cat turned to smoke
Anonymous
God created the universe 6,000 years ago, so how could those whatever they ares be destroyed? Did god make them and then destroy them?
Anonymous
Rational Response Squad !!EJJpJU+V4Rx
Zerogoose !LyYB8Q5tf.
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wow God is amazing
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
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>not visible for another millennium god dammit why wanst i born later
Zerogoose !LyYB8Q5tf.
Anonymous
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Man... Astronomy is the only science I was ever truly interested in...
Zerogoose !LyYB8Q5tf.
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>tfw no matter what you do with your life, you will have no impact on Earth, which in turn will have no impact on the solar system which in turn will have no impact on the galaxy which in turn will have no impact on the universe
Anonymous
>tfw alien observers are watching us right now from thousands of years in the future
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
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>implying the Sombrero Galaxy isnt GOAT
Anonymous
>>19109422 i dont get the 2nd part. what do they mean it was destroyed 6,000yrs ago when it was taken in 1995?
Anonymous
>>19109544 oceanology is way cooler
sea > space
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Anonymous
Zerogoose !LyYB8Q5tf.
>>19109564 >alien observers are currently watching our cavemen beat animals to death with rocks and sticks No wonder they haven't welcomed us into the Galactic Alliance yet.
Anonymous
>>19109570 yea, well, that is just your opinion, my friend
Anonymous
Why the fuck is the universe so goddamn big? Fuck this tiny shit on this little dirt ball. Damn, I hope the crazy religion I follow is right, and after I die, I ascend to the next level of evolution and perceive the universe differently than now.
Zerogoose !LyYB8Q5tf.
>>19109572 Is that game as awesome as I think it's going to be?
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>>19109569 what they saw in 1995 was 7,000 lightyears away, so it was how it looked 7,000 years ago
1,000 years later it was destroyed, so we will see its destruction in another 1,000 years
DeAndre !!D52Lo94CkGR
>>19109569 You don't understand how space and light speed works,do you?
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
>>19109569 Spacetime bro.Shit's cray.ALL THE STARS YOU SEE ARE LONG GONE(I think).
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>you will never be in near earth orbit
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>>19109569 It's 7000 light year away, which means it takes 7000 years for light to travel from it to us, and we are seeing it as it appeared 7000 years ago.
Anonymous
>>19109569 it's so far away that light takes over 6000 years to reach us, therefore we on earth would see the nebula as it was 6000 years ago.
to be explained easier, if there were someone 200 light years away watching earth with a telescope powerful enough to see people, they would see the world in the 1800's because that the age of the light they are interpreting while we would actually be in present day.
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>>19109572 >playing sandbox games ISHIGGITY DIGGITY
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>>19109592 It's fun for a few hours but eventually you just run out of shit to do
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>>19109592 it's more awesome then you think it is
Anonymous
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>>19109588 I went out fishing today, and for 360 degrees I could just see the horizon, and even though the sheer distance across the horizon was enormous, there was barely 1 degree of angle in the horizon.
It's shit like that that really blows your mind and makes you realize just how fucking big the universe is.
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>>19109459 The ending was better when it was the Xbox and then Gabe Newell
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>>19109422 The Pillars actually dont look like that. NASA runs some images through a thing that adds color to make it easier for us to make distinctions. We wouldnt have any idea what were looking at otherwise.
Its a very enhanced image, still beautiful though.
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>>19109569 When you see things very far away you are seeing them as they were not as they are now. You see things because of of the light they emit/reflect and as they are so far away it takes the light so long to reach here that shit can happen in the mean time.
Anonymous
Anonymous
if the lights can travel for 7,000yrs or more, does this mean light in space is infinite?
Anonymous
Who else is pumped for mass effect 3? My body is ready.
Anonymous
>tfw VY Canis Majoris is due to explode any day now and may have already and we just haven't seen it yet i'll miss you, big bro.
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>>19109659 Are you asking if you sent a light beam and it never was acted upon by the gravitational field of any celestial body, would it keeping going forever? Well, as far as we know, yes.
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>>19109668 reported for being underaged
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>>19109659 until it hits something, yes.
Zerogoose !LyYB8Q5tf.
Is it at all possible for a high school graduate to get into studying this kind of shit, and how? If there's any form of astronomy that is less involving physics and more involving discovery and exploration, however unlikely that is, I would be all over that shit.
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>>19109659 Well yes, until it hits the end of the universe, unless that is expanding at the same speed or faster
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>>19109686 What the fuck would you be exploring?
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>>19109673 Any day could also be 1,00 years from now
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>>19109659 we cant claim it to be infinite because noone can claim that it is not
>I just blew your mind Anonymous
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>>19109673 What a way to have all life on Earth go extinct. Just have the bad boy send a gamma ray burst at us. Not like our pussy star is ever gonna go nova. Faggot just gonna get fat and then slim down to a dense clump.
MerK !LcByZUO73M
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>>19109668 >that feel when the ACTUAL universe is 4238975995895435843345437593895389543 times more interesting, compelling and wonderful than any space game ever created Anonymous
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>>19109707 mathematically, we don't
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>>19109686 you better LOOOVVVEEEEE MATHEMATICS
SouthDakotan !!o1lpCoutiyZ
I've posted this before, little pic I made for anyone who doesn't understand why something is still visible even though it was blown up thousands of years ago and doesn't actually exist right now.
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>>19109572 And SpaceEngine
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>>19109686 it is incredibly math based.
Anonymous
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
Zerogoose !LyYB8Q5tf.
>>19109686 Exploring was probably the wrong word, I'm tired as fuck and my lack of sleep is probably adding to my delusion.
I mean, there must be people out there that have to view and try to map or learn more about certain sections of the solar system/galaxy/universe, and study them.
Obviously from a distance, not directly.
Anonymous
>tfw Pluto still isn't a planet anymore
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space is so crazy big that we can see other galaxy's but we cant see ours.
Anonymous
>>19109716 Its really sad that a (supposedly) 18+ board needs these kinds of explanations. If you wanna make this thread a mindfucker start bringing up time, makes you start thinking Vonnegut was right.
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>>19109686 >>19109686 If you want to be an actual astronomer then you need to study physics, math, etc. at a college level and beyond.
If you just want to learn the principles and have as good of a layman's understanding as is possible then I STRONGLY suggest you subscribe to Astronomy magazine.
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>>19109691 >hits the end of the universe O lawdy here we go
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Best to keep it as a hobby
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>>19109736 Pluto's still a planet.
Anonymous
>you'll never live to see spaceships that can traverse the galaxy Dem spaceships that move like that fucking particle that is in one place, and then another, without ever having crossed the space between to two locations.
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>tfw you wont be able to experience interstellar travel
Anonymous
Dumbfuck here. Can someone explain OP's post? If it was blown up 6000 years ago how can we see it?
SouthDakotan !!o1lpCoutiyZ
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>>19109749 If I tried to explain the reason why faster-than-light travel would essentially "break" the universe and physics itself (by virtue of being able to go to a place before an event occurred even after you'd seen the event happen) I think everyone's heads would shit out their ass.
And I'd have to write 10 pages worth of stuff with diagrams.
Alastair Reynolds does a neat little explanation in his fantastic sci-fi book "House of Suns".
If you like astronomy and sci-fi (as written by a highly achieved astrophysicist) then Alastair Reynolds is always a great read.
Anonymous
>>19109583 Are you seriously implying that beating a sabre tooth tiger to death with a stick isn't awesome
Our cavemen ancestors were fucking badass. Quite frankly, the French and Mexicans are ruining their good names with their pussyness.
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>tfw you'll never live to know the answers
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>>19109793 this was already explained
please, nobody explain it again
Anonymous
>>19109765 The science fiction author. He claims time is an unalterable plane, just like space. What has happened will always have happened, whats happening will always be happening and what will happen will always happen. Its really difficult to explain it because our language is so reliant on tenses.
Anonymous
what is outside the universe? are ghosts spirits from another dimension trying to give us a message? what is a deja vu? is that memory from another universe/life?
Anonymous
What is a good and decently priced telescope for the novice astronomer?
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>>19109734 Yes. They do this by applying their knowledge of highly advanced physics and mathematics.
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>>19109796 >France >Mexico >Cavemen Ordinary Past Tiger Exile Revive a Few !zBrQbzhJ.A
Ordinary Past Tiger Exile Revive a Few !zBrQbzhJ.A Sun 26 Feb 2012 12:48:00 No. 19109821 Report Quoted By:
>>19109793 Light travels pretty slowly for the huge distances that comprise space. Light is how you see things. So when you're looking at these things, you're actually seeing what was projected thousands and thousands of years ago but is just reaching us now.
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>>19109802 Expand your lexicon.
