/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16144113
It's just right over there

>>15099888
Seeing the fleet slow down to orbit Pandora was awe-inspiring, watching fish people swim around for 19 hours solid was not. I wonder if the rest of the star system has other planets humans could've tried settling, or mining or whatever. It's awfully hackneyed that humanity keeps fucking with peaceful ayys who always happen to be sitting on gold they're not using.

>>12579639
Saturn's rings. Not sure what captured that image.
Here's one of the pair taken by Hubble though.
I love these two photos, it really gives you the sense that they're just 'right over there'.

I'm just going to make this post then screencap it so I never have to make it again. This is our closest neighboring star system: Alpha Centauri. This is the best photo humans have ever taken of it. We literally don't even know if the system has planets for sure or not. Our literal next-door neighbor could have an entire solar system filled with planets that are ALL ecumenopolises and a fleet of starships with the combined total mass of Earth's fucking moon.

AND WE WOULD NEVER KNOW.

"Oh but muh EM radiation!", I can hear the primitive gears of your monkey brains attempting to process. So what? What if they don't use EM radiation like we do? We're not going to pick up anything from them. They could have a world the size of Earth that was lit up like a fucking Christmas tree and we'd still never see the fucking thing.

You morons are pop-sci retards. You VASTLY overestimate human ability and the current state of human technology and it is tiresome.

>>11548211
As I have said many times, the Alpha Centauri system could have every planet in its system be an ecumenopolis and an entire system-spanning fleet of heavy warships and we would never know any of that because human technology is little better than flung shit from apes. Pic related is the clearest image we have of our nearest celestial neighbor. That's it.

>>11548337
It's not a fucking paradox because it's stupid as fuck.

>>11548361
This. Good luck convincing the modern witch doctors calling themselves "scientists" of that, though.

>>11444172
For the trillionth fucking time, there is no "paradox". It's simply the typical retard's lack of understanding. If the closest star system to us (Alpha Centauri) had an entire star system-stretching fleet of ships the size of small moons WE WOULD NEVER KNOW. We do not have the fucking ability to detect such things. THIS is the best image of OUR CLOSEST NEIGHBORING STAR SYSTEM ever captured. There's your fucking answer, moron. You see any aliens? Nope, me neither, guess that settles it.