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Old 01-18-2008, 04:02 PM
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Default Whats out there - what would you see if you left earth and were able to travel infinite into space?

If you could take off in a rocket from earth and go straight up into space and not go into orbit around the earth - what would you see, with no worry of age, fuel or time, what would you see if you traveled a million years at the same direction - havent you wondered about that, does it just go on forever ?? and is it all just dark and cold ?? Weird question but I do wonder ???
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Old 01-18-2008, 04:11 PM
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Different worlds... different suns, different solar systems... different galaxies ..... who knows... beyond the borders of our own.. perhaps there are different Universes.
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Old 01-18-2008, 04:12 PM
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it not goes on forever but u might go around it forever lookin for and end just like u would if u would walk aorund earth lookin for and end or wall

universe has only 100 billion galaxies

u woudl not hit a wall , aldo

the million light years u talkin about can be traversed in a matter of seconds with an advanced antigravitycraft
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Old 01-18-2008, 04:13 PM
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Space is very big, and theories tell us that it is expanding,
there is the possibility that it may be expanding faster than the speed of light, which means that whatever is expanding faster than light is basically invisible to us because light is unable to reach us, futile to say that nothing can travel faster than light. the universe is believed to be infinite, the problem is that we can't see it all do to the limitations of light.
its mostly made of these weird matter called dark matter, why?...because it doesn't produce or reflect any light in any frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum.

well I can't tell you everything about outer space, but I can give you important things that you can see.

We live on a planet, one of 8...
Our planet orbits a star, one of billions in the milky way galaxy...
Our galaxy is one of billions in the universe. we can see billions of galaxies, but there are more, why?...because light from them hasn't had enough time to travel all the way from its origin to us.

there are other small but much in quantity things too.
dust,
moons,
asteroids,

MISSING INFO:
at what speed would you be traveling at?

I recommend listening to a show called astronomycast, look it up on iTunes, they'll tell you alot about space.

Hope This Helps.
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Old 01-18-2008, 04:19 PM
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Space is a finite entity with a maximum and a minimum size
When you passed all the galaxies there would be nothing to see.
If you could reach it's maximum size space would end and you would be unable to enter a nothing.
When it reaches it's maximum size and minimum space density,it is traveling at the speed of light as it goes out of existence.
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Old 01-18-2008, 04:55 PM
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Because of the distance between stars, traveling in a straight line for a million years would give you a view of empty space for almost all of your million years. You didn't state how fast you were going but it really wouldn't matter a lot. Basically you would be seeing very little. Perhaps you might come close enough to a star to see it as a disk, but thats about it. Space is empty. What you have described is a million years of utter boredom. Make sure you bring along the collected works of the Library of Congress and a PS3 and a Xbox 360 with about ten thousand games.
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Old 01-18-2008, 05:12 PM
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Question is kind of androgenous, but i will try to answer with accuracy.

If you traveled 'infinitely into space' (not possible), depending on what you went toward, you would see other stars and galaxies.
When you run out of galaxies you would only see darkness.

Universe is not infinite, but it is growing faster then we can move, so the edge of universe would always be a few steps (trillions of lightyears) ahead of us.
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