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Can you get your head around the vastness of nothing?
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2020-01-19 at 3:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by Narc You know at even just 1 tenth of the speed of light, which is pretty ambitious to say the least, the nearest star to us is 80 years away.
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No actually it would take about 43 years at that speed. Because the nearest star is about 4.3 light years away... it’s basic math dude.
Whatever you just googled five seconds ago that told you 80 years probably meant 40 years accelerating and 40 years decelerating in order to reach the star at normal (non-relativistic) speeds. But there’s really no reason a probe has to slow down in order to gather useable data, it can do it while passing by.
But thanks for teaching me that other stars are really far away, that is a pretty high level concept that I struggled to understand until your post -
2020-01-19 at 4:09 PM UTC
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2020-01-19 at 4:12 PM UTC
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2020-01-19 at 4:15 PM UTC
Originally posted by Fox No actually it would take about 43 years at that speed. Because the nearest star is about 4.3 light years away… it’s basic math dude.
u wot m8
Proxima Centauri is 40,208,000,000,000 km away. Light travels 9,460,528,000,000 km per year. That is 4.25 years of traveling at light speed and 42.5 at 1/10th light speed. Get your shit right faggot. -
2020-01-19 at 4:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace u wot m8
Proxima Centauri is 40,208,000,000,000 km away. Light travels 9,460,528,000,000 km per year. That is 4.25 years of traveling at light speed and 42.5 at 1/10th light speed. Get your shit right faggot.
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2020-01-19 at 4:19 PM UTC
Originally posted by Fox Why wouldn’t they? What we can see from here is blurry blips of light billions of years old from across the universe. Which is a little different than sending a probe with sophisticated measurement equipment to study interstellar phenomena up close and relay that information back. Obviously you would have no real-time communication with the drones, you would just send them out by the trillions with onboard intelligence so each one could carry out its mission independently.
Intelligent life is like a virus, or maybe more like mold overtaking a ripe fruit - look how humans spread across this entire planet within a few thousand years. And even you concede that probably very soon we will do the same thing to our solar system. And if you take that reasoning a step further, there seems to be no reason why we wouldn’t try to spread our influence beyond that, across the galaxy and then the entire universe, given the means. There are a few things that would stop us along the way, such as a planet wide extinction event or whatever. But out of thousands, or potentially even millions of intelligent civilizations throughout the universe since the beginning of time, they can’t all have been hit by an asteroid or nuked themselves into oblivion. There must have been at least one that could have done it. Unless of course once a civilization reaches the level of technological advancement to do so, they would also have the technological means to abandon this reality like I said.
Other than that, the only explanation for the Fermi Paradox that makes sense to me is maybe the rare earth hypothesis. Maybe intelligent life really is just so uncommon that we’re actually the first or one of the first to ever reach this stage.
But the theory that interstellar travel is just “too hard” doesn’t really hold much water. We literally have the technology to do it right now, in fact we’ve already started albeit in an extremely rudimentary way. The Voyager 1 probe has already left the solar system and will reach a distance equivalent to the nearest star sometime within the next 50,000 years or so. And that’s on 1970’s technology, within the next century we will be able to send things out much further and faster, although it would still take probably over a million years to explore even our own galaxy due to the light speed barrier. What we DONT have right now is the will or foresight as a society to see through a 50,000-year project, let alone a million-year one. But once humanity evolves to be able to think on these kind of timescales, rather than just within the frame of reference of one modern day lifetime, what’s stopping us? People are already looking into this kind of thing even today, like project Starshot for example.
I mean obviously it’s an extremely difficult problem, but if a highly advanced civilization had billions of years to figure it out? They could eventually accomplish literally anything within the bounds of physics.
And yes the universe is still relatively in its infancy, but still, out of the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the observable universe, and if life isn’t just some infinitesimally unlikely event, there’s been plenty of time for other civilizations to evolve before us. So again, I find the rare earth hypothesis far more likely than the “too darn hard :(” hypothesis.
I do like the triple post though, you seem to be upset with me after learning who I am. Did I really hurt you that bad before? Why don’t you go buy a private jet with all your millions and fuck off lol
You don't know shit man. When James Woods and Good Morning Television launch their own telescopes its gonna change everything. James woods is so cool mahn. This is how you do shit, not with fucking Star trek drones ffs, lol.
