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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Feb 10, 2023 11:09:33 GMT
But also we're so tiny in the grand scale of things we're insignificant.
Unless...we're the only sentient beings ever to exist or ever will exist.
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Post by EMarkM on Feb 10, 2023 11:20:00 GMT
But also we're so tiny in the grand scale of things we're insignificant. Unless...we're the only sentient beings ever to exist or ever will exist. Which, despite the "The Universe is so big there MUST be other life" viewpoint, we might actually be. It took a good few billion years of Universe for life to get started on Earth and, having just watched Anton Petrov's excellent video, "Obscure Biochemical Paradox May Explain Why We Can't Find Alien Life", we can say that the hoops that protein has to jump through to get even the simplest form of life is statistically...well...magic. |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Feb 10, 2023 11:48:10 GMT
But also we're so tiny in the grand scale of things we're insignificant. Unless...we're the only sentient beings ever to exist or ever will exist. Well, our best guess still is that space is infinite, so you could be the size of the know universe and still be irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Feb 10, 2023 11:50:24 GMT
Yeah I do find that to be the most fascinating outcome. If we are alone then we really need to make sure we don't fuck this up.
We should probably think like that while we're looking, cause the consequences of us fucking this up are that the universe loses all consciousness.
That said there are a shit load of planets, a shit load more stars and a shit load of time so there's plenty of chance for this random magic happening somewhere else at some other time at least.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Feb 10, 2023 12:02:34 GMT
Ow right, it's infinite in time too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2023 12:03:35 GMT
I feel "a shit load" is under playing it a bit. I would go with an utterly incomprehensible amount of galaxies which have existed for an utterly unfathomable amount of time. We're not unique.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2023 12:09:02 GMT
Yeah I do find that to be the most fascinating outcome. If we are alone then we really need to make sure we don't fuck this up. We should probably think like that while we're looking, cause the consequences of us fucking this up are that the universe loses all consciousness. That said there are a shit load of planets, a shit load more stars and a shit load of time so there's plenty of chance for this random magic happening somewhere else at some other time at least. The universe might have done a process review, and is now rethinking the whole intelligence thing entirely. Best of intentions and all that, but let's be frank, it hasn't worked out like the brochure said it would. |
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Post by damagedinc on Feb 10, 2023 12:10:52 GMT
Ow right, it's infinite in time too. Ahhh but what truly is time.....and does time actually exist |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Feb 10, 2023 12:17:45 GMT
I feel "a shit load" is under playing it a bit. I would go with an utterly incomprehensible amount of galaxies which have existed for an utterly unfathomable amount of time. We're not unique. Yeah it's very unlikely that we're unique but it's not certain. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 10, 2023 12:18:10 GMT
Ow right, it's infinite in time too. Ahhh but what truly is time.....and does time actually exist This could all be an imagined memory of spontaneously existing Boltzmann Brain, as it dies in the vacuum of space. |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Feb 10, 2023 12:42:49 GMT
I know I'm real, not sure about you guys though.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Feb 10, 2023 13:17:24 GMT
So light ‘em if you got ‘em I guess. What’s everyone’s cosmic perspective? I rather like Penrose’s cyclical universe idea.
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Post by barchetta on Feb 11, 2023 23:10:54 GMT
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Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 14, 2023 12:30:29 GMT
Was listening to an infinite monkeycage podcast where they were speaking to astronauts and one of the guests highlighted the impact that starlink and similair other satellite programs will have on the night sky.
Light pollution is already an issue most towns, but it'll be pretty frustrating trying to stargaze in a remote location just to see a twatty line of satellites stroll past. It's literally the only view humans can have of anything that's potentially 13 billion years old and we seem to be doing our best to trash it.
I mean it's going to happen but it does make me feel kind of sad. Like yay, progress? I'm not sure the cost is worth it.
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Post by X201 on Feb 14, 2023 15:36:12 GMT
Yep.
Reminds me of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy where the people of Crickit made the sky go black.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Feb 17, 2023 9:34:25 GMT
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Post by X201 on Mar 7, 2023 9:34:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2023 10:58:57 GMT
Wonder if anyone's considered that the reason aliens haven't made contact with us is because they found out we named our entire galaxy after the weird white stuff that comes out of our tits.
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Post by jonsend on Mar 8, 2023 18:47:11 GMT
Relativity space debut launch of heavily 3d printed rocket coming up: |
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Post by EMarkM on Mar 8, 2023 18:49:32 GMT
Wonder if anyone's considered that the reason aliens haven't made contact with us is because they found out we named our entire galaxy after the weird white stuff that comes out of our tits. I… I don’t know… |
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Post by jonsend on Mar 8, 2023 20:23:04 GMT
Relativity space debut launch of heavily 3d printed rocket coming up: Scrubbed. |
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Post by jonsend on Mar 9, 2023 19:02:49 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 15, 2023 13:05:13 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Mar 29, 2023 12:13:57 GMT
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Post by Fake_Blood on Apr 9, 2023 13:08:28 GMT
Runaway black hole never coming back.
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Post by LegendaryApe on Apr 9, 2023 16:10:59 GMT
Wrong way in the infinite black
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 10, 2023 1:19:20 GMT
Hang on, I cleaned the lens and now it's gone. False alarm.
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Post by X201 on Apr 10, 2023 7:44:22 GMT
First thing that came to mind reading the above was a 1955 episode of Hancock’s Half Hour, where he discovers an unidentified lump of rock hurtling towards earth, only for it to be revealed that Sid has been painting a gradually larger dot on his telescope lens each day.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Apr 10, 2023 11:34:02 GMT
It is worrisome that a lot of scientific experiments gather so much data that they have to automate the processing, which in a lot of cases means anomalies and artefacts get thrown out before anyone gets to see them. Historically some of the greatest discoveries came from unexpected results.
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Post by minimatt on Apr 10, 2023 21:41:55 GMT
for a year or so a certain thames valley law firm had all its servers crunching SETI data on spare cycles thanks to a fresh faced space obsessed IT manager...
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