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git apologist posted:yeah but because it has no surface oceans it has roughly the same land area as earth Kim Stanley Robinson reader spotted MrQwerty posted:still amazing that venera even managed to stay intact enough to take pictures of that blasted hellscape And once they got it out of Russia, they were able to send it to Venus!
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Tree Bucket posted:Kim Stanley Robinson reader spotted LOL OMG here comes 30 pages on this particularly beautiful butte.
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I return to this video sometimes just to feel ever more existentially small NASA's channels are the best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFT7ATLQQx8 This one's great too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0
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i think sagan or drake or somewhere calculated that if you run the drake equation through with reasonable assumptions, then intelligent civilisations would be spread across the universe at an average distance of about 200 light years apart. 200 light years is not far on a universal scale but is really quite a long way indeed for widdle humans drat you spacetime 
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Just for the record the "Drake Equation" is pretty meaningless and is just an idea. Drake knew it too, not like he was being fake or anything. It's not any actual science variables or anything.
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git apologist posted:i think sagan or drake or somewhere calculated that if you run the drake equation through with reasonable assumptions, then intelligent civilisations would be spread across the universe at an average distance of about 200 light years apart. 200 light years is not far on a universal scale but is really quite a long way indeed for widdle humans If you can get a generation ship to a signficant percent of C it's still doable though. Would be a hell of a commitment to just to say hello and come back.
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i was thinking about how loving weird it is that space is a vaccum or whatever. like the idea of there being literally nothing in a physical space is kinda counterintuitive “some jerk” posted:The average density of the universe, according to NASA, is 5.9 protons (a positively charged subatomic particle) per cubic meter If you then think about the density of somewhere like earth: - 1 litre of water contains 1.10 × 10^26 atoms - 1 cubic metre is 1000 litres - a hydrogen atom is 1 electron, 1 proton. oxygen is 6 electrons, 6 protons (h2o) And that’s just earth. Obviously there are stars, planets, and all sorts of other stuff with high densities. with so much mass tied up in celestial bodies then space is even emptier than the average suggests. https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_matter.html get it together ‘space’ u fucker git apologist fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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git apologist posted:i was thinking about how loving weird it is that space is a vaccum or whatever. like the idea of there being literally nothing in a physical space is kinda counterintuitive I love this. And if the current models are correct, our Universe is heading towards an inevitable heat death some trillions and trillions of years in the future. Which will feature cool things like one atom occupying an entire galactic space, randomly. And that will continue for trillions more years....
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good article https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/a-cosmologists-guide-to-the-greatest-astronomical-discoveries-of-all-time/
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Apparently Betelgeuse is a hot mess: https://streaming-eu.mpg.de/de/institute/mpa/highlights/Betelgeuse_boiling.mp4
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Issaries posted:Apparently Betelgeuse is a hot mess Same
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Issaries posted:Apparently Betelgeuse is a hot mess: What makes the bubbles fall so fast? If there's explosive fusion happening (or whatever the technical term is) seems like gravity would have a regular rate of descent? or is a black hole eating the middle 
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Vampire Panties posted:What makes the bubbles fall so fast? If there's explosive fusion happening (or whatever the technical term is) seems like gravity would have a regular rate of descent? If there was a black hole at the center (and that does happen), the star explodes nearly instantly after. I'd have to read up on it, but I assume the bubbling is the result of the extreme magnetic forces interacting.
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is beetlejuice close enough to hit us with gamma rays if it blows I forget
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naem posted:is beetlejuice close enough to hit us with gamma rays if it blows I forget no one wants to blow us. we’re the only truckstop in the universe where you can catch herpes
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naem posted:is beetlejuice close enough to hit us with gamma rays if it blows I forget No. It's no threat.
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betelgeuse betelgeuse betelgeuce
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git apologist posted:it’s easy to think of the solar system as kinda tidy with the planets roughly evenly spaced out but there’s a loving shitload of nothing even in such a relatively busy place tfw u realize why space is called space
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Mozi posted:betelgeuse betelgeuse betelgeuce nice fuckin cosmic model! honk honk!
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 adios delta iv heavy, you were expensive as heck but you mostly worked. ready for one last liftoff with a whole lot of hydrogen and a little oxygen too
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Anyone going to watch the solar eclipse on April 8th? I'm going to SE Missouri. Got my eclipse glasses and solar filter for the telescope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNK2LI7VeX4&t=8s
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I'm close enough to the center line that I'm driving. Clouds of course are my main concern. If there is partial cloudiness, I've got 4 main locations I can head to all in the same general direction. I rented a car! Traffic is the thing I can't predict. It's gonna be busy, no doubt. But like, add a 1-2 hours to your trip busy? I saw the aftermath of the 2017 eclipse out in Denver - no hotel rooms available in the city - and it's spooked me as to how busy it will get. Certain places will be worse than others of course. I think Indianapolis will be a big destination for example. IF you have the chance to see this - Monday, April 8th - you should go for it. As odds are you'll never get a chance like this again, and to see the full solar eclipse is supposed to be just incredible.
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i live basically right under totality. i could drive 45 mins to see totality but nah gently caress that. my kids will be just getting out of school when it peaks so im thinking to pick them up and we can watch it together 
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i live basically right under totality. i could drive 45 mins to see totality but nah gently caress that. my kids will be just getting out of school when it peaks so im thinking to pick them up and we can watch it together Are you under totality, but just less of it, or under partial eclipse? Because from what I read, there's no real comparison between the full eclipse and partial. One is the big experience, and the other, it just gets vaguely darker for a few minutes.
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redshirt posted:Are you under totality, but just less of it, or under partial eclipse? i live just outside toronto so it's like 99.5%
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i live just outside toronto so it's like 99.5% I don't know man. You may want to make a short drive. It's a night and day difference. Once in a lifetime....
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redshirt posted:I don't know man. You may want to make a short drive. It's a night and day difference. Yup. If you're that close you should go. I'm staying about 2 hours away from where we're viewing the eclipse. Planning on making an entire day of it in hopes of avoiding traffic going in or coming out.
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yeah you know what gently caress it. im booking a half day and taking my kids out of school at lunch. lets go
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i happen to be directly in the path of totality but i'm sure it'll be cloudy or something got my glasses anyways
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anybody thinking to watch the last of the deltas go up in flames? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DajlB_jUPM t-16 mins or so
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:anybody thinking to watch the last of the deltas go up in flames? oh hell yeah. all cops are bastards, but at least this one has the dignity to self immolate when it’s done narcing
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see yall tm for the next attempt
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:yeah you know what gently caress it. im booking a half day and taking my kids out of school at lunch. lets go Hell yeah brother. Now we pray for blue skies.
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redshirt posted:Hell yeah brother. https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1773498611164160165
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e lipses are when the sun saddles on up behind thay twink lil moon and says aw you done wrong moon and youre gonna take every bit of me to make up for it and the moon is like oh my stars cause all yhe stars come out while the suns balles deep in the
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