Totally frickin rad space shit!

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Cali

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I'd love to be an astronomer, if I were able to just look through telescopes and shit and leave out all the smart person stuff they have to do.
 
msethhunter

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budman said:
It is amazing science can learn so much from so little.
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What I find even more crazy is this happened so far away, that the event we're seeing has probably been over with for quite a long time. Having a conversation with Voyager takes 32 hours, and it's still extremely close in the grand scheme of things.

Honestly, it makes me a little sad that I won't be alive long enough to see what kind of things we find in deep space. I do think I'll be here to see people on another planet in our solar system, which is going to be amazing though. As long as we can fund it, I think we'll put people in Mars but the end of this decade.

Even more neat shit about Voyager 1 and 2.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=116

Kind of off track a bit, but still somewhat related. There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth. Any statistician worth their salt will tell you that life on earth isn't unique. It's intelligence may be, but no one really knows for sure.
 
Butch

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Cool stuff. It is unfathomable how big the known universe is. It is really really big. Even at 186k miles per second it takes a really long time to get to something you may want to explore. And return? And then there is that relativity thing...
 
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Maddevill

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Go onto Hubblesite.com
Extraordinary pictures that blow the mind. Can't wait until the James Webb telescope goes up

Mad
 
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Cali

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Butch said:
Cool stuff. It is unfathomable how big the known universe is. It is really really big. Even at 186k miles per second it takes a really long time to get to something you may want to explore. And return? And then there is that relativity thing...
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2.5 MILLION years to get to our neighbor galaxy, Andromeda
 
Pushrod

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I don't despair of not being here when we travel 'there'. Technology has a way of progressing beyond what common imagination can conceive.

My mother in law just passed away at 102 years old. Born in 1919, bi-planes were just getting advanced enough to be reliable. I doubt anyone from there could have imagined the tech we used to explore the surface of Mars.

Bi-planes to interplanetary travel in 102 years.

My bet is our babies will live to see worm hole and warp drive travel. Gene Roddenberry said so.
 
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TylerW

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Cali said:
I'd love to be an astronomer, if I were able to just look through telescopes and shit and leave out all the smart person stuff they have to do.
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I'm pretty sure that sooner or later you'll want to learn the smart person stuff anyway.

It's wonderful enough to look at tiny points of light in the night sky. But I've you actually understand what you're looking at, and the incredible forces that make it happen, the experience off looking at those points off light becomes immeasurably more pleasurable.
 
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Cali

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https://youtu.be/BD63358ljvA

I was actually referring to this kind of smart person stuff in my facetious comment, where one guy outshines all the astrophysicists on the team.

I find astronomy fascinating and love to learn about it
 
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