/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2872419]

Let's discuss our favorite things about the heavens.
Galaxies, Quasars, Black holes, Nebulae, Anything of the sort, Post pictures as well, they're beautiful.

[Anonymous No.2872431]

I don't believe in the heavens.

[Anonymous No.2872430]

<3 cygnus X-1

[Anonymous No.2872434]

what was the satellite that took that pic? fucking crazy

[Anonymous No.2872444]

We somehow need a view like this.

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[Anonymous No.2872453]

>>2872444

My roof would be made out of glass, I'd enjoy it to the fullest every night.

[Anonymous No.2872459]

>>2872444
too much light

[Anonymous No.2872464]

The night sky should look like this.

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[Anonymous No.2872466]

We are so very small...

[Anonymous No.2872484]

>>2872466

Sometimes when I think about it I have panic/anxiety attacks, because I cannot fathom how truly small we are.

[Anonymous No.2872477]

>>2872465

My desktop!

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[Anonymous No.2872551]

>>2872484
We are so small yet we can still understand the universe and its inconceivable size. I think that's pretty awesome. Not sure why you have anxiety attacks about it.

[Anonymous No.2872558]

>>2872551

Not really the size itself, just the thought of it, the thought of eternity, how small we are,

[Anonymous No.2872575]

>>2872551
Ever read HHG?
"The Total Perspective Votex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses. To explain--since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation--every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition, and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

Trin Tragula--for that was his name--was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.

"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex--just to show her.

And into one end, he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other, he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain, but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."

[Anonymous No.2872590]

What about neutron stars? There pretty kick ass.

[Anonymous No.2872644]

Here's something I've always thought of.

Say there was a Disney musical about the future and space travel, how would they do a song about someone falling through empty space? Like have them dancing around, rises of music cut off abruptly once he (or she) realizes no one's coming? Stuff like that.

[Anonymous No.2872697]

>>2872484
I know that feel, bro.

[Anonymous No.2872723]

>>2872644
Disney made a movie about aliens. It was called Mars Needs Moms and it sucked.
If you want a movie to show the majesty of space, watch Wall·e.

[Anonymous No.2872747]

>Black holes
>mfw no body has trolled OP yet