10,000 Galaxies: A Hubble Telescope Image

[HotPants]

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just say it, ass

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nah

[daryn]

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just say it, ass

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nah

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someone ban this moron

[bholdr]

"Billyuns and billyuns of starrs"

[TreyWilly]

What if c-a-t really spelled dog?

[Dynasty]

I like searching for these types of pictures.

Here's an eclipse from 12/4/02 taken at Ceduna, Australia.

Eclipse

[HotPants]

I was there for that! and it was pretty awesome

It was amazing to see just part of the sky get dark, it was as if a giant twilight cloud passed overhead

[NoamChomsky]

Dear Hotpants
Thanks for almost sharing your opinion.

[teamdonkey]

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Mathematically ridiculous things happen all the time. Given enough time and space, life is just one more.

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a million monkeys on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce Hamlet, right?

It's possible to figure out the chance of this mathematically. To keep it simple, let's just figure the chances of our monkeys typing the first line: "to be or not to be, that is the question." 41 keystrokes. Imagine these monkeys have simple keyboards with only 31 keys (26 letters, a space bar, 4 punctuation). Pretend they're quite fast, and can hit 41 keys in just one second. And forget using just a million monkeys... why stop there? Let's say there are 17 billion galaxies, each containing 17 billion habitable planets, each planet with 17 billion monkeys each typing away and producing one line per second for 17 billion years.

After 17 billion years, what are the chances one of our monkeys typed the first line of Hamlet?

0.0000000000053%

you can check the math here if you want.

even on a poker forum, people often don't have a good grasp of probability. Inreasing the chances of something happening by 300 trillion (or however many planets may be in the universe) doesn't always make it a certainty.

Diebitter - the odds of amino acids randomly combining into a functional protein are much worse than the monkey example, and a single protein is just a tiny portion of even the simplist lifeforms we know of.

[Digs]

I'm not going to read through this whole thread, so sorry if this is a repeat, but http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
has been my homepage for years.

Not that I'm particularily into astronomy, I'm just stoned most of the time and a lot of the pics are [censored] cool.

They have an archive too~

[poker_n00b]

well the universe consists of atoms and molecules and is expanding with speed of light. where into the universe is expanding is nothing. no molecules no atoms just vacuum.

RIGHT?


Well, the atoms and molecules we have, well they have to come from somewhere. so even before the big bang what was there? There just couldnt be a bang which created physical matter. is should have existed before. If so, who or what created it.

I JUST WANNA KNOW ANSWER. I WANT TO KNOW IT SO HARD that i would agree to die right after you tell me the right answer.