Hubble takes the biggest image ever of Andromeda at 1.5 billion pixels

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  1. magnifier661

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    Jlpk look who you are dealing with. He says he's skeptical, then claims it's probable. He goes back and forth like a rocking chair, so take that for what it's worth.

    Right now he is arguing schematics with you, because you exposed his claim that the probability is zero until something is observed, then says "we observe life on this planet, so it must be probable"

    I think his head is spinning like a top right now trying to defend all the bullshit he tried to spew
     
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    Mags turns "improbable" into "probable."

    Good grief.
     
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    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    Denny turned 0% probable to highly probable in this thread.

    Double good grief!
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Prove it!

    Haha, you can't. All my posts are there for you to quote.

    Good grief indeed.
     
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    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    You said "chances are zero". But as Dawkins said... A 747 can manifest by chance. Who knows if the statue of Al Gore could manifest. Meaning, regardless of being "highly improbable", there is still a probability. Not zero

    Game over...
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Denny, sometimes you lack a sense of proportion. Remember when you said that Congressional Republicans threatening to withhold $2 billion in foreign aid from Pakistan would most certainly force the nation of 182 million people to roll over and play puppy to America's warrish will? It didn't. I couldn't get you to have a sense of proportion then, either.
     
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    Fool,

    I said chance of another planet with an ice sculpture on it is zero. What a STRETCH and FAIL by you.

    Not "chances of life elsewhere."

    Keep digging.
     
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    A very tiny chance among quintillions of stellar objects suggests there should be life. The evidence doesn't suggest it's widespread. That's why I question your optimistic figures.

    Where are the they? To quote Fermi.
     
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    [​IMG]
     
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    I thought you'd get a kick out of this.

    upload_2015-1-9_20-0-21.png

    I have mad cow, what's your excuse?
     
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    Where are Earth's microbes? Why don't they send us a signal?

    Because we're not interested in communicating with the morons.

    Same with ETs talking to mere humans. Or me posting very often.

    ETs exist on a different level than us and stick their snouts up in the air in disgust when they see us through the telescopes in their elephantine trunks.
     
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    Now you've jumped over the Moon. You and I weren't arguing in 2007. By the time this board got going, Obama was President.
     
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    Testing the Apollo Moon Motorbike aboard the Vomit Comet...

    [​IMG]
     
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    Right, but the universe has an incalculable amount of stars and planets. So even 1:billions would point to a significant chance of there being other intelligent life.
     
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    Right? I mean the universe is so freaking big that light has not had time to reach us from its further points. Got to be something somewhere.
     
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    Not to quibble, but if there were an incalculable number of stars, the night sky would be like daylight.
     
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    No it wouldn't because the further the distance a star is from our planet, the harder it shows up. That's why we can see Mars and venus, being just a fraction the size of a star. Or how the moon looks huge, but it's even smaller in comparison
     
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    scrutiny.

    http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/dr-marc-space/dark-sky.html

    Besides being very hard to imagine, the trouble with an infinite universe is that no matter where you look in the night sky, you should see a star. Stars should overlap each other in the sky like tree trunks in the middle of a very thick forest. But, if this were the case, the sky would be blazing with light. This problem greatly troubled astronomers and became known as "Olbers' Paradox." A paradox is a statement that seems to disagree with itself.

    Astronomers now realize that the universe is not infinite. A finite universe—that is, a universe of limited size—even one with trillions and trillions of stars, just wouldn't have enough stars to light up all of space.
     
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    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    I believe there are intelligent life outside our solar system. I am Christian, but still believe this. Then again, if God decided that we will are the only one, then obviously he would have the power to control that as well.

    But I think it's truly foolish for anyone that thinks life existed by chance, then decides only our planet in the entire universe has intelligent life. Only someone as block headed as Denny would argue against that.
     
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    Yet I didn't. You're as "right" about that as you were about why the sky is dark at night.

    :lol:
     
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