...and we only did it because there was a dick-waving contest between two nations.
Soviets had no interest in going to the moon (yet) and were more focused on living in space before going outside earth's orbit. The US was waving it in public on its own
The US wanted to beat the Soviets at space, and the reality was when it came heavy lifting rockets the soviets were way, way ahead. The moonshot was a different problem that would require a different solution than simply "bigger rocket," so the US made that the goal. They weren't sure they could beat the Russians to the moon, but they knew they couldn't beat them in a lifting contest for something like a space station.
Considering the relative speed of literally everything we can experience as humans, and that light ranks at the tippy top of every single one of them as INSTANT in pretty much any context other than math homework, it's honestly pretty fucking wild that we not only got humans 1.3 light-seconds away from Earth, but got them back alive to tell about it.
That is straight up amazing.
Yes and no. I get the point and do actually agree whole heartedly but I think it obscures the reality that we've been observing solar systems as they existed millions of years ago.
We ain't hardly been nowhere in the 'verse yet.
You're right, let's send 1 person into the fuck of space just to say we did it.
I'm not being sarcastic.
Dont eat the rich
Throw them into space to see who goes the farthest
"I trust them as far as I can throw them"
"Bet"
Like build one really really big space trabuchet, loaded with a space hotel with all the amenities possible for basically a one way generational ship. Then blast those fuckers towards alpha centari and call it a decade.
Oh, and just for fun, give them one life pod but it only holds 20 people.
But the real kicker? ...they never left the ground And it's all televised.
The launch sequence? Really fast merry go round.
The "artificial gravity"? Lol
The infinite food sources vending machines? Catering.
Elon on top of a super-heavy. He can be like Solomon Epstein.
Sure but even if we had stuck someone on voyager 1, it's only 23 light hours away and has been going almost 50 years.
And we go no further for the next 4 years
And a statistically large number of those people that we sent up there were from Ohio, one can assume because they were trying to get as far away from Ohio as possible.
I think this is true of US presidents too.
Copy paste. Next
You must be fun at parties.
With a spaceship which reach a huge percent of lightspeed, the occupants can reach in short time many of the exoplanets in the Milky Way, only for the observer on Earth it last thousends of years. But this isn't important, after the rich people in the Spaceship had destroyed the Earth.
We’re really just photographers right now.
The ultimate townies, on a universal scale.
No problem once we build the improbability drive engine.
Probably a little heavy for a meme community, but why do images rendered of the observable universe appear symmetrical?
Not an expert, but an enthusiast. The universe can typically be considered homogeneous and isotropic on a large scale (it looks the same in all areas, and also looks similar no matter which direction you happen to be looking) for the sake of understanding and performing physical calculations. The beach may also be considered homogeneous and isototropic, but we know that if we dig down, we'll find interesting materials, organisms, and even various grades of sand (for context).
The universe is roughly symmetrical even though there are structures and features of great complexity when you look close enough (such as atoms, you, me, horses, and icebergs). This is probably because the universe originated from a single infinitely dense point where there wasn't room for much diversity or clumping of matter. As the universe expanded, random quantum fluctuations and coalescence, perhaps due to gravity and the various electrical and atomic forces, is to thank for the formation of elements, stars, and galaxies, over the last 14 billion years (or however old the Universe is supposed to be).
Anyways. It's represented as symmetrical because it's convenient and true on a large scale, but its always more complicated the deeper you look.
The symmetry is the interesting part. It’s Earth-centric symmetry. I don’t know if it’s a failure on the artist’s part, but the age appears to increase equally in all directions from the center point of the field. That’s why the question. One would think that it would be uneven, no “center”.
So this isn't a joke? Wouldn't that make the universe 46.5B years old? Very big bang.
The observed objects 46.5 giga ly away are about the same age as the age of the universe, but they have gotten further away from us in the time since they emitted the photons we're now observing.
Beelions
You have to start somewhere.
Unless you believe UFO stories where humans are working with aliens on a Mars base, or where they take humans back to their planet to study. Not that I do, but I want to cuz it would be cool.
What are you talking about, we all know the lunar landings were faked to bankrupt the soviets /j
Seriously though, best bet for long distance space exploration just like they said in that movie is to find a wormhole. It's probably the only real way to travel across the universe in any reasonable amount of time.
Edit: Do people not get the movie reference to Interstellar?
Why would it bankrupt the them when the Soviets were never going to the moon?
At least, that's what some people seem to believe.
Not sure, I guess the idea is that in the film they were saying they faked the space race to get the Soviets to work harder and waste money, but it doesn't really make sense and I think that's the whole point. It's meant to be absurd propaganda.
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Which is why in the movie, cooper isn't at all mad that his daughter got into a fist fight with some kids over them believing and denying the original real textbooks which explain how man did actually land on the moon.