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>yfw you realize Earth is cosmically meaningless and the internet, being a non-physical light illusion on that meaningless Earth, is even a bigger waste
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>>19109793 see
>>19109716 Light is like anything, it takes time for it to travel from point A to point B. It does not move instantaneously. In fact, it takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to Earth, meaning that when you look at the Sun you are seeing it as it looked 8 minutes ago.
Think of it like a gun. If you fired a gun pointblank range then the bullet SEEMS to move instantly from gun to target. But if you fired at something 1 mile away there'd be a huge lag between firing the gun and the bullet hitting the target. Light works the same way.
So the light from the pillars of creation takes 7,000 years to get from there to Earth.
6,000 years ago the Pillars were destroyed. This means that the light from the moment they were destroyed still has 1,000 years left before it gets to Earth.
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>>19109806 Probably another universe.
>that feel after reading parallel worlds Anonymous
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>>19109673 >VY Canis Majoris If VY Canis Majoris is as disappointing as VY Vince Young I wouldn't worry
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>>19109734 yes but they have the privilege of doing that after all the intense math.
the telescopes where you can see everything, the real big boys cost money to use obviously and to rotate, so you can't just spin it around all you want and peruse the galaxies on a whim.
everything is calculated so that they can see whatever it is they want to see with very minimal amounts of rotation
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at best one could slow time down to near 0, but one can never go backwards in time
Anonymous
From my understanding, and I'm no expert, something moving faster than light would arrive at its destination faster than its image. Light reflecting off an object moving faster than the speed of light would be overtaken by the object itself, this would occur infinitely. Essentially a FTL object arrives at a destination before it arrives.
Anonymous
>>19109806 We can't see that far, the universe is so big that light from the edge of the universe has not reached us yet.
If you havent watched this lecture from Lawrence Krauss on the universe, I recommend it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo SouthDakotan !!o1lpCoutiyZ
>>19109869 More or less correct. It's an intensely long and math-involved explanation, and even graphs render it very confusing. But basically you'd get somewhere before the light of you getting there was there.
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Our galaxy is going to run into another galaxy in a couple million years, right? Pretty sure I read something about this somewhere.
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>none of your questions will be answered within your lifetime
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>>19109867 I would fuck every woman if I could slow down time, but you probably wind up killing them in the process.
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>>19109880 yes, but dont expect any collisions
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>>19109869 I never thought about that before.
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>>19109875 But wouldn't you just start projecting an image as soon as you arrived and ceased travelling FTL?
So basically there'd be two images of you, the one that was traveling and then the one that arrived?
SouthDakotan !!o1lpCoutiyZ
>>19109880 Correct, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are going to collide with one another in a few billions years' time.
It will LOOK chaotic and destructive, and some stars will be flung out into space, but really most stars will survive it just fine. It's HIGHLY unlikely any stars will colide, except maybe in the galactic cores, and even that is a very tiny chance.
Mostly there will be a confusion of swirling and chaotic dance of stars until they all settle into new, stable orbits.
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>>19109874 why does richard dawkins have to make it known he's an atheist. shit gets annoying.
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>>19109867 Hand on a hot woman, an hour is a second.
Hand on a hot stove, a second is an hour.
We bend time all the time, but its impossible to convey our individual perspectives on time. So we like, cant prove it. And shit.
Anonymous
>>19109422 if the light of the destroyed pillars hasnt reached us yet, and information can only travel at the speed of light, then how can we possess the information that the pillars are destroyed?
atheists: 1
science: 0
Anonymous
>>19109900 >>19109890 Will the Milky Way absorb the Andromeda galaxy?
Anonymous
>>19109807 check craigslist cause they run up to 10k
>>19109787 I saw some show that said aliens travel like pic related, they bend time and shit
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AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>mfw im now confused as fuck
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>>19109734 you need the mathematics to know how/where to map them. this isn't like mapping the Earth Lewis and Clark style. you look at a thing today and tomorrow it's moved.
by that i mean, you need to be able to map it all from the zenith of Earth. the zenith's position within the universe changes by the second.
i'm sure there is a "point 0" that everything is measured off of, but when you find a planet you need to find it's exact coordinates according to the zenith up to date of the exact millisecond and than convert it over to that "point 0" so it's on the map. and than to find it again, you would need to convert it's point 0 coordinates to the current zenith location within the exact millisecond.
i hope you like math
Zerogoose !LyYB8Q5tf.
>>19109907 Because scientists can see the shockwave heading to the pillars which they know 'is going to' destroy them. They also know that because of the distance they are away from us, that the image we are seeing now is 6000 years old.
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>>19109900 Billion years?
If the human race makes it a billion years from now, fuck it. We're playing with house money at that point.
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too elaborate from this
>>19109867 it is like trying to get to absolute 0
you just cant
Anonymous
>>19109929 oh, that makes sense
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>>19109912 Absorb isn't really the right word. The Andromeda Galaxy is slightly larger, the two will dance around, their stars will swirl, the cores will eventually collide, and then it will be a whole new supermassive galaxy.
This .gif illustrates it slightly, but this video is much more detailed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyXNzbrlVno&feature=related Anonymous
>>19109875 what would the image of you look like at the speed of light if you traveled faster than the speed of light.
like, if you were travelling faster than the speed of light and someone was chasing you, I understand that they'd see "you" travelling to your destination at the speed of light and let's say this person was too.
if they were to hit you or ram you, would they pass straight through you, as if you were a hologram or mist image because your light presence is there however your true, physical presence is already at the destination
Anonymous
Is the universe flat or does it extend out in all directions? Is there a galaxy on top of us, below us, and to every side of us?
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>>19109938 the Sun will become so hot that all water on earth will evaporate in another billion years
we'll be toast by then
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The same way I can experience a mile of land faster by increasing my physical speed, I can possibly experience one year of time faster by increasing my physical speed.
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>>19109962 The latter. It's galaxies in every direction.
Anonymous
>>19109962 The universe is at least three dimensions.
Anonymous
>>19109958 The matter is still there, just because light cannot reflect off of it fast enough to project an image does not it doesn't exist. Matter colliding with other matter at the speed of light? I mean there's a lot of theories on that, but one of them is the universe just goes bye bye.
Anonymous
>>19109973 I didn't say Earth. I said human race.
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>we'll be toast by then Literally. HUEHUEHUEHUE
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>>19109989 i think you mean 12
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>>19109962 Watch this, it talks about the size, shape and other things about the universe. If I remember correctly, its flat and forever expanding.
>>19109874 Anonymous
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>>19109973 Which is why we must go to space.
The gravity on Earth is weighing our souls down.
Anonymous
>>19109949 unless batman saves them
WHICH COULD HAPPEN
batman - 1
scientists - 0
Anyways, time isn't even a thing. Time is just a measurement of change (imagine it like a spatial axis, except as you move back and forth up the axis shit changes instead of simply moving left/down/back). If nothing changed, no movement, no atomic decay, etc - time wouldn't exist. We only experience time one-way, sorta like gravity only pulls matter together.
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>>19109994 well we better figure shit out
also its kinda sad to think about in a way. i mean the earth is about 4.5 billion years old and only has another 1 billion years to exist
its a very long fucking time, but still
Andy Dalton's Flaming Ginger Hair !BengalAK.E
Andy Dalton's Flaming Ginger Hair !BengalAK.E Sun 26 Feb 2012 13:04:00 No. 19110033 Report Quoted By:
/exp/ Deep Space and Deep Sea
Anonymous
>>19109993 Since it would require infinite energy for an object to travel lightspeed, that seems logical
Anonymous
hey sciencefags, what happens if the sun were to instantaneously vanish? would the gravitational effects on the surrounding planets instantaneously vanish as well?
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/sp/ - Space Probing
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>>19110020 Batman is a scientist
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>>19110028 rip earf i cry evry tiem ;_;
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>>19109962 >does it extend out in all directions? All directions, and it looks somewhat like a spiderweb (due to all matter clinging to Dark Matter and concentrating around it).
In fact, we can only see out 14 billion light years (because the universe is only 14 billion years old, hence, that's as far as light has had time to travel). BUT, the universe extends far far far beyond that. We know this because the universe is expanding, at a faster and faster rate.
So, if it's expanding, faster and faster, then it has expanded well beyond the edge of what we can see. Some estimate the Universe to expand to somewhere around 90 Billion light years in all directions, and we can only see a fraction of it.
>Is there a galaxy on top of us, below us, and to every side of us? More or less. We live in a galaxy cluster called the "Local Group", but if you go out far enough in any direction there is a galaxy. There's literally billions of them.
In fact, some estimates say there's over 400 billion galaxies (and that's just what we can see). Those estimates are likely low.
