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Yeah, space is so big it really fucks with your perception. Things are really big, but distances between things are even more unfathomably big. The Moon looks close, but you could neatly tuck all planets of our solar system between Earth and the Moon (for about a millisecond, until gravity starts doing very weird stuff I guess). Every single dot you see here is a galaxy like ours containing millions to trillions of stars. The photo itself is the Hubble Deep Field, a snapshot of one 24 millionth of the complete night sky you see when you look up at night. Space is bad rear end.
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Ok so it says on wikipedia that there are 3000 things in it. It's clearly a lot but 3k really? e: There's a bit of graininess in it, is that part of it?
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Jedit posted:It's more of a shock that Saturn's rings extend only 37000 miles out. The way we imagine it you'd think Earth would be inside them. The F Ring, the outermost clearly visible ring, is at 87,000 miles out from Saturn's center. Saturn takes up a bit more than 36,000 miles of that, so the F Ring is 51,000 miles out. And if you count the much fainter G and E Rings, they extend to almost 300,000 miles.
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May 11, 2019 00:06
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Somebody actual put together a page with a scale model of the solar system where the moon is 1 pixel. If you've got about twenty minutes it's worth checking out.
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ultrafilter posted:Somebody actual put together a page with a scale model of the solar system where the moon is 1 pixel. If you've got about twenty minutes it's worth checking out. There is also http://www.swedensolarsystem.se/en/ which is a 1: 20 000 000 scale model of our solar system spanning pretty much the entire country of Sweden. Takes a bit more than 20 minutes to check out though. 
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Jag är terminalchocken
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 She threw a “perfect” perfect game: 7 innings, 21 batters, 21 strikeouts.
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May 11, 2019 22:50
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Bobby Digital posted:
What a wizard.
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May 11, 2019 23:00
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jobson groeth posted:What a wizard. A grand achievement.
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May 11, 2019 23:41
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Shout out to the Moon, the best natural satellite in the entire solar system.  Keep up the good work 
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Phlegmish posted:Shout out to the Moon, the best natural satellite in the entire solar system.  What has the moon done for us lately?
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May 11, 2019 23:58
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TontoCorazon posted:
Tidal forces?
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May 12, 2019 00:20
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poo poo like this is so cool. I always love it when "so-and-so actually got to so-and-so place first" stories turn out to be true. I still have my fingers crossed that China discovered California.
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May 12, 2019 01:30
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wtf is that bronze/copper (?) mix in the shape of a coin that depicts the image of the moon?
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Can someone explain the coins ? Where are they from and where were they found ?
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Solice Kirsk posted:poo poo like this is so cool. I always love it when "so-and-so actually got to so-and-so place first" stories turn out to be true. I still have my fingers crossed that China discovered California. China can go gently caress themselves until they let 1000000+ people out of their concentration camps, I don't care if they discovered the Loch Ness monster eating golden apples with Frankenberry and John Lennon.
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May 12, 2019 02:01
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Lady Disdain posted:Can someone explain the coins ? Where are they from and where were they found ? The picture is clickable to an article.
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May 12, 2019 02:10
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Solice Kirsk posted:poo poo like this is so cool. I always love it when "so-and-so actually got to so-and-so place first" stories turn out to be true. I still have my fingers crossed that China discovered California. If you're into that sort of thing you might want to check out Step Back History on Youtube. Lots of great history stuff in general but also a series on some plausible and not-so-plausible theories on who may have discovered America before Columbus.
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Solice Kirsk posted:poo poo like this is so cool. I always love it when "so-and-so actually got to so-and-so place first" stories turn out to be true. I still have my fingers crossed that China discovered California. This might be my favorite recent episode of JRE because they do nothing but talk about ancient civilizations for hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxmw9eizOAo Worth listening to during a long run.
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May 12, 2019 02:23
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:The picture is clickable to an article. Thank you.
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Triggs posted:This might be my favorite recent episode of JRE because they do nothing but talk about ancient civilizations for hours: hard pass on joe rogan anything
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ElGroucho posted:hard pass on joe rogan anything Yep. "Alex Jones And Joe Rogan Made Peace With A Bizarre Podcast" https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2019/02/28/alex-jones-and-joe-rogan-made-peace-with-a-bizarre-podcast/#47f83627da38 There's more, have at it.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Ok so it says on wikipedia that there are 3000 things in it. It's clearly a lot but 3k really?
