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A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.

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A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
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A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 3, 2015 at 6:52 am
Enjoy:
http://vimeo.com/117815404
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RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 3, 2015 at 8:32 am
I kind of skipped trough the video, but I like it! It offers perspective!
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RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 3, 2015 at 8:52 am
Very cool.

And just think, even at the speed of light, this video would have to be over 18 hours long to make it out as far as the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
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RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 3, 2015 at 1:08 pm
That is SO cool!
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RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 3, 2015 at 1:18 pm
I am struck by how slow light is. Big Grin
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RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 15, 2015 at 1:18 pm
(February 3, 2015 at 1:18 pm)Chas Wrote: I am struck by how slow light is. Big Grin

It is a matter of perspective. I am struck by how far apart things are. The distances in space are almost unimaginable.

It is one of the reasons there is little chance that beings from one solar system will ever visit beings from another one, unless the two solar systems collide.

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RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 15, 2015 at 2:10 pm
I am awestruck by how short human life is, such that it would take 1300 human life times for the fastest thing in the universe to cover the minuscule diameter of one Galaxy.
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RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 15, 2015 at 5:02 pm (This post was last modified: February 15, 2015 at 5:02 pm by Alex K.)
(February 15, 2015 at 2:10 pm)Chuck Wrote: I am awestruck by how short human life is, such that it would take 1300 human life times for the fastest thing in the universe to cover the minuscule diameter of one Galaxy.

I sometimes think of it this way - when looking at pictures of galaxies, they appear as a connected whole, a unified entity held together by its gravity. But from my human perspective, a galaxy is a collection of a huge number of disjoint places and events which are completely isolated from another on the timescale of my lifetime, or even the lifetime of our civilization. I don't know if that is intelligible...
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RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 15, 2015 at 7:48 pm
(February 15, 2015 at 1:18 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(February 3, 2015 at 1:18 pm)Chas Wrote: I am struck by how slow light is. Big Grin

It is a matter of perspective. I am struck by how far apart things are. The distances in space are almost unimaginable.

It is one of the reasons there is little chance that beings from one solar system will ever visit beings from another one, unless the two solar systems collide.

It depends on how long-lived the traveling beings are and their motivations. The times involved in the evolution of solar systems and any resultant life forms is what makes the meeting unlikely. One would likely be so far evolved over the other, there would be no significant commonality at all. No reason to meet.
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RE: A tour of your solar system at the speed of light.
February 15, 2015 at 11:07 pm
(February 15, 2015 at 7:48 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:
(February 15, 2015 at 1:18 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is a matter of perspective. I am struck by how far apart things are. The distances in space are almost unimaginable.

It is one of the reasons there is little chance that beings from one solar system will ever visit beings from another one, unless the two solar systems collide.

It depends on how long-lived the traveling beings are and their motivations. The times involved in the evolution of solar systems and any resultant life forms is what makes the meeting unlikely. One would likely be so far evolved over the other, there would be no significant commonality at all. No reason to meet.

If I had the technology to visit beings in other solar systems, I certainly would not waste my time visiting earth.

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