What's the most interesting thing you know about space, /b/?

great attractor

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Women can't space

that one fucking day we are gopnna fucking overpopulate our solar system and gonna start assraping the galaxy and after we are done with that we start with the other galaxys
but the most important thing i know about space is that there is no bigger faggot out there than OP

>>557276883
idk I'm just staring at that ass.

That ur ass OP?

You've got a nice ass.

Give me your ass OP.

>>557276883

For decades, Pluto was the ninth planet in our solar system. And then one day, it suddenly wasn't a planet anymore. Nothing about its size, mass, composition, speed, orbit, or mass changed. But it just instantaneously stopped being a planet. It is this mystery that science cannot explain, and which stands as undeniable proof of the work of a supernatural being.

>>557276883
No sources and I might even be incorrect whe I say this.

>known universe is 46 billion lightyears across.
>If known universe was shrunk to the size of a quarter, then the size of the full universe in relation to the known universe would be the size of Earth.

Just let that sink in.

that we are in space but we're also feeling the affects of gravity as weight and the atmosphere as air, that's all.

>>557276883

The fact that we don't know why it exists.

Why is there anything?
Why are there atoms?
Why is there an existence?
Why isn't there nothing?

Doesn't that drive you crazy?

>>557277542
It keeps me up at night sometimes. I know your feels anon.

>>557276883
It is the widest key on my keyboard

>>557276883
The universe we're occupying is a hologram.

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>>557276883
The reason our galaxy keeps spinning is because of a massive blackhole in the center, which will one day consume us all. Hurray!

If we were 10 feet closer to the sun, we would burn up. If we were 10 feet farther from it, we would freeze. Cool stuff huh?

>>557277542
The answer is simple though: there had to be something or we couldn't ask that question.

no facts or anything, but I've always been fascinated by the similarities between planet star interaction and our world at the atomic scale.

That your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens

>>557277897
thank jesus, huh?

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>>557277897
>10ft

>>557276883
The fact that we'll never explore it all, or even reach the end. Shit we haven't even been out of our galaxy. This both intrigues me and annoys the shit out of me.

>>557277897

Fuck I'd better not go upstairs, or i'll burn.

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What I know for a fact about Space....

>it's for rent

>>557276883

Space and time are one.
>relativity phaguts

>>557277958

Yes, there had to be something probably, but it surpasses our fantasy.


Plus, we, our bodies, our atoms are part of the universe. We were created in it. We question the universe. If you connect those facts causally, then the universe created a being that questions the universe. The universe created something to question itself. It got selfconscious.

>>557276883

It's a perfect circle.

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>>557277542
>>557277607

>2014
>Still thinking there needs to be a "why" to explain existence

>>557278182
How does it feel to know that you will never know if we are able to travel to Any planet exept for Mars, because you'll be dead before we reach that point of technical achivement.

>>557276883

That there is a void in space that is extremely huge and no one knows why.

No stars exist in this massive section of space. Literal nothingness for a billion light years.

>>557277542
There is no point is wondering why something happened, when it is a prerequisite for you to be able to ask the question.
There are maybe billions upon billions of failed big bangs out there for each actual universe, were nothing happened and nobody can ask that question.

>>557277049

this is the stupidest shit I've ever read on 4chan

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>>557278385
>Space and time
Master or Time and Space

>Yattaa!!

>>557277897
lol idiot

The earth's orbit is elliptical, wandering roughly 5 million km closer/farther each year.

Education, anon.

http://www.universetoday.com/61202/earths-orbit-around-the-sun/

>>557277897
You do realise this is utter, utter bullshit, right?

Unless b8, then 10/10 for making me reply.

>>557278531

Being selfconscious and questioning things is what seperated us from the monkeys.

Or replace it with "how", I don't know what you're driving at.

>>557277897
I'm quite positive that is extremely wrong and you should feel bad for believing it.

If that was the case, I'd be incinerated as we speak, seeing as how I am sitting on the second story of a building. Also, picture the following: a bunch of niggers are playing basketball at some park during the daytime. One of the niggers goes to "posterize" another nigger with a dunk on the 10 ft hoop. As he rises above the hoop with his hands, they are incinerated because they are now 10 ft closer. Funny image, right?

In conclusion.....you're a fucktard.

