble, but not of the entire galaxy itself.
Voyager 1 has left the build...er, solar system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/
Quote:We have never traveled (man or man-made object) out of our solar system. The "pictures" of the milky way are renderings based on studies of similar galaxies and some math. Pretty sure it is at least Algebra 2 :woot:
There are pictures of parts of the Milky Way galaxy from Hubble, but not of the entire galaxy itself.
I think what we have a really good idea what is out there in every direction. After that, they just sort of turn it so we're looking at the whole thing as if we were out in space. I think they can do this pretty accurately.
Quote:And people don't think that there are aliens out there...
There's bound to be something out there, but they're not visiting Oklahoma during the night and graffiting in a corn field.
Quote:There's bound to be something out there, but they're not visiting Oklahoma during the night and graffiting in a corn field.
That I would agree with. Honestly given the size of the universe there is probably life all around but the chance of ever running into them is probably pretty small.
I believe we've been visited by aliens hell some of the stuff done in the Egyptian time alone convinces me. That show ancient aliens was mind blowing.
Quote:And crawling, on the planets face, Some insects, called the Human Race. Lost in time, and lost in space and meaning..............
There are two possibilities; either we are alone in this universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Quote:Sarcasm?
No, just vastly underestimating the engineering and science prowess of ancient civilizations.
Quote:Sarcasm?
No not really how some of the stuff they did with out modern technology blows my mind