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2020-01-19 at 4:22 PM UTCI can't stand you losers.. you're all so fucking lame and boring.
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2020-01-19 at 4:29 PM UTC
Originally posted by WellHung That is still an amount of time that you traveled. Stick to dealing drugs. no one respects your worldly knowledge.
Originally posted by WellHung I can't stand you losers.. you're all so fucking lame and boring.
Yeah well I never seen you on the intellectual dark web, you're clearly not IDW material.
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2020-01-19 at 4:36 PM UTC
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2020-01-19 at 4:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by Narc If this creator was so hell bent on us being so impressed by his awesomeness then he would without doubt show himself in all his splendor for us to see and know. The fact he doesn't do that at all, in any way or form, ever, proves its all bullshit.
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You do see him though, through his creation. Just as you can know a man through his prose, or through his work. You don't need to see him to know him. Seeing is one of the lesser valuable senses. -
2020-01-19 at 4:38 PM UTC
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2020-01-19 at 4:39 PM UTCAny commentator who expresses rage and loathing for a post on niggasin.space is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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2020-01-19 at 4:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by Narc Its never ending space you retard. In other words, there's nothing there.
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Dark matter is a form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe and about a quarter of its total energy density. Its presence is implied in a variety of astrophysical observations, including gravitational effects that cannot be explained by accepted theories of gravity unless more matter is present than can be seen. For this reason, most experts think that dark matter is abundant in the universe and that it has had a strong influence on its structure and evolution. Dark matter is called dark because it does not appear to interact with observable electromagnetic radiation, such as light, and so it is undetectable by existing astronomical instruments.
Primary evidence for dark matter comes from calculations showing that many galaxies would fly apart, or that they would not have formed or would not move as they do, if they did not contain a large amount of unseen matter. Other lines of evidence include observations in gravitational lensing and in the cosmic microwave background, along with astronomical observations of the observable universe's current structure, the formation and evolution of galaxies, mass location during galactic collisions, and the motion of galaxies within galaxy clusters. In the standard Lambda-CDM model of cosmology, the total mass–energy of the universe contains 5% ordinary matter and energy, 27% dark matter and 68% of an unknown form of energy known as dark energy. Thus, dark matter constitutes 85% of total mass, while dark energy plus dark matter constitute 95% of total mass–energy content.
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2020-01-19 at 4:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by Fox No actually it would take about 43 years at that speed. Because the nearest star is about 4.3 light years away… it’s basic math dude.
Whatever you just googled five seconds ago that told you 80 years probably meant 40 years accelerating and 40 years decelerating in order to reach the star at normal (non-relativistic) speeds. But there’s really no reason a probe has to slow down in order to gather useable data, it can do it while passing by.
But thanks for teaching me that other stars are really far away, that is a pretty high level concept that I struggled to understand until your post
I did it from memory, I can't keep every fucking measurement in the universe in memory correctly, obvs. Still that's just the one first nearest star. Two fucking generations away just to get there. That's not even a millionth of the universe, getting to like the tenth or twentieth nearest stars you're gonna be looking at two or three lifetimes just to get to them. And that's assuming you can reach a tenth of the speed of light, of which the gforce would push your face through the back of your head while travelling to.
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2020-01-19 at 4:45 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL You do see him though, through his creation. Just as you can know a man through his prose, or through his work. You don't need to see him to know him. Seeing is one of the lesser valuable senses.
Shut up you moron, this fred is about reality, not speculated fairy stories designed only to control the minds of idiots.
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2020-01-19 at 4:45 PM UTCThe universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-01-19 at 4:45 PM UTCAnd I know about dark matter speculum, you fucking moron.
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2020-01-19 at 4:47 PM UTC
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2020-01-19 at 4:48 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Any commentator who expresses rage and loathing for a post on niggasin.space is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Lol not to brag but I remember one time you told me you actually, legitimately hate me. You wrote like a whole paragraph about it. I’d have to dig around for it :o -
2020-01-19 at 4:48 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