>>557278576
Honestly I'm okay with it. Sure it'd be cool to experience, but in the end what does it really accomplish? The on;y thing I can see us getting out of it is maybe a new element or possibly new life, which is highly doubtful in our galaxy.

>>557276883
That it's infinite, yet still not as large as your mom.

space = created

>>557276883
Jupiter is mainly made of methane gas, which is also what farts are made of. Jupiter is the biggest fart of the galaxy.

>>557278954
>HE'S HEATING UP

>>557276883
Nothing can travel faster than light.
Except for space itself.

>>557276883
space is malleable, the closer you move to the speed of light the more space contracts.

And also the faster you travel or the closer to the speed of light you get then time will slow down for you relative to someone who is traveling a lot slower through space

>>557276883
imo the most interesting thing i know is the cosmic censorship (idk if thats the correct translation from the german word)

>>557279149
No, space doesn't travel, space is what defines traveling.

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>>557279050

>>557276883
90% of space time you can't see.

>INB4 Dark matter

>>557276883
>>557278975
get fukin rekt

>>557279320
Space is expanding, if that's not "traveling" then you're just arguing semantics, which makes me hate your fucking face.

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>>557277269
>Supernatural being
>not aliens

>>557279235

tell me the german expression and I'll help.

>>557279607
I beleve it is pronounced:

"Sieg Heil raus allen judensweine"

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>>557276883

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzQ1hdVvAr0

>>557279149
thats actually not true. there are hypothetical particles called tachyons that can travel faster than light (but there is still no proof for that, so in that case you are right as well)

Who the word can contort a woman's face, and destroy their emotional well being, when you ask for it.

>>557279768
>thats actually not true. there are hypothetical particles
Do you see what's wrong with what you said?
If not, keep re-reading it.

>>557279607
(hypothese der) kosmischen zensur

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>>557278159
>>557278285
>>557278797
>>557278896
>>557278954
>falling this hard for obvious troll
gg

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>>557279327
cheers

>>557279845
thats why i said that he is actually right. i dont get what you mean

>>557279768
>hypothetical
>no proof
what the fuck is your argument

>>557280052
You should probably have said "That might not be true".

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>>557276883
The size of this galaxy never ceases to amaze me. Ic 1101 is larger than our local galactic cluster. It isn't just larger than most galaxies, it actually dwarfs the gap between them by several times. In the picture, the specs of light in front of it are entire galaxies. It's size is just unreal. Over 100 trillion stars, over 6 million light years across. Yet it's just one of many super-galaxies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE8yHySiJ4A

There are more stars visible in the night sky than atoms in the entire universe

>>557278948
He means why does the universe and especially monumental question such as 'why is there existence' have to conform to the logic that a reason is needed. It's just there. Logic in itself is a creation of the universe and we can't apply the smaller functioning examples to bigger questions.

Our galaxy is going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy in about 4 billion years. Will that kill us, or will we already be dead by then?

>>557281742
Apparently due to both galaxies being mostly empty space there is very little chance of any direct collisions. But the sky will look cool.

>>557282141
Actually the turmoil in gas clouds will help create a whole generation supermassive stars which will likely sterilize a large part of both galaxies when they go supernovae

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>>557281742
Earth has about 1.75 to 3.25 billion years left to thrive and our Sun has about 7 billion years left in its life

pic unrelated I took it and just wanted to show someone

The observable universe is 14 Gigaparsecs in diameter. Everything beyond is so far away that the light has not arrived to earth yet. It needs more time than the current age of the universe.
Mind fucking blown.

>>557277269
didnt they recently reclassify it a planet or was I just really high when I 'heard' it

>>557283387
shit man I don't even fully comprehend what you just said.

The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. In that case, why don't we create a bubble of expanding space around ourselves and use it to travel as far as we please?

>>557283809
It was classified as a dwarf planet in 2006 and hasn't changed

>>557282547
Thanks bro.

Also the moon is closer than 10 feet to the sun. Due to it's orbit all the people and cities up there burned up. When it went 10 feet further it all froze. Thats why it's so cold up there.

>>557278758
you haven't been here very long then

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pretty much

>>557284518
Fuck you, Pluto is a planet.

>>557278994
lel

>>557277462
>Known universe
I think you mean observable universe

>>557284631
woah r u serious??

>>557284912
I'm drinking Pluto-is-a-planet supporters tears as I sit in this thread

>>557278758
You must be new

>>557276883
>>>/sci/
>>>/sci/
>>>/sci/

>>557285249
And I'm drinking tequila.

