How do we know what the milky way looks like if we are in it?

[dryer-lint]

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;18500413]Nope, but it is out of the solar system. I don't think you quite know the sheer scale of space.

The closest star other than the sun, Alpha Centauri, is [b]three [i]lightyears[/i] away[/b]. That means that if we traveled at the speed of light, 1,079,252,850 km/h, which is the fastest thing ever recorded, it would take three years to get to Alpha Centauri. The space shuttle's top speed is 28,163.52 km/h. You can do the math.

And that's just our next-door neighbor.[/QUOTE]

Four point three seven.

[editline]08:40PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=lemon_lover;18501367]Everyone who rated me dumb is dumb. You couldn't possibly think I was serious. I mean the post I was ridiculing seemed preposterous enough.[/QUOTE]

I rated you funny. :saddowns:

[Longy]

[QUOTE=Waals Vander;18500697]p sure we've sent a satellite out there[/QUOTE]

No we haven't. That would take many thousands of years.

[ASmellyOgre]

[QUOTE=dryer-lint;18501384]Four point three seven.[/QUOTE]

Whatever, the argument still stands.

[lemon_lover]

[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;18501383]Sounded pretty serious to me.[/QUOTE]

Well I guess you can't read sarcasm. Plus, pretty much everyone who believes in god knows only the devil uses weapons.

(Just so all you non-atheist extremists don't drown me in holy water, this post is also sarcastic.)

[JohnnyMo]

We look at the light given off from the Milky Way that has been bent around black holes and returned to our galaxy.

Yeah, I just made that up. It'd be totally badass though.

[dryer-lint]

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;18501418]Whatever, the argument still stands.[/QUOTE]

Indeed it does.

[Wakka V2]

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;18501467]We look at the light given off from the Milky Way that has been bent around black holes and returned to our galaxy.

Yeah, I just made that up. It'd be totally badass though.[/QUOTE]

We know because it's written in the Qur'an.

[Canuhearme?]

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;18501467]We look at the light given off from the Milky Way that has been bent around black holes and returned to our galaxy.

Yeah, I just made that up. It'd be totally badass though.[/QUOTE]

[img]http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/whatsnew/column/grav-lens-0299/images/HSTgravlens.jpg[/img]

[B]Fuck Yeah.[/B]

[DarkCybrid]

[QUOTE=dryer-lint;18501325]Solar system more like.

[editline]08:37PM[/editline]

But stars create their own radio waves. :ese:[/QUOTE]

That's not at all what i'm talking about, you silly [b]goose[/b]

[j00g0t0wnd]

I wonder, if Earth was located at the glowy, middle part of the galaxy, what difference would we notice, if at all?

[OvB]

Go to a star party.

[img]http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9430/texasstarparty1000pod08.jpg[/img]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3cVQcfb-w[/media]
:allears:

[editline]11:15PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=j00g0t0wnd;18501798]I wonder, if Earth was located at the glowy, middle part of the galaxy, what difference would we notice, if at all?[/QUOTE]

The very center? we would be dead.

[JohnnyMo]

[QUOTE=OvB;18501827][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3cVQcfb-w[/media][/QUOTE]

Agh, the fisheye makes it look like the galaxy is painted on a big dome.

[j00g0t0wnd]

[QUOTE=OvB;18501827]Go to a star party.

[img_thumb]http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9430/texasstarparty1000pod08.jpg[/img_thumb]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3cVQcfb-w[/media]
:allears:

[editline]11:15PM[/editline]

The very center? we would be dead.[/QUOTE]

No, but closer than we are now. Think perhaps 3/4 of the way to the center or even farther.