Everything has to take up space, so what is outer space taking up?
612672
well unfortunately, outerspace is a whole lot of nothing, so it doesnt have to take up any space.  granted there are molecules floating around out there, but for the most part there isnt any matter in empty outer space
786756
I think space is the container for the matter which makes up everything.  I also think there is more than one container which could potentially be parallel dimensions or other worlds with differenet physical rules.  I think the path to these other worlds lies in what is known as a black hole.  They say the universe is infinite so maybe there are an infinite number of containers which would mean they would never run out and have always existed.  Also, time may not me restriced to how we view it.  Our lives may be just a blink to other worlds or almost infinite to others.  There is no possible way to explain it definately, it is all speculation and beliefs.  One way to expalin it is with religion, but what is religion?  A belief in a greater being with absolute control? Or the belief that the "big bang" theory exists?  They are one in the same a belief nothing more.
710329
I hate to be the philosopher but that is why the question still reamins. No one can accuratly tell what lies beyond the boundries of the universe. Is there another? Is it just white noise? I believe that space is infinite and our "universe" could well be a part of a cluster of "multiverses". i was once told that the universe is expanding in the same way that a balloon is blown up. So what lies beyond our universe? I say space, space, and more space! \n\nIf our universe began with the "big bang" then that would mean that at some point the universe had collapsed upon itself, leaving empty space.
654562
You can squeeze space-time in between a sandwich by using lots of peanut butter.  Then, all those planets within inner-space would be dominated, and you'd be a conquerer.
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There is all kinds of trash up in orbit around the Earth.\n\nAs a matter of fact, not too long ago, the people in the international space station released an old space suit filled with trash and old clothes (also a radio transmitter) into orbit.\n\nAll this trash will eventually fall back down the Earth and burn up in the atmosphere, but while it is up there, it is stilla potnetial hazzard to anything else up there, that is why all this stuff is constantly being tracked by radar to keep tabs on its position.
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no it's nothing bigger. space is the universe. that's why it's called the universe(uni meaning one) because there is only one of it. space is vast and it is the something bigger
1034446
Great question!  Space goes on forever - outwards.  HOWEVER, we don't think of ourselves as being "in space" while we are on Earth, so we could argue that there is a distance around the earth that, for the purposes of colloquial conversation, is not space.  Where does earth end and space begin?  Maybe at the minimum height for an unpowered stable orbit?
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Space is not empty nor is it mostly empty.  Just because you don't see what is between one galaxy and another does not make space empty.  Most of the matter that makes up the universe is not visible.  Therefore the apperant emptiness of space.
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Exploring outer space is something we all do when we look at the stars at night, or the sun during the day.  I'm not a college educated person, but I know in my heart that the creation of what I see out there isn't all God is limited to.  He/She might have lots of populated 'earths' out there among the millions of planets that circle the stars eg suns.  I hope you find your answer
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The empty space is not so empty.\nBillions of atoms and much more photons;\n1000 dm3 and 1,000,000 cm3.
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"Space air"?\nIt is really hard to decipher what you are trying to ask.\n\n"Space" is pretty close to being a vacuum (for all intensive purposes for us here on Earth), thus there is no "air" in space.\n\nThe concept of there being some type of medium in space which everything travels through (the idea of an "aether", the material which allowed light to propigate through empty space) has since been disproven over well 100 years ago by the Michelson-Morley experiment.
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SPACE THAT IS TELEVISED THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE\nVIA SPACE WAVES TO THE SPACE THAT OCCUPIES OUR MIND AND BRAIN VIA THE EYES!!!!
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In all actuality, your question makes no sense.  If you were to take out all the "space" in matter, there would be no matter.  Matter is basically made out of energy and forces interacting with each other.  If you compressed the universe into the size of a refrigerator, you wouldn't have matter anymore.
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Its obviously D).  All that gas is holding us down.   (just kidding, its caused by the fact that Earth is massive enough to cause a significant gravity well in space-time)
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its to far away. would take 100 years to get there w/ the current space fleet we have there. now if we had nuke space ships that could go 100X's faster and recycle the air then it could be done in 5 years or so. but food and water would be the problem.
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All the techno babble apart - space has no end.\n\nThere is a distinction between space and universe. When talking about space in common man's language we talk about what is outside earth's atmosphere. That space has NO END. It is infinite in all directions and contains the moon, the planets, the sun, the starts, the galaxies, our universe formed after the big bang and beyond (probably several more universes formed of separate big bangs that are dying or forming like stars do).\n\nNow about a sphere's surface having no end but an area, well this has nothing to do with end of either universe or space or a sphere.. when viewed from the center of a sphere, a line drawn in any direction will intersect the surface of the sphere and therefore the entire surface of the sphere is an end. Space on the other hand has no end, it extends out to infinity.\n\nA simple way of understanding this is imagine you are in a room in a building. The room ends with the walls, but beyond the walls there is something - maybe more rooms. The rooms end with he building's walls but even beyond that wall there are more buildings. There is no end, if you imagine an end and if you could stand at the end there would still be something beyond that end more empty space maybe. No matter how large a number you imagine there is always something bigger. Numbers just like space go till infinity.
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Well, you are correct in that sittin' around will end in our collective lifes' destruction.  And attempts at proving life beyond Earth are ongoing.  Many of the missions to Mars are currently trying to prove that (among other things).  SETI is also an attempt to see or hear if anything is out there.  But that's a shot in the dark (har, har, de har har).\n\nThere are some significant steps being made to make spacecraft that can go "fast".  VASMIR (plasma rocket) among other things.\n\nThe two technologies that will drive us into the next level of abilities are quantum and nano technology.  Those will have significant impact on everything we build and contemplate.\n\nEventually our sun will get hotter, that could boil off our oceans (way before the sun bloats).  The Earths core could also cool enough that our magnetic field dissappears.  This would cause our atomosphere to slowly whisp away.\n\nBeing able to live in more hostile environments with nearly 100% recycling ability is our greatest challenge.  WIth that, we can start making our way out of this solar system and on to the next.\n\nWrite me for more discussion.  Fa shizzle.