Thought Provoking Gifs

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>>1476620

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>>1476621

>>1476627
From that gif alone many people could infer that it is just the planets and other celestial bodies of the solar system which are orbiting around the sun, while it goes its own path in space; but the sun itself is just rotating around the center of the milky way which is also moving in space due to the gravitational pull of another galaxies in its cluster and the big bang.

Yeah, I know most of the people who lurks these kind of threads knows this, but still.

>>1476627
wrong filename, our solar system's axes of rotation is not tangent to our orbit in the milky way.

>>1482358
mandelbrot isn't recursive

woah....makes you think

>>1485260
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

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>>1476620

>>1485663
I loled on the last one sun counting. haahahaha shiiiiiiiiit

>>1485789
we gonna need more suns

>>1485663
This one is amazing

>>1485259
Care to explain the difference between the two things?

>>1485663
>Milky way compared to Phoenix cluster
Oh shiiiit!
>Ongoing mass count
HOLY MOTHERFUCKIN SHIT!!

>>1485948
The gif implies that the solar system is moving "up" while the reality is that it is going sideways.

>>1485663
i was begging for the suns to stop multiplying, i was literally yelling at my screen

/thread

>>1485975
There are no directions in space

>>1485663
Fuvk

>>1485957
>solar system
Whats amazing about this is how small it is for how many solar masses it has

>>1476627
it was debunked a few years back by phil plait.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/04/vortex_motion_viral_video_showing_sun_s_motion_through_galaxy_is_wrong.html

>>1486211
yet in the gif the sun moves up relative to the orbiting planets, which in reality it does not, they would have to rotate in the same dircetion as the implied movement

>>1485663
Phoenix cluster is babby tier!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5_0014%2B81

>>1486320
Oh, I see what you mean.

>>1485663
BIG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

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>>1476620
Your appointment with FEMA should be finalized within the week.

>>1485663
Black Holey Shit!

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A Menger Sponger is a 3D fractal, it has infinite surface area and 0 volume.

>>1487446
Isn't that true for all fractals that scale three dimensionally?

>>1487348
Jesus Christ I hope no one ever figured out the identity of this sad fuck

>>1487467
people are seriously desperate for some adgq memes

>>1487446
0 volume? How so? Are the little white cubes initially used just empty?

>>1487493
I think it's just one of those .999...=1 things and because it has an infinite amount of holes inside it, it has 0 volume if you could ever account for it all idk...

you can find people squababling about it on plebbit if you search menger sponge no volume

>>1485663
Is it measuring from the event horizon or the actual object in the middle?

>>1487446
>d4c.webm

>>1476621
I don´t know if this is the best trolling ever or just the american educational system.

>>1485663
>that ever increasing final sun count

That was really weirdly intense

>>1487974
Event horizon. The singularity in its "middle" is infinitely small, but, with that last one, those 20 billion solar masses worth of matter/energy, with the exception of the core of the star that originally collapsed to create the black hole, are all falling in an infinitely decaying orbit around said singularity, inside that event horizon. That matter will never "catch up" with the singularity, for it, in turn, is "falling" infinitely as well.

(Well, not quite infinitely, in countless trillions of years, the whole thing will eventually evaporate, but by the time it does, the universe will be long dead, and expanding so quickly, that the energy released will be torn apart before any part of it can interact with any other.)

>>1476621
Wow, I never would've figured it out.

Really makes you think

>>1488074
Did you never take highschool math?

>>1488034
Can I get an edit with Canis Majoris replaced with "My Disgust"?

>>1488351
Probably

>>1488021
What's wrong with it?

>>1488443
0.5x0.5xpi=0.78...

>>1488452
But what exactly is wrong with the gif? Doesn't it give a visual representation of pi?

>>1487348
>>1487467
Indeed

>>1488452
0.5*0.5=0.25
Youre stupid or something?

>>1488452
You're doing area, you melon. You should be doing perimeter.

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>>1485948
This moron, took time out of my day to make this for you.

