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- Bluejam0
Event Horizon Telescope captures stunning new image of Milky Way’s black hole
https://arstechnica.com/science/…
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Mindbending Mondays
- grafician0
- SPACEX CONFIRMS LOSS OF STARSHIP AT END OF THIRD TEST FLIGHT (Reuters)grafician
- What a ride...grafician
- Yet another of Elon's 100 million dollar rockets down the toilet. But a huge success!!!utopian
- ...and yet still half the development cost of the SLS, for a more complex platform, that's actually hit three milestones.
But sure, mElOn bAd. *rolls eyesNairn - You're like all those kids on Reddit who spend their lives bleating on about JK Rowling wondering why she's so obsessive.. whilst they obsess over her.Nairn
- utopian2
Earliest-known 'dead' galaxy spotted by Webb telescope
Scientists said on Wednesday that Webb has spotted a galaxy where star formation had already ceased by roughly 13.1 billion years ago, 700 million years after the Big Bang event that gave rise to the universe. Many dead galaxies have been detected over the years, but this is the earliest by about 500 million years.
- wow holy shit TIL that the Milky Way is still producing stars, roughly 7 per year. https://www.skyatnig…_niko
- which makes sense because of the nebulas within it but in my head star formations happened billions of years ago_niko
- _niko0
I had a thought about the universe:
The universe is obviously larger than the observable universe because we are at the centre of the observable universe and everything seems to be radiating out evenly around us which is statistically impossible.
I asked Chat Got its thoughts and came back with:
The observation that the universe looks roughly the same in every direction (isotropy) and that, on large scales, matter is evenly distributed (homogeneity) is a cornerstone of modern cosmology, encapsulated in the Cosmological Principle. While it might seem statistically improbable for us to be at the center of a perfectly radiating universe, the explanation is that the universe is not radiating out from us; instead, it appears isotropic and homogeneous no matter where an observer is located within it. This is not due to our unique position but is a property of the universe itself, suggesting that the universe does not have a center or edge in the conventional sense.
The initial conditions of the universe and the laws of physics that govern its expansion and the distribution of matter make it such that, from any given point, the universe would appear much the same in all directions. This does not imply a central position for the observer but rather the uniformity of the universe on the largest scales.
- which I guess means that if you are in one of the first galaxies to emerge out of the Big Bang, you wouldn't be observing all other galaxies "behind" you and_niko
- nothingness in "front" of you, you would instead be much like us on earth, observing a homogenous universe all around you equally in all directions._niko
- which boggles the mind._niko
- I swear as I read this I could hear the sound of a bubbling bong in the backgroundnb
- haha_niko
- not sure what you mean by "statistically impossible" considering there's only one universe we can observe, and it's by all means possible heremonospaced
- Ramanisky22
- plasmamilfhunter
- Looks toasty. https://waterfordwhi…Ianbolton
- mmm caramel popcornbezoar
- milfhunter1
- Jupiter's rear endepic_rim
- its gassy ass.milfhunter
- bottom of a crack pipe?PhanLo
- bainbridge1
- Let that sink in!
https://i.imgur.com/…utopian - and then this: https://waterfordwhi…Ianbolton
- wait till you see what AI can do in 66 years..milfhunter
- Let that sink in!
- PhanLo11
- <<< READ.sted
- I don't agree with that pissing contest part :)
we need this to move forward, and with very fucking hard work and some inventions what i think won't happen insted - in our lifetime we will be able to solve these problems and and we will be able to cover longer distances and spend more useful time in space :)sted
- We are at the very beginning of overcoming difficulties in the two major subjects: physiological effects and movement.sted
- well saidutopian
- Would be good if Branson was pulled inside out through his arsehole in the process.PhanLo
- Why Branson? Bezos maybe? :)sted
- All three would be a bonusPhanLo
- or we could work on making our biosphere sustainable... instead of throwing money away at the mars pipedreamjonny_quest_lives
- Let them live in space. They’ll provide jobs on earth until they die in space.imbecile
- purrfectly putVandal7
- Let them build some infrastructure. If it's inevitable that they fail, so be it. Let's just stop giving them a platform and let other billionaires save earthbainbridge
- EAT THE RICH!prophetone
- various decades ago the aristos build golden temples and exuberant parks for their entourage.. nowadays the technorates build decadent tech products...same oldneverscared
- different objects...neverscared
- lol @ Low-Earth Mar A LagoRamanisky2
- the projection of spiritual need for transcendenceonto onto mechanical hardware is out of proportions and its not gettin better till it blows up as another richneverscared
- boys out of touch civilatory lunatic fantasy...neverscared
- 'or we could work on making our biosphere sustainable... instead of throwing money away at the mars pipedream' <-- thischerub
- Oh boy. So many degrees of wrong. A - these guys are going to live a lot longer than any of you (unless you are also a billionaire).maikel
- B - it’s their money, let them blow it however the hell they want. It’s easy to make charity with someone else’s dimemaikel
- C - I work with NASA, and yes life in space is shit today, but a lot of the efforts are now put in changing that.maikel
- NASA has been disgraced for being slow and bureaucratic (that’s why now they work with startups). I think the twits are based in NASA timescales...maikel
- A -You sound like a lunatic who thinks that money can buy eternity
B -We are talking about how they spend it.