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what about people looking back at us on the other side of the universe? how do we not know we are living in the past? sure is earth centered universe in here
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>>19110042 it would be like a wave
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>>19110028 Who gives a fuck,really.Earth's a shithole.
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>>19110062 but its OUR shithole
Anonymous
How long till the Moon escapes?
Anonymous
>>19110035 Unless there is matter that is permanently moving faster than light (tachyon).
Anonymous
>>19110046 Yeah kinda sucks the Earth's fate is kinda sealed. To be fair, odds are we take 'er down before the Sun does.
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>>19110077 It won't. The sun will die long before that.
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information theory and hermeneutics blows all this talk out of the water learn to word
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>>19109958 >what would the image of you look like at the speed of light if you traveled faster than the speed of light. That is such a mindfuck question.
http://www.spacetimetravel.org/tompkins/node1.html Basically, you would look HIGHLY distorted.
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The universe is just one giant game thread
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>>19110081 Hopefully our species is smart enough to get off the planet.
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>>19109915 >that pic I loved A Wrinkle in Time!
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
Bruhs, I was thinking about them aliums last night. And I'm not sure those fuckers are out there anymore. I used to think that it was impossible for there to be so many suns and not have any lifeforms out there. But then I realized for that too make sense then the universe would have to have a purpose. I don't think has a purpose at all
really.So if the universe is just doing shit for the sake of doing it,it's entirely possible that no life ever bothered to pop up because the universe isn't actually trying to bring it about. So if we do find Aliens,wouldn't that mean that the purpose of the universe was to create life,and wouldn't that make the universe conscious,like the universe is a living being,maybe that's what the human level of conscious is,the universe waking up and becoming self aware.I was high as fuck last night.
Anonymous
>>19109422 >not realizing that when we look into the stars we are only seeing the past fucking plebe
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>>19109869 >>19109891 >>19109925 >mfw the first time they explained the 'Picard Maneuver' to me Anonymous
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>mfw SAF had the first time machine
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>yfw when my death ends it all
Anonymous
Da earth was flaotin through space wit the moon n they were rounding da sun. the earth sed "bbz will u luv me 4evr" moon said "NO.."" da earth cryed N ran off its orbit across b4 da kuiper belt came on the sine. moon was cryin and went to pic up da earth. it was lifeless. da moon whsipered 2 the earth "I ment to sey I will luv u FIVE-ever......" (dat mean he luv her moar dan 4evr.....) REGLAOGB IF U CREY ALWAZ..XXX
Anonymous
>>19110173 >the past An infinite loop of events that take place only in our minds
or
>a past A variety of causes to an effect (effect being the present).
If you want to play mean.
Anonymous
you would think that with the age and size of the universe, there would be at least ONE alien civilization that would be advanced enough to make its presence known throughout the entire universe. like what white people did on earth
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>>19110163 Of course the universe is alive.
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>>19110221 >implying that has not happened already Anonymous
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>>19110221 We are the aliens.
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>>19110202 nigga you aint making any sense.
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Maybe there is a god but he has like ADD or something. Like he was paying attention when we were all buttfuckin knuckle draggers and god was like wow this is disappointing, nowhere near as cool as dinosaurs. Then god went on space adventures.
Anonymous
>>19110221 that would imply communication and transport means capable of beating the speed of light, something we now consider night impossible
if such advancement were reached then we have crossed the boundary from our traditional mechanical and technological lives (including the currently wild theories of bound particles and quantums) and possibly into a realm with different rules, making the alien presence unfathomable and working at an inherently different level, different by orders of magnitude going beyond those in the difference between germs and conscious humans
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>>19109869 Except, according to E=MC^2, this is impossible.
Untill this is proven wrong, you are wrong.
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>>19110163 why would the fact that there be another developed civilisation out there prove the universe has meaning?
the creation of life here seems like a one in a billion beautiful accident where everything came together just right.
there doesn't have to be meaning and the fact that the universe is so unimaginably large only increases the chances of another golden accident.
Anonymous
>thinking you know all about the universe >can't solve a localized economic crisis >still shitting
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>>19110275 *nigh impossible, *was... fuck typing like luongo is keeping
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>>19110221 >tfw other civilizations have contacted each other and have visited other galaxies >tfw we're still alone, waiting, hoping Anonymous
>>19109537 >implying that's not thew cats eye nebula Anonymous
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>>19110301 Fuck them niggas if they dont want to kick it.Faggots.
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>>19110282 1. noone thinks that
2. that is because the efforts at solving one and discovering the other are not related
3. you would explode otherwise
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>>19110264 A singular past (THE past) implies fate. That if we were to somehow travel back in time 10 years, we could change nothing. What happens just happens and we have no control over it. The present and future would be the same as well. Its like a train that never goes off the rails.
A past would imply that by altering an event that preceded a another (thereby creating a new past) the result could be a new present. A new present could be a new future. The use of the word 'a' instead of 'the' means there is variety.
Humans are naturally predisposed to a variety of pasts by our nature and how we interpret time. We believe in causality, that the butterfly effect is real.
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>>19110301 Earth confirmed for beta as fuck.
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>>19110201 >da kuiper belt came on the sine i might die from laughing so hard
Anonymous
Does anybody else not really want aliens to exist? Odds are they'll be either very disappointing or try to kill us. Only thing less likely than aliens is alien bros.
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>>19110302 this is the cats eye nebula
Anonymous
>>19110354 It'd be really lame of them to come all this way just to kill us. They'd probably just watch and observe, they obviously have it in for science if they've figured out how to traverse the universe.
Anonymous
thread is forgetting about singularity
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>>19110372 I'll singular you...
/shakes fist
Anonymous
>>19110354 odds are we will try to kill them.
see the 1976 Tehran Incident where a UFO was seen and investigated by fighter jets and one pilot attempted to launch missiles at the UFO but had the controls shut down by EMP emissions from the UFO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
>>19110354 I hope we find some so we can rape them for their resources and make our lives easier.Stop being beta, we need fossil fuels.
>>19110370 Or maybe they've seen so many worlds and have been travelling space for so long that they don't give a fuck about that science shit and just want a new place to live.
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>>19110386 HAHA
TIME FOR /x/
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>>19110370 Now see, I think you have it backwards. They'd have no reason to try so hard to find us just in the name of science. They'd probably have a reason that isn't in the best interests of humanity.
Anonymous
>>19110163 >Bruhs, I was thinking about them aliums last night. And I'm not sure those fuckers are out there anymore. I used to think that it was impossible for there to be so many suns and not have any lifeforms out there. But then I realized for that too make sense then the universe would have to have a purpose. I don't think has a purpose at all really.So if the universe is just doing shit for the sake of doing it,it's entirely possible that no life ever bothered to pop up because the universe isn't actually trying to bring it about. So if we do find Aliens,wouldn't that mean that the purpose of the universe was to create life,and wouldn't that make the universe conscious,like the universe is a living being,maybe that's what the human level of conscious is,the universe waking up and becoming self aware.I was high as fuck last night. Science, philosophy, and god knows what else was violated in the making of this thought.
Anonymous
>>19110392 If they have the resources and willpower to meander around infinite space they obvious have the mettle to just build their own planet in the whatever image they deem perfect.
Anonymous
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>>19110301 Star Control series anyone?
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
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>>19110405 Intoxication tends to violate those things.
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>>19110392 If we're still slaves to fossil fuels by the time we meet aliens, I will be disappoint
Anonymous
>>19110406 I'm samefagging this post.
Or they could get bored and decide to create a new planet, with new life to mirror their idea of perfection. A world of their children existing amongst each other in a state of co dependance and limitations. Kinda like Earth.
/cue theme
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>>19110406 >>19110437 Quiet,you hippy faggot. Make their own planet? stfu moran.
Tyler MANsbrough !!iIV0PZsEWg6
all that we care about in the aerospace deptartment at nellis is building one of those death blossom machines. but OBANA cut our budget. so we had to settle for a bullshit remote controlled fighter plane. thanks obana, we sure can defend the planet with this thing
Anonymous
>>19110392 if aliens visit us, or we visit them i highly doubt we'll attack them for coal or some shit. we'll be beyond the use of fossil fuels.
Anonymous
>>19110354 First lets start with a hugeloadass of assumptions.
1 there are aliens
2 they have somehow found us
3 they are of a tangible form, ie not giant pure energy jellyfish, but guys in metal boxes
Now those are some serious assumptions already, and from all the possibilities we have cut a tiny slice.
1 they are comparable technologically
2 they are more advanced but not incomprehensibly so
3 they are fucking magic
1 - how would they find us in the first place? How could they possibly be hostile? A bunch of guys in a tin can with wimpy laser guns at best arent an invasion force. Going by the previous assumptions of their similarities with mankind they will be curious, scared, worried, excited and disbelieving and ultimately overwhelmed by the realization that they are not alone.