Really but previous statement still real, Pluto is called a dwarf PLANET. Technically still a planet. I don't really give a shit, I just like pointing that out to people.

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>>557276883

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzQ1hdVvAr0

>>557285289
/sci/ is full of fags though. I don't want to hear from 18 year old first year students acting all arrogant and aggressive because they're better than "plebs."

i know that op is a faggot

>>557278631
so what youre saying is that there is no point to find meaning in existence.

>>557276883

Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thoroughly enjoyed this topic from the other day. Perhaps this could become more of a recurring thing as human beings can actually be quite interesting when they actually come together and interact with one another, sharing information and opinions--not just calling everyone a faggot.

I have nothing interesting to contribute yet, though. Just thought I would give this topic a bump and a smile.

>>557285673
Words can only describe physical reality, right? Meaning is too abstract for words or our brains to deal with.

>>557278531
>2^11 - 2^5 - 2^1
>still thinking living a meaningless life is smart

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>>557285443
There are 5 dwarf planets in our solar system including pluto, so I still don't understand why people go by this "there are 8 planets in the solar system" when there's clearly more
Like it's not that hard to learn about 13 instead of 8

I'm just gonna keep posting my moon pics

>>557285762
>Words can only describe physical reality, right?
huh? not sure if serious.

>>557285856
i get that, it just isn't covered by the science curriculum where I live. Growing up, I learned about Pluto until one day my teacher said we were all faggots for believing in the little guy, don't know why he was so hateful on the Netherlands when they shit on Brazil but whatever. Never learned about the other dwarf planets though, don't know why.

>>557285570
pleb detected

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>>557277897
> 2014
> not using SI

>>557285916
What I mean is, our language evolved for living on Earth. Our language forms the basis of our thoughts. Our brains can only produce thoughts related to language, so something completely outside of our reference point (life on Earth) can't be described through language.

>>557286120
Marain?

mah nigger

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>>557276883

That Poland cannot into it

>>557286120
i dont see how this is relevant (or equivalent to "words can only describe physical reality").

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>>557286056
Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris are all located within the Kuiper belt with the exception of Ceres, which is located in the asteroid belt
But yeah you can understand the demotion right? I just don't get the numbering
If anything pluto should have been reclassified as a dwarf planet /and then/ it just be made common knowledge that there are officially 13 planets in the solar system

>>557286120
Thats actually really interesting

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>>557277269
Nigga are you stupid or just trying to be stupid?

http://www.universetoday.com/13573/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/

A few paragraphs down

>>557286384
It's relevant because the discussion was about whether there is a point in attempting to understand the "meaning of the universe." I said physical reality because I'm high, but what I really meant is reality as defined by the way time and distance is perceived on Earth. There is no point looking for meaning in anything abstract using language), which means there is no point looking for it using thoughts ("understanding"

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>this thread

Does /b/ even space?

>>557283387
>Observable universe
Shit nigger why did I never make that connection, shit could be infinite for all we know, goddamn I'm retarded.

>>557286684
so what youre saying is there is no point looking for meaning at all. why would anyone listen to you, assuming that position?

>>557286451
Ehh, might have changed it since I was in school but we never learned about them. Learned about the different belts but it was mostly about shit involving the sun or the earth. I'm enrolled for an astro class in the spring though so hopefully I can actually learn something.

I understand the demotion, just not why since it became a dwarf planet it is now irrelevant. High school teachers can teach what they want though.

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>>557284673

>>557278285
Wise plan.

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>>557277897

>>557276883
Mercury was so close to the sun that it burned all of the faggots who lived on it and since faggots were the only source of fuel on the planet, it became nothing but a rock with fag ashes everywhere which is why Venus is the hottest planet.

>>557287103
That somehow adds up to how things are today.

there are more suns/stars in our galaxy then there are grains of sand on earth

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Black Holes have an infinitly dense point at their centre, which caused the gravity from them. Inside of the black sphere of them, but not at the point there is so much energy that we can't imagine how hot it is in their.
There is a Super Massive Black Hole at the centre of every galaxy.
Neutron Stars are, madee out of Neutrons which are neutral charged sub-atomic particles.

