Planets / The World / The Universe

[Tsargrad]

We're one planet. A small planet, not to significant, except it does contain Pepsi and beautiful women.

So what is the go, with the planets, the universe, everything, space.

I was thinking about it the other night (no mind altering products we're in use), and it seems bloody ridiculous, to have all these planets, galaxies etc, if we are never going to get to them.

Or are the planets like a Level 7 gateway in a game, and we're only on Level 2, and as the game progresses we will unlock these stages which keep tempting us.

Any thoughts.

[horseshoe]

We're one planet. A small planet, not to significant, except it does contain Pepsi and beautiful women.

So what is the go, with the planets, the universe, everything, space.

I was thinking about it the other night (no mind altering products we're in use), and it seems bloody ridiculous, to have all these planets, galaxies etc, if we are never going to get to them.

Or are the planets like a Level 7 gateway in a game, and we're only on Level 2, and as the game progresses we will unlock these stages which keep tempting us.

Any thoughts.
You forgot to look down.

[Watcher]

You forgot to look down.
Huh? :confused: That went right over my head. :o

[dvder]

bloody good question...don't expect great answers ;) .. there's lot of theories [sp], but l think it's one of those we wont know until we die ( that goes with the other thread ) and we learn what the bigger picture is :confused:

[siliegrrl]

We are slowly getting there. We haven't been on this planet very long compared to how long the universe has exsisted and slowly we are discovering more about the universe. We've landed on the moon, we have seen a bit of Mars and now we are discovering a bit about Saturn and it's moons. Humans only use bout 20% of their brain. If we manage keep this planet alive for long enough I believe we will eventually explore all of the planets and learn more about it. Evolution is a wonderful thing (most of the time)

[Tsargrad]

We are slowly getting there. We haven't been on this planet very long compared to how long the universe has exsisted and slowly we are discovering more about the universe. We've landed on the moon, we have seen a bit of Mars and now we are discovering a bit about Saturn and it's moons. Humans only use bout 20% of their brain. If we manage keep this planet alive for long enough I believe we will eventually explore all of the planets and learn more about it. Evolution is a wonderful thing (most of the time)
Yeah not destroying the planet with our own stupidity will take some effort. If it reached 2100, I'd be surprised.

Yeah dvder, it links a bit with the other thread, which was what finally inspired the thread

[horseshoe]

Huh? :confused: That went right over my head. :o
Well, there's a lot of stuff right under our feet. It seems silly to have so much dirt, lava, etc beneath the surface of the earth if there wasn't some sort of deeper meaning to it, like an underground civilisation of underpants gnomes :D

[Tsargrad]

Yeah, there's plenty of Earth which remains unexplored as well, and forms part of the mystery of life.

And where did it all begin, what was before... Everything has a beginning, but what was before that beginning, whats outside space. everything ends, must be something outside.

Thinking about this is guaranteed to make our head explode. So much simpler, when the Earth was flat and the sun revolved around us

[dr_zoidberg]

I can't remember where I saw this, but I heard a scientist on a TV doco say that we know more about outer space than we do about the deep depths of the ocean.

[Tsargrad]

I can't remember where I saw this, but I heard a scientist on a TV doco say that we know more about outer space than we do about the deep depths of the ocean.
yeah the mention that on one of the SF on the Core DVD as well

[dvder]

Yeah not destroying the planet with our own stupidity will take some effort. If it reached 2100, I'd be surprised.

Yeah dvder, it links a bit with the other thread, which was what finally inspired the thread

yeah l replied to kat in the other thread and it's was leading to what l'm going to say here.... now l was reading a book ( and l'm still on the fence, even though some things sounded feasible, but the explanation of man not walking on the moon sounds feasible, so we interpret things differently ) ( and yes l can read ) but when we die our spirit goes to the other side, which by the book is........

[The spheres of the spirit world are ranged in a series of bands forming a number of concentric circles around the earth. these circles reach out into the infinfiy of space, and are invisibly linked with the earth world in its lesser revolution upon its axis, and, of course in its greater revolution round the sun.] blah blah.........

and there's different layers depending on how far you've progressed though
life :confused: ... which goes to kats question an how there could be so many people ( spirits on the otherside ) :confused:

[linton]

Yeah, there's plenty of Earth which remains unexplored as well, and forms part of the mystery of life.



Such as the depths of the ocean.

My uncle works on a trawler boat up north and every month he's finding new fish/creatures that he's never seen before in the nets and hands them over to the museum.
I remember him telling me in his last phone call he found what looked like a shark, but it was pure white and it had antenna sort of eyes with eyelids. I didn't see it but his description gave me a shiver down the back.

[Ozeagle]

Pretty easy to explain how there can be so many spirits. Let's say there are 100 billion spirits. It doesn't matter how many. Perhaps all 100 billion of these spirits have been around for many millions of years, enjoying their immortal, ethereal existence.

Evolutionary version: At the time that human life began the spirits decided to inhabit these new "animals", as a learning mechanism for them.

Creationism version: God came along and decided to set up the Earth as a "training ground" for the spirits.

Each time a human was born a spirit would inhabit it - returning to the spirit world when the body died. During the time on Earth the spirit would have little to no knowledge of its previous existence.

So the afterlife is a misnomer - it's just life, while our time on Earth is just a short university lecture on one moral topic or another.

Not necessarily my beliefs, but how I would explain the multiple spirits thing.

[linton]

Afterlife thread, two doors down Oz ;) :D

[Ozeagle]

Afterlife thread, two doors down Oz ;) :D
hehe - was just responding to dvder's post - the threads seem to be melding a bit :)

[horseshoe]

I can't remember where I saw this, but I heard a scientist on a TV doco say that we know more about outer space than we do about the deep depths of the ocean.
It depends on how much you want to know about space/the ocean. Frankly, I think we know more about the ocean than space, because my curiousity about space is greater.

... and here's some piccies :p

[dvder]

hehe - was just responding to dvder's post - the threads seem to be melding a bit :)


they do, just was ( trying ) to explain what's out there in space, well maybe :confused:

[dr_zoidberg]

It depends on how much you want to know about space/the ocean. Frankly, I think we know more about the ocean than space, because my curiousity about space is greater.

... and here's some piccies :p
Since when does the universe revolve around you? :p Nice pics though :). I've got a couple of good ones too:

[redbears]

An interesting question to add to Tsar's post is...

If the universe is expanding at the speed of light, what is it expanding into? Is there a limit to the area in which the universe can expand to? This really does my head in, just wondering about it. For the universe to expand at such a rate means that space is one huge 3D area.... :confused: :confused:

[dr_zoidberg]

My knowledge of physics doesn't go this far, but I think that even the physicists don't know the answer to that one. :confused: The universe is a very big, and not very well understood place.