2 - do you care what ants do? or puppies? if you can outfit a fleet of star destroyers chances are you have met other people already, or that you do not really care much for blowing other sentients up. Potentially dangerous as they might easily be able to take what we have - but they already have so much of it they have their own starfleet of USS Enterprises.
3 - ZORGAX TANAGRA HIGHER PLANE OF BEING
Anonymous
>>19110462 Why exactly is it America's job to protect the planet
Anonymous
>>19110275 but you'd think that if such an advanced civilization were to exist (considering the size of the universe, is probably likely), that they would have left some glaring clues of their existence scattered around the universe.
i mean at least one of them wouldve got bored and moved some stars around in the shape of a penis, or something
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>>19110485 because we're clearly the best country on the damn thing
who the fuck else is gonna do it? Denmark?
Anonymous
>>19109422 So wait, help me wrap my head around this.
The images we see through the hubble are thousands of years old if not more, right?
So we get the initial image of the pillars. How can we tell a super nova destroyed them? Wouldn't it take thousands of years for the supernova light to reach us?
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
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>>19110477 Well,we've got to fight for something. I want a space war.I'm trying to live like Ender bro.
Tyler MANsbrough !!iIV0PZsEWg6
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>>19110485 because the protection grid failed and were vulnerable
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Bruhs, I was thinking about them aliums last night. And I'm not sure those fuckers are out there anymore. I used to think that it was impossible for there to be so many suns and not have any lifeforms out there. But then I realized for that too make sense then the universe would have to have a purpose. I don't think has a purpose at all
really.So if the universe is just doing shit for the sake of doing it,it's entirely possible that no life ever bothered to pop up because the universe isn't actually trying to bring it about. So if we do find Aliens,wouldn't that mean that the purpose of the universe was to create life,and wouldn't that make the universe conscious,like the universe is a living being,maybe that's what the human level of conscious is,the universe waking up and becoming self aware.I was high as fuck last night.
Anonymous
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>>19109459 DAMN SPACE
YOU BIG
Anonymous
>>19110488 Our willingness to interpret these signs is the problem. Besides, people could just as easily chalk it up to God.
We'd never know for sure unless they came down, interrupted American Idol and basically told the world "Hey guys, were aliens. Its cool. Whaddup"
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>>19110493 they have observed something that would destroy them in the timeframe we are talking about and put two and two together
Anonymous
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>>19110479 Tell North Korea to do it. If they pull it off, awesome. If they can't, huh I guess your Supreme Leader can't do everything huh Norks
Anonymous
>>19110485 Because, nigger, if we can protect freedom, something that isn't even tangible, we can sure as fuck protect the planet. Love it or leave it liberal faggot.
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>>19110504 Ah, I see. I was under the impression a supernova happened right in the middle of them
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>>19110493 We can see the effects of the energy from the Supernova traveling that way now. Its already happened, we know that because of how "old" the image due to the time it took the light to get here. So if you just do the math. That's how you come up with, okay that was so big it would have disturbed the pillars to where they no longer look like that.
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
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>>19110508 I wonder how the pope would interpret a penis shaped constellation showing up.
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>>19110526 >Because, nigger, if we can protect freedom, something that isn't even tangible, we can sure as fuck protect the planet. this is one of the funniest sentences I've ever seen on 4chan and dont really know why.
Anonymous
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if all of our television and radio broadcast from history are being sent out through space in all directions, wouldn't that mean other planets would be doing the same thing? and wouldn't that mean we should be getting their broadcasts/them getting ours? to my knowledge, that isn't happening. aliens bros don't exist, at least within the distance covered by those transmissions. feels batman
Anonymous
>>19110386 I find it odd there are less reports of ufos today than there were ten years ago.
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
What if Aliens came to earth and fell in love with hockey,officially declaring the best sport in this corner of the universe since they've seen every single one? Hockey hater faggots would sure be told then.One more reason to want Aliens to exist.
Anonymous
>>19110553 Its the Age of the Skeptic. Cynicism has robbed us of our imaginations.
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>>19110564 Probably more like the age of people tired of making shit up since it's gotten pretty old now.
Anonymous
>>19110563 >What if Aliens came to earth and fell in love with hockey Good finally hockey would have fans
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>>19110564 >ufo sightings >sign of a great imagination and not stupidity Anonymous
>>19110552 yea because there are aliens living within 100 light years of earth
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>>19110552 how do we know that they have broadcast anything on any frequency we can actually intercept and decipher.
you are assuming that our technology is relative to that of an alien life form, when they could be hundreds if not thousands of years more advanced than us.
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>>19110596 If there aren't, than we most likely won't find them within our lifetime. So they may as well not exist.
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
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>>19110605 >jeremy and melo.jpg Anonymous
>>19110552 In a thousand years some aliens might finally get to hear the Beatles
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>>19110627 >What is this shit >Sounds like overrated shit,dear leader king god of omicron persei 8 >Locate the origin of this broadcast and destroy it,show no mercy for these beasts. Anonymous
>>19110617 >confirmed for never taking a physics class Everything in existence exists on a frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum. From radio waves, to visible light, to x-rays, and beyond. If it was out there, we'd know it.
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What are the odds of encountering an alien race like the one that killed Paul Rieser?
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>>19110596 that's only like 30 billion planets
>>19110617 but everything gives out some sort of radio waves. i'm not saying we should hear it in our cars, but something should be able to detect it
Anonymous
>>19110627 id rather listen to the alien version of the beatles
and whats up with music anyway? how did music fit into the evolution of humans?
this fucking thread man
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If aliens exist, prepare for space fungus. Not green alien chicks. Not weird battle toads. Not some ancient super magic civilization. Space fungus.
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
most of the exoplanets we've discovered are all within 300 lightyears of earth and almost every single one of them are uninhabitable
Anonymous
>>19110627 >tfw Party Rock Anthem on Mars AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
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>>19110670 >aliens detect radio waves from earth >its "party rock anthem" >earth obliterated the next day Anonymous
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
>>19110656 One day ancient humans were like "What if we took those sounds that birds make,structured it,and gave it a beginning and an end?" And thus hip hop was born.
Anonymous
>>19110666 so?
300 lightyears is nothing.
Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal The closest we've ever got to proof of alien civilization
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>>19110670 Official Party Ambassadors to all aliens
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>Sir, we seem to be picking up a radio signal from another world. >Well, what are you waiting for?! Play it! >BABY BABY BABY OOOOOOOOOH BABY
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
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>>19110693 >the closest we've ever got to proof of alien civilization That would be the pyramids you ignoramus.Try watching the history channel and educating your self.
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>>19110650 what I am saying is, we cannot conceive what technology an alien species may possess.
they may possess some tool of communication that far surpasses anything we know about forms of communication.
Anonymous
>>19110681 but how does music fit into humanity's purpose to survive and reproduce? and why is music universally loved by every human that can experience it? what if music was actually a manifestation of god? man i wish i had some weed right now
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>>19110689 well my point was that we have only looked in such small a space that we shouldnt just conclude there arent aliens
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>aliens receive transmission of party rock anthem and tweets from people on twitter telling them they're fags >their faces when
Zerogoose !LyYB8Q5tf.
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>>19110627 >not listening to Gargax Gloop-step Anonymous
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>"Dear Kagular Xqyabitchu, we are detecting a strange signal from a rocky planet we once thought was lifeless" >"well, let's hear it" >PARTY ROCK IS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT >"......fire all lazors"
Anonymous
Anonymous
>tfw you will never know what exist on the surface of Kepler 10B.
Anonymous
>>19110736 Yeah, we've only looked in a incredibly small area, but we have found a surprisingly large amount of Earth-like planets in that small sample section.
I'm not directing this at you, but it's supremely arrogant to think we're some special little bubble given the scope of the Universe. We're not alone, we just haven't and may never make contact.
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Another solid Deep Space discussion thread. It's surprising how easy it is to get good deep space and sea threads on /sp/.
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>>19110774 >surface temp of 1833 K ill be ok not knowing
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Cool thread Every now and then I like to drive out to the desert, lay on the hood of my car, and just stare at the stars and think about the universe and life.
Anonymous
>>19110774 Molten Rock, thats about it. Life doesn't like no atmosphere, liquid water, or day time temperatures of 2,500 Fahrenheit.
Anonymous
>>19110778 And also, whose to say those planets didn't use to have life on them? Life comes and goes so fast. 600 million years ago something could be looking at earth and concede this rock has zero life.
Anonymous
>>19110733 Ever been laid at an electronic music festival?
