How does this picture make you feel? What's it like to stare back in time?

[-=[Juztin]=-]

(Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image)
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2004/07/images/a/formats/print.jpg

I forgot all about this picture until that earlier thread with the video. I remember when I first saw this picture I remember feeling myself get the chills and experiencing the most truly humbling moment that I can remember in my life up until now. To think that the youngest particles of light that hit the Hubble telescope's picture aparatus were over 1 billion years old and the oldest being 75 BILLION years old is simply staggering. This picture gives you the power to look back in time. Literally. Your very possibly seeing galaxies that existed billions of years ago, but now are just cold patches of space in the universe. The light that allows you to see this may very well be 60+ billion years older than the milky way galaxy. Your seeing light that is magnitudes older than our galaxy or our region of space. That thought just staggers me. Picture just one of these galaxies being inhabited by an intelligent civilization. That civilization would of existed billions of years ago, before the earth was even a planet. Imagine what kind of technology they had, how advanced they were, and how all there possibly millions or billions of years of advancement and evolution and star conquests, wars, tribulations, and religions existed in just a literal blink of an eye and was over billions of years prior. There existance may very well only be caught by the few strands of light that allowed their galaxy to show up on the hubble image. That thought to me is just crazy, but yet so humbling and eye opening. Our mere existance as humans at 50,000 or so years may vastly be overshadowed by just one civilizatoin out in one of those galaxies. Now imagine all of the galaxies having at least one advanced civilization. Possibly they had wars with each other, or made peace and discovered each other. Imagine how many untold stories may lie in this eerie image that was told in just the split second it took you to look at this picture. Will we have the same fate, will all we know now just be a single gaze at a picture in some alien computer BILLIONS of years from now? They wouldn't even know of world war 1, or 2, the nazi era, our greatest advancements, and untold things to come in the future for us. To them we would be just a single light photon on the picture that they can barely comprehend as being billions of years old and nothing more. They could be looking back on a picture that has our milky way galaxy in it in it's last dying moments of light before fading out. As you look at this picture and take in the past and billions, trillions, and possibly zillions of possible untold stories and events that happened with all these galaxies and civilizations, we may very soon be the same to another possible developing species on some planet that builds a telescope and points back into an 'unintersting' piece of space that happens to of once held our own milky way galaxy. Damn as I can see now, this picture evokes just tons of thoughts and soul searching, what's your guy's ('n gals) perspectives on this, what kinda feelings does this picture give you? Pictures like this really solidify my believe in a 'God'. Something as beautiful as this had to of been created by some supreme being, that's the only way I can comprehend it. Each galaxy having millions or billions of possible earths... Heck, this is as far as we can currently see, imagine what we may see in a hundred years or something. For some reason after looking at this picture and imagining all the billions and zillions of possible alien beaches that may lie out there on alien planets, and breathtaking scenery of many planets etc, all I can simply think is WOW, life...and the universe is DEFINATELY grand.

[stu]

I'm not sure how it makes me feel to look back in time, but I know how it feels to use paragraphs and line breaks.

[slowfocusguy]

You know, every time I look at the picture I cant just help but feel how overly complicated everything is. Why cant innocence last forever? Is it really beneficial to know everything that I know? To know that eventually everyone that I know, my friends and family, will someday die and later forgotten?

But on the other hand I've been playing this for 3 days, nonstop.

http://www.leekspin.com/

So what do I know?

And the numbers. +80 billion years? I cant comprehend billions of years, I have nothing to reference it. Yes I know it's a huge number, but so is a million. Billions of light years, there's simply no way I can comprehend just how far that really is.

[Slow96GSR]

It makes me feel happy the back button is easily accessed from my mouse so I don't even have to move the cursor!

[blue]

that picture says to me in my mind im 110% sure there is other life out there

[-=[Juztin]=-]

I'm not sure how it makes me feel to look back in time, but I know how it feels to use paragraphs and line breaks.keep the smart ass remarks off this section. If you dont want to read it then don't, I'm looking for people's perspective's on the picture, not your worthless ass comments. The only thing your kind of comment brings to the table in this discussion is that 17,000 posts cannot develop intellectuality in an idiot.

[ryanman]

I'm not sure how it makes me feel to look back in time, but I know how it feels to use paragraphs and line breaks.

:werd:

I had to take 2 Vicodin just to get through that shit.

