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jheller1
“Don’t masturbate” - god
usmc5547
DrLOAC
Gababu
he's never told me that. I guess he's into me. IN YOUR FACE CHRISTIANS!
ButcherofBakersfield
Anyone know what the VY in "VY Canis Majoris" means? Or any of the 2 letter acronyms before the stsr names?
SnowpersonHitInTheFaceWithALackOfCreativity
Basically, there's LOTS of stars https://www.quora.com/What-does-VY-stand-for-in-VY-Canis-Majoris
TatersWhatsTatersPrecious
I've seen this a million times but I read and enjoy it every time to remind myself of scale.
VulpesIncendium
norwad
In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Babybunz
Where’s my mom
RudyWasOffsides
Does anyone else get really freaked out by this?
ARealDjentleman
FourScoreAndSevenBeersAgo
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
Captainawesomething
Star Trek only happened in one galaxy, and a couple of quadrants.
fbutt09
FourNotFound
It's continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds.
Keibrina
To seek out new life (forms) and new civilizations. To boldly go, where no one has gone before.
Humanfrenchfry
BallDoctor
GoodenAndItIsAGoodUn
Just upvoted this, but then realised it was on 43 upvotes. So I've removed my vote so it's on 42. Hope that's OK.
BallDoctor
I just realised the original said a long way to the "chemist's" not the "drug store"... is there an American "translation"??
Wynja
There's US and UK versions, but there's also different edits/rewrites by Adams himself over the years
Xt3rminat3
It's a great big universe and we're all really puny, were just tiny little specs about the size of Mickey Rooney..
Thatsadownvotin
Though even Mickey Rooney was once a giant star.
calisaya
It's big and black and inky, and we are small and dinky
DippyDoopter
Just like i learned in the showers after gym class. Theres always something bigger....
LifeIsDukka101
And smaller....
DeucesMongooses
Ah yes. Reminder of my insignificance
RadasNoir
I find it comforting, weirdly enough. Just as my few accomplishments mean little in the grand scheme of things, that means my many...
RadasNoir
...mistakes also ultimately don't really matter.
DeucesMongooses
Pretty good way to look at it. My go to is usually “what’s it going to matter in a day, month, year etc”
RadasNoir
If there's anything that can make even the universe seem small, it's the inexorable march of time. "This too shall pass."
Neinas
I comfort my self with this to when thinking about the state of this planet, the future of humanity an life on this planet. Also time.
IHateCakeDays
Viva la Pluto!
EvilleBob
Betelgeuse is a big bastard, close by (on an astronomical scale) and quite close to going nova. As Marvin the Martian might say, KaBOOM
swissdoode
Sheldonian
And that's why we haven't found aliens, they're like really really REALLY far away
Koga73
And besides physical space there is the time aspect. How old the universe is combined with the vastness
The701
Or they're being as quiet as possible:
The701
https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/the-dark-forest-theory-a-terrifying-explanation-of-why-we-havent-heard-from-aliens-yet
Sheldonian
That type of ideas I feel are too much of humanity looking into a mirror and a bidimensional really. Because it makes a lot of weird 1/
Sheldonian
Assumptions like, suddenly a bunch of species from different planets got smart at mostly the same time to see another species committing 2/
Sheldonian
Genocide and they all decided at the same time to lay low instead of maybe joining forces or whatever. It's sounds more like a star wars 3/
MrBobSaget
"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively 1/2
MrBobSaget
"there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves." - Bill Hicks
Superchief86
Here's Tom with the weather!
Therealcrotalus
Space is big. You won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. - DA
PhaserRave
Don't panic!
nimgurth
and always bring your towel
CogPrimus
I don't know. It is a long way down the road to the chemist's. It can't be much bigger than that, right?
ChloeRed
Just be careful going to Bethselamin, or at least, remember to get a receipt every time you go to the loo...
norwad
Sorry to disaopint you, but thats just peanuts to space.
