/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3363901]

Guys, I'm crying right now.

Just looking at this picture makes me feel something strange inside. I guess you could call it "love". I'm in love with space exploration. I've lost interest in everything, besides it. Things that are considered "interesting" by the general population don't cut it for me anymore.

Space really is all I think about all day, every day. I really do cry myself to sleep at night thinking about how I'll never be able to explore it. If only some advanced alien species knew I existed in this life, if only they knew my deep profound love for space. I know that will never happen though. That is the thought that makes me so sad when I look up at the night sky. I'll never be out there, but I'll continue to dream of it until the day I die.

[Anonymous No.3363908]

Smoke some DMT

You'll be able to explore strange new worlds in all their glory without leaving your bedroom.

[Anonymous No.3365682]

dude i feel the exact same way, i have 15 thousand dollars aved up and hope to be able to afford a ticket to space within ten years. im looking for business oppurtunities to invest so if you have any ideas lemme know and well make some money

[Anonymous No.3365686]

>I'm in love with space exploration

Too much star trek. Get a life, OP.

[Anonymous No.3365731]

Dammit OP, now I'm on the verge of tears. The Hubble deep space image does the same to me.
Can we get the sad frog meme that says "you were born tosoon, you'll never explore tje galaxy" I've seen it b4

[Anonymous No.3365743]

>>3365731

What is even more sad is that you'll never be able to enjoy the benefits of space exploration in your lifetime.

[Anonymous No.3365744]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6w2M50_Xdk

[Anonymous No.3365741]

>>3363901


I can relate OP.

There's nothing in life to live for except gaining knowledge of the cosmos in my opinion.

[The Answer No.3365769]

OP look up brian greene

[Anonymous No.3365904]

>>3363901
This is exactly how I feel, OP. Every single day.
Just imagine all of those planets out there. Imagine everything out there.
Out of all of the civilizations, cultures, planets, species, galaxies, nebulas, technologies, stars, and who knows what else, we will only know of one (or very few) in our lifetime - our own solar system and the limited amount of extra-terresial planets and stars that we can observe.
I feel depressed again.

I can't wait to see the results from the J-WT. It's going to be absolutely stunning.

[Anonymous No.3365920]

>>3365743

[Anonymous No.3365929]

>>3365920

Prove I am wrong.

[Anonymous No.3365940]

>>3365929
not all of us will travel, but some will. and i'm down for a trip to nowhere

[Anonymous No.3365947]

Did somebody say SPACE?

[Anonymous No.3365951]

im mored interesed in avanced aliens than in visiting other places

[Anonymous No.3365962]

I can sympathize OP, but in reality, space travel would be incredibly boring and hard at times. You wouldn't see a whole lot if you were to look out a window either.

That's why I plan on extending my lifetime for as long as physically possible. (Yeah... I'm a closet transhumanist... )

[Anonymous No.3365983]

>>3365947
gotta go to space

[Anonymous No.3366014]

>>3365947
SSSSPPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.3366027]

>>3365962
Suspended animation, they're gonna develop it for this purpose.

[Anonymous No.3366042]

Gonna start dumping what space pics I have.
This one's for you OP.

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[Anonymous No.3366081]

Although I can sympathize with wanting to go to these places, I do feel lucky that we can even see these astronomical bodies in such detail. We are the first generation privileged enough to see such incredible things.

[Anonymous No.3366087]

[Anonymous No.3366099]

The famous Horsehead Nebula

[Anonymous No.3366120]

>>3363901
Cool story, bro.

[Anonymous No.3366119]

>>3366062
Now that is what I call beautiful.

[Anonymous No.3366136]

Probably my favorite one.
Antennae galaxies colliding.
Managed to find a high res one.

[Anonymous No.3366140]

>>3363901

I know that feeling. It never really hit, since I lived in urban sprall, until I was about 13. I went to Arizona and saw the milky way for the first time. I was sad as much as I was disappointed. Since then I find my mind wanders and I think of all the thinks I am not able to witness, how blind I am to reality, how much more there is that I am unaware of and I just get depressed. It just makes day to day life seem so mundane and trivial.

[Anonymous No.3366144]

Last one right now.
My hard drive died not long ago so I'm trying to rebuild my folder.
Need to give ol' /wg/ a visit again.

[Anonymous No.3366145]

Space is boring. You would think space would be exciting but it's not. NASA-TV shuttle coverage is more boring than C-Span. Do you realize how boring that is?

[Anonymous No.3366150]

>>3366145
>STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE

You're from /v/, aren't you?

[Anonymous No.3366158]

>>3366145

[Anonymous No.3366179]

The fact that I'm going to die.

Just that, without knowing more.

