wrong thread lol

Clearly the work of God.

The Universe within 12.5 Light Years - The Nearest stars

Pretty awesome when you think about it. Assuming we don't kill ourselves and are able to either develop some kind of faster, cost-efficient space travel (as obviously light speed is out of the question, and even near light speed is out of the question for at least a long time), it would only take us 20-30 years to get to some of these star systems.

I can totally see a "stellar neighborhood" in our little corner of the cosmos happening here.

F3lix, you are a smart guy, but I'm honestly a bit surprised by some of your comments in regard to religion lately. I know I get pretty heated myself, but I usually have a bit more substantive things to say than snarky, 16 year-old-esque comments. This is one of those that doesn't really contribute a lot to any discussion, nor was God implied in any part of that post.

So...I don't really get...why you even said it? It's a mass of gases that churns out stars, commonly called a nebula or "star factory", and there are :blonde: an astronomical number of them.

Did you know Alpha Centauri is a binary star system (two stars close together that appear as one star to the naked eye) and that those two objects are actually not the closest star to our Sun and that a much smaller star called Proxima Centauri is? Because I didn't.

Alpha Centauri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cthulhu is that you?

The speed of light is only impossible for objects with mass. Since we don't really know what mass is or where it comes from, this may seem to make light speed travel impossible. But if we could figure out how to have zero mass, or even negative mass, light speed, or even faster than light speed, would be possible (in theory). There are some theories that mass comes from placement within an ether field or something of that nature. But why do photon particles seem to exist within this field but have no mass? This shit is OFF THE CHAIN!

I've wondered this a lot myself.

Why try to go the speed of light when you can go 100 times the speed of love?

Why try to go 100 times the speed of love, when you can go the speed of love 100 times?

Without even clicking on that link, that would fuck up so many things it's not even worth worrying about.

EDIT - misleading title much, io9?

Usually I like Io9, but this article kind of pissed me off.

Obviously, you did click on that link huh?!?! Misleading post much?

As in "before I even click on the link, I can tell that this is either going to be some devastating doomsday prophesy or a falsity -- I'll click on it and update it." Which I did. Hence the "EDIT".

OMG the Universe is so big!

That would be really cool to see by complete co-incidence.

LOL @ the pilot "the space shuttle is going off right now. If you're on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the space shuttle. If you're on the left side of the aircraft, you can see the people on the right side of the aircraft looking at the space shuttle."

Exclusive: NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite - FoxNews.com

If this is true, this is amazing. I can't believe i'm even reading it.

Those things don't look very friendly....

Full screen, lights off.