OK…. check this out… this is a picture from my Astronomy book that I thought I’d share…. don’t freak… I’ll explain…
If you look at the lower left corner, you’ll see the big dipper… now that little pink box in there is the same size as if you were standing outside and had a grain of sand in your hand… hold that grain of sand at arms length and look at it… that size is the size of that pink box. Now that box was magnified to be the second picture…. and that little pink box in it was magnified to be the third large picture…. This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope with a shutter speed of 10 days…. yes…. 10 days…. for those of you who know photo stuff…. yeah… that’s crazy. ANYwho…. the point is this… EVERY SINGLE DOT OF LIGHT you see in that large image…. is a galaxy… NOT A STAR…. NOT A SOLAR SYSTEM…. a GALAXY! To put that in perspective, realize that our Milky Way galaxy is composed of hundreds of millions of stars and spans well over 100,000 light years wide by 1,000 light years thick. Which is like one dot on that photo. Each one of those stars in that dot has planets and moons…. NOW… this shot has hundreds of galaxies…. ok… all in ONE GRAIN OF SAND! So based on calculations… how many galaxies are in the known universe? ANSWER: Over 80 Billion.
80 Billion galaxies… each with hundreds of millions…. even billions… of stars…. each star with planets and moons…. we are one planet rotating around one star…. of 80,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars… So is there life on some other planet???? Man… it’s hard to imagine the answer is “No…” But on the other hand… God created all that to show us His power… His glory…. Is it only our gift? Makes ya think, eh?
Mood: In awe… 
Music: StrongBad – Everybody To The Limit
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My brain hurts
Well, God created us in his image here…but maybe he created different forms of life in other galaxies. Maybe He created a world of anthropomorphic reptiles somewhere else…
Anyway, it’s an interesting thought.
Good ole Dugan. : D It’s kind of like The Neverending Story or something. Or maybe not.
Anyway, I ordered biblical… It was cheap. I’ll look again and see about practical now. Thanks!
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Does that cover both bases?
very much in awe.. God’s creation is so crazy amazing! you can’t help but be in awe!
~NaTz
Come on Fwaquahs why do you keep playing me. I mean I thought we were friends….
By the way, saw dugan today on Campus…. funny huh
I believe there is life somewhere else. I think it’s rather arrogant of us to think that are planet holds the only living creations of our Lord. It is mind boggling to think of the expanse of the universe, isn’t it?!?!!?!?
Come on. On the other hand, God gave you a brain. Reason SCREAMS that there is life out there. moses/1/4#4
…. …. the book of Moses?… ….
he talking of the book of Moses from the Peral of Great Price… which is a mormon Holy book. That’s all I’m going to say about that.
Dan
yeah… I know what it is….