It hurts me every day

[Anonymous No.3366199]

>>3365962
This. Space is big and it sucks to be in, but I'll be damned if it isn't pretty to look at with the proper equipment. For the meantime you'll be stuck on this rock, and if we ever do manage to not blow our own heads off and become a space-faring race, it will be a nomadic lifestyle, drifting from one rock to the other. Enjoy life while you can here on our homeworld, because life could be duller spent aboard a cramped spaceship for decades.

We spend so much time looking up, that we often forget to look down.

[Anonymous No.3366202]

We were there before. One day, we'll e there again.

[Anonymous No.3366206]

>>3366179
So die already you sad sop.

Space .. wooohooooooooo wimper fail die.

[Anonymous No.3366231]

>>3366179
>>3363901
>>3365904
>>3365962

I hate knowing that I am not even capable of conceptualizing what I am unable to perceive.

They say "this is 13 billion light years away" or "that is 1000 times larger than the sun" but I just cannot grasp that magnitude.

[Anonymous No.3366247]

What is your e-mail?
I suggest we collaborate attempts for practical development of our ideals such as this.

[Anonymous No.3366264]

Damn, I leave this thread, watch a movie an fap and this thread is still up. -stand and applaud-

[Anonymous No.3366272]

u will like this op

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ

[Anonymous No.3366276]

i have a couple more common space pics that havent been posted yet.

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[Anonymous No.3366319]

Whenever I come home at night, I just stand in the dark and look up at the stars. It's the most humbling thing I've ever done. It's amazing that we take something so awesome as the night sky for granted.

[Anonymous No.3366340]

... and the rest are too big for this board

[Anonymous No.3366374]

There needs to be more sci-fi movies, literature, art, and even video games.

[Anonymous No.3366394]

>>3366374
There's lots of sci-fi... there just needs to be more "hard" sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.3366409]

This thread calls for some sagan series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0

[Anonymous No.3366419]

kongregate.com/games/Leviathan278/terminal-velocity-prototype

[Anonymous No.3366606]

Look- I'm just gonna come right out and say it:

The Antennae Galaxies.

Totally gay.

[Anonymous No.3366717]

>>3365744

>This guy is a pretty cool dude
>"30 billion years.... are you fucking kidding me"
>Music
>OHMAHFUCKINGAWD OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.3366730]

>your face when the universe is comprised of the equivalent of unrelatable abstract art

[Anonymous No.3366767]

Hey I really doubt any of you are still listening to this, but I've been reading alot of books by Alastair Reynolds, a really fantastic sci-fi author specializing in space opera. Two of his books specifically made me want to cry just because of the sheer scale involved and the sense that no only will I never seen such wonders of the universe (if aliens even exist) but that even if my extremely distant decedents do find the type of structures in the books, they'll be just as overwhelmed as i would because even millions f years of development is nothing on a galactic scale.

What really got me was the idea in his book House of Suns, that due to the necessary restraints of lightspeed communications, holding a large multi-system civilization together is impossible, and the only way for a culture to survive is to keep moving at near light speed, making periodic contact with others. It just seems so damned unfair that even if we survive long enough to get out there its so hostile to everything, even simple things like talking. I know humans have dealt with month or year long waits between relies, but imaging having to wait millions of years for an answer! its just not fair

[a scientist No.3366787]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT5zCHn0tsg&feature=related

this thread reminds me of why i go to 420chan.....
/sagan/

[Anonymous No.3366789]

>>3363901
>Guys, I'm crying right now.

stopped reading there

man up, faggot

[Anonymous No.3366825]

>>3363901
I think you have a delusion similar to that of religion. You should probably get yourself a psychiatrist or just join Christianity so they can make you feel better about your delusions.

[Anonymous No.3366873]

>>3366767
>due to the necessary restraints of lightspeed communications, holding a large multi-system civilization together is impossible, and the only way for a culture to survive is to keep moving at near light speed, making periodic contact with others.
Yeah, pretty much this.
I've run through my head many times what a civilization would be like that far in the future and once you understand how vast the distances are between planets you come to the stark realization that if we were to colonize planets in other, distant solar systems you would essentially become isolated from the rest of humanity. I doubt we'll ever achieve some means of transportation that would allow us to travel outside our own galaxy even. Hell, a colony on a planet that far off may very likely fail. Or you could get near enough to do a radio sweep of the planet and find out that it's uninhabitable. We would diverge evolutionarily on these far off planets and if we ever encountered one of our cousin races it might not be peacefully.

[Anonymous No.3366903]

many will dedicate their lives to the advancement of human understanding and expansion. They will also die many years before our limits are extended once more.

[Anonymous No.3366905]

>>3366873
You've been warned not to poke at the transhuman aspies. This is your final warning. They will attack with christopher columbus and other magic wands. They will not stop until you're beaten into submission and you admit FTL is hypothetically possible.

