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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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Feeling Small
It is estimated that there are about 100 billion galaxies visible to the Hubble Space Telescope.

100 billion.

Galaxies.

VISIBLE.

Now let's bring that to something familiar to our imaginations: Star Trek. TOS and TNG are set in the alpha quadrant of our galaxy; the big deal about DS9 is the wormhole to the gamma quadrant; Voyager is set in the delta quadrant. The entire scope of Star Trek, one of our most expansive popular science fiction images of space travel is contained in our galaxy.

100 billion galaxies are galaxies *visible* to us...

http://www.ted.org/index.php/talks/george_smoot_on_the_design_of_the_universe.html

Current Mood: awed


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From:[info]tyroticon
Date:November 21st, 2008 - 06:04 pm
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For your own safety, please back away from the Total Perspective Vortex.

Still pretty cool, though.
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From:[info]shaav
Date:November 24th, 2008 - 10:20 pm
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LOL! appreciating the reference
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From:[info]drhaggis
Date:November 24th, 2008 - 11:17 pm
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Doctor Who can travel through all of time and space, including parallel dimensions. Where does he end up? London, sometimes Cardiff. Also rock quarries. [reposted with appropriate icon]

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