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Just checking in on this thread here, from your planet, Sol 3. Using my human tying digits, of which there are five on each appendage. Definitely not an alien. 
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yep. I think if everybody could just try to conceive that picture or even a hubble deep field the world would literally change. it would be better than everybody on the planet smoking weed for a day. then again some people are really dumb perspective
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Jun 5, 2014 14:57
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has someone posted the pic of the planets/stars scale getting gradually larger and it ends with 'your mom' because i was gonna find & post that but it's 7 pages long so i think someone must have, anyway cya
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Jun 5, 2014 14:59
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10 posts back.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:00
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redshirt posted:10 posts back. kool
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Jun 5, 2014 15:02
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Ignoarints posted:yep. I think if everybody could just try to conceive that picture or even a hubble deep field the world would literally change. it would be better than everybody on the planet smoking weed for a day. then again some people are really dumb people smoking weed 'are' the ones thinking about that poo poo
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Jun 5, 2014 15:03
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The Protagonist posted:Somewhere, a debate rages about whether to contact the homosapians. You know, if we humans actually turn out to be a lot like the old-school Klingons in the intergalactic scheme of things, I'd be totally down with that. I mean, we already have people enslaving Parrots to front a metal band; We create orcs and trolls and over-sized pepper-shakers called Daleks made for the sole purpose of frightening small children. Oh, and the Russians. Can't forget the Russians. Or Texans. Or those crazy-rear end people from Florida. Let's face facts: We humans are the potential scourge of the galaxy, and we should be honored at our privilege and should acknowledge that it is our divine providence in being able to plunder and loot all the other civilized worlds in the galaxy at our leisure. In our atomic-bomb powered starships.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:09
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whenever life gets you down, mrs. brown...
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Jun 5, 2014 15:23
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Q: "So how do we account for these gravitational effects?" Cosmologist: "Dark matter!" Q: "What's dark matter?" Cosmologist: "Quick! Look over there!" <Cosmologist has left the discussion> Total bullshit. You're best avenue is the genius of Karl Pilkington: "They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?" Here's something to make you feel like an insignificant piece of poo poo
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Jun 5, 2014 15:25
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Pudding Space posted:
And if that doesn't work, you can always try this one.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:39
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op posted:The universe is so loving ridiculously massive its hard to even believe it Is the universe massive and hard or just massive? This is importnat
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Jun 5, 2014 15:59
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Somebody post the Xbox one size comparison gif if it hasnt already been
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Jun 5, 2014 16:11
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Ocean Book posted:the thermodynamic arrow of time might be my favoritue thing about the universe Titties might be mine.
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Jun 5, 2014 16:24
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just think that one day we will be able to finally build that hypothetical ftl vehicle only to find out that nope, you cant go faster than light or transmit information ftl, as nearly everyone predicted all along. and there's no missing time on the flight recorder a la Contact people are gonna be sooo maaaaadddd lmao
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Jun 5, 2014 16:32
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Bronzie posted:And if that doesn't work, you can always try this one. Expected large image which said "my dick" at the end, was disappointed
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Jun 5, 2014 16:40
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baku posted:
guess what there's a meta information layer. there's a vr program running all of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6Mq352f0E
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Jun 5, 2014 16:50
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newreply.php posted:just think that one day we will be able to finally build that hypothetical ftl vehicle only to find out that nope, you cant go faster than light or transmit information ftl, as nearly everyone predicted all along. and there's no missing time on the flight recorder a la Contact we have already seen particles acting in ways that shouldnt be possible if there wasnt any way to communicate or otherwise interact faster than the speed of light ie quantum entanglement so the people who go "ftl will never be possible  " are already looking like goony troll assholes
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Jun 5, 2014 16:52
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my favorite space things are pulsars because they can be only 20km in diameter, 1.5x the mass of the sun, and spin so fast that they complete a full rotation in under 2 milliseconds. i just imagine something the size of a loving city spinning 500 times per second and my mind blows
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Jun 5, 2014 17:02
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the universe is full of things that will just loving kill you, its a good thing it so large otherwise wed be hosed
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Jun 5, 2014 17:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvG-jqGsWSk
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Jun 5, 2014 17:08
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I like that we have great pictures of distant galaxies but our picture of pluto is just a smudgy little piece of poo poo
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Jun 5, 2014 17:10
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Noyemi K posted:I like that we have great pictures of distant galaxies but our picture of pluto is just a smudgy little piece of poo poo I'm still pissed about Pluto getting demoted from planetary status. But isn't it just this weird thing with a bunch of tiny moons orbiting around it?
