• NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission
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[IMG]http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/01/130124140757-large.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Jan. 24, 2013 — NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130124140757.htm[/url]
[QUOTE]Euclid will launch in 2020 and spend six years mapping the locations and measuring the shapes of as many as [B]2 billion galaxies[/B] spread over more than one-third of the sky. It will study the evolution of our universe, and the dark matter and dark energy that influence its evolution in ways that still are poorly understood. [/QUOTE] That's a [I]ton[/I] of galaxies to study the shapes of.
I can't rate this "winner" hard enough.
Thats a lot of funding i tells you!
Wow, [B]2,000,000,000[/B] galaxies in just a little more than 1/3 of our sky.
I wonder if they're going to use Galaxy Zoo or something using data from it?
I know it has been said again and again. We keep discovering all these new galaxies but yet we can't even manage to get enough people together to get past our tiny little solar system. It really makes you think, look at us and our tiny corner. There has to be something out there, it can't just be dead or barren planets.. Can't prove it, but at the same time you can't disprove it. Just makes you completely wonder. Space is fucking awesome.
[QUOTE=MR-X;39363280]I know it has been said again and again. We keep discovering all these new galaxies but yet we can't even manage to get enough people together to get past our tiny little solar system. It really makes you think, look at us and our tiny corner. There has to be something out there, it can't just be dead or barren planets.. Can't prove it, but at the same time you can't disprove it. Just makes you completely wonder. Space is fucking awesome.[/QUOTE] Maybe some people on our planet just need to remember how tiny they are in order to look up for the bigger tasks at hand. It's stupid to strife for the little bit we have on this planet while we could form up and get more stuff on other planets. There's so much potential right in front of our faces and yet we keep killing each other over some beans.
[QUOTE=MR-X;39363280]I know it has been said again and again. We keep discovering all these new galaxies but yet we can't even manage to get enough people together to get past our tiny little solar system. It really makes you think, look at us and our tiny corner. There has to be something out there, it can't just be dead or barren planets.. Can't prove it, but at the same time you can't disprove it. Just makes you completely wonder. Space is fucking awesome.[/QUOTE] as said, why is it that so much money is put into warfare, when it would be so much better to be put into space funding and education. Sadly this is never going to be the case.
[QUOTE=Blazyd;39360403]That's a [I]ton[/I] of galaxies to study the shapes of.[/QUOTE] and here's hoping that that is only 0.1% of what we know. Counting alternative realities, other universes (other Bubbles and ones making and made of this one), etc.
[QUOTE=WingedAssailant;39364213]as said, why is it that so much money is put into warfare, when it would be so much better to be put into space funding and education. Sadly this is never going to be the case.[/QUOTE] still I would be happy if NASA could get at least 5% Budget instead 0.5% hell even 2.5% would somewhat better
[QUOTE=MR-X;39363280]I know it has been said again and again. We keep discovering all these new galaxies but yet we can't even manage to get enough people together to get past our tiny little solar system. It really makes you think, look at us and our tiny corner. There has to be something out there, it can't just be dead or barren planets.. Can't prove it, but at the same time you can't disprove it. Just makes you completely wonder. Space is fucking awesome.[/QUOTE] You sound like Stan at the end of a South Park episode
[QUOTE=WingedAssailant;39364213]as said, why is it that so much money is put into warfare, when it would be so much better to be put into space funding and education. Sadly this is never going to be the case.[/QUOTE] Each human is a very intelligent being but as a species we haven't even figured out how to work together properly. To an alien that would make us look dumb as fuck
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;39364252]still I would be happy if NASA could get at least 5% Budget instead 0.5% hell even 2.5% would somewhat better[/QUOTE] If Nasa even had it's funding doubled we would have had people on Mars a couple of years ago, absolutely no fucking doubt that within 10 or 15 years we'd have an actual semi permanent colony on Mars like the ISS and not long after that we'd have our first permanent colony on Mars. Shit we would probably be a few years away from asteroid mining and maybe even a prototype alcubierre drive. But nah man, missiles are more important.
[QUOTE=Triarii;39365073]Each human is a very intelligent being but as a species we haven't even figured out how to work together properly. To an alien that would make us look dumb as fuck[/QUOTE] We do work together, we have learned to do that a long time ago. That's how pyramids and entire skyscrapers and capitols were built. But you are right, we do not work together collectively all of us, for the greater good of all people. That would be quite something, we could build even greater things, I suppose. And we wouldn't look stupid in the eyes of some intelligent alien species with the milestones and achievements we have managed, unless of course these aliens were some million-year-old species of super intelligence and technological prowess.
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