/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16255206
>where's his?

Here:
>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/symposium-international-astronomical-union/article/study-of-the-abundance-distributions-along-the-minor-axis-of-the-galactic-bulge/46736E7A26E7BF823E5ADA5339233850

...And here's a breakdown of why it earned him a PhD:
>https://medium.com/@mystic.flores/i-read-neil-degrasse-tysons-phd-thesis-so-that-you-don-t-have-to-51cbf91f0c1e

Can someone help me with:
>>>/wsr/413880
Thanks.

>>9198905

Astronomy nerd porn:

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

If you have one of those Microsoft mice with the otherwise useless tilting wheel motion, you can finally give it a workout. ;-)

>>9074744

Deduction.

Freeman Dyson postulated that a sufficiently advanced civilization capable of building his spheres or clouds around a star would harness all visible light energy, allowing infrared to escape.

However, an even more advanced, post-biological entity would likely be unsatisfied with this natural inefficiency and start to disassemble the stars themselves in order to exploit their matter in a synthetic, seemingly invisible process. As it spread, it would appear to snuff out all stars and galaxies in its path.

The sheer numbers and scale alone are enough to get the heart pounding.

>>8967684

>not knowing we're living inside a "white hole", a singularity that ejected all energy and mass from elsewhere, or "exploded from nothing", from our point of view

A white hole is like a nicely bleached black hole in space and time.

>>8921864

>let's keep it realistic.
>completely dives into silly space opera nonsense like "fleets" and a "navy" in the next paragraph

You want realistic? The most we can expect for biological human "exploration" (actually, irrelevant vanity projects better handled by probes and rovers) is:
>maintain the ISS into the '20s
>encourage the Chinese to pursue their independent efforts, with an eye on joint ventures with the usual intergovernmental agencies later
>encourage private efforts (SpaceX et al)
>bigger LEO station to replace the ISS in the '30s
>lunar base
>rendezvous with an NEA
>giant space telescope big enough to make the James Watt look like a pirate's spyglass

...And at the most far-fetched, before exploration and space-based industry and fabrication becomes wholly unnecessary and better handled exclusively by machines (and we're practically there), an attempt at Mars. At least its moons.

By the time you get to the late 40s, you're fighting against AI supremacy, and whatever its wishes and goals are...probably to utilize Von Neumann machines to convert the local stellar neighborhood (and then, galaxy, galactic neighborhood, universe) into computronium.

>>6498106

Epic science quotes