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Jun 5, 2014 17:13
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We haven't been visited by aliens because there are no aliens significantly more advanced than us, every universe exists in a false vacuum state and is inevitably destroyed by the first civilization to breach it
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Jun 5, 2014 17:15
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The universe isn't just loving massive, it is infinitely massive. Know the fun thing about infinity? It allows for everything to, well, be. Somewhere out there is a solar system that looks just like ours, with life evolving on it that looks just like ours. Somewhere on that alternate Earth there is an alternate you. Only instead of doing what you do, your alternate self became a rocket scientist (note: if you are a rocket scientist, he/she became a brain surgeon). That alternate self is vastly more successful in life than you could ever hope to be. But you can think about how alternate you is doing and try to feel some of that glory for yourself. If that doesn't work, imagine the opposite. On countless alternate Earths, there is an alternate you who is a complete failure in life. Arms rotting off due to drugs, coughing up lungs due to smoking and never going to lose his or her virginity due to crippling self-doubt. Think about them and feel better, because you are marginally better.
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Jun 5, 2014 17:17
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Yeah...on some alternate earth that's true. Alternate.
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Jun 5, 2014 17:20
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nimby posted:The universe isn't just loving massive, it is infinitely massive. and this is where we go deep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return#Poincar.C3.A9_recurrence_theorem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GCf29FPM4k&hd=1
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Jun 5, 2014 17:29
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SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY
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Jun 5, 2014 17:34
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Fojar38 posted:we have already seen particles acting in ways that shouldnt be possible if there wasnt any way to communicate or otherwise interact faster than the speed of light ie quantum entanglement so the people who go "ftl will never be possible oh yeah that thing that we cant use to transmit information ftl guess my point about not being able to transmit information ftl is busted!
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Jun 5, 2014 17:46
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FTL more like FML
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Jun 5, 2014 17:47
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u dont need to travel ftl to get to a place faster than it would take light to get there shitdick lol
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Jun 5, 2014 17:49
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poopzilla posted:cool
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Jun 5, 2014 17:51
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BadLlama posted:u dont need to travel ftl to get to a place faster than it would take light to get there shitdick lol this is true have them come to you and you basically need no effort at all
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Jun 5, 2014 17:53
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newreply.php posted:this is true have them come to you and you basically need no effort at all armchair spacetravel
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Jun 5, 2014 17:54
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Fojar38 posted:we have already seen particles acting in ways that shouldnt be possible if there wasnt any way to communicate or otherwise interact faster than the speed of light ie quantum entanglement so the people who go "ftl will never be possible you can't just decipher the results of entangled particles without other information which has to be transmitted at light speed or slower. sorry a ftl disbeliever killed your mother
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Jun 5, 2014 17:55
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I love the alcubierre drive concept but it has hillarious problems like sending a gigantic energy shockwave directly in front of you when you stop and the field collapses.
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Jun 5, 2014 18:12
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Okay actually I've been wondering for a while about a hypotetical device that uses the entanglement thing to transmit a signal...even though I've been convinced it won't work, I dunno' why. Here goes: Earth and a departing ship both have two big bundles of previously entangled particles in a coiled up string, a read loop and a write loop. The read-loop of earth is connected to the write loop of the ship, and vice versa. Now the read loop is just read at a constant rate, checking for a differentiated signal, where up and down spin are ones and zeroes. Most of the time its noise, but when earth or the ship intentionally put a signal into their writeloop (that is you can actually intentally force a state rather than just read it) then the ship would pick that up. The data feed would be lovely, but instantaneous? Also weird things happen as the ship accelerates and the frames of reference shift. Also to deal with desync you could constantly be pulling out the write loop and punching in zeroes until you wanted to send a signal... Okay beyond the mindboggling technical difficulties in constructing such a device, why wouldn't it work?
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Jun 5, 2014 18:13
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The Protagonist posted:Okay actually I've been wondering for a while about a hypotetical device that uses the entanglement thing to transmit a signal...even though I've been convinced it won't work, I dunno' why. Here goes: it wouldn't work because all people would do is send you "ur a faget" from the other side of the universe
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Jun 5, 2014 18:16
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The Protagonist posted:why wouldn't it work? cause the U is pretty gay
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Jun 5, 2014 18:16
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because once you measure the particle you break it's entanglement
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The Brown Menace posted:it wouldn't work because all people would do is send you "ur a faget" from the other side of the universe that is literally it working
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