Space is the place
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- Nairn3
- some of that is leaking from the craft on the way back...grafician
- https://edition.cnn.…grafician
- That's ..er.. what the article I posted is saying, and why I posted it because it's a fucking cool image.Nairn
- have you seen the video? they basically crashed the craft into the surface of the asteroid, crazygrafician
- Plot twist: the impact of the landing altered the asteroid's trajectory, and now it's going to collide with Earth. In 2020.Continuity
- (I kid, I kid)Continuity
- @Nairn sorry thought this article was just news about the mission, didn't read it before posting the notegrafician
- Nairn1
Maybe the Great Filter is: Every system that can have life ends up with a couple of options on different planets. It's a thermodynamic thing - shit pops up wherever it can.
One way or another, when they finally meet in any useful way, bad shit happens.
In our case: Venutian [life] + (SpaceX + AI + some automated sequencing & production process [a few decades off] + a lack of oversight somewhere) = something totally uncontrollable
Maybe the lessons of The Killing Star and The Dark Forest should be listened to at every level. All none Terran life should be obliterated ASAP.
NUKE VENUS.
- Dark Forest theory is really real. Of course life doesn't need to be destroyed until it develops interstellar travel (like the trisolarians)sarahfailin
- @sarah - If you liked that, you could do worse than reading this - https://m.media-amaz…Nairn
- I meant here more locally - the ultimate Just In Case. Obvs. better to investigate [life] but just keep that fucker quarantined off-planetNairn
- https://www.imdb.com…
NUKE VENUS NOW!grafician - Absolutely, I used to disable SETI@home on my roommates' computers back in the 2000's in order to defer possible alien contact.raf
- Shut down seti!thumb_screws
- Nairn6
This is really cool -
"See a satellite tonight
-No telescope required".https://james.darpinian.com/sate…
The "see where it will appear in your sky" button is particularly neat.
Use it to try and see a Starlink 'Train'...
- Continuity3
Voyager 2 sends back its first message from interstellar space
- wow there powersource from compressed plutonium balls that kick out 470 watts a day since launch in 77 until they dissipate, probably in centuries.robotron3k
- https://i.imgur.com/…PonyBoy
- ^ LOL
'I've been programmed by V'Ger to observe and record'Continuity - Was the message something like... "Carbon Units, V'ger must become one the creator..." ?PonyBoy
- *with the creatorPonyBoy
- i_monk2
- I was about to post the first video. Nice Youtube Channel, subscribed!Bennn
- I've subscribed to this channel as well.pango
- yeah these guys do an amazing job,_niko
- Those look great but I had to stop watching the first one. That was too depressing. It was like learning about climate change for the first time.CyBrainX
- Ramanisky22
- plasmamilfhunter
- Looks toasty. https://waterfordwhi…Ianbolton
- mmm caramel popcornbezoar
- OBBTKN3
- seems not polished at allmilfhunter
- Imagine seeing this as you walk through the door, only to be launched into space mere minutes later.stewart
- duckseason2
- Why am I not impressed with any of the 10 billion dollar Webb telescope images?utopian
- Looks like they've updated their CGI rendering machine doesn't it? Like they're almost too unbelievableIanbolton
- Because your small mind fails miserably to comprehend what it’s seeing, and therefore you label it unimpressive. Go back to fucking your 100 apple products.monospaced
- I'm fascinated by all space things, but sometimes you have to admit it's hard to comprehend the sheer scale and beauty of something from a photographIanbolton
- Krassy2
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning image of Cartwheel Galaxy with rotating arms
- Am I the only one not impressed with any of the Webb photos. They all look like 1977 Stars Wars renderings that didn't make the cut.utopian
- neat!
and yes, utopian, you are the only one who is not impressed.sarahfailin - @utopian they went from VGA to 5K common!grafician
- Gardener3
- The Observable Universe
https://apod.nasa.go…Gardener - That's mad. Flat universe theory?Ianbolton
- The Observable Universe
- sarahfailin2
- incredible, I wonder if those are known or named galaxies just behind it. probably just a section of unremarkable space yet full of so much wonder._niko
- look at all that space junk!Ianbolton
- Nice hexagon angled lense flare.shapesalad
- Nairn3
hrmm... it's pretty anyway
- Krassy3
Russian film crew, racing to beat Tom Cruise and NASA, blasts off to make first movie in space
- utopian1
^^^
Laniakea Supercluster
Radius: 250 million light yearsOne Light Year = 5.9 trillion miles
How long would it take to travel a light-year at the speed of light?
Saying we were a space shuttle that travelled five miles per second, given that the speed of light travels at 186,282 miles per second, it would take about 37,200 human years to travel one light year.
Observable Universe
Radius: 46.508 billion light years93 Billion Light Years to Travel Across the Observable Universe
- and the observable universe might be a grain to sand compared to the rest of the universe or the multi verse._niko
- I honestly want to weep when I think about all of this_niko
- That's a LOT of space!grafician
- A human compared to the observable universe is less than one planck. A planck is smaller than an one atom.utopian
- The size of an atom, which is already about 100,000 times smaller than anything you can see with your unaided eye.utopian
- Each one of us is less significant than an atom. Our pollution of 8 Billion people are smaller smaller that an atom compared to the observable universe.utopian
- 1 grain of rice is millions times larger and more significant than the entire human population combined compared to the observable universe.utopian
- @utopian you're way off by orders of magnitude
let's just say our entire galaxy is less than a grain of sand at these distances and call it a daygrafician - IN OTHER NEWS: UK wants to get back to imperial measurements because fuck all
*FACE PALM*grafician - Also the entire population of 7.3B people can fit into NYC
https://waitbutwhy.c…grafician - Imagine not only the scale of what’s out there but also time, imagine millions of civilizations like ours millions of times more advanced billions of years ago_niko
- The Cambrian expansion was NOT an accident lol
https://en.wikipedia…grafician - Teh Uks does not want to get back to imperial. FaCE Plam. Only ignorant fuckwits or people pushing an agenda, or who don't fact check suggest that. SpasticNairn
- At the speed of light it would take a year to travel a light year for an external observer and essentially zero time for the person travelling, assuming instantNairn
- ...acceleration.Nairn
- @_niko - I stopped doing acid because Every Time I did it, I'd end up lost, thinking about infinity and its various scales and it fucked my head up too much.Nairn