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>>19110790 >>19110806 I meant Kepler-22.
>dat habitable zone baby Anonymous
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>>19110807 Excellent point.
Anonymous
>>19110807 >>19110778 Not fair to call someone arrogant because they aren't make assumptions about something they have no proof of.
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>>19110829 this might be the only reason I would ever go to a dubstep or electronic music thing. For the babes.
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>>19110829 are you >implying that music is a part of human evolution because it somehow signals your brain to want to fuck?
theres probably a scientific paper out there that goes into this but im too lazy to check
Anonymous
Worth noting. If you want to find life, not necessarily a civilization, but life outside Earth. Just go look at Jupiter's moon Europa. The gravity is strong enough the water didn't freeze except on the surface. So you've got a shallow moon wide ocean going on. Very possible something has evolved under there.
Anonymous
>>19110848 Yeah it is, this isn't God we're talking about. Just about everywhere we look we find the building blocks of life. There's amino acids in asteroids, ice on the moon, etc. etc. There is a good amount of evidence, that strongly suggest there's life somewhere in the entire Universe other than just here.
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>>19110888 >life on yuropa american space rations are already on the way
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>mfw Aliens view us and don't realise the light years thing >mfw they think we are stuck in 1812 so invade with WW1 technology >mfw they get raped in seconds by angry Russians and Chinks
Anonymous
>>19110888 Yeah the ice is something stupid like 16km thick i think doe.
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>>19110888 >Another proposal put forward in 2001 calls for a large nuclear-powered "melt probe" (cryobot) which would melt through the ice until it reached the ocean below. Once it reached the water, it would deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle (hydrobot) which would gather information and send it back to Earth. Both the cryobot and the hydrobot would have to undergo some form of extreme sterilization to prevent detection of Earth organisms instead of native life and to prevent contamination of the subsurface ocean. This proposed mission has not yet reached a serious planning stage the fuck NASA, fund this shit
Anonymous
>>19110891 Of course there are the building blocks of life in the universe,otherwise we wouldn't exist/ My point is that you can't call someone "supremely arrogant" because they don't believe there is any civilization. There is no evidence of it anywhere and billions upon of years has passed,we should see something by now.
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
>>19110937 Too be fair,if they funded that and they didn't find shit but moon water,everyone would get mad as fuck
Anonymous
>>19110924 Three miles deep. Definitely a bigger job than a probe can do. Depends hole we have on Earth is the Sakhalin-I Odoptu OP-11, which is a little under 8 miles deep.
Combination of thick ice, long distance, etc. Means its very unlikely we'll do much more than fly by again to confirm the water. No way are we designing that kind of equipment to send several years away, and train people to drill a hole hole. And then have to send something in to check the water. Too fucking complicated for space fish.
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>>19110951 still
DAT MOON WATER
shit would sell like hotcakes
Anonymous
>>19110946 >we should see something by now. Why, we may be the first, may be the last.
What we do is, either play the waiting game. (Which won't work)
Or Stop spending ridiculous amounts of money on weaponry and fund space exploration.
Why can't the UK, Iran, China, US and Russia , maybe those Arab guys in UAE... just fund it and stop fighting.
Just think man, what if?
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>>19110970 Or that.
>>19110937 Better idea, less bullshit involved. Fund it.
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
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>>19110971 I see where you're coming from.Package that shit in some nice ass bottles and bitches would be all over.Bitches love fancy water man.
Anonymous
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>>19110971 People dying of dehydration and nigga's drinking water from across the solar system. smh
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>>19110946 Okay,
1) Life and civilization are two entirely different things
2) The amount of time passed is meaningless. We can literally see more than we've ever been able to and we're like barely above Stevie Wonder blind to the Universe. The scope of what we can see is incredibly small and we've already found a bunch of Earth-like planets, but we can't get much detail on them. Given how abundant the building blocks are, there's a good chance there's some form of life on one of those planets.
You have to stop assuming that it's some god tier form of life, even if they had pretty much the same technology as us, there's pretty much no way we would be able to make contact.
Anonymous
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>>19110979 I wish it was that simple bro. But when it comes down to it,and I think we just have to face it,lightspeed travel is impossible.And also,to make the travel times not exceed thousands we would have to EXCEED light speed travel.I don't know if that is even conceivable,let alone possible.I think there are aliens out there too,but lay off on the people who don't. When it all comes down to it,it's what you think.Plain and simple.because we'll never know one way or the other.
DicksOak
>not watching BASED Brian Cox on bbc
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>>19111045 hey just think how far we've come since the middle ages in terms of travel
never say never
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>>19111056 Tried streaming him before, but nobody would watch ;_;
Plus couldn't get sound to work for some reason.
Jedi Mind Quick !!IBJnVuIRiXP
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>>19111014 Stay jelly poor people.
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>>19111056 He's on the Science channel in the US. I watch him quite a bit.
Anonymous
We taking about galaxies and shit? swag
Anonymous
Am I the only one who thinks contact with intelligent life is very unlikely? Sure the probability of other intelligent life out there is huge, but one that we'll come in contact with? Firstly I believe that faster than light travel is impossible. I know CERN had those recent results, but I think they'll come to be proven wrong. So really you can only travel at the speed of light, or close to it. I also believe that most alien life has a finite life expectancy like us. Let's say 200 years at a max. That means if an alien leaves their planet at birth, improbably I know, and travels via a transport going at light speed. That means they'll only be to move around 200 light years in all directions. The Milky War alone is 100,000 years in diameter. So really this alien could only view 1/500 of our galaxy alone. Let alone other galaxies. And really when you talk about meeting other intelligent life, not just life, the likelihood becomes even less probable. Think about how many different species have been on this Earth, from the very first to those here now. Billions and billions. And we're the only one, which we know of, to be intelligent. And we've been around for, what, a 100,000 years? And civilisation has been around a fraction of that. The Sumer civilisation was 6500 years ago. Our planet is 4.5 billion years old. So we've only been here, properly, for a tiny tiny fraction. And how long will we continue to be around? So for a intelligent life form to find other life, they'd have to have other intelligent life existing within 200 light years of it, and for this intelligent life to exist almost simultaneously. It's actually quite unlikely in my opinion.
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>>19111088 Dat foamposite.
Anonymous
>>19111100 >but I think they'll come to be proven wrong why? are you smarter than CERN?
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>>19111100 The neutrino thing was just their GPS system was calibrated wrong. It's possible, but setting sail on the open universe? Nahhh, fuck that. Shit takes to long.
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>>19111100 Well obviously...
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>>19111124 I read an article on that,there was a group who got the same results as CERN did and they realized their shit was broken. So CERN's shit was probably broke too.
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At the edge of the Universe lies heaven. We will reach this place if we live righteous lives and Allah wills it. Peace be upon you brothers.
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>>19111124 CERN themselves said it's likely that they'll be proven wrong. They need other people to verify it too.
The cosmic speed limit has been proven in so many different ways, I will just be shocked if it's proven wrong.
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>>19111088 Are white people allowed to wear these?
That star field looks awesome
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>no love for Sedna
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>>19109422 Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
It wuz so cool.
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>>19110979 It's not like space exploration is the best use of each nations money. So we find micro organisms on a moon, now what? China and Russia are filled to the brim with poverty. They have better things to do with their money. But China is definitely stepping it up in the space game. It's estimated they'll have someone on the moon by the early 2020s. If anything, money should be spent on developing alternative energy methods.
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There are some very interesting documents and books about this stuff down in the Deep Web.
Anonymous
lightspeed is overrated. space-bending is where its at. manipulate the fabric of the universe to bring your destination to you.
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
>>19111191 in Soviet Russia, light speed travels at you
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Anonymous
>tfw everything is insignificant as fuck
Anonymous
itt wikipedia nerds pretend they know anything about space
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>>19111239 well nobody here is an astrophysicist so yeah pretty much
Anonymous
>>19111191 You think you'll ever create anything dense enough to do that?
>>19111239 BAHAHAHA. You're FUCKED now, buddy. We have RULES here, and LIMITS. Look, you're obviously new here. I've been around for a while, I have EXPERIENCE and in my years here (been a loyal /fit/izen for nearly 10 fucking years now) I've made some friends. To put it simply, I just texted the mod about this thread (we're irl friends), and by the looks of it, he'll be here shortly to delete it and ban you, faggot. i'll go ahead and report it to be extra safe. you're fucked now, pal. I'm thinking about giving moot a call as well, in case you continue spreading such faggotry on this board of mine (our mothers are part of the same book club and we used to play Mortal Kombat together). Let this be a warning to all the other fucking new fags who try and pull this kind of bullshit on the board.
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>>19111254 We'll not you'll, fuck.