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TontoCorazon posted:
Well sometimes, it hits your eye like a big pizza pie...and that's amore
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May 12, 2019 04:49
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:The picture is clickable to an article. that article is bunkos.
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ElGroucho posted:hard pass on joe rogan anything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKrf7mX_R6M
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Well sometimes, it hits your eye like a big pizza pie...and that's amore So I'm in an abusive relationship with the moon and I need to be thankful?
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TontoCorazon posted:So I'm in an abusive relationship with the moon and I need to be thankful? same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9YtRnlPMk ime it sucks to be a buff soviet guy getting left by a hot space chick
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ElGroucho posted:hard pass on joe rogan anything I mean you could listen to the episodes with people that you want to listen to and skip the other ones. He has episodes with Eddie Izzard, Kevin Hart, Dr. Phil, Andrew Yang, Travis Barker, Brian Cox, Mike Tyson... That "Joe Rogan condensed in 19 seconds" video is spot on though.
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Claeaus posted:I mean you could listen to the episodes with people that you want to listen to and skip the other ones. He has episodes with Eddie Izzard, Kevin Hart, Dr. Phil, Andrew Yang, Travis Barker, Brian Cox, Mike Tyson... Or you could never support the guy that is a feed in to Nazi bullshit.
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jobson groeth posted:Or you could never support the guy that is a feed in to Nazi bullshit. 
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jobson groeth posted:Or you could never support the guy that is a feed in to Nazi bullshit. 
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jobson groeth posted:Or you could never support the guy that is a feed in to Nazi bullshit.
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Re: space being huge. So how fast is light? Pretty damned fast, isn't it? Like so loving fast you can't ever see it moving under normal circumstances. It's fast enough that you can treat it like it's instantaneous for pretty much everything that happens day to day. It isn't but it might as well be it's so freaking fast. Despite that it takes 8 god damned minutes and 20 loving seconds for it to get here from the Sun. That's right. Over eight minutes. If the Sun blew up for some reason it would take over eight minutes for that information to get here. If you had something that could travel the speed of light it would still take over four hours to get to Pluto. The star that's closest to ours is over four light years away. If the Sun blew up it would be over four years before anybody over at Alpha Centauri saw it. When you look up at the sky at night you are effectively looking back in time. Check this poo poo out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GN-z11 Farthest known object so far, as far as we can tell. Billions of light years away. Billions. When you look at the pictures of this thing what you're seeing is whatever the hell was there billions of years ago. I'm going to repeat that. Billions. With a b. Whatever is there now probably isn't this thing. It's probably a galaxy.
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Claeaus posted:I mean you could listen to the episodes with people that you want to listen to and skip the other ones. He has episodes with Eddie Izzard, Kevin Hart, Dr. Phil, Andrew Yang, Travis Barker, Brian Cox, Mike Tyson... Is that really the best examples you got? Your list of "good" Joe Rogan episodes includes a pseudoscience peddler, a neoliberal capitalist, a member of Blink-182, and a man with substantial brain damage. And I don't particularly like Brian Cox, either.
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Also Kevin Hart is literally so homophobic that the 2019 Oscars didn't have a host because he got called out for it and couldn't even bother saying he was wrong. He'd be best chucked into a river (which would be pretty easy with him).
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Re: space being huge. Wow did you get that from I loving love science Xun has a new favorite as of 19:49 on May 12, 2019 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Re: space being huge. Talking about the size of space in terms of how fast light moves isn't all that helpful. Light is too fast for people to get any context from that. Honestly, the distances involved really are unimaginable, but one thing that kind of works for me is to think of the distance to the moon in terms of the lifetime of a car. The moon is about 250,000 miles away, which is about as far as a really reliable modern car makes it. And that's the closest celestial object in the universe (other than the occasional asteroid). Everything else is orders of magnitude farther. It also helps put into context how crazy it was that the moon landings got there in about 4 days, and that we can get satellites to other planets in any reasonable amount of time.
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