So, anyone else really like learning about the universe?

I'm really hardcore into almost anything involving it and shows like how the earth was made, along with microphysics. It blows my mind almost with all their is to learn and see out there, also makes me feel kind of cheated, we humans get 60-70 years while their is so much to learn and understand just from our own planet, not to even mention our galaxy and then the universe itself. We are so tiny and insignificant, and the visible universe we can see is probally just a tiny fraction of the whole thing. We can see out in all directions to the same point pretty much and if the visible universe was all thats out there it would mean we are the exact center of the universe, which is incredibley unlikely.
So, my favorite topics are the galaxies and the cosmic web, quasars, magnetars, dark matter and energy, how stars form and their life cycles. Among many others. Any other astronomy or geological or microphysics buffs out there?

Yea i love it, i have a nice telescope to use when it is a clear night. Me and my grandfather used to go out and look. Hes gone now tho.

Thats cool, sounds like an awesome bonding activity. Sorry bout your grandpa(it probally happened a long time ago but i still feel like saying it. My last grandfather/step-grandfather i had left died bout 6 months ago.)

I absolutely love it.. At the same time it drives me fuckin crazy haha.. Once you start looking at the universe as energy's and all the real possibility's i start contemplating how real life really is..

Have you ever watched any of the what the bleep movies on quantam theory? If you havnt you should, i bet youd get a hella kick out of them


As America says "we are all just dust in the wind"

i think of myself as kinda dumb. [go ahead laugh]

but that said, i can read about astronomy all day and night. afterward i usually dont remember most of the facts but i still remember were ants on a little rock in this infinite large universe.

you should check out itunes, there are some great podcasts related to astronomy and the like.

Every thing about the universe is just mind blowing..but i love learning about it even if i dont understand it

Michael Phelps said:

I absolutely love it.. At the same time it drives me fuckin crazy haha.. Once you start looking at the universe as energy's and all the real possibility's i start contemplating how real life really is..

Have you ever watched any of the what the bleep movies on quantam theory? If you havnt you should, i bet youd get a hella kick out of them


As America says "we are all just dust in the wind"

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im watching now on youtube is this what you mean?

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Yeah you got it rzza!

The whole movie is like 2 hours though..

Michael Phelps said:

I absolutely love it.. At the same time it drives me fuckin crazy haha.. Once you start looking at the universe as energy's and all the real possibility's i start contemplating how real life really is..

Have you ever watched any of the what the bleep movies on quantam theory? If you havnt you should, i bet youd get a hella kick out of them


As America says "we are all just dust in the wind"

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do you mean kansas?
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I'll have to check it when i get some time. you ever see the nat geo show called known universe that they hyped the fuck out of it and then only released a few episodes and then re-playing the same ones over and over again? My favorite show/series on this are the history channels "the universe"(although some of them are really not that great), "through the wormhole" w/ morgan freeman on science channel and some of nat geos "naked science" ones on this subject. A while back i also saw a really interesting one with stephen hawking on the discovery channel. Despite being able to find every single episode of the universe by searching on google videos I cant find the name of the name of the one with stephen hawking. That guys a fucking genius.

I recommend learning the constellations--granted you don't know them already. Not only is it impressive knowledge, but the ladies dig it when you romancing them late at night in an open field, or mountain top.

Plus, never know if you lost at sea...it could come in handy, .

I'm really surprised at how well this thread started out. thanks guys, I was worried this was gonna flop and no one would really reply to the thread. So lets not let it die, lol. I'm happy they finally started the new season of the universe, anyone else catch it by chance? they've made some pretty crazy brekthroughs on mars and the possibility that life does or at one time does exist there. My personal belief is their probally is life on mars and some of the moons of jupiter and saturn and that w/o a doubt their is life all over the universe, when you think of how big galaxies are and how many stars are in them its hard to imagine that simple life cant form and live in some way. No matter where you look on earth you will always find life of some sort, extremely acidic geysers, thermal vents, inside frozen solid ice and soil, hell, they did an experiment with this one life form i saw and it was fucking crazy, they tried every possible thing(they even sent some into space in a dormant stage exposing them to both take off and re-entry on the outside of the shuttle and they came back to life with absolutely no problem. they can remain dormant for an incredible amount of time too, theyve found them in rocks that are extremely old and to their surprise they came right back to life.

