Pr0ton:
I'd always long to read comprehensively about the Milky Way and going through that just gave me most of the answers I'd been looking for. Interestingly explanatory. It's lovely.

The analogy/comparism of a dirt of dust to the whole of America is incredibly huge. We are less than insignificant in our own galaxy let alone the distant billions BILLIONS of galaxies out there, in the visible universe. And it's far reasonable to say there is a possibility of life elsewhere our planet and the possibility of super intelligent 'beings' which if exist will do as Dr. Michio Kaku says, "Their attitude toward us might resemble our own attitude toward an ant hill. Our inclination is not to bend down and offer the ants beads and trinkets, but simply to ignore them.”

I think just like our planet is one out of trillions out there and our galaxy is one out of billions, i speculate our universe MIGHT be one out of many..(Multiverse)

Anyway about Alien life, i think with the size of just our galaxy raised to 200billion others it is outragous to think we are alone but since we have not empirically proven this, there is no need to assume.

Other alien life forms might actually be in microbile form or complex form like us the possibility spans both ways.

But one thing is certain, there will be totally different from what we can imagine. . . While we can only see light we might have some that see infrared.

And i do not want to think Aliens are superior to us, they might still be just another lost species in this universe still trying to leave the stratosphere of their planet or one whose technology is well developed..

remember we the aliens to them too.. personally i think distance is the only barrier between us and alien life forms even in their smallest sense. (microbile)

thats why i am keeping my fingers crossed for Mars, ganymede, europa or io... they seem promising...

hahn:
Wow! This is beautiful!
Very interesting.

You said it

MzNelly:
This is really beautiful

Kind of makes me feel we're giving ourselves too much importance....
Wow!

Johnydon, nice work

johnydon22:


We really do. . . Many people do not know the depth of this universe.

they do not realize there is more to it than just this planet and the sun.

They do not know that most of the stars they see at night have planets orbiting them too just like we orbit our own star.

But when you realize our entire solar system is a small spec of dust in the orions arm which is just a small part of the galaxy which in turn is a spec of dust amongs billions of other swirling in a dance of gravitational rhythm.

When you understand just how insignificant this planet is and how in our arrogance we have prized ourselves the important parts of the universe when we don't even know what exactly the universe is.

You would laugh at anyone who thinks the creator of the universe is having a personal relationship with them, finding their keys or watching if they masturbate...

MzNelly:


If this could made front page, that would be nice.
A lot of eyes would be opened...
But then again, anything relating to atheism doesn't even smell FP.
The hypocrisy of it all.

johnydon22:


Lol... But this has nothing to do with atheism or atheists.

This is a science topic and scientific topics rarely make front page on nairaland.

Unless you name it "Tonto dike in a bath tub" then it is guaranteed..

But there is nothing relating science with atheism. . . nothing at all..

Angelou:
The monstrous enormosity and complexity of celestial bodies always baffles me at all time. I found out that phenomenas like super-galaxies (galactic clusters) also exists (quote me if i'm wrong), now tell me what amount of metric unit of measurement and be used to measure the width or mean diameter of such astronomical Titans? What's the hope of a mortal man to travel such distance or conceive such absurd alternate reality that exists within such phenomenas (a galaxy's nucleus for example)

Psylas:
I love and believe anything scientific

hail all scientists ever liveth

johnydon22:


With the type of technology available to us now i would say that we can probably in the near future achieve something near the speed of light with nuclear reactors but still such ridiculous distances is still impossible to us.

Our galaxy for instance is 100,000light years in diameter, unless we can get to observe wormholes and create mini wormholes and blackholes in the near future i doubt if it would solve this problem but i know it will give us a better idea of the universe we live in.

Maybe going by quantum mechanics we could come up with a quantum generator that can generate alternate atoms of an object and project to a different point in space/time.

Sometimes one cant help but realize nature is far more crazier than we can ever imagine. . . for the fact that we are nature too shows just how crazy nature can be ...

Angelou:
dont u think creating a (hypothetical) black hole or worm hole could possibly tip the order of things off balance.
Given that a black hole is an unstable source of immeasurable gravity and that could have a counter effect to d gravity holding earth from the core

johnydon22:


With the type of technology available to us now i would say that we can probably in the near future achieve something near the speed of light with nuclear reactors but still such ridiculous distances is still impossible to us.

Remilekun101:


[size=20pt]at the speed of light, we would be too heavy and might disintegrate.. so that is a no - no

and black hole would surely upturns everything around it... including the laboratory [/i][/size]

johnydon22:

I agree with this, the greater the speed the greater the mass and energy required... i didn't really mean we are to embark on manned missions on such probes but rather unmanned probes...

doubt this though...

Remilekun101:

[size=13pt]Ok.. unmanned would be cool...
black holes sucks in everything around it.. no matter how mini it looks[/size]

johnydon22:

I think we could find away to stabilize laboratory generated blackholes if we ever happen to create one..

Remilekun101:

lets do it

**Takes my shoes and runs like hell**

johnydon22:

**Takes my shoes and runs like hell**

Remilekun101:

Common.... Guinness world record awaits