35 Astounding And Uplifting Facts About The Universe. Really and truly astounding.

[snagglepuss]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/astounding-and-uplifting-facts-i-fucking-love-science

[indepat]

1. What an astounding world we live in and what an astounding miracle is

life.

[cynannmarie]

2. here here n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Enough alcohol for 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. Outstanding.

Proof enough that the universe loves us.....or that it's trying to get us drunk so it can steal our car keys and leave in the dead of night without flushing the toilet.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. kick

[Jim Warren]

5. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio.........

[Tikki]

6. I have never understood why the creationist type are so frightened by their Universe and beyond..

We live in such an amazing time where we can began to realize that randomness can have as much beauty as order.



Tikki

[jonsiee]

7. Andromeda actually is visible to the naked eye.

It's the only object outside our galaxy visible.

[whopis01]

10. That is not correct

I know that the Magellanic Clouds are both more visible (lower magnitude) than Andromeda. I believe that the Omega Centauri cluster is visible to the naked eye as well.

[jonsiee]

14. My bad

I meant most distant object.

[whopis01]

15. Ah - cool. Did not know that. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

8. Fascinating, I've always thougt of life as being evolving children of the stars.

Thanks for the thread, snagglepuss.

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. The Andromeda Galaxy IS visible to the naked eye

If you know where to look and are at a very dark location. I've seen it many times and it is very large.

But it is not nearly a bright as the pictures that you see from telescopes - which gather far more light than the eye can.

[yuiyoshida]

11. SOME DAY WE WILL BE MINING FOR COCKTAILS

[malaise]

13. Magnificent

Thank you

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