>>557286816
>why would anyone listen to you
I don't know or care. It's just obvious that language forms thoughts, and language can't deal with inhuman abstractions such as what happens to time and distance on a cosmic scale. Therefore any meaning found in existence that can be expressed in thoughts (words) is going to be flawed and unrelated to reality. There's simply no evidence the brain can conceive of even a tiny portion of what makes up reality, let alone find a coherent meaning that holds it all together.

>>557276883
there are stars wich are made out of diamond

>>557286684
>because I'm high
i did not realize i was talking to a mentally impaired person.

The number of stars in the universe is known to science, and that number is exactly two billions

>>557287338
Burned out stars*

>>557277269
at the same conference where pluto was declassified as a planet, Jupiter was also, due to the fact that it hasnt "cleared its orbit" insofar as matter occupies to same orbit as jupiter due to its 5 lagrange points.

also, between pluto being discovered and being declassified, it did not make 1 full orbit of the sun.

>>557287416
You didn't realize you were on 4chan?

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>>557276883
You could fit every planet in our solar system (striking the dwarf planets) in between the distance from the Earth to the moon

A feather and a ball of lead fall at the same speed because of the vacuum.

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>>557287467
I am a scientist can confirm

>>557287928
What? That's some heavy bullshit. You know lead weighs a lot right? Have you ever tried vacuuming one in? It won't move.

>>557277030
My nigger

>>557287784
source?

>>557276883
Jupiter's Southern Hemisphere is anti-cyclonic, meaning the red spot spins anti-clockwise.

>>557277269
Pluto is an Ice Dwarf. There are estimated to be many more in our system with at least 20 identified.

>>557277462
Observable universe is more than 96 billion light years across so you were just off a smidgen.

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>>557288285
You could check the sizes of every planet and do the math if you'd like

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>>557287467
Carl Sagen here, can confirm

>>557288621
For now, but the observable universe is expanding.

>>557288072
They don't fall in space at all you idiot.

>>557288759
Regardless, the universe hadn't been 46 billion LY across for a long long time, so that poster was out.

In 1995 they discovered a cloud of gas that is 1000 times larger than our solar system and contains ethyl alcohol to fill....400 trillion trillion, pints of beer! probably the coolest thing i know about space

>>557278628
that's actually a huge cloud of small particles that block light.

The universe we live in may be a metastable false vacuum, and it could tunnel to a lower point of energy leading to the nucleation of true vacuum within it at any given point. This bubble of true vacuum would consume the universe at the speed of light in all directions.
If this is true, it may be hapenning right now in what we know as the "great voids", enormous empty regions of space.

>>557276883
It contains an infite amount of "dat ass"es just like in your pic.

>>557276883
It's a whole lot of fucking nothing.

>>557276883

More interesting is what we don't know.

1) What is dark matter & dark energy?
2) How and why do they come into existence out of nothing?
3) Why do they have gravity and antigravity effects ?

>>557278994
Kek'd

>>557291334
>How and why do they come into existence out of nothing?
Kind of explained here: >>557289703
The universe escalated from true vacuum to a metastable higher energy vacuum. We're actually nothingness, but in higher energy form.

>>557278994
And Uranus too

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>>557277130

There are more stars than atoms

>>557291842
Can you paraphrase it for someone who doesn't study physics ?

>>557276883
When galaxies collide, individual stars almost never collide. It is just as if the galaxies pass right through each other. Those great big pretty cities of stars astronomers photograph in the night sky are mostly made of empty space. The average distance between stars in our galaxy is around 160 billion km (100 billion mi). That is analogous to one ping-pong ball every 3.2 km (2.0 mi).

But gravity means they often lose their structure - they may be strung out into a stream of stars and gas several hundreds of millions of light years long, or one galaxy may eventually be engulfed by the other. This process takes hundreds of millions to billions of years. Our own galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy are on a collision course with each other, but it won't happen for another 4 billion years.

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>>557280747
If this is B8 then you win.. But I gotta call bullshit on this one.

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>>557292205

>>557276883
its big

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>>557292303
Pretty hard to explain in ordinary words...
First there was true and absolute vacuum in the lowest possible state of energy, then, for some reason it escalated to a higher state of energy (pic related), and our universe was born. It is still a vacuum, but less stable and with higher energy. That means it could return to its inital state at any given point, creating a bubble of true vacuum that would consume our universe at the speed of light.

>>557276883
it's most likely flat. i studied physics for years, but i just found out a few days ago