>>1488452
pi*d=circumference you faggot

6/10 made me reply

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>>1485663
>size of our solar system
I about shit myself

>>1485663
Fun part is, that fucker at the end is growing 60 million solar masses every year. There's also a hypothetical quasar twice its mass.

>nervous laughter increases

>>1489032
>there are people who think space is a waste of time to study
They don't understand the danger if we ignore it.

>>1489037
>Starquakes
>CMEs
>GRBs
>rogue astral bodies

There's kind of a relief in knowing just how indiscriminately the universe can completely erase human history. Ignorance is bliss, but I find our insignificance a relief.

>>1487348
What's even going on here?

>>1487980
Nice meme

>>1485663

What is that music?

>>1488034
>>1485663
Slightly uncomfortable

>>1476993
Weird, I didnt see Jesus

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>>1476620
how someone could be that narcissistic and oblivious of there surroundings.

>>1489234
What are you referring to?

>>1489273
your mom.

>>1489234
So much so that they fail to notice what thread they are posting in?

>>1489234
>>1489309
#isntititironic

>>1487348
somebody edited this to make it look like hes sniffing the chair, in the full video you see him grabbing a 2nd bottle of soda from under his chair and walk away, then some faggot dabs in front of the camera.

>>1489279
How very clever, who would have thought of that comeback

>>1489546
CUTE!

>>1488037
Heat Death is probably THE most depressing scientific concept. At least with the Big Rip, there's some energy being expended by the very last moments.

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>>1485663
jesus fucking CHRIST

>>1489717
Well, the good news is that all the current cosmological evidence points to us having both. Heat death, followed by a big rip.

Wait, did I say good news? Meh, well, maybe we'll answer The Last Question in the nigh infinite period between now and then, and it's not as if any of us are going to be around long enough to have to worry about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojEq-tTjcc0

Or maybe we're living in a false vacuum and none of this matters anyways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum

>>1487980
Honestly surprised the infinite surface area part wasn't used as a surprise way to beat Valentine, but I guess Golden Ratio bullets is good enough.

>>1488927
Is this DNA producing proteins?

>>1476632
I see this stuff when I close my eyes and stare for a few seconds.

>>1487045
BLACK

>>1490401
COCK

>>1489037
Lol what are you going to fucking do about a fucking black hole

>>1490475
Not have all your eggs in one basket. (Nevermind the million other potentially basket breaking catastrophes, both terrestrial and cosmological.)

>>1485663
Where is the mom joke?

>>1488959
What really blew my mind was the fact that prisms are actually doing a Fourier transform

>>1488944
The bottom end of that squiggly part isn't used at all.

>>1488034
>spyro farts

>>1489326
Oh, thanks, I didn't even realize that's what he was supposed to be doing, and just assumed he was reaching for something under the chair to start with... Thus I missed the joke, and given the thread, thought it was supposed to be some comment about the gravitational force of women.

/wsg/ - where one constructs an entire alternate reality based on one misunderstanding.

>>1490547
wow....im taking a signals course right now and this just made me lol

>>1488940
lol rotaries

>>1489380
how to triforce 101

>>1489717
What gets me is that, as the other galaxies recede, they'll all eventually fade to red and disappear from view. It's strange to imagine there might be a civilisation that lives in what looks like an empty universe, and they can never know for sure if there were ever other galaxies than their own.

>>1490694
By then the CMB will no longer be visible, and the cosmic radiation will have died out, so not only will they see their galaxy as the entire universe, they'll have no evidence of the big bang, thus no clue as to where it came from.

...Which kinda leaves one to wonder how much of the picture we're already missing ourselves, as so much of the universe is already beyond the observable limit.

>>1488953
YOURS IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!

>>1488953
WHAT IS THIS MARVEL?

>>1490135
dna replication i think, the loops give it away

>>1490494
There is no black hole close enough to us to be a threat

we should worry about asteroids instead

>>1485663
Black holes are the most fascinating thing in the fucking universe

>>1489348
Not you, lol.