[Ferret]

that picture says to me in my mind im 110% sure there is other life out there

There probably is. What's weird to think about is, with the size of the entire universe and all, if we ever developed technology to "see" that far and determine if life was on another planet, we'd be looking so far back in time that we might not even notice. Imagine if a society that is now completely gone had looked at earth somehow only to see that it was another planet with no life on it (yet).

:cheers:

[JL LGT]

It sure does leave endless (literally) possibilities to ponder doesn't it?

It'd be nice to be around (alive) when technology allows the viewing of planets (up close; topography) that far out (or is it back?).

[Conrad]

there HAS to be life somewhere else!

[slowfocusguy]

Blasphemy! Those pictures were planted there by the devil to trick and turn you against god! You will see when the rapture happens! And all the good white people who doesnt listen to rock music will be saved, living behind the corrupt people to suffer by the anti-christ!

Though it's weird, cause the anti-christ strives for world peace. But dont let that fool you! What's the point of Jesus reincarnation if everything is okay? So all the converted christian people will fight the peace corp! Fight em! Blow yourselves up! Cause chaos = second coming of christ! And the whole world will become a christian nation!

[stu]

=-;629579']keep the smart ass remarks off this section. If you dont want to read it then don't, I'm looking for people's perspective's on the picture, not your worthless ass comments. The only thing your kind of comment brings to the table in this discussion is that 17,000 posts cannot develop intellectuality in an idiot.

Calm down. I was just saying you could have broken it up to make it easier to read. I read the whole thing. Since when have you been such an asshole?

I'll have to watch closer for which section things are posted in.

EDIT: Because I didn't realize what section this was posted in, I've removed all of the off topic content for. Even though this is the serious corner, try not to be such a serious asshole in the future.

[HondaPower]

That picture sure does make me wonder...

[kevino002]

all this talk about going back in time and all makes me think about a discussion we had in physics one time, but that was about time travel and all. That pic makes me feel proud to be part of this day in time.

[chibianh]

the size and age of the universe is just unfathomable. We can throw numbers out there but understanding what those numbers mean, or realizing the size of those numbers, is just mind boggling. What is almost as astonishing is that the picture linked wasn't taken over the entire sky or even a large part of it. Hubble focused on a patch of sky no bigger than the largest crater on the moon as seen from earth. Another way to look at it is to get a 8ft soda straw and look through it.

It's hard to imagine that countless civilizations have come and gone in a cosmic blink of an eye for even our very own galaxy, let alone the whole universe. The sad part is that 99.9% of these civilizations probably never made contact with another, given the distance between space and the lifetime of a civilization.

[-=[Juztin]=-]

Calm down. I was just saying you could have broken it up to make it easier to read. I read the whole thing. Since when have you been such an asshole?

I'll have to watch closer for which section things are posted in.

EDIT: Because I didn't realize what section this was posted in, I've removed all of the off topic content for. Even though this is the serious corner, try not to be such a serious asshole in the future.Alright I forgive you :)

I'm only an asshole when somebody shits on something I'm passionate about. But I did the same thing you did when the serious section was first put up. Seeing how I make use of the new posts button a ton and well were all but human. Thanks for removing all the OT stuff. I owe you a drink sometime.

Well said Chibianh :cool: Definately is crazy to think about civilizatoin and how they really may just sparkle but never ever cross paths in the eerie darkness and eventually just fizzle out. I can look at the picture with all seriouness and get aside form a feeling of awe, I can also get a feeling of immense horror. I wonder if humanity will be bound to the 99th percentile.

[stu]

For the record, I never shit on what you wrote (like I said I read it all) just how you posted it, with no spaces.

[-=[Juztin]=-]

and for the record I'm not changing it, I'm far too lazy to edit all that text. But you can do it for me if you want.

[Street_Kings]

you know, it makes me think, if the universe is ininitely expanding, and every second of every day there's new galaxies stars and planets being created, based on probability alone there HAS to be other life out there at this very moment. If you wanna really think about it there also has to be another you, doing the same damn thing, at this very moment.

What are the odds of that? 1 in 1(huge frigging number here)

Great! there's (huge frigging number here + 1) planets out there, and the number will never ever stop growing.

[ryanman]

and for the record I had to take 2 more vicodin to reread that shit cause I forgot it