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The Universe Contains 10 to 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought
Popular Mechanics ^ | 10/13/16 | Jay Bennett

Posted on 10/15/2016 2:43:17 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker
The Universe Contains 10 to 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought

I had always thought the Universe might contain 2.5 to 3 times more Galaxies than we thought. But 10 to 20, that changes everything ..

21 posted on 10/15/2016 3:03:01 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: LibWhacker

20 trillion galaxies can’t be wrong ...


22 posted on 10/15/2016 3:06:40 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: LibWhacker
One is enough.


23 posted on 10/15/2016 3:07:40 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Moonman62

You cannot be more mistaken. Only a theological argument might suggest that. The evidence you are looking at is so infinitesimal as to be insignificant against the big picture.


24 posted on 10/15/2016 3:08:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: LibWhacker
If God created the heavens and the earth, what was His purpose in creating a universe filled with trillions of other galaxies, trillions of light years away from our own if his only intent was to create life on our own planet?

Seems like a waste of time, energy and mass to me..........

IF there is indeed a God then I suspect we are not alone in His creation..........

25 posted on 10/15/2016 3:08:37 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......)
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To: sparklite2

But it supposedly couples to gravitation, and should then coalesce into dark matter galaxies, stars and planets, which would definitely seem to have an effect, crashing into each other, and presumably ordinary matter objects too. Yet, we don’t see any evidence of that.

I’m not a big fan of plugging something in just to make it fit the standard theory.


26 posted on 10/15/2016 3:08:47 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: LibWhacker

Almost makes you think there are millions of life planets (and moons) out there.


27 posted on 10/15/2016 3:09:18 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: LibWhacker

It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It’s big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It’s a big universe and it’s ours


28 posted on 10/15/2016 3:10:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: LibWhacker

The Lord God is amazing.


29 posted on 10/15/2016 3:11:03 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: onedoug

I’m not a fan of the DM theory, either. I think it’s just a variable they stick into relevant equations to make them come out right. It’s not a physical entity, and they’ll never ‘discover’ any of it. In the meantime, we’ll just go with what works.


30 posted on 10/15/2016 3:12:44 PM PDT by sparklite2 (When they play the race card, play the Trump card.)
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To: libh8er

I guess we will soon have to move to a bigger universe!


31 posted on 10/15/2016 3:12:57 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Paladin2

Well, he did append “/s.”


32 posted on 10/15/2016 3:13:50 PM PDT by sparklite2 (When they play the race card, play the Trump card.)
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To: LibWhacker

If you think those galaxies are a long way away now - just wait.

OK, you waited. And just like I told you - they’re further away now then when you read that first sentence.

Trust me. I’ve got science on my side.


33 posted on 10/15/2016 3:18:06 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time..)
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You wrote: ""But we’re the only intelligent life." Arguably debatable. "

That could mean you believe:

A. There is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

B. With as many Dems as we have on Earth we don't qualify as "intelligent".

I'm betting on B.

34 posted on 10/15/2016 3:21:36 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time..)
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Newspaper headline -— Universe to Collapse in 4 Billion Years

I remember that joke when it was about the Sun.

Inflation, I guess. Certainly not education.

35 posted on 10/15/2016 3:22:48 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: LibWhacker
This discussion & analysis could just as easily apply to the “observable” and “invisible” illegal immigrants scattered throughout the U.S.
36 posted on 10/15/2016 3:24:32 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: LibWhacker

Wait a second, a year ago they were bragging they knew what happened the first trillionth of a second of its creation. I thought they knew Everything?


37 posted on 10/15/2016 3:24:57 PM PDT by heights
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To: Moonman62
So the number of galaxies estimated in the current Universe hasn’t changed.

Yup, the same thought occurred to me. I think we have to keep in mind that the observable universe is not the same thing as the current universe. What we'll supposedly be able to see with the next generation telescopes, which are coming online soon, will be 10-20 times more galaxies than they previously thought were out there (in the observable universe). There are fewer in the current universe (none of which we can see; everything we see is in the past) because of all the mergers. At least, that's what I'm getting out of this article.

38 posted on 10/15/2016 3:27:29 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Talisker

Have you seen the options as to who will run the most important and powerful country on our planet? Debatable.


39 posted on 10/15/2016 3:27:39 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: LibWhacker

20 x infinity? Wow.


40 posted on 10/15/2016 3:28:01 PM PDT by Ray76
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