C -Cool, read our notes, have something to add?sted - D -That is why these companies exists and that is why they get launch permits for ballistic missiles. Again nothing new added.sted
- so where is this post/notes: "So many degrees of wrong"?sted
- NASA facts or GTFO.garbage
- @maikel if you really work for Nasa then you could give us some opinion in these subjects in way that fits the conversation.sted
- One of the companies I work with is involved in one of the projects to improve food on spaceships, for the Artemis program mostlymaikel
- The sponsors for that particular area are the methuselah foundation, coincidentally.maikel
- :) I work on projects for TTP form time-to-time starting with Integrated Nanosystems back in 2004 and I never claimed to work with Nasa because that isn't true.sted
- Lol, so you contract for somebody that NASA contracts on a side-project that are funded by Thiel and some e-coin con artists..garbage
- ..that are afraid to die? Got it.garbage
- There are serious bets between PHDs for age reversing treatment to be available (for billionaires) methuselah foundation the most conservatives say decades.maikel
- I'm guessing it's one of the 5 labs/companies that won the Space Food Challenge last year.sted
- Winners of phase I and II of DSFC - so, I’m not a NASA employee (nor I pretend to be) but I’m not ‘a guy who heard about it on Reddit’ either...maikel
- I also find funny that you get all cocky about ‘what are your credentials’ when you literally print screened a tweet from a some dude’s wifemaikel
- ahaha "I work with NASA" that was you wasn't? you thought you would gain credibility here with that :D you added nothing to this conversation so far.sted
- (DSFC is the deep space food challenge I mentioned earlier)sted
- I’m sorry Sted. Not sure I see your point, but I’m pretty sure that I can carry on living my life without your endorsement on all things space.maikel
- look i love The Martian with Matt Damon as much as the next guy but we will all probably be in advanced dementia before humans set foot on Marsjonny_quest_lives
- The DSFC looks like some.. totally non-serious project for funding.. for things that will never work. There are cast-irons in the promo photos.garbage
- Ever used one in a kitchen? Lol. Sorry, the true fact is space is not the place. Billionaires are going underground when the shit hits the fan.garbage
- @garbage 5-10 years you will have some tools that are the result of this project. by then you will be a senile old man and argue with us that UFOs invented it.sted
- it's not rocket science.MrT
- lol, I'm fairly certain I'm one of the younger folks around these parts. If I'm senile in 5-10 years, that means I have glioma-induced dementia.garbage
- And I'm never going to be a spaceman billionaire. Sorry, we figured out MREs decades ago. It's a fun contest, but you aren't changing the world.garbage
- Hooked on phonics.palimpsest
- Nairn0
Woah.
- That's mad. Who'd have thought a ship in the see would be a stable enough platform to launch something that massive? Mind bendingIanbolton
- They've been doing it a while, but this squat fucker makes it look crazy.
https://en.wikipedia…Nairn - ^ that's a compliant tower platformsted
- Ramanisky20
- Sun Ra would be proud.garbage
- did I say moon? oops I meant meant my colonoscopy cam_niko
- ^ haha ... I was slightly tempted to post on SFW thread.Ramanisky2
- Nairn1
10 mins 'til Starship second attempt
- 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'kingsteven
- That took me by surprise, I must admit! Most important thing is that all the engines lit and stayed lit 'til second stage separation -Nairn
- - afaik, thta's never been achieved before at this sort of quantity. Certainly, the Soviets never managed it.Nairn