Dark, you ever read a book called "parallel worlds" by michio kaku?

Good ass book, it's somewhat technical, but as you have done some research as well you'll probably get it.

It talks about all the mechanics of the world but it applies some interesting ideas

Smoke a few bowls and check out the video below me:

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I LOVE watching all the shows on Discovery,Nat Geo,Science, ect. They mind fuck me beyond all belief. I love to learn all this crazy info. I don't want to read cause that will be too hard to understand, dont get me wrong im not a idiot. i read at a very high level but i just prefer to have visuals and comparisons and demonstrations.

That guy is awesome, lol, he's one of the three youll see on almost any recent show about this sort of stuff. out of all the paralell universe theories he's really good at trying to explain them and the facts going for and against certain theories, he seems to really like the cosmic bubbles theory i noticed, lol, and string theory for what matter is actually made of and although i dont agree with some of the theories but he's made a better case for them than anyone else ive seen besides stephen hawking. He's got a show on the science channel i watch on my on demand feature my cable has. In fact it was partly because of that show which i watched a bit before righting this that i started thinking about this topic. lol, thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check that out.

darkdestruction420 said:

That guy is awesome, lol, he's one of the three youll see on almost any recent show about this sort of stuff. out of all the paralell universe theories he's really good at trying to explain them and the facts going for and against certain theories, he seems to really like the cosmic bubbles theory i noticed, lol, and string theory for what matter is actually made of and although i dont agree with some of the theories but he's made a better case for them than anyone else ive seen besides stephen hawking. He's got a show on the science channel i watch on my on demand feature my cable has. In fact it was partly because of that show which i watched a bit before righting this that i started thinking about this topic. lol, thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check that out.

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Yeah it's one of his older* books, before there was public interest in String Theory and quarks and then that particle accelerator came out (hadron collider) and brought a lot of public attention on the topic.

In parallel worlds he talks about gravity. He talks about how you can imagine the effects of gravity. Like a large bed, with planets represented as bowling balls. As objects move across the plane (bed) they are naturally attracted to the bowling balls and pulled towards it. And he talks about how the mattress could represent dark matter, because all these objects are sitting on something to cause this effect.

I saw something pretty cool on the nat geo real early(between2-5) in the morning within the last 2 months, It had alot of compelling evidence that the asteroid that hit 65 million years ago is given much more responsibility for the dinosaurs extinction than it really had. i think it was nat geo at least but that show was fucking awesome, when i first saw the title and the brief little previews of what they're theories were i was very skeptical but they did a real good job and hit it out of the park with the evidence they gathered and its credibility.

I was watching the universe and i had a very interesting thought that doesnt seem to have been really touched on yet except very briefly, eventually all the hydrogen in the universe will be used up and be nuclearly fused to form helium which continues the cycle until you get up to iron and the universe will someday have nothing left and all will go dark, trillions of years in the future of course but anyway all that will be left is the remains of stars that will eventually be consumed by black holes till the black holes are all thats left. eventually black holes will contain all matter in the universe. black holes are not eternal however, after they reach that stage they will not be gaining enough mass from consuming matter to counteract their evaporation rate, so they will eventually get weak enough where their own gravity is not strong enough to hold their huge amount of mass together anymore and they explode outwards, scattering matter all over the place. Now heres the part im amazed ive never seen them really discuss on any of them-what is a blackhole? an incredibley hot and dense core of matter thats extremely compressed due to the effects of its own gravity, that sounds to me an awful lot like the cosmic singularity of the big bang theory.......or is their something i missed or misunderstood that rules that out?

I love looking at pictures of the universe - The place is just awesome.

Glad to be a resident