Bytencoder
Watch Cody's video on star distances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCSIXLIzhzk
PerthAussieMike
And people who believe their 'God', who created everything... yes, EVERYTHING, is concerned that little Billy is playing with his willy?
DarthTronz
shmoogeeoogee
Apparently there may be alot of Billy willies being played with out there. That shit adds up.
Gayforbae
I think hes a bit too concerned with two brothers to be concerned about billys willy, or any thing else, tbh.
ThisCommentIsRetired8
Yup gods eye is bigger than all of those galaxies combined and it is staring down at your itty bitty willy beat off session
KootchieKoo
How bout ppl who believe in God but not that He gives a shit about masturbation or consenting adult sex? Way to mass generalize.
EBlade19889
No... They were pretty specifically talking only about the people who think God gives a shit
KootchieKoo
Went back and reread, still not seeing that OP makes a distinction, or even thinks there is one. Maybe we're both interpreting.
MisterLemons
Being fair, when you look out your window, you wanna see billy jerking off in the corner of the view? Calm down billy, do that at night.
Gayforbae
Eh, as long as hes enjoying himself.
TreasonousCheeto
jicahmusic
All down votes believing they know better. Imagine being that.
Bigboipoi
The idea that there cannot be a god is as dogmatic and crazy as any evangelical believer of any religion.
manslut
You would have been one of those people that threw stones at the inventors of the concept of "zero"...
Bigboipoi
Your the one deniying the possibility of something not me
manslut
Zero was the result of mathematical evidence, they didn't conjure it out of nothing like "god"
Bigboipoi
Seems none of us are religious here but you sure are a zealot for atheism. It's ironic how people like you opporate.
CanadianEngineer
Not *just as* but nope, not valid either. Occam’s razor would suggest either no god or some god(s) being plausible. Choosing a specific 1/?
CanadianEngineer
god(s) is a more specific hypothesis with no added data so I’d argue it’s (slightly) *more* dogmatic 2/2
Superchief86
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour.
tankdestroyer642
This is why I think aliens have to exist. Out of the billions of galaxies, each with trillions of stars, there has to be habitated planets
The701
Shhhhhh. https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/the-dark-forest-theory-a-terrifying-explanation-of-why-we-havent-heard-from-aliens-yet
SquireRamza
It's almost a certainty that there has been, is, or will be other intelligent life in the universe. The factor is sheer size
RadasNoir
That's my thoughts on the matter as well. It feels like it would be statistically impossible for our planet to be the ONLY habitable one...
RadasNoir
...in the entire universe.
BillandTedsUnremarkableTripToCostCo
About 2 trillion galaxies according to recent estimates. That’s just the visible universe.
Kbantar
You are still holding a belief without any evidence whatsoever. The only rational answer to life on other planets is, "we don't know".
ThisCommentIsRetired8
WhatABunchOfBastards
If you roll a dice 100000000000000 times without knowing the results it's save to say the six came more than once.
InsertNameHereIGuess
We have evidence that life is possible, we are it. If it can happen once, with 2 trillion galaxies it can happen more than once.
Spiderbubble
But it's a logical conclusion based on the evidence we have. Unlike "THERE IS A MAGIC DIMENSIONAL BEING WHO CREATED EVERYTHING".
Kbantar
No, it's not. We have one example, but simply do not know anything else. You can't just go, "it's logical" with zero evidence.
Kbantar
I don't understand why so damn many consider, "we don't know" to be a shameful answer.
ashIG88
Bonchoman
Need Trump's hands for scale
sha13
Those stars are just from our Galaxy.
BorgClown
Don't worry, see the magnifier cursor? click the image and it will zoom in... OK, it's become even smaller... just download it I guess.
WillJeSuis
SHUT! I CAN'T HELP IT! I WAS BORN WITH IT!
captainswoopty
More like, WITHOUT it
captainswoopty
ChilliCheeseFrenchFries
Longvehicle
BigTex1
Full thing with sound
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dolphindreamsandsatan
Awesome! Thank you!