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>>19111239 ITP: faggot who doesn't understand anything and is bitter that there are people who do or at least understand it far better than he does.
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>>19111233 >One instance of known intelligent life in the universe >Insignificant
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so how bout dem sports?
Anonymous
>>19109874 >mfw at the end when he discusses infinity in an equation with infinity Anonymous
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>>19111368 Just saw that.
You just read this message an infinite amount of times.
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>tfw you lie awake at night and ponder all these things of physics one of the biggest ones I think about is the notion that there is an infinite amount of universes and in each one, there is something different but not necessarily everything, so in one other universe, (keep in mind within a boundary of infinity) you would be dating your waifu. but I think about how you could have all these universes where everything in your life stays the same until one point where you place your foot 5 mm to the left of where you placed it in another universe. that shit makes you think about infinity and that is just insane
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i know im way late, but what if in the OP example, the pillars had some sort of sentience and found a way to protect themselves from/combat the shockwave?
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this thread is literally better than anything on /sp/ ever. i actually didn't think aspies could have such intelligent internet talkings
Piracy !!VZNx34SOr5M
Anonymous
>>19111946 get a new trip, you young dumb fuck.
Piracy !!VZNx34SOr5M
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>>19111967 don't flatter yourself, newfag.
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>>19111988 >Implying i'm new >Using the word 'newfag' Hollywood Hulkitar [CHILLINGLY BASED] !!q+5gdjfhy9E
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>>19109587 you probably like Aquaman as well
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>yfw the creation of the universe and ending of the universe happened instantaneously, and all of this is merely a ghostly after image
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>>19109447 If the universe is 6000 years old how come its only 2012?
Faggot
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>tfw despite this evidence pointing to the existence of a creator, the faggot wannabe edgy atheists will still remain stubborn
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if you are in the northern hemisphere, around sunset, the moon's crescent, venus and saturn have all been lined up this past week neatly in the western sky
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>yfw there are millions of planes of reality, and where and when these planes of reality intersect is the reality you find yourself in right now, but they in fact intersect in so many different places because there are so many different planes with places for intersection that there is in fact another reality identical to this one, but where you are one second in the future, and another where you are two seconds in the future, and somewhere deep down not only do you know it to be true, but you can relate and even communicate with those other "yous" in the "future"
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Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Sun 26 Feb 2012 22:23:00 No. 19118580 Report Fuck. I missed this :\
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>tfw your universal significance
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>>19118580 >implying its over >implying it ever ends Anonymous
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so what the fuck is cropped out in the upper right hand corner of the pick? space monster amiright guys?
Anonymous
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Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Sun 26 Feb 2012 22:28:00 No. 19118690 Report Anonymous
>tfw astronomy and deep space shit is cool as fuck but I could never study it in school because past a certain level it's all just physics and theoretical shit and I'm terrible at physics
Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q
Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Sun 26 Feb 2012 22:29:00 No. 19118727 Report Hey guys, have fun with this while I go get some eggs.
http://inciswf.com/scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf Anonymous
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>>19118692 >tfw i love the shit but couldn't study it because my dad would never pay for it and its easier doing something i hate with no sacrifice than something i love with a sacrifice Anonymous
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>>19118692 >>19118692 Same. I love the concepts and ideas which are sometimes just too big to fully comprehend. No good at maths though.
Also /sp/, you might be able to help me with something. I was looking for a gif or other such animation similar to that one which shows the Earth compared to larger celestial bodies. Instead, this one predicts what might become of the Earth and the human race over a course of thousands and millions of years. It keeps skipping forward in time increments, eventually ending with the Earth being destroyed due to the death of our star, Sol.
Anyone know of it? I think I might have seen it on YTMND once.
Sherron Ballins (filthy Gaijin, Lin is my sensei) !!9tpWMDvpAAL
Sherron Ballins (filthy Gaijin, Lin is my sensei) !!9tpWMDvpAAL Sun 26 Feb 2012 22:36:00 No. 19118894 Report Quoted By:
>not watching Planets on the science channel right now
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>people ITT implying that aliens live by the same genetic principles we do >implying that they need water, air, an atmosphere, food etc
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>>19118692 >mfw I took the IB and one of our physics electives was astrophysics >mfw my teachers had already decided on our electives and they weren't willing to teach me >mfw I studied Astrophyiscs by myself and ended up with a 90% in the exam doesn't matter if you get formal instruction, just get the materials and if you're passionate about it, you learn far quicker and better than something you don't really care about
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There's a 2 whole fucking boards for this shit.
>>>/g/ >>>/sci/ Anonymous
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You are now aware that Mufasa is on the leftmost pillar just below the bright star
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>tfw you look into the night sky and realize none of it looks like that anymore
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>>19111100 >implying aliens couldn't form a colonized space ship to explore the Universe and sustain their race at the same time. Pirate Captain !EYRgmGD79E
I love these threads, but they murder my motivation. I'm going to live for another 70 years tops, working at a job that has no real significance, the most important thing that any of us will wind up doing is having kids, and the most important thing that our kids will do, is have kids. I guess I'll go to the gym now.
Cyberdwarf !!YCa/LkQEE4a
>>19119778 There's way more important things to do than have kids, man. Create. Think. Express, impress, do something. Make some music or some art, or write some of your thoughts down. Even if you think it sucks, it's still your thoughts. Bring your legacy to forever, not just to your bloodline.
That's more meaningful than anything else.
Pirate Captain !EYRgmGD79E
>>19119866 On a cosmic scale, it's meaningless.
The vast majority of us aren't Mozart, Einstein, or van Gogh.
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>>19119994 >tfw you are a multi instrumentalist and everybody that knows you regards you as having pure musical talent but you will never get a shot to do anything with that talent because the music industry has nothing to do with talent Cyberdwarf !!YCa/LkQEE4a
>>19119994 Who cares? Everybody has their own contribution.
Anonymous
>One of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the eastern (Atlantic) coast of the United States. Large metropolitan areas and other easily recognizable sites from the Virginia/Maryland/Washington, D.C. area spanning almost to Rhode Island are visible in the scene. Boston is just out of frame at right. Long Island and the Greater Metropolitan area of New York City are visible in the lower right quadrant. Large cities in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) are near center. Parts of two Russian vehicles parked at the orbital outpost are seen in left foreground. ISS030-E-078095 (6 Feb. 2012)
Pirate Captain !EYRgmGD79E
>>19120146 And that'll be mine, working hard, contributing to the economy, having kids, keeping the cycle going, and crossing my fingers that we don't all kill each other while I'm alive.
Anonymous
Cyberdwarf !!YCa/LkQEE4a
>>19120104 I know that feel pretty well. I'm actually as we speak prepping for a show. But fuck wit it dude, do you even want the music industry's "approval"?
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>>19120220 don't really care about approval, but i'd like to be able to support myself through music, instead i'm gonna end up wasting my life at some shitty job
Cyberdwarf !!YCa/LkQEE4a
>>19120212 Fair enough. Just don't forget along the way that you're human, with human emotions that surpass the very laws of logic and reason that bind this whole universe together. Don't let it go to waste, bro.
Pirate Captain !EYRgmGD79E
>>19120294 The combined emotions of the entire human race don't mean shit, the universe existed before the human race, and it'll exist after the human race. I'm just hoping we survive long enough to start to really explore the universe.
Cyberdwarf !!YCa/LkQEE4a
>>19120364 You'd be very surprised.
>>19120286 Me too, but thinking about it I'd rather have a job and do my music as a hobby because I love it, and not depend on my music to be a cash cow. That just doesn't sit well with me, you know?
Pirate Captain !EYRgmGD79E
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>>19120420 How so? Not being a dick, I just don't understand what you're getting at.
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>>19120420 i thought that for the longest time, but now im getting to a point where i would give anything to just sit down and write music all day
Golgotha the Dodgersfag !!EkuReinKFaG
Waking up to a 300 page deep /sp/ace is about as good as my day can get.
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>>19121325 i fell asleep to it and then woke up and it was still here
>tfw Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q
Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Sun 26 Feb 2012 23:57:00 No. 19121900 Report Quoted By:
>>19121325 >It's so large it shouldn't theoretically exist according to our laws of physics Anonymous
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>>19120149 >dat tiny little cocoon >dat thin little veil of atmosphere >dat mother earth ;_;
i don't know you guys but i love you bros
let's all be humans together
;_;
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>tfw they will be taking a picture of a black hole soon
Anonymous
>mfw there are stars so big in the universe if they were placed at the exact position of our sun they would envelop most of the planets in the solar system
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>you will never get into your personal spacecraft and explore the universe
Lion !FvAwVR8cv6
>>19122007 What's mindblowing to me is that the sun's emission spectrum is maximum in the range of visible light, specifically green-blue light (the 'middle' of the visible spectrum.) That is our eyes pick up light exactly in the range of light that's most emitted from the sun. Obviously that's not a coincidence .
