Cosmography of the local universe

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Unisaw
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Cosmography of the local universe

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Cosmography of the Local Universe

The video zooms into our local area of the Universe — our Milky Way galaxy lies in a supercluster of 100,000 galaxies — and then slowly draws back to show the cosmography of the Universe out to 300 million light years.

I don't understand 10% of this but found it fascinating.
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does that mean you understand the other 90%?
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Let me get my calculator.........

Yep, checks out...
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andyman wrote:does that mean you understand the other 90%?
correct
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Neat video, maybe a bit drawn out. Why the hell are't we zipping around space?! I wanna explore some of this shit... maybe I should sign up for that Mars One project.
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I just hope to live long enough to see the Singularity occur. Then I'll have enough patience to wait for space tech to advance enough to have my own space ship. :up:
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Transient wrote:I just hope to live long enough to see the Singularity occur. Then I'll have enough patience to wait for space tech to advance enough to have my own space ship. :up:
Don't hold your breath. Not to say that it won't happen... it's an interesting thought. I'm less optimistic about it than I was 5 years ago. You should spend your energy worrying about how to destroy (by which I mean kill) the oppressors of this planet than waiting for some computer revolution to save you.
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Transient wrote:I just hope to live long enough to see the Singularity occur. Then I'll have enough patience to wait for space tech to advance enough to have my own space ship. :up:
The catch is that we don't know what will happen if it occurs. The post-singularity world might not need any of us.
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You guys, don't crush my dream. :(
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Nice Unisaw.
There is no way we can comprehend the magnitude of this place :)
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There's a big hoover in space
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yeah, space sucks
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Amazing video BTW, wow!
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seremtan wrote:yeah, space sucks
Yes, that Great Attractor is a worry :paranoid:
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All bow before the great Attractor.

I'm guessing that's the super massive black hole that's theorised ?, pretty epic

edit: no, that wasn't in our galaxy so it will be much bigger. Like a super massive big ass black hole
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losCHUNK wrote:All bow before the great Attractor.

I'm guessing that's the super massive black hole that's theorised ?, pretty epic

edit: no, that wasn't in our galaxy so it will be much bigger. Like a super massive big ass black hole
Probably just a bunch of black holes that have smashed together into a giant one that will proceed to eviscerate the universe over the course of the next 20 billion years. :owned:
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