CaptSchmidtGaming
you can see him barely holding it together
Feralkyn
I fucking lose it every time I watch him *almost* lose it, tyvm for posting it again lol
Neomechavoltron
Fucking love me some Cnc cutscenes
HeadJamistan
Anakindergarden
Oh, Tanya... Would sometimes play the campaign just to see her.
sjbrooksy7447
If we physically explore outside our solar system, I don't think we'll ever go past our galaxy. Unless we have space folding or something.
carpetdope
Someone once said a sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic, so who knows?
LifeIsDukka101
That was Arthur C. Clarke.
Averien
Arthur C. Clarke was pretty indistinguishable from magic, yes.
Averien
Sufficiently advanced technology is also indistinguishable from Arthur C. Clarke, so it checks out twice.
gosomethingwitty
The fastest travelling space probe will reach our nearest star in 19000 years.
DerScheiss
We should squabble over fossil fuels and not feeding children because it’s too expensive instead of trying to explore.
colsanders2002
Have you seen military budgets lately?
1LostPuppy
What about the Event Horizon? It could be there in a day.
Karmak
I prefer travel that doesn't pass through a chaos dimension.
LordSithis
Fastest moving yet*
shyriath
Yeah, can we start working on a warp drive so we can boldly go someplace away from all this shit?
Lowktar
That will never happen as long as there are countries and boarders. Everyone has an agenda, and working together peacefully isn't it.
GeneralAnubis
Yeah I guess hostile invaders jumping on your ship would be prohibitive to travel
JustEatingBagelBites
The Parker Solar Probe reached 153,454 mph in 2018. It will continue to accelerate and reach 430,000 by 2024. Thats 120 miles per second.
JustEatingBagelBites
At the top speed it would take about 30 minutes to make it from the earth to the moon. Standard travel time is 3 days.
JustEatingBagelBites
4 days to get to Mars. Standard travel time is 7 months. In terms of interstellar travel, that’s still crazy slow.
Rauca
At that final speed, it will only take 216hrs to travel 93,000,000miles (from here to the sun)
thatunpleasantfeeling
Need a skip drive. Get to right before light speed, then go around it.
Kbantar
Nah, my ship powered by unicorn farts is even faster.
LazyEmt365
Technically we could build a ship that could reach it in about 2 years with a Orion drive but nobody likes to use those
HeavyBaryon
Elon, where are you when needed?
NukeItFromOrbitMan
Give him time
Kbantar
That would be going faster than the speed of light. So no, no real drive could do that.
LazyEmt365
Sorry your right I meant they could do a light year in about two years orion drives can get up wards of 40% of c
epyonwing
Surely the science exists to have FTL travel, we are just stuck in 3D. We can barely imagine what a tangible 4th would add to our knowledge
astralfields
Yep. There are potential ways to travel faster than light, but most would require a hyper-dense fuel, basically unobtanium.
Kbantar
The least nonsensical of magic drives still require negative mass, itself an unproven likely nonsensical substance.
SoberAndBored
The last few images are the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. It is a compilation of images taken over 10 years. It contains roughly 5,500 galaxies.
Scoobylogic
Pretty sure that's evenly.
InsertNameHereIGuess
We got a better version last year. The 47MB image is amazing: https://hubblesite.org/image/4492/news
SoberAndBored
Draw a 1mm square, and hold it 1 meter from your eyes: THAT'S how small an area of the sky is contained in that image. Those 5,500
SoberAndBored
Galaxies each contain anywhere from a few tens of millions of stars, up to about 50 trillion stars (50,000,000,000,000), and the image
SoberAndBored
covers about 1 thirteen-millionth of the sky. Each of those 13 million squares will contain around 5,500 galaxies, which in turn contain
SoberAndBored
millions, billions or trillions of star systems, any of which could contain planets which support life.
SoberAndBored
The universe is a big place and, whatever happens, you will not be missed