That Hubble guy is adorable. I hope he becomes a regular.

I agree this video does a terrible job answering the original question. It simply doesn't.

I can extrapolate from the video and get some answers.
1) The (observable) universe is not spatially or temporally infinite.
2) Therefore all directions do not see a star.

A look at the Hubble deep field images can confirm this -- there's plenty of black space between the first visible galaxies at the edge of the observable universe.

Additionally there is a lot of dust, as others have mentioned.

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According to Wikipedia, I gather that the confirmation of Dark Energy makes the existence of Dark Matter very likely.>> ^direpickle:

>> ^Throbbin:
Right you are. Guess I bungled that in my glee.
Although I suppose the existence of the one all but confirms the existence of the other.>> ^direpickle:
It looks like this is a confirmation of Dark Energy and not Dark Matter. They're different things with unfortunately similar names.


I was really excited at the prospect of proof of dark matter! I'm less-excited by proof of dark energy, because that all but confirms a dismal end to the universe. Still, it's neat when science works. I'm not an astrophysicist, but I don't think the Dark Matter/Energy theories are related so that one implies the other. I could be wrong, though!


I know the sift boasts some experts in the field. What do you guys think?

>> ^Throbbin:

Right you are. Guess I bungled that in my glee.
Although I suppose the existence of the one all but confirms the existence of the other.>> ^direpickle:
It looks like this is a confirmation of Dark Energy and not Dark Matter. They're different things with unfortunately similar names.



I was really excited at the prospect of proof of dark matter! I'm less-excited by proof of dark energy, because that all but confirms a dismal end to the universe. Still, it's neat when science works. I'm not an astrophysicist, but I don't think the Dark Matter/Energy theories are related so that one implies the other. I could be wrong, though!

Right you are. Guess I bungled that in my glee.

Although I suppose the existence of the one all but confirms the existence of the other.>> ^direpickle:

It looks like this is a confirmation of Dark Energy and not Dark Matter. They're different things with unfortunately similar names.

Well, I was going to go and watch this while stoned, but I think I'll spend the money and the weed on the 3-D IMAX Hubble documentary instead.

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Leo has been hitting the smokes pretty hard...
>> ^Opus_Moderandi:
narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio? huh?

>> ^MaxWilder:
I love the end where they show off its specs like an unlockable weapon or vehicle in a video game.

they even used some of the same sounds as in terminator: future shock


i wonder if they'll shoot it straight to it's destination or park it on orbit for assembly first
being such a complicated and precise instrument, and knowing all the trouble we went through with hubble, i would think it dumb to launch it and just trust that it will work

but if its orbit is going to be to high, humans won't be able to service it like Hubble..?

IMAX Hubble 3D

>> ^shole:
>> ^SunTzu:
flying around the planet at thousands of miles an hour, a man who puts his life in danger to further the knowledge of mankind.

what do they actually even do up there?
i now i'm being ignorant and that they probably do a lot of great stuff but we never specifically hear about any of it
there's never been a news story like "bananas made of jam invented on ISS! astronaut Jamforbrains gets nobel for being awesome!"


Rofl..

He's probably involved in various zero gravity experiments up there, acting as proxy on behalf of people on earth who come up with new questions as to what happens if you do this in zero gravity. I don't know the specific purpose of the ISS unfortunately, but i suspect your question is a bit like asking "Why are you looking through this telescope at the moon?"

And the answer is, who the hell knows what you'll find? Why did we sail around the world and discover new countries, new species of animal.. why do we still search for new species? Why do we test those species of plant and animal to see what they do, what they're made of, what properties they have? Why step outside of our front door?

Because if we didn't, we'd never have invented the wheel or mastered fire.

Imagine how much shit we've found in our own oceans that we didn't know about a few hundred years ago. Imagine what we've done with that new knowledge.

Can you possibly begin to imagine the sort of shit we might find out there in space, which is infinitely bigger than our ocean?

Imagine if you'd asked marie curie why she was messing around with a luminous material? "Did you make a banana made of this new material? Stop wasting your time!" And we've just lost the x-ray machine.

Cmon, man.. that sort of question depresses me.. of all the amazing things we've found out through stargazing, through expeditions into space (the hubble deep field picture, to me, is worth all the money on earth) the one thing that would validate such a trip, to you, is a fucking jam banana?

*promote by request

(I am hubbled now, but let's work this out-