And yet that's just a panorama of a single galaxy. There are billions of other galaxies out there. Seeing such pictures always makes me certain that there are thousands of alien civilizations lurking somewhere...
The first one looks like some kind of sensor/processing issue given how good the bands look on it. The second one...... I've got to agree with my sibling poster, wait wtf?
So I randomly zoom into a spot, and find the exact same place you have in the first place without meaning to. Can anyone calculate the chances of that?
My only question, though, is why "in HTML5"? This doesn't really use anything from the new wave of "HTML5" technologies, save for some CSS3 dust. It's JS and images.
Awesome! Now add video, hover-over info with links, and the rest of the universe! Am curious why this was done, though. Class project? There are already a few major implementations of this out there. But, it is cool to focus on the Milky Way. I was able to zoom in and see the center! How cool is that?
Zooming into just one galaxy, ours, getting a feel for just how hopelessly vast it is, then recalling the Hubble Deep Field's panorama full of countless more galaxies an eternity away, brought one single thought to my mind:
If there's life out there, and at that scale, there simply must be... The probability of us ever finding it before our sun collapses most likely rounds to zero.
Actually I have a question ... maybe you can't answer it. But as we are looking for radio signals from other civilizations, what are we doing to make sure we continue to send out strong, unencrypted, easy to decipher signals from earth?
To say that IP law will result in all terrestrial signals being encrypted in say, 150 years, is not unfathomable. Then, at that point, if the encryption is good enough, it will just look like noise to a would be discoverer of us.
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My only question, though, is why "in HTML5"? This doesn't really use anything from the new wave of "HTML5" technologies, save for some CSS3 dust. It's JS and images.
Above, is a link of Phil Plait, explaining a feature on that same image: A star-forming region denominated G305.
The read is worth the time!
If there's life out there, and at that scale, there simply must be... The probability of us ever finding it before our sun collapses most likely rounds to zero.
To say that IP law will result in all terrestrial signals being encrypted in say, 150 years, is not unfathomable. Then, at that point, if the encryption is good enough, it will just look like noise to a would be discoverer of us.