Man that's creepy. The Horsehead Nebula I also find to be really, really scary. Just thinking about not only how far that is, but how immensely large and eerie it lies out in the middle of nowhere.

I've had a side-view of the milky way as my background for Opera's speed dial page for some time.

Artist's vision, I believe?

I don't get it.

space is scary ?
and most people find it safe on this wretched haven of filth existing as earth? fuckin hell, where can i sign up to be put in a pod and sent to this place of timeless wonders?
that is interesting, time never existed until we came along. time was invented by the ones, who vanish overtime. yet the 'hostile vast void' out above continues to be itself(?).
now that i think about it, has any of you ever wondered what is outside of space? or, what started it (all of space) at least? to a final note, what is the reasoning ?

Space is not the final frontier but just The Lord's backyard. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Is it a photograph? Show us.

Explanation: Our magnificent Milky Way Galaxy sprawls across this ambitious all-sky panorama. In fact, at 800 million pixels the full resolution mosaic strives to show all the stars the eye can see in planet Earth's night sky. Part of ESO's Gigagalaxy Zoom Project, the mosaicked images were recorded over several months of 2008 and 2009 at exceptional astronomical sites; the Atacama Desert in the southern hemisphere and the Canary Islands in the northern hemisphere. Also capturing bright planets and even a comet, the individual frames were stitched together and mapped into a single, flat, apparently seamless360 by 180 degree view. The final result is oriented so the plane of our galaxy runs horizontally through the middle with the bulging Galactic Center at image center. Below and right of center are the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds.

Those are pretty creepy, but I don't think that they can ever match the intense feeling of fear that is experienced when looking at the Hourglass Nebula. I first witnessed this as a young child and to this day it still scares me.

Does anybody else belive that we are not the only ones out there?

Call me a nut but I belive we cant possibly be the only intelligent life in the univerese.

Maybe theres an alien somewhere out in space jacking off to our wives through a super powerful intergalatic telescope on another planet.

hm.
well, look at us.
one small part, of ANYthing already known to be studied or existing..
far from it all, and further from that the other way.
and people want to say our planet has the ONLY existing forms of intelligence? idk about that one, but i can say i think there are other types of intelligence, just not in our form perhaps. maybe as in 'alienated' versions of what we consider 'plants', they have what they consider themselves 'humans'..either way, somewhere in this known and unknown depths of the deep void, there is other communication taking place. but what am i to say so, if i have not joined the dead?

I'm not totally sure about genuine intelligence, I'd think LIFE of some sort has to be there, but you know, intelligence on even our level is crazy rare. There probably is something out there which is intelligent on our level at least. Us ever communicating with them is another matter though of course.

Has anyone watched Carl Sagan's Cosmos series?

The secular humanist organization I volunteer for in Indianapolis is planning to rent a movie theater in a couple months to show two episodes in his honor - it'll be on his birthday. I'm trying to decide which episodes would be best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage

I haven't watched the series, but I read the book a few years ago. The chapter that stands out to me is "Who Speaks for Earth?" I'm leaning toward maybe "The Edge of Forever" as my second choice.

Which two episodes do you guys like most?

Check this out


It's incredible what cheap and easy technology can do these days... so cool.

This is probably one of the coolest things that I have seen lately. And how awesome of his father for giving an experience such as this to a child. Thanks for showing this.

Space is infinite.
It is dark.
Space is neutral.
It is cold.

Stars occupy minute areas of space. They are clustered a few billion here. A few billion there. As if seeking consolation in numbers.
Space does not care.

Space does not threaten.
Space does not comfort.
It does not sleep; it does not wake; it does not dream; it does not hope; it does not fear; it does not love; it does not hate; it does not encourage any of these qualities.
Space cannot be measured. It cannot be angered, it cannot be placated. It cannot be summed up. Space is there.
Space is not large and it is not small. It does not live and it does not die. It does not offer truth and neither does it lie.
Space is a remorseless, senseless, impersonal fact.
Space is the absence of time and of matter

How did you manage to spell "star" as "start" twice in a row?

Does anybody else belive that we are not the only ones out there?

Call me a nut but I belive we cant possibly be the only intelligent life in the univerese.

Maybe theres an alien somewhere out in space jacking off to our wives through a super powerful intergalatic telescope on another planet.

And the vacuum, temperatures, radiation and general hostility to biological life is just his way of saying "Get off my lawn, you fuckers!"? Nice geezer we have there.

Think of all the minerals we can find to use.

Fuck all. Space mining is a retarded idea.