i was reading this story about the star that exploded and vaporized all the planets near it...sux for them..anyway the point that got me was, this star is so far away they say its "halfway to the edge of the universe"...hmmm....made me think

whats beyond the edge?
is there a wall at the edge?
if you go past the edge will you fall into nothing?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html

 

Oh man... I'd kill to have a telescope and watch something like that. And to be honest, I can't even think about what you're talking about. If I try to imagine what is at the end of the universe... it just messes with my head. Another thing that is crazy is black holes. Have you ever thought about what would happen if you just flew your space shuttle into one of those? I wonder where you would end up.

 

well since we are seeing the light from that explosion now and given the distance it is away, they said that the actual explosion happened long before the earth was even formed...thats how long it took the light to reach us...so we wouldnt be seeing the planets explode even with the most powerful telescope...we'd just see the light...as far as black holes go...i remember readin on those and if you got sucked into one you are dead...cause they say its not a doorway, it'll be like being pulled through the eye of a needle...ouch...thats how you know theres so much stuff up there..cause when you consider just how huge the universe is...how could this little planet be the only one with life on it?

i wonder if there is a sign at the edge of the universe that says "this area under construction"

 

Look up stuff on M Theory, it has some interesting explanations.

 

man..yall lost me ;x

 

The only way we'll ever know is if we send someone, or a monkey, through one.

I mean.. how bizarre is this ****..

 

/\ that's a baddass picture. And I love string theory (M-theory). I used to read about it all through high school and now i'm going to college to be an engineering physicist.

 

about the black holes...how do they think they know what'll happen if no one/thing has ever been thru one? who know's there could be a carnie on the other side selling t-shirts sayin' "i survived the black hole". but yeaa the whole "how the universe started/what's out there" thing is mind bottleing. for all we know we could be in one bigass petri dish. an alien experiment.. who know's man...

 

Sometimes I used to drive up the mountain next to my house, park somewhere, get out and lay on the hood and stare at the stars and do nothing but think about if there was any end to what I was staring at. It trips your mind out. It is kind of like thinking what the biggest number is. Because as soon as you think you found the end... there is more. I can't do this now thought because I won't lay on my hood.

 

Astronomers can't even see black holes with thier telescopes. They have to track the movement of stars/planets around black holes. The black holes sucks the plantes closer and then eventually into it. If you ever see one of the pictures you can see the light/gases/whatever the crap coming off the star is being elongated towards the hole and disappearing. My history professor was going off on some weird tangent the other day about how light and time and gravity or something can be bent in space. Thats why they theorize about time travel, they wanna jump over the dip in time/space, like what black holes create. Crazy stuff.

 

They theorize that since black holes are nothing but a vast amount of gravitational pull, you would be just sucked in and deatomized, kind of like Strt described, being pulled through a pinhole.

 

hmm. maybe we should start sending trash from earth thru that thing if it just makes it dissappear...lol

 

We could start with all the imports

 

I won't be able to see any black holes, But I'll be able to see Saturn pretty good this week. I might catch a glimpse of some other galaxies and some nebulas with my Meade EXT-125. Just looking at stuff in our own solar system is quite amazing. Even looking at the milky way band is sometimes beyond comprehensive. When you start gazing at stuff that's beyond that! Then you can really get mindboggled when you see the universe that's relatively close to us.

 

i'm pretty sure if there was a blackhole close enough to send stuff through we'd all be dead by now

 

if you can see far off galaxies then can you see the surface of the moon with that thing? how about mars?
hey i just had an idea...why dont they send the google earth satellite to mars and take all the pics that way

 

You young guys crack me up. In the old days our burning question was, What would it feel like to make love to a one legged woman? I guess the black hole thing was part of that too. If anyone has, please post pics!

 

jesus, how much did THAT thing run ya?

 

Wow. That thing is awesome. Strong work Bill Nye.

 

I got it on sell for about $950.00, 2 years ago. It's really not a big scope, 5 inch aperture. But it has 2 inch oculars and a great navigation program built in. It's a nice scope for rookie astrophotography, which is the only way you can see deep sky stuff clearly. I have yet to get a camera mount for it. but I will soon. As for seeing close stuff like the moon, yeah it's great. Lots of detail. even at low magnification. I really want to get some pics of the planets and stuff. I once tracked the 1st quarter moon for about 5 hours without touching the scope.. With long exposure would have made a great set of pics..