The Space Thread

[ZonkoVille77]

2 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

A good thought provoking presentation by David Kipping on why, despite there being billions of stars and planets in the galaxy, we might be alone as the only intelligent civilisation.

 

 

 

Intelligent is an oxymoron.

Intelligent civilisations don't destroy their home nor try to kill every other creature they share their home with.

 

Enough brainpower to be smarter than other creatures - yes. Intelligent? Debatable. 

[Harry's Lad]

https://news.sky.com/story/walter-cunningham-last-surviving-astronaut-from-apollo-7-mission-dies-12779470

[Rico1304]

 

[magicrat]

By Jonathan Amos

BBC Science Correspondent, Newquay

 

The first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil has ended in failure.

 

[Harry's Lad]

2 minutes ago, magicrat said:

By Jonathan Amos

BBC Science Correspondent, Newquay

 

The first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil has ended in failure.

 

I wish that cunt was on it.

[TheHowieLama]

A recently discovered comet will soon make an appearance in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years.

Discovered on March 2, 2022 by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility’s wide-field survey camera at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, the comet will make its closest approach to the sun on January 12, according to NASA.

Named C/2022 E3 (ZTF), the comet has an orbit around the sun that passes through the outer reaches of the solar system, which is why it’s taken such a long journey — and long time — to swing by Earth again, according to The Planetary Society.

Skygazers in the Northern Hemisphere using telescopes and binoculars should look low on the northeastern horizon just before midnight to spot it on January 12, according to EarthSky.

[DJLJ]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-tess-discovers-planetary-system-s-second-earth-size-world
 

Earth 2.0

[Mudface]

Pretty unsettling-

 

 

Basically, with the universe apparently expanding faster than the speed of light, the vast majority of it is already not observable (never mind visitable). Eventually, the only part of it us or any other future civilisation will be able to see will be our local galazy cluster, bound together by gravity- everything else will have effectively disappeared.

[Section_31]

I still reckon it's weird as fuck how voyager started freaking out when it left the solar system. I reckon there's nothing there.

[Mudface]

23 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I still reckon it's weird as fuck how voyager started freaking out when it left the solar system. I reckon there's nothing there.

 

That 'warning, you are leaving the player area' message was a big giveaway.

[Gnasher]

 

 

 

[Harry's Lad]

In addition to Howie's post.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/23/exotic-green-comet-not-seen-since-stone-age-returns-to-skies-above-earth

[Pete]

12 hours ago, Section_31 said:

I still reckon it's weird as fuck how voyager started freaking out when it left the solar system. I reckon there's nothing there.

The lost the signal once in the Delta Quadrant.  Them pesky Kazons fucking about with the aerial. 

[manwiththestick]

13 hours ago, Section_31 said:

I still reckon it's weird as fuck how voyager started freaking out when it left the solar system. I reckon there's nothing there.

Freaks me nut out thinking about stuff like this. If there's nothing after our solar system, define nothing, what does it look like?

[Rico1304]

I’m going to a talk by the Virtual Astronomer in Feb. Follow him on Twitter and he’s a nice fella.  Supposed to be aimed at the layman so will hopefully understand more than when I went to see Brian Cox in November. 

[Elite]

14 hours ago, Mudface said:

 

That 'warning, you are leaving the player area' message was a big giveaway.

Simulation theory and Solipsism are the most plausible to me. Never thought the universe is what it appears and that understanding life is beyond comprehension.

 

Gut feeling like, or i'm borderline insane.

[Section_31]

49 minutes ago, manwiththestick said:

Freaks me nut out thinking about stuff like this. If there's nothing after our solar system, define nothing, what does it look like?

 

There is a growing number of scientists who think reality is a simulation. They point to the fact that particles know they're being observed by us under scientific conditions, like it's some sort of safeguard designed to stop us lifting the curtain. Begs the questions of when/if we learn too much, what happens then? 

[Mudface]

13 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

There is a growing number of scientists who think reality is a simulation. They point to the fact that particles know they're being observed by us under scientific conditions, like it's some sort of safeguard designed to stop us lifting the curtain. Begs the questions of when/if we learn too much, what happens then? 

 

[Mudface]

25 minutes ago, Elite said:

Simulation theory and Solipsism are the most plausible to me. Never thought the universe is what it appears and that understanding life is beyond comprehension.

 

Gut feeling like, or i'm borderline insane.

 

Simulation theory does seem very plausible. Disturbing as well, fortunately the nihilistic nutters who'd take it as a sign they can do whatever the fuck they want are probably too dumb to understand it.

[johnsusername]

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

 

There is a growing number of scientists who think reality is a simulation. They point to the fact that particles know they're being observed by us under scientific conditions, like it's some sort of safeguard designed to stop us lifting the curtain. Begs the questions of when/if we learn too much, what happens then? 

 

If there's one thing I've learned this week, it's that when the powers that be get out of hand, then headlocks and badly rhyming banners will get the job done. 

[johnsusername]

15 hours ago, Gnasher said:

 

 

 

 

I find that picture really unsettling. 

 

There's so much going on in space you wonder how we're all still here and haven't been wiped out by a random comet or asteroid or wandering rock, or black hole or any type of epic destructive phenomenon. 

[littletedwest]

5 hours ago, manwiththestick said:

Freaks me nut out thinking about stuff like this. If there's nothing after our solar system, define nothing, what does it look like?

Even as a kid this freaked me out. Whats at the end of the universe? Nothing.But even nothing is something 

[Elite]

23 minutes ago, littletedwest said:

Even as a kid this freaked me out. Whats at the end of the universe? Nothing.But even nothing is something 

Moyesy here...

[Poor Scouser T]

The simulation hypothesis is compelling.

[manwiththestick]

3 hours ago, johnsusername said:

 

I find that picture really unsettling. 

 

There's so much going on in space you wonder how we're all still here and haven't been wiped out by a random comet or asteroid or wandering rock, or black hole or any type of epic destructive phenomenon. 

Maybe it has already happened, a massive explosion, death of a star or other unknown destructive phenomenon but it just hasn't reached us yet.

 

*checks insurance policy to see if covered.