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    User45701
    Registered Users Posts: 6,905 ✭✭✭User45701


    Redshift wrote:
    Take a look at this video,

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3020803111770641453

    Kinda puts it all in perspective

    Dammit ok i think ill have to post this in tech
    i cant view flash sites in work because i don't have the latest flash player so i logged out logged in with the admin password then installed the latest flash but when i log in as myself i still cant seem to access those sites/videos

    anyway ill take a look when i go home


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    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    Oh how I'd love to be able to zoom around the entire universe exploring each galaxy. It's soooo big.


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    Flukey
    Registered Users Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    That would take you a long time Kevster. :)

    A good video.


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    plonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭plonk


    Ride on see you


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    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    ...Race-ya to Alpha Centauri! :cool: ...Should be there by tea-time, right?


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    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Here's another one, showing some stars and planets in scale :
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3974466981713172831

    ...it's a big place alright. Like, really big. Far moreso than a trip down the chemist.


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    Flukey
    Registered Users Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    That video is missing Uranus.


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    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,518 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Kevster wrote:
    Oh how I'd love to be able to zoom around the entire universe exploring each galaxy. It's soooo big.

    This is a start at least...


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    kongs99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭kongs99


    type of universe in the video it's says the universe is 78 billion light years across, that statement is wrong. what he should have said the universe is at least 78 billion light years across .

    test that were done in 2004 found that ripples in the microwave radiation afterglow left by the big bang reveal that the universe is at least 78bn light years across and growing. the same researchers are doing more detail test now and they reckon its nearer 90 billion light years if not a lot larger

    and this all depends on which type of universe theory you believe in
    1/ close universe
    2/ open universe
    3/ or the universe that deals with the theory of inflation

    it even quiet possible that the number given (78 billion L Y's) is only a very small fraction of the entire universe.

    it's worth noting the diameter of the visible universe is 28 billion light years across, it's to do with how far visible light travel since the time of last scattering about 400000 years after the big bang approx 14 billions years ago.

    i wonder what the civilisations on a galaxy at the edge of the 78 billion light years universe see?


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