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>>1489145
'Black vortex' by Kevin Macleod

>>1491760
Which would be true, except some of them move, and the small ones are hard to detect.

Though it is true asteroids are a much more likely problem - but there are even more likely ones than that, some of which are inevitabilities.

>>1491768
I'd go with Quasars, as far as observable phenomena are concerned, disqualifying qualia itself, but I suppose they are really just black holes in overdrive with bulimia.

(Still, anything that's putting out more light and radiation than a million galaxies... Yeesh.)

>>1491790
>Look around you
fucking great

>>1491760
>>1491807
Given that we missed two planet killer asteroids in the 90's, until after they had already made near passes, same solution either way: more baskets.

>>1491824
Right now it's easier and quicker to just build anti-asteroid missiles or whatever than establishing human colonies anywhere outside of the Earth

It's a shame there isn't that much interest in space anymore

>>1491865
Well, there's long term solutions, and short term mitigation.

...Not that throwing every nuclear weapon we have at a planet killer would do dick to it. If you catch it soon enough, you could actually use a missile to paint one side of it white, and the energy of the extra reflected light might be enough to change its course. However, not everything in the solar system is reflective, which is among the reasons we fail to spot large asteroids all the time.

Then there's the other million things that can go wrong that you can't do dick about, and a few things that absolutely will go wrong, and you can't do dick about - so in the end, concentrating on that long term solution is the only real fail safe.

>>1487045

FUCKING

>>1485663
SUPER
MASSIVE
BLACK HOLE

>>1491296
Ferrofluids.

>>1489546
>>1489646
>when they were available, Russian domesticated Silver Foxes were ~$7000 USD, and there's currently no known plans to revive the program
>ywn have a pet fox

>>1485663
holy shit the shock when the music when DUUUUUUUU and the phoenix cluster came up. I had to stop the video

>>1485663
That one got so many comments, maybe I should put up the sauce:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNDao7m41M

>>1488944
>Ferrofluids
I remember doing this with my name as a kid. I would sign drawings with it lol.

>>1491789
>Best representation of /pol/ yet.

>>1476620
>>1476622
>>1476627
>>1485663

to all those impressed by that gif i can only recommend

http://en.spaceengine.org/

It's a freeware that allows you to explore the infinity of space with quite beautiful graphics at any speed you want. You can even add a few addons (also free) that include NASA data about the known local planet, the rest with be generated.

A haunting experience if you enjoy the emptiness of space and its anomalies.

>>1493652
i don't work for them but i find this game is terribly underrated compared with the effort put into it and i can see a few space aficionados around here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0Bpmx8Fk0

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>>1493652
>>1493656
Keep meaning to check out Space Engine... I'm a little afraid it might make my potato explode though.

>>1491789

Long but worth it.

>>1490547
...what?

>>1490547
It's dispersion of light... occurs because of the wavelength-dependent refractive index

>>1494088
So, had we been a week fast in our orbit, the movie 2012 woulda been a documentary.

>>1485663
The phoenix cluster must contain an alternate universe within itself.

>>1489326
>>1490595
Professional seat sniffer here

He planted the bottle under the seat to have an "excuse" to grab it after she got up. Notice he went down as soon as she stood up to get the freshest smell.

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>>1476620
apparently it only takes about 64,000 years to drive around the largest known sun traveling at 60 MPH

>>1494088
you can always lower the graphics i guess :p
How much potato of a potato are we talking about ?

>>1489546

remember, race is a social construct.

>>1494366
I can draw spirals on black paper too

NASA desperate for dat government money

>>1495290
What does that even mean?

>>1488021
b8 no one is this retarded

>>1485663
im scared get it away

>>1487493
well the white cubes aren't supposed to be there, you can go deeper and deeper and its just the same. the visualization is poor. each cube is the same as the whole fractal

>>1487446
>>1487493
>>1495404
Actually the white cubes are solid; the idea is that the total volume approaches zero as the iterations approach infinity.