But if there are planets out there orbiting stars around different emission spectra (pretty trivial considering emission spectrum is more or less a function of temperature which is a function of the mass of the star, and we know stars come in all sizes) then life on those planets would probably have eyes that are most sensitive to the wavelengths of light that those stars emit.
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>>19122174 >tfw stars that emit predominantly UV light Anonymous
ok stay with me here the universe exists of certain objects some of those objects at the far extreme are moving as close to the speed of light as can hypothetically go without having infinite mass, as they move relative to something else in the universe there are many such objects so many moving so close that it would be fair to say that the universe had nearly infinite mass if the universe had nearly infinite mass, it would have that amount of mass (nearly infinite), times the speed of light SQUARED as energy>the universe has infinite energy >the force is real >time travel is real, we just do it with our minds, because perception is all that's real anyway HOLY FUCK
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>>19122333 >ameripoors >logic always pick one
Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q
Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Mon 27 Feb 2012 00:13:00 No. 19122388 Report Quoted By:
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>>19122373 except for trips confirm it
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here's a question for you fucking nerds. By mapping the advance of transportation technology over its existence, is there any plausible way to believe that humans will be able to explore deep space? I'm thinking that if we can engineer planes to travel through the air that at some point we will create a technology that allows a human to see other planets or even galaxies in one lifetime.
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>>19122333 >universe has infinite energy >all energy is neither created or destroyed, only changes form >everything is just energy >i am something >i am just energy >i was neither created nor destroyed, only changed form >i have existed forever >i am the walrus Anonymous
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>>19122495 DON'T YOU THINK THE JOKER LAUGHS AT YOU
GOO GOO GOO JOOB
Rational Response Squad !!EJJpJU+V4Rx
>>19122443 it will be impossible for us to travel to other galaxies since we can't live forever
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Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Mon 27 Feb 2012 00:20:00 No. 19122545 Report Anonymous
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>>19122443 we have cameras on robots that talk to us roaming around mars
voyager is way the fuck out there at this point
its not a question of getting there, its a question of getting there quickly (and if you're american, conveniently, in style, and preferably in a big, bulky, expensive, and wasteful machine)
Golgotha the Dodgersfag !!EkuReinKFaG
>>19122519 >implying anything isn't possible Anonymous
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>>19122557 >kevingarnett.avi Anonymous
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>you will never have the related picture as your place of employment
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>>19122557 there's nothing you can do that can't be done
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how earth GOAT if no ring?
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Threads like this make me wonder why i don't do drugs. But then again, if the Universe is infinite, I've done them before, i'll do them again and i'm doing them right now.
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>not having your remains placed into a hyperbaric temperature-resistant chamber attached to a rocket and sent out into space, with the path set up to pick up speed from the gravitational pull of planets you'd like your remains paraded near and ultimately wooshed out into deep space for one last (or first, or forever, or however you want to metaphysically look at it) trip (no pun) around the universe
Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q
Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Mon 27 Feb 2012 00:26:00 No. 19122665 Report >>19122641 We do have a ring. A ring of nice, refined, 25,000 mph moving space junk.
Redskinsfag !!oVd0zhrzMK5
>comb through thread >not one fucking mention of the Pale Blue Dot What the hell's wrong with you /sp/?
Rational Response Squad !!EJJpJU+V4Rx
>>19122545 >mfw it that happens earth will be thrown across the universe i have no face
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>>19122665 stay delusional, earth.
ring planets, report in!
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>>19122702 how can one man possibly have so much based?
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"but their actual destruction will not be visible for another millennium.">Yeah I'm calling bullshit on that one.
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>>19122712 >yfw you think about how small your dick is compared to VY Canis Majoris Golgotha the Dodgersfag !!EkuReinKFaG
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>>19122737 You serious bro?
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Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Mon 27 Feb 2012 00:30:00 No. 19122754 Report Quoted By:
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>>19122737 confirmed for middle school dropout
Redskinsfag !!oVd0zhrzMK5
>>19122716 Uranus barely counts faggot, its rings are almost invisible.
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If you are posting in this thread and do not own a telescope, you are conclusively proven to be a certified faggot.>pic related: its my $100 piece of shit
Golgotha the Dodgersfag !!EkuReinKFaG
>>19122764 I'm probably going to invest in a nice little telescope soon.
Piracy !!VZNx34SOr5M
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>>19122702 >dat poignancy Also if anyone hasn't already seen this, you need to:
http://www.scaleoftheuniverse.com/ >You are incomprehensibly small Rational Response Squad !!EJJpJU+V4Rx
>>19122764 I got one for Christmas
feels good man
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>>19122760 butthurt earthling detected.
you mad?
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>>19109593 >>19109595 To use one example, the Sun is 8 light minutes away from the Earth. Hence when you look into the sky, you're seeing it as it was 8 minutes ago.
Watch a documentary about the Apollo program sometime. You'll notice that when the astronauts talk with Mission Control, there's a momentary pause. That's due to the fact that their signals take three seconds to travel between the Earth and the Moon.
Anonymous
>>19122773 i think they're cool as fuck
for those few times a month say you actually bust it out, for $100, the shit is worth it
if you're in the norther hemisphere (i posted this earlier), venus saturn and the moon are aligned real nice right now
>pic related: jupiter through mine Rational Response Squad !!EJJpJU+V4Rx
Golgotha the Dodgersfag !!EkuReinKFaG
>>19122826 How much was that?
I wana start looking at telescopes since I'll be living in an area with little light pollution come August.
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>>19122716 >2012 >Not knowing about Project West Ford Anonymous
Here's one interesting space fact: Of all the stars in the night sky, most of them are the giant, super-luminous variety even those they're quite rare and Sun-like yellow dwarfs or smaller account for the great majority.
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>>19122826 >celestron >cassegrain Rational Response Squad !!EJJpJU+V4Rx
Golgotha the Dodgersfag !!EkuReinKFaG
>>19122886 Awesome, thanks. Affordable too.
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>this thread >going strong all day Good job OP. Good job.
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>>19122886 not a bad price but cassegrains are kinda bulky
i paid 100 for my celestron
no real need to upgrade as of yet
Anonymous
How the fuck is this related to sports?
Redskinsfag !!oVd0zhrzMK5
Gonna post a few Wonders of the Universe and Wonders of the Solar System clips. Fucking awesome shows with great soundtracks.
Andromeda -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVQmlVBxxpY Sun Energy -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydnN-9-XIew Big Bang -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQvgCT9ooQ Speed of Sound -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d3eTSnvgKc Thin Blue Line -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwgfU228clE The Northern Lights -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRfnhX5Lmg Saturn's Rings -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnApR8fdKRo If you don't like these shows you don't know SHIT about sports or the Universe.
Fuck All Things New England !CHEATdbL4Q
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>>19122925 >hating a thread for not being related to the board it is posted on >not saging it You are not an intelligent person.
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>>19122904 my astromaster was 100 and i can take that shit anywhere
>fold up and collapse tripod >cover up eyepiece socket and lens >put in back seat good to go
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>>19122814 >dat jupiter >dem moons >backyard astronomy > any other hobby
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If you don't have a favorite spot in the sky, you don't know shit about either sports or space.>pic related
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>tfw you're in a deep depression due to the fact that your ex-girlfriend had an abortion but it doesn't matter cause we are cosmically meaningless i can't wait to die for the small chance that there is some other realm of existence where there is some purpose
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>>19122862 Main sequence stars comprise the following types:
Red dwarf: The most numerous star, yet only a few can be seen in the night sky and none naked eye visible. Their exact lifespan is not known since they may last up to 100 billion years and even the oldest ones have not come close to reaching the end of main sequence
Orange dwarf: Bigger than red dwarfs and possibly able to support planets with life. Lifespan of up to 30 billlion years
Yellow dwarf: The sun and its ilk: Lifespan of 10 billion years
White subgiants/giants: Polaris and Sirius. Lifespan of 1 billion years
Blue supergiant: Massive, extremely hot stars like Deneb and Rigel. These only last a few million years before exploding as a supernova
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>tfw astronomers found Kamino but we'll never be able to visit because of distance and atmospheric conditions there http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46467275/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/scientists-find-alien-world-n o-planet-we-know/
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>>19123147 >no brown dwarf >no black hole Redskinsfag !!oVd0zhrzMK5
>>19123194 >brown dwarf Don't really count, they're not full-fledged stars
>black hole >main sequence Pick one.
7/10 for getting a response.
