Solar System appreciation

[Anonymous No.11525516]

>5 am
>another night of googling images of planets and spending hours in utter fascination
>feel pure amazement that the Solar system has been a constant of civilization for thousands of years
>thinking about how crazy it is that we borrow things from past civilizations, the names of our planets are remnants of an ancient society long gone
There's so much stuff I think about. I hope I'm not alone. I might come off as a dumb Reddit sciencebro saying this stuff and maybe it is kind of a normie take but there is really nothing I can say that describes the pure feeling of wonder every single time I look up to the stars. Every time I look through a telescope I have to wonder if God is real

[Anonymous No.11525536]

>>11525516
same. I'm thinking about taking physics instead of an engineering course at uni but I haven't studied maths for years now so it'd be very hard for me.

[Anonymous No.11525546]

>>11525536
Honestly I'm in a very profitable field right now and I have alot of money invested but if I had a choice to do everything over again I would bump up my grades and go into a scientific field. As far as math goes I wouldn't knock self studying as long as you have good self discipline. I'd really like to pick up math again, it was so much fun when I was younger but I grew out of it because I got lazy. You're never too old anon

[Anonymous No.11525554]

>>11525516
i do the same anon. amazing to think of the galaxy. fucking mindblowing

>>11525536
you dont need to study physics or maths to appreciate the cosmos anon

[Anonymous No.11525562]

>>11525546
>it was so much fun when I was younger but I grew out of it because I got lazy.

exactly why I stopped. I used to be one of the top in top set maths back when I was 12-16 but im 20 now and haven't touched maths for 4 years. I am starting to read through a precalculus textbook but its hard for me. Im autistic and have ADD I find it really difficult to self teach myself things. Im going to keep trying and I really hope I can study physics but im worried for myself.

like you I feel like I might regret not doing it in the future so that's my motivation.

>>11525554
that's what I've always done but I want to get deeper in it. space has always been my favourite subject to fantasise about.

[Anonymous No.11525568]

>>11525562
Hey I just wanna say I totally get it, I'm an aspie and I used to be on ADHD meds so it's really hard for me to do stuff like online school and self teaching too. I feel so good though when I realize that even though my "disabilities" are somewhat barriers to education in some ways, the accomplishment I feel when I practice good self discipline gives me the motivation to better myself. It's tough for us but I really think that works to our advantage sometimes. You can do it too anon

[Anonymous No.11526397]

It's amazing that people go their entire lives never pondering about our place in the universe.

[Anonymous No.11526421]

>>11526397
tfw my gf doesn't like having conversations about "space stuff" and always transitions conversations into complaining about her coworkers

[Anonymous No.11526443]

>>11526421
Why are you with her? Ass?

[Anonymous No.11526809]

>>11526443
i have a similar situation. I'm with her for ass, yes. but I don't usually get female attention so im not sure if I should leave her now, or until I meet someone else.

she can be pretty dumb sometimes

[Anonymous No.11527258]

>>11525516
It's such a shame we can't go and see all of it firsthand in a reasonable timetable
I look up at the moon half the time and wonder "How does it look being there?"

[Anonymous No.11527285]

>>11527258
if youre a zoomer, you may go to mars, definitely the moon again in our lifetimes.
i wonder how the earth would look like through a telescope on a foreign planet. not some hubble-grade thing, but the way we see the planets through amateur telescopes. kinda blurry and small but its definitely there. like pic related.
every single time i look up at the moon im in awe that we have made the universe our plaything. we are all animals yet we have the power to make the solar system our toy. we can literally do anything we want. we have real photographs of titan even. everyone says we're inconsequential nut nobody realizes how much power we truly have. the universe is in our hands. the fact that we can escape the bounds of the planet humanity was birthed in is proof that we are meant to do much more.
sometimes i wonder if the solar system is to humanity what the earth and her continents are to animals. animals can take hundreds of years to colonize and migrate from continents, and we do it in a matter of hours. lesser animals are content with earth as their "playground" because that is the extent of their capacity. is the solar system the extent of our "playground"?

[Anonymous No.11527348]

I appreciate the reality that we're never getting off of this rock so y'all better fix your issues and stop going to war with someone who lives 5 miles away because the asshole who sits in the big chair doesn't like the way the fucking lines look on the map. Just kill HIM on the spot. Problems solved if you just kill the maniacs.

[Anonymous No.11527351]

>>11527348
Based fedposter
Glow harder faggot

[Anonymous No.11527821]

>>11527348
based

[Anonymous No.11527999]

>>11525516
This posts reminds me that someday I have to learn how to use spaceengine

[Anonymous No.11528024]

>>11527348
Alright glow nigger lets give your theory the (you) it deserves. Which leader would you execute israel or palestine

[Anonymous No.11528034]

>>11525516
>another night of googling images of planets and spending hours in utter fascination
You know you can actually look at the sky without a computer?

[Anonymous No.11528066]

>>11525516
>redditbro
That's REDDITNIGGER FAGGOT COCKSUCKER SLIME

Choke on my dick, you onions animal.

