The Space Thread

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/when-draconid-meteor-shower-peak-how-watch-uk-b1029370.html

  On 10/9/2022 at 7:32 PM, ignatius said:

 

 

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other than Earth, every single place in the entire universe that we know of will kill an unprotected human within minutes. every spaceship we've created or even have dreams of creating one day could be destroyed at any second with the piercing of a stray rock. we may never, ever be able to send humans to and colonize other star systems. space and the moon and Mars will be nothing but cold, very expensive graves for the naive who push too hard, and will teach humanity nothing. Earth's it, for any foreseeable future. all we have and need is right here. there'll be time one day to experience and explore the rest somehow or another, but we ain't got any hope of that for hundreds, probably thousands, of years.

  On 10/9/2022 at 8:22 PM, auxien said:

other than Earth, every single place in the entire universe that we know of will kill an unprotected human within minutes. every spaceship we've created or even have dreams of creating one day could be destroyed at any second with the piercing of a stray rock. we may never, ever be able to send humans to and colonize other star systems. space and the moon and Mars will be nothing but cold, very expensive graves for the naive who push too hard, and will teach humanity nothing. Earth's it, for any foreseeable future. all we have and need is right here. there'll be time one day to experience and explore the rest somehow or another, but we ain't got any hope of that for hundreds, probably thousands, of years.

 

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It is so true that the reality of our imagination of what we see out there from here is so completely out of our reach.  We should be trying to preserve humanity in order to evolve as much as possible over the next few billion years while our Sun allows it.  We are much closer to impactful biological progressions of our species than we will ever be to something like lightspeed.  We would have a much better chance of figuring out the real hard stuff like interstellar space travel and possibly communicating with other civilizations if we could survive long enough to advance humanity first.  Our brains are the gift given to us to preserve.  We just need the time to grow into them.

  On 10/10/2022 at 1:43 AM, cloud capture said:

Our brains are the gift given to us to preserve.  We just need the time to grow into them.

I would argue that a lot of the reasons we're so unsure of whether or not we'll make it as a species are the same reasons that allowed us to get this far in the first place.

Survival of the fittest, the tribal feelings, etc. that nowadays tend to lead to war and destruction are some of the same things that allowed early humans to survive long enough to reach this point 

Perhaps this is a contributing factor as to why we haven't found any other advanced civilizations (or why, if there are any, they're hiding from us).

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/weve-never-seen-anything-black-hole-spews-out-material-years-after-shredding-star
 

black hole farts

Pillars of Creation, JWST vs. Hubble

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/052/01GF423GBQSK6ANC89NTFJW8VM

turns out the final frontier is hearts and minds

  On 10/21/2022 at 1:04 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Pillars of Creation, JWST vs. Hubble

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/052/01GF423GBQSK6ANC89NTFJW8VM

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Space farts

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/nasa-instrument-detects-dozens-methane-002053620.html

  On 10/27/2022 at 7:27 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Space farts

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/nasa-instrument-detects-dozens-methane-002053620.html

No, this is looking at Earth (man-made) farts from space.

  On 10/27/2022 at 1:19 PM, randomsummer said:

No, this is looking at Earth (man-made) farts from space.

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Combine it with the Soros space laser, and we could have the galaxy’s first fart laser. Just blanket any country until they give up*
 

*sponsored by Chipotle

• Blanket hostile country with methane earth farts
• Fire Soros space laser at said methane cloud
• Earth fart ignites
• Profit

good explainer but he can speed through some of the key points…one of the more strange aspects of studying distant/ancient space objects.

Composite image of this morning’s lunar eclipse 

Nebula Wants To Consume Your Soul

(European Southern Observatory's news/photo release)

Orion selfie