[Anonymous No.3366958]

Communication and interaction with extraterrestrial intelligent life is unfortunately impossible due to the constraints of our universe's physical and chemical constants.

I would wager many intelligent civilizations discovered this fact, and simply moved on with their lives. Stop being so bawwwtistic.

[Anonymous No.3367065]

>>3366905
But... I consider myself something of a "transhumanist"...

[Anonymous No.3367070]

>>3367065
real transhumanists believe in the almight FTL and aliens.

[Anonymous No.3367086]

>>3367070
>real transhumanists believe in the almight FTL and aliens.
That's bullshit. Real transhumanists believe in the cyborg master race. Sci fi kiddies believe in FTL.

[Brofessor G (Phone) No.3367089]

>>3367070
> transhumanists
>FTL and aliens in the same sentence
>relevant
EmotionlessTranshuman.jpg

[Anonymous No.3367101]

You know what makes me sad? Earth was once an awesome planet with dinosaurs and giant insects. Now it's a planet made of aids and fail.

[Anonymous No.3367107]

>>3367101
Yes, we should find a way to reverse evolution.

>OP, an hero right now, theres nothing left to live for.

[Anonymous No.3367105]

>>3367101
i lold

[Anonymous No.3367110]

>>3367101
Humans are cooler than dinosaurs and giant insects.

Yeah, I said it. Do something about it chumps.
I'll be over here enjoying my language, opposable thumbs, big brain and technology. You can be over there with your pea brains living in your own shit.

[Anonymous No.3367156]

>>3367110
Enjoy you language and technology while watching Jersey Shore on your widescreen LCD. Or mundanely chatting on your cell phone while talking to your soulless spousemate pretending to enjoy the good life filled with shopping malls and toxic gas fumes from plastic shitmobiles everyday while you work for Ratco Incorporated to fund your credit habit.

[Anonymous No.3367207]

>>3367101
don't forget the cancer. it is the most important part.

[Anonymous No.3367246]

OP I suggest you start exploring Uranus first

[Anonymous No.3367253]

Holy shit, OP, I feel as though I'm in the exact same position, minus the crying part. I'm really wanting to get a job in astronomy, you should too.

[Anonymous No.3367277]

>People actually think they can see the colours in nebulae and such

You can't. Those pictures are taken with cameras that have a much wider view of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the colours are artificially added later. In reality you wouldn't see a thing other than any stars within the nebula. If you're very, very lucky though, you might see a subtle grey tinge.

And stop acting like desperate Trekkies. Space is mostly empty (hence the name), and for nearly your entire time (meaning over 99%), all you'll be seeing would be points in a black background, that never ever change, unless you are traveling right towards one, and even then it would take years (this accounts for FTL travel) for it to look noticeably different. Yes, you could enter a state of suspended animation, but you could easily break ties with your friends and family from abusing that technology, a consequence which is not worth seeing generic planet #23,254,290,254,633 up close.

[Anonymous No.3367298]

>>3367277
you sound like a tool.

[Anonymous No.3367313]

We live too late for Earth exploration and too early for space exploration.

The only thing we're approaching is oceanic exploration.

I think the reason we all play so many video games and watch tv all day is because we live in a boring, stagnant age with no real unifying goal.

Wars? 95% bullshit no one actually cares about.

Exploration? You'd better be extremely rich if you want to go on even the most basic expedition, that is if you can find something discovering.

WW2 and the moon landing are the last two big unifying things if you don't count the brief patriotic shit associated with 9/11, and those were a while back.

Sure technology is advancing, etc. Still one of the most boring eras.

[Anonymous No.3367461]

>>3367277
you sound like a reasonable person

[Anonymous No.3367580]

>>3367277
ignore this know-it-all-but-clearly-not idiot (and bump)

[Anonymous No.3369896]

>>3366958
>>3367277
>>3367313

This.

The horrendous truth.

[Anonymous No.3370812]

All those galaxies.
We will never know whats out there.

[Anonymous No.3370824]

>>3370812
Holy hell, thats a nice photo thanx a lot anon.

[Anonymous No.3370831]

well shit
what do you know
there's the thraed

[Anonymous No.3370869]

inb4 space based porn
actually, rule 34 please

[Anonymous No.3370893]

this is sin
god wouldnt want you to go anywhere other than earth

[Anonymous No.3371986]

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/
>Official Hubble site. Contains a plethora of awe-inspiring images taken from the Space Telescope.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0611b/
>Hubble ultra-deep field. Contains link to massive original image.

[Anonymous No.3372134]

>>3365744
Manly tears were shed

[Anonymous No.3372285]

Did someone say rule 34?

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[Anonymous No.3372319]

>>3367277
Way to bastardize the beauty of the world

To this, music is just soundwaves at different frequencies and vibrating molecules at different intervals