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Bovoldian (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Well, not necessarily. If the universe expanded all from one point then the light from these, now distant, objects would have been reaching us at regular intervals, although they would be slowly increasing intervals. So the images we are seeing could be that of objects which aren't the same age as their distance in light years. If the images were as old as the distance, 78 Billion light years, then the universe would not be the scientifically excepted age, about 15-20 billion years.
sawbonesadams (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
We need to reclaim our night sky and fight light pollution. I miss looking up and feeling insignificant.
NewDescartes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
That's why we need to get rid of money.
sammygee17 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
the moon landings were only about international arrogance by the USA and USSR. if the cold war didn't take place, there would've been no moon landing. personally, space exploration is great, but i think there are better things to spend money on (education, healthcare etc)
sammygee17 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
yep. its a picture of the early universe
IneptTroopr (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Not to mention that dye to the immense distance, what we are seeing is how they were hundreds of millions or billions of years ago. So who knows how many more stars have been formed, galaxies merged, etc. in that time.
sammygee17 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
ohhhh man, im so high ... wanna get high ?
LennyTheLeper (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You're right, it's all about money and profit. I mean... I think it's ridiculous that in all this time we have yet to send another person to the Moon. And we haven't even put a man on Mars yet. It seems the space industry isn't moving forwards at all. It's time we took ANOTHER "giant leap for mankind" and actually did something...
LtStarkiller (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Lenny, unfortunatley not in our lifetime. I'd love to know how far we get. Although there is a singularity for our technological growth. It will happen so quickly that we might bypass the whole need for exploration. That is, if we don't destroy ourselves, which I find much more likely than a manned mission to Mars.
wesleyjames81 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
you have to imagine that if it was possible to leave our solar system time and space would become completely different, maybe from an outside view our solar system would be traveling @ great speeds on one of the great spiral arms of our galaxy and we might not be able to catch up to it again. I think there is great things going on outside our solar system we cant begin to understand, also where there is no financial profit in space exploratin you can bet that we wont be reaching it anytime soon. |