Can We All Agree On This?

[CuteOldGuy]

This is spectacular! I think if we focused on the magnitude and implications of this photograph, many of our differences would disappear.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16856812

[Jackie S]

It's 98 million light years away, that means what we are seeing left that galaxy sometime around the end of the Jurrasic Period on Earth.

I wonder what it looks like now?

[CuteOldGuy]

ROAD TRIP!!

[JDNorthface]

I think it's just a photoshopped government lie to lead us to believe that there is other life in the universe, part of an overall plan to depopulate the earth.

Nah, I'm just jerking your chain.

[waverunner234]

Who cares?

[Sensia]

Cuteoldguy,

Ever watch the Science channel on cable? They have some of the most amazing pictures of galaxies and black holes. The scientists talk about the ones that contain planets (particularly one) that is in the sweet spot just far enough away from its Sun that they believe is very much like earth with water/air and even possible life. I am always intrigued and amazed and love watching these shows.

They had a cable series at one point that talked about the famous Susskind-Hawkin battle that explains the holographic principle of black holes and that information does not disappear essentially into a black hole. I think the thing that I thought was fascinating was Leonard Susskind (he was a plumber early in his life) that liked to solve these kind of mysteries and theories figured this all out. He took on Hawkins and his Black Hole theory. Anyway it was amazing to watch the cable series. If anyone is interested you can read a few links on it.

Hawkins changes his mind on black holes

Background on Leonard Susskind

Holographic Principal

[waverunner234]

Really?