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Demon Of The Fall posted:some of the people working on the thing have already been quoted that the images they've seen have "moved them to tears" That space rock that hit the mirror actually ruined the Webb and the July 12 presentation will just be the first ten minutes of Up.
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Flerfers furiously poring over the image right now to make YouTube videos about it being fake and "see-gee-eye". Their strongest argument being, "That looks weird, innit?" edit; poring not pouring Nice Tuckpointing! fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Jul 12, 2022 05:42
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We're the galactic equivalent of one of those uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. At least that's more soothing than the dark forest theory.
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Jul 12, 2022 07:44
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Though, I read somewhere (great source!) that 95% of all stars that will ever exist in our universe have already been born. We're in the cosmic sweet spot right now.
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Jul 12, 2022 08:12
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It's like that Vox video about the Hubble Deep Field that describes it as if we had the ability to point a telescope at Earth and see ancient Egypt, and behind the pyramids we can see neanderthals, and behind them dinosaurs. I guess don't overthink the logistics of that analogy, it's still nifty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Tc0Rk2cNg
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Jul 12, 2022 10:45
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LanceHunter posted:I’m fact, the speed of light is better understood as the speed of causality, and any attempts to move faster than it just opens up unresolvable paradoxes. In my Star Trek head canon there is a super-massive-large telescope 66 million light years from Earth that is tasked with watching the last days of the dinosaurs. Also one about 4,000 light years to watch Bible times. Crap, I just realized that 66 million light years would put it about 25 times the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy. So much for that, even in sci fi!
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Jul 12, 2022 10:58
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dr_rat posted:As a single galaxy is so mindbogglingly large there really is very little need to write at going beyond that unless it's baked into the narrative for whatever reason. In the Next Generation, something like only 15% of the known galaxy is explored, and even things we can see here with the naked eye or a cheap telescope like the Pleiades and the Carina Nebula are beyond the frontiers of the Federation. And this is stuff written by people who said, "Ships that can go 3,000 times the speed of light? Imagine the possibilities!"
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Jul 12, 2022 14:34
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I want our first hint of alien life to be a Kardashev III civilization that makes a whole galaxy blink like it's talking about George Bailey. Too far to harm us...or help us. But just right to freak us out.
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Jul 12, 2022 15:15
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125k now Oh, hey, it's the guy Smarter Every Day made a whole video about.
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Jul 12, 2022 15:33
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I keep hearing, "Go Webb!" as "Go away!"
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Jul 12, 2022 15:35
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This host has a really good telepresence for being a legit astronomer/smartypants.
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Jul 12, 2022 15:45
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This is why I like watching the uncut broadcasts from the Apollo missions. You get awkward things like this a lot for being exploratory badasses. I think my favorite is when Neil Armstrong, a few days into the lunar coast, casually started nerding out about the history of cartography with Mike Collins and CAPCOM.
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Jul 12, 2022 15:52
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LanceHunter posted:This presenter is living out the nightmare of anyone who works in live TV, and is handling it shockingly well. I've worked behind the scenes on live global newscasts before, and she is crushing it.
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Jul 12, 2022 15:54
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:I want our first hint of alien life to be a Kardashev III civilization that makes a whole galaxy blink like it's talking about George Bailey. Too far to harm us...or help us. But just right to freak us out. This Webb galaxy image is of the same galaxies used in "It's a Wonderful Life" I was referencing here. Nifty!
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Jul 12, 2022 16:12
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YeahTubaMike posted:Kind of annoying that there's light reflecting off of the image, it makes me wonder if there are things being obscured Not sure I follow what you mean.
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Jul 12, 2022 16:27
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My god that quintet image is like a deep field showing off. Every bit is just littered with galaxies.
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Jul 12, 2022 16:33
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Pookah posted:It really is too much. When I went to the Lowell Observatory years ago they let us look through one of their famous scopes. I think it was the one Lowell himself used to sketch "canals" on Mars. That night it was aimed at Jupiter. And, yeah, seeing the bands and the Red Spot with your own eyes hits different.
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Jul 12, 2022 16:46
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:i hope they take a baller-rear end picture of hoag's object at sone point with this absolute unit Oh yes please! That thing gets me in a way hard to explain. A ring unlike any other galaxy we know. And inside that ring is another galaxy behind it that looks just like that.
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Jul 12, 2022 16:51
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Prettz posted:all these pictures look amazingly similar to 11 billion dollar bills being vaporized Tens of thousands of salaries and families being fed and... aw hell, why am I taking the bait. I'd much rather more Webbs than another drat aircraft carrier.
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Jul 12, 2022 16:55
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Prettz posted:fuckin lol you think much of that poo poo went to salaries? It went to a pentagon contractor. Why are you even in this thread?
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Jul 12, 2022 17:07
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Blue Footed Booby posted:He's trolling. Peep the rap sheet. Ahh, Got it. Thanks for the heads up. Anyway. Think about this. Webb can pop off these pics in hours, and has 20 years of juice in it. RIP, Hubble, you did good. But there's a new king in orbit.* *Yes, I know it's a Lagrange point, but still counts!
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Jul 12, 2022 17:13
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Launchpad Astronomy has a good video about why we can't actually see pictures of exoplanets. (Short answer, they're really far away and small, even for our best telescopes.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI
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Jul 13, 2022 04:26
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Now drop a beat to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEngEpiJKo
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Jul 13, 2022 05:59
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The Voyager record is just a 65-year-old man saying "Do. You. Speak. English?" progressively louder and over-enunciated for an hour.
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Jul 13, 2022 15:42
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This popped up on my YouTube to show where that binary nebula is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0pg1dDkc6A
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Jul 16, 2022 19:27
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Poor thing's gonna look like Season 4 Battlestar Galactica by the end of the decade.
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Jul 18, 2022 02:49
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The wiki article on Rio Ophiuchi is already using it as the main image. drat they're fast.
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I want another livecast full of technical mess ups just so I can watch that host handle it with aplomb. She was great.
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