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Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Sweevo posted:

we're never going back to the moon

not while a single boomer exists to whine about the cost anyway

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

You just have to wait until fear of Russians is replaced by fear of Chinese and we'll be right back there.

yerp. the second someone even postulates a tiangong in lunar orbit the lunar gateway mission will get a trillion dollars in funding and we'll be well on our way to figuring out how to keep dozens of people alive and self sufficient at an earth-moon lagrange point for decades

bring that second cold war on imo, this planet is on its way out and I want to see quadrillions in GDP spent on finding a way off it

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Kenny Logins
Jan 11, 2011

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

Sweevo posted:

we're never going back to the moon

not while a single boomer exists to whine about the cost anyway

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Kazinsal posted:

this planet is on its way out and I want to see quadrillions in GDP spent on finding a way off it

as a joke maybe, but it's never going to be more cost effective to try to find or make somewhere more habitable than earth.

the terrible secret of space is everything will kill you all the time. that's true of the earth too, but at least you don't have to bring your own air

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Kazinsal posted:

bring that second cold war on imo, this planet is on its way out and I want to see quadrillions in GDP spent on finding a way off it

this is like owning a house but it's starting to fall apart so instead you invest in a tent in the front yard

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

echinopsis posted:

this is like owning a house but it's starting to fall apart so instead you invest in a tent in a swimming pool, several block away

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

echinopsis posted:

this is like owning a house but it's starting to fall apart so instead you invest in a tent in the front yard

Also the tent is both freezing and on fire at the same time

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

infernal machines posted:

as a joke maybe, but it's never going to be more cost effective to try to find or make somewhere more habitable than earth.

the terrible secret of space is everything will kill you all the time. that's true of the earth too, but at least you don't have to bring your own air

at least we had a few million years to evolve to survive in our current horrible indifferent niche in the galaxy

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

we’re never going back to the moon because we already know how to build icbms

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


Ornamental Dingbat posted:

You just have to wait until fear of Russians is replaced by fear of Chinese and we'll be right back there.

naw, too many true believers in power now to let the us government have that much power and money

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



Bought a lovely Friends trivia PC game for £2.50 in Gamestop a few weeks ago and loaded it onto my PC thinking it wouldn't work. It worked fine, but today I became curious as to what programs were taking up the majority of space and-

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

I wonder if it is using sparse files as a very stupid method of copy protection.

Video Nasty
Jun 17, 2003

Poo In An Alleyway posted:

Bought a lovely Friends trivia PC game for £2.50 in Gamestop a few weeks ago and loaded it onto my PC thinking it wouldn't work. It worked fine, but today I became curious as to what programs were taking up the majority of space and-


:popeye: god drat the next largest application is 1/162nd the size hahaha

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



Video Nasty posted:

:popeye: god drat the next largest application is 1/162nd the size hahaha

Even more bizarre than that: my C drive is 930GB

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Poo In An Alleyway posted:

Even more bizarre than that: my C drive is 930GB

there is a small but growing black hole inside your computer

good luck

minato
Jun 7, 2004

cutty cain't hang, say 7-up.
Taco Defender
The Friends Manhattan apartment was like 100x the size of a regular Manhattan apartment, so it's just being true to the series.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970

13 billion years ago says hi

e: things look a little wonky and blurry because the galaxies in the background are having their light lensed by the gravity fields of the galaxies in the foreground

FMguru fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jul 11, 2022

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
here is a higher resolution version of that pic

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1546621144358391808

you can really see the distorting of the red-shifted (more distant) galaxies

Haptical Sales Slut
Mar 15, 2010

Age 18 to 49

Poo In An Alleyway posted:

Bought a lovely Friends trivia PC game for £2.50 in Gamestop a few weeks ago and loaded it onto my PC thinking it wouldn't work. It worked fine, but today I became curious as to what programs were taking up the majority of space and-


that’s a lot of Rachel porno photoshops

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

FMguru posted:

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970

13 billion years ago says hi

e: things look a little wonky and blurry because the galaxies in the background are having their light lensed by the gravity fields of the galaxies in the foreground


Apparently the amount of sky covered by this image is equivalent to a grain of sand held at arms length.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

FMguru posted:

here is a higher resolution version of that pic

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1546621144358391808

you can really see the distorting of the red-shifted (more distant) galaxies

https://twitter.com/jason4short/status/1546626672488632321

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

It's sick, can't wait for more of them to be released. You can find the hubble ones here

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/index.html

Pythagoras a trois
Feb 19, 2004

I have a lot of points to make and I will make them later.
Get the full 29mb version here:

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



it kinda looks like some are streaked around a central point

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


that's the gravity lensing caused by deeze nuts

matti
Mar 31, 2019

i am not really sure if you are being honest and exited or cynical and sarcastic since its the 'pos

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face


blimp

Base Emitter
Apr 1, 2012

?

matti posted:

i am not really sure if you are being honest and exited or cynical and sarcastic since its the 'pos

why not both

Lake of Methane
Oct 29, 2011

https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/1546576975166201856

matti
Mar 31, 2019


i was expecting this to say "you are retarded" at the end

matti
Mar 31, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfpoXeOnfbg

cowboy beepboop
Feb 24, 2001

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Apparently the amount of sky covered by this image is equivalent to a grain of sand held at arms length.

too many galaxies to comprehend. please reduce.

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010


öxolklöfför :hai:

Armitag3
Mar 15, 2020

Forget it Jake, it's cybertown.


3D Megadoodoo posted:

öxolklöfför :hai:

thanks man, but I already have a bookcase

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Kenny Logins
Jan 11, 2011

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao-Pj8H4ta0

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Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/peter_mount/status/1546853597102628865?t=pB2jH5L5AzMq7bwc7u-WGA&s=19

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