[Anonymous No.11528077]

>>11525516
Very based, youre just smart bro.
Wonder is the primary force that made each one of us into scientists and engineers

[Anonymous No.11529950]

>>11528034
Did you know I also do that too
>>11528066
Based schizoposter
>>11528077
Oh hush, you

[Anonymous No.11530863]

>>11526421
I would try to talk to my ex about how cool it would be to go to mars and space travel but she would get oddly angry and just shut me down when I'd try talking about it and she'd say it's not realistic. Its hard to explain the whole dynamic but she wouldn't let me talk about my dreams, inspirations and my pondering of our place in the universe and she just wanted to complain about her coworkers and dumb shit all the time as well. This is just one reason I broke up with her but it was a big one. In my opinion it was just not worth it. Living a normie life where you just do dumb boring shit like that isn't for me. In the end I'm glad I am not with her anymore even though I'm single

[Anonymous No.11530887]

>>11530863
>In the end I'm glad I am not with her anymore even though I'm single
i feel ya man

[Anonymous No.11530913]

>>11530887
It's a tough feel. I definitely still love her and miss her but things just didnt work out between us and its better off this way

[Anonymous No.11530929]

>>11530913
honestly dude i miss her too. i know that it never wouldve worked but it was better than what im in now. she isnt the one for me either. all i want is a girl thats right for me :(

[Anonymous No.11530963]

>>11527285
There's a photo of the solar system taken by one of the Voyagers. Planet Earth is a blue dot, taking up 1 pixel in the photo.

[Anonymous No.11530969]

>>11530929
Focus on yourself and what your interested in and realize that true happiness and fulfillment comes from within not an external source especially a female

[Anonymous No.11531478]

>>11530913
feels

[Anonymous No.11531859]

>>11530863
fucking same
>>11530963
what

[Anonymous No.11532272]

Space exploration has been like the #1 thing on my mind now for several months. It never occurred to me until fairly recently that it's actually genuinely possible that we might actually get off this rock and start colonizing the Solar System, even in my lifetime. Hell, we might even leave this Solar System and start colonizing others, though that won't be for several hundred years at the very earliest.

Mars is by far and away my favorite planet to talk about for obvious reasons but I wish Venus would get more attention. We should start colonizing that and terraforming it at around the same time as Mars.

[Anonymous No.11532304]

>>11532272
Did you read Kurzweil?

[Anonymous No.11532318]

>>11532304
No. Should I be? I've been very, very interested in science and futurism for the past like half a year or so after kind of tangentially appreciating science and technology from the sidelines. Kinda kicking myself for being all depressed and shit in high school and not paying any attention to it. I also always thought I was too dumb for math but I'm taking college algebra right now and acing it, though higher stuff still gets me nervous.

[Anonymous No.11532362]

>>11532318
I think you'll cum your pants if you do. Read him, he's pretty much perfect for you.

[Anonymous No.11532381]

>>11525516
I get the feeling of silly Plebbity normie take but sometimes just looking at the stars is very nice, especially if you live away from light pollution and the Milky Way is out

[Anonymous No.11532396]

>PLANETS AND SCIENCE

[Anonymous No.11533347]

Enjoy:
https://youtu.be/XpsQimYhNkA

[Anonymous No.11533722]

>>11532272
>>11532362
>>11532318
realistically, could we colonize venus? how could we get past the atmosphere problem

[Anonymous No.11533745]

>>11531859
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/

[Anonymous No.11533775]

>>11533722
>realistically, could we colonize venus? how could we get past the atmosphere problem
Stage 1 would be to live in domed cloud cities, Star Wars-style.

Then I'd imagine you'd find a way to cool down the planet with one huge solar shade, eventually cooling the planet down to the point where the CO2 gases might freeze. At which point, you find some way to get rid of most of it, the best option being shipping it over to Mars since that planet has the exact opposite problem of not having enough greenhouse gases. Then create an artificial magnetosphere somehow, find some way to put water on the planet, maybe ship from Europa, Enceladus, or Ganymede, and then voila, you now have a terraformed Venus.

Though obviously it's much easier said than done. Step 1 would definitely be the cloud cities though. It doesn't get as much pull as Mars for obvious reasons.

[Anonymous No.11534134]

>>11533722
There's nothing reachable in the atmosphere worth the huge resource costs of a cloud city
Unless robots build equatorial thrusters and/or a mass driver slams thousands of comets at the right angle to spin it, Venus won't be worth it long term

[Anonymous No.11534339]

>>11534134
well, what's the alternative?

[Anonymous No.11535003]

>>11534339
Start with a mirror in Lagrange point 1 to reduce insolation. Next seed the planet with microbes/algae that can withstand the conditions and turn the atmosphere into something more breathable. Finally dump some ice into the planet to get some water.

[Anonymous No.11535893]

>>11535003
Not much life that can withstand that

[Anonymous No.11535915]

>>11535893
Extremophiles would survive the sulphurous atmosphere as long as you get the temperature below 400 C.