Astronomy and Space related matters thread

If we aren’t already virtual humans mate

It’s not too late to do a runner.

Some amounts of chumps on this thread. The last 82 posts saying space is big and the Earth is small

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There’s only 84 posts, you simpleton.

Huh?

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According to Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrum, we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. The argument goes that future civilizations will undoubtedly have the computing power to run simulations of their ancestors, and as they could run many, many such simulations, we are almost certainly living in one.

The evidence from QM strongly suggests that at the most basic level, there is only information, and nothing that corresponds to anything we regard as matter.

He can’t imagine anything larger than the number 100 mate, the poor simpleton.

Maybe deja vu is like glitches in the matrix man :thinking:

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Everybody should look at this every so often to get some perspective on life “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam”

The Blue Dot

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Is a mote smaller than a speck?

What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read… if they can’t even fit inside the building?

Full quote by Carl Sagan

"Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known."

Well we’re not in a computer simulation anyway apparently

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2 black holes colliding is savage

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X videos?

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A gamechanger.

Catchy name too.

A fella in California has built a home made rocket which is going to fire him 68 miles above the earth so he can take pictures and return home with the evidence that the earth is flat. He will be live streaming the event, might be worth checking out. Boston Celtics NBA star Kyrie Irving is a famous supporter of the flat earth theory.

His name is a dead giveaway.

He’ll find out how fucking flat it is when he lands.

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