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>>19123147 Smaller stars like the Sun end their lifespan by swelling into a red giant and then collapsing and shedding their outer layers. The remnant core (a white dwarf) is a hot cinder that cools to black over billions of years.
Giant stars like Rigel swell into massive red supergiants and then explode into a supernova. The remains may develop into a black hole
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>>19123252 the bush is a shadow
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>>19109422 >yfw our civilization won't make it even to another planet because our planet will already be uninhabitable Anonymous
>tfw our bodies are made of atoms >that feel when the sun is our most local source of atoms >that feel when our atoms are completely washing away every few days or so, being replaced by entirely new atoms >that feel when we're transient, always new people made of new atoms >that feel when all those atoms are cooked in the furnace of the sun >that feel when we have the same atoms >that feel when those same atoms were formed in the heat and density of the sun's furnace >that feel when our atoms were bros at the center of the sun >that feel when, in your reading this, despite our not even being close, our atoms are reunited >that feel when we've always been bros >that feel when the fucking universe
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>>19123227 >7/10 i'll take it
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The supernova of 1054 AD in Taurus eventually formed the Crab Nebula. Last one seen in the Milky Way was Kepler's supernova of 1604.
Dizzy !!Y4jFbn0aGBf
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>>19123292 >reading this >listening to The Contortionist >mfw Anonymous
>>19123334 >the first time you see a nebula through a telescope that's it? where's all the... colors and shit?
Anonymous
>>19123362 Basically because the photos seen in astronomy books are color enhanced. That aside, the human eye is virtually unable to detect color in dim lighting conditions.
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>>19123380 >color enhanced yea, i know. i did not know the first time i saw one, and i get the idea most people don't realize that
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The Universe, what a concept.
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>>19123334 Betelgeuse is a prime candidate for a supernova, although since the star is 600 light years away, it may have already exploded and we have yet to see it. When it does go up, it would be bright enough to be visible in daylight.
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jai, guru dev sugarplum fairies, sugarplum fairies>baba ram dass
Redskinsfag !!oVd0zhrzMK5
EVERYONE WATCH THIS CLIP
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOzkEwaMnaE >tfw we're in the Universe and the Universe is in us Anonymous
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>>19123030 Alas, I do not.
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>The Andromeda Galaxy is the Milky Way's twin. It's the nearest galaxy that is similar size and shape. In a few billions years, the two galaxies will collide and form one larger elliptical galaxy - Milkomeda. >In a few billions years, the two galaxies will collide. >In a few billions years >few billions years
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Official My Favorite Spots in the Sky Power Rankings, brought to you by Anonymous Mon 27 Feb 2012 01:04:00 No. 19123538 Report Quoted By:
1. Pleiades 2. Saturn (not a spot in the sky but i'm listing it anyway) 3. Jupiter 4. Orion's nebula 5. Betelgeuse 6. Mars 7. Orion generally 8. Sirius 9. Mars 10. Venus 11. the moon . . . . 90000001. light pollution
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>>19122712 Not really. You don't really grasp how large the distances between stars are. In reality almost no stars collide when two galaxies mix. They just change orbits because of new gravitational pulls. The worst thing that could happen to the earth is it gets slung out of the galaxy by a gravitational slingshot.
Dizzy !!Y4jFbn0aGBf
>>19123524 >you will never witness the events that will unfold a mere century from this moment onwards, much less billions of years in the future feel so expendable and worthless right now
Anonymous
>>19123487 >NDT >saying his whole name and not just NDT >not being friends with him on facebook >be at MNH >be a huge fan of NDT >ask security guard "so, does NDT still come by here?" >directs me to security office where they might know if he's in the office or not >"nah, he never comes by anymore. with his new tv show, he's too much of a big shot to come by here anymore" >get ;_; about it >"although i have to say, i've been working here 12 years, and in my 12 years, you are the first person to have ever asked me if he was around to get his autograph" later on, i'd meet michio kaku at laguardia
Anonymous
Watching the Cosmos series was one of the most enlightening experiences of my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPkMq6xhT6A Anonymous
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>>19123524 >Milkomeda Who the fuck came up with this shitty name?
I'm not calling our future galaxy Milkomeda
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>people getting depressed that they won't see astronomical events unfold Do you get mad when you look at a famous structure and you don't get to see it crumble to the ground from it eroding away over thousands of years?
Redskinsfag !!oVd0zhrzMK5
>>19123587 >implying anyone would know who the fuck NDT is >>19123563 Watch the clip bro, you'll feel better
>>19123487 Anonymous
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>>19123606 >that calender analogy in the first episode If the entire history of the Universe was 1 calender year, the entire modern history of humanity would take up only about 10 seconds of the calendar.
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>>19122933 Bump for this. Great series. Everyone should watch them.
Lion !FvAwVR8cv6
>>19123587 >michio kaku >a legitimate scientist lel. He's not even Brian Greene tier.
Dizzy !!Y4jFbn0aGBf
>>19123646 I'm just sad that I won't see ANYTHING. What's the most significant thing that could possibly happen within our lifetime?
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>>19123792 All I wish is for a Supernova to happen in my lifetime so I can see its bright light even in the day.
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>>19123667 >not knowing who NDT is Anonymous
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>>19123790 >michio kaku >implying anyone said he was a legitimate scientist cool dude though
and lol, nah, he's not even brian greene tier, and tbh i don't care much for brian green
Piracy !!VZNx34SOr5M
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>>19123524 I've heard that there wouldn't actually be that mush damage to either galaxy and that most of the stars would miss each due to the sheer space between them, which is mind boggling
Anonymous
>>19123792 Baggies winning the EPL
Dizzy !!Y4jFbn0aGBf
Anonymous
>>19123292 >tfw Moby's We Are All Made of Stars suddenly makes sense Anonymous
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>>19123792 Fusion energy on earth is the only realistic thing
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here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
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>>19123940 >yfw you realize suns like ours don't have enough energy to produce heavy elements like iron, gold or uranium >yfw the only place where these elements can be produced is in supernova explosions >yfw we are all made out of star dust from some long exploded giant star Anonymous
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>implying that this thread isn't awesome Any deep sea thread guys?
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>>19123969 You mean...dark energy?
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>>19124003 Well, I think the poet originally meant love.
But dark energy possibly works as well.
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GODDAMNIT i'm reading about some galaxies and even the "watchable" Sun is 1.4 million kilometers away
Anonymous
>>19109716 Is there a way to see things as they are now?
Anonymous
still irks me how faggots think they are literally looking into the past when they look into space. you are not looking into the past, you are looking at something that is moving towards earth that hasn't arrived yet.
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>>19109900 At the end of the day we are an exceptionally stupid species.
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Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Mon 27 Feb 2012 01:35:00 No. 19124209 Report >>19124163 Not everything is moving towards the earth, but we can still see how it was in the past. Don't be a tool.
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>>19124209 right. well next time you look up at the sky and into the past say hi to jesus and abe lincoln for me.
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well, i won't be able to fall asleep tonight, that's for sure
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Drew Brees' Weird Skin Blotch Thing on His Face !uRT.X2Ex8Q Mon 27 Feb 2012 01:38:00 No. 19124294 Report Quoted By:
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>>19124256 Don't be silly and take it out of context, even when you look at the moon you're looking at it as it was , as opposed to as it is
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>>19124163 >hasn't arrived yet then how do you see it?
>he doesn't get how photons and eyes work Anonymous
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>>19124408 >now no
1) what/when exactly is now?
2) no, you are always looking into the past, seeing things as they were
AustinCollie'sVisor !6Jwen.dQLg
Ever Greatest !!MyPPQyrH+VZ
>>19124408 are you a fucking idiot or something jesus fucking christ how the fuck are you going to see something now if it takes lightyears for light to get to your eyes jesus fucking christ you are a fucking moron. kill yourself.
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>>19124430 >he thinks he's smart >he thinks he's a scientist >he spends all day on 4chan insulting people for being stupid how's the research going bra? or has no one wrote it on wikipedia for you yet?
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>What if time had more than one dimension? thank you, based dick feynman
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>>19124134 "Now" is defined by perception. What you see is "now". Just like everything around you, which you don't actually see until the light bounces back and reaches you so actually everything around you is microseconds behind.
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>>19124485 Don't know... With some incredible scope or something.
(My english is terrible)
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>that feel when the best thread on /sp/ autosages
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>>19124163 The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second. In the daily lives of most people this seems like it's travel is instant. On a larger scale however, the fact that light does not travel instantly does have an effect.
This travel time means that when you see / capture the image of an object (even if simply across the room), you're capturing its appearance as it WAS, not as it IS.
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>>19124134 not with current tools
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Tonight, we will make another /sp/ace thread.
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>>19124163 Silence. Adults are speaking.