Just a bit hard to comprehend...

[Wasillaguy]

It's a connect-the-dots puzzle. Determined to be so long ago with the various Zodiac symbols.
Thing is, you gotta separate the wavelengths, color spectrum, and intensity to resolve the entire matrix.
I strongly suspect that once we have lasers, telescopes, AI, and computing power sufficient to map the entire thing, we will have a message like "Eat at Joe's, voted best burgers in the universe".

 

[Onyrlef]

It's a connect-the-dots puzzle. Determined to be so long ago with the various Zodiac symbols.
Thing is, you gotta separate the wavelengths, color spectrum, and intensity to resolve the entire matrix.
I strongly suspect that once we have lasers, telescopes, AI, and computing power sufficient to map the entire thing, we will have a message like "Eat at Joe's, voted best burgers in the universe".

It is however a connect the dots puzzle in that if you connect enough dots you'll finally arrive at the main dot from which all dots ( history/time) originated, the singularity. Just as nothing (consisting of mass) may exceed the speed of light, it would be impossible to determine what was, that is, gather information before there was information.

 

[Domo]

It's at least a bazillion, maybe even a cotillion.

Don't the bazillions live in South America?

 

[Boat Bum]

Isn't cotillion a dance?

 

[Seilerbird]

In 1990 I attended an astronomy class at Sierra Nevada College. Once a week we met and drove up to the top of Mount Rose to a private residence that had a professional telescope observatory. The main telescope was a huge thing about the size of a refrigerator. Mounted on top of it was a normal sized telescope used as a spotting scope. Mounted on top of that scope was a tiny spotting scope for the main spotting scope. It was a fairly normal looking amateur scope about two feet long. That scope was looking at less than one percent of the sky. It was a basic pinprick. They trained the scope on an 'empty' section of the sky. I looked through the small scope and was shocked. It looked just like the photo at the top of thread. At that point they didn't realize they were all galaxies. And none of them are close enough for any alien to leave there and visit us. Just an impossible trip.

 

[jymbee]

Whenever I hear the line in song by Kansas, "Nothing lasts forever but the Earth and sky..." I have to think "Uh.. noooo... nothing lasts forever. Period." Not as lyrical to say that I guess...

 

[Onyrlef]

Whenever I hear the line in song by Kansas, "Nothing lasts forever but the Earth and sky..." I have to think "Uh.. noooo... nothing lasts forever. Period." Not as lyrical to say that I guess...

I think the next intelligent species on earth will find a million year old McDonalds french fry in pristine condition.

 

[Chef Duane]

I think the next intelligent species on earth will find a million year old McDonalds french fry in pristine condition.

I've heard the same thing about Twinkies. They have a half-life of 97,508,523,552.953 years give or take a decade or two.

 

[Chef Duane]

Taken from the Cassini-Huygens Probe as it passed Saturn. The dot is the Earf.

 

[CamperAL]

Beside the various the wavelengths, color spectrum, and intensity to resolve the entire matrix, there is dark matter and most likely other things we don't see that make up a good part of the universe.

The things we can see and measure are a lesser percentage than what we can't see!!

 

[Onyrlef]

Taken from the Cassini-Huygens Probe as it passed Saturn. The dot is the Earf.

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Similar to "The Pale Blue Dot". Sagan convinced NASA to orient Voyager, before it left our Solar System, in the direction of earth and get a picture. Sagan later wrote a book called " The Pale Blue Dot".

 

[LarsMac]

"Who's to say the universe doesn't have a sense of humor?"

To have put up with humans for all these years, it must have one.

 

[RayIN]

The poem of the Indispensible Man..

https://allpoetry.com/There-Is-No-Indispensable-Man

That has to be where Bump got that bucket idea.

 

[Oldgator73]

Taken from the Cassini-Huygens Probe as it passed Saturn. The dot is the Earf.

Just how far is Earf from Saturn?

 

[Chef Duane]

Just how far is Earf from Saturn?

About a bazillion miles. Maybe a cotillion.

 

[Oldgator73]

About a bazillion miles. Maybe a cotillion.

BAZINGA!

 

[old_toys]

if you want to get big, I want that in Planck length.

 

[RayIN]

I think the next intelligent species on earth will find a million year old McDonalds french fry in pristine condition.

And twinkie.

 

[old_toys]

And twinkie.

they say a hot dog holds pretty good down in the dumps

 

[Firstime RVer]

Reminds me of Spaceballs movie..
Might be some dink da dinks out there somewhere.
ROFMA.