Hubble Deep Field: The Single Most Important Image Ever Taken by Man

[Submariner]

When I contemplate that I have to inhabit the same biosphere with Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Coulter, Rove, Cheney, et al, I sometimes have to escape that depressing thought by wondering is there someplace in the ether where that ilk might not ever exist. So I watch this video wondering if there could be a planet DU out there? A planet where we could look through our telescopes and watch in amusement the planet Freeptard getting sucked into an annihilating black hole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw

[hobbit709]

1. My favorite Hubble image

The hand of god giving the universe the finger.

[Jamastiene]

2. Oh, wow!

I want to join you in that dream. That discovery would ROCK!

[POAS]

3. If memory serves me

the field of view of the original deep field image was the equivalent of a pencil lead held at arms length.

In that small field of view over 3000 galaxies and how many such fields of view would be needed to view the entire night sky?

K & R

[Jamastiene]

4. Just for an added extra kick for this idea.

Long Live Pluto!

[trumad]

5. Very cool

That's why I could never wrap my head around the God thing... There ain't no way one dude can be responsible for all of that.

[soothsayer]

7. feh! space is finite, so big deal. now INFINITE...that would be something.

[tinrobot]

9. God isn't the one dude who created all of that.

God IS all of that.

Doesn't matter if people call it god or science, but looking at the immensity those images represent leaves me in complete and utter awe.

I wish more religious types looked at images like this rather than bibles and korans.

[deutsey]

6. Pale blue dot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw

Another interesting video...

[sakabatou]

10. And here's the pic

Earth from Voyager 1:

[tinrobot]

11. Even smaller

[Lithos]

14. When was this taken?

curious, I would think it was sometime back.

[tinrobot]

15. February 14, 1990

[Warpy]

8. Nicely dedicated and nicely done

and every time I look a pompous, bloated right wing ranter of any career description, I try to think of images like this. It lets me know just how small they really are, how utterly unimportant they are.

That's what keeps me going.

[pokerfan]

12. Don't forget the ULTRA Deep Field!

http://www.aip.de/groups/galaxies/sw/udf/swudfV1.0.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. I love the spiral arm galaxy in the lower right quadrant

[lostnotforgotten]

13. Cool, Thanks For Sharing

eom

[Enthusiast]

17. That was incredible!

I sent the link on to others, others that aren't mired in biblical literalism (needless to say).