So a Menger sponge would only have a volume of zero if it had infinite repetitions.

>>1488021
american education system

>>1476621
>>1488443
There's nothing wrong with it. It's a perfectly valid visualization of pi.

>>1489183
I really love this one. Anyone got any other nature webms like this?

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>>1485663
>>1485982
IKR , REEEEEEEEEE this is insane

>>1485663
I usually think people who crow about the massive sCale of reality being humbling or frightening are overblowing how much it affects their idea of life, but I started to shake while I was watching this. It's actually spooky to put this into perspective.

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>>1476620

>>1485663
what are we

>>1488900
explain please?

>>1488927
DNA transcription is my fetish.

>>1488939
deep

>>1488083
he can take it all he wants but it doesn't matter if the teacher never gave it to him

>>1485982
i was like... now youre just being excessive. come on man, other people could make use of that matter.

>>1496272
>come on man, you really gonna get those suns just for yourself?
>OMNOMNOMNOMNGETAWAYMOONIMEATIN'

>>1485663
Glad that that thing is no where NEAR us.

>>1489234
This lets you know how BORING AS FUCK baseball is. NFL/NBA would NEVER pull this shit, EVER.

Not even boring ass soccer.

>>1490577
That bothered you, didn't it?

>>1489183
Thanks for this

>>1485663
>(Holy crap value = 100)
kek

>>1490303
prove it

>>1489183
>video related
man fuck deers

>>1491908
>massive burst of energy and vaporization of a large chunk would do dick
>shining some light on it would

>>1497164
The output of entirely unshielded sunlight over a 10 square mile radius over an hour is actually stronger than all the nukes we have, even at the Martian orbit.

Plus, nukes, don't do much outside of an atmosphere. Most of the kinetic damage caused by nukes is caused by the atmosphere heating up and the displacement this causes. If you set off a nuke next to the space shuttle while it was in orbit - while everyone inside would die from the gamma radiation burst (nevermind the EMP effect below) - it wouldn't move the shuttle at all. The radiation released travels a lot further in space, but the kinetic energy generated is just about zero.

Most asteroids are made of carbon and iron, and these do not provide sufficient gamma reflectivity to produce kinetic force from such a burst. You'd heat the surface a bit, but that'd be about it.

>>1494221
Monday July 23, 2012, was the day human civilization continued to exist

CMEs are probably the most dangerous Preventable existential threat we face as a species, and very few people actually care

>>1497294
Preventable?

>>1497294
Preventable in that the primary damage would be a worldwide EMP, of which it is possible, although outrageously expensive, to harden the world's electrical grids to prevent total nationwide blowout in every developed country

Economically speaking, it would be an unacceptable cash sink whose only benefit is that if the world gets hit by a massive CME, your nation takes over as there is no one else left, unless they also hardened their grids

Unfortunately most motor vehicles will still have to be replaced, and will clog the roads where they died.
Meanwhile: Logistic Failures have catastrophic outcomes for the 450 Nuclear reactors on earth

Specifically, not the reactors themselves, so much as the spent fuel coolant ponds, usually kept on sites with Nuclear Power stations, These ponds will likely evaporate within 1-2 months of total infrastructure loss, then increase in temperature until they burn, they'll likely burn for a few decades, irradiating a lot of useful terrain on the planet


Tip for all fiction authors: any modern apocalypse becomes a nuclear apocalypse within a few months

Tip for everyone else: If you see an Aurora bright enough to look like a sunrise, have a bug out bag, and a plan

>>1497311
Well, a good size solar flare might leave us alive with a lot of electronics damage, but anything beyond an X4 is going to cook us all hard as well. Thankfully these seem to be quite rare, but aren't "preventable" - save by having your eggs in more than one basket. That being something that's not going to be the case in our lifetimes, but at the same time, something few seem willing to aim towards, for that same reason, thus, at the rate we're going, it's never going to be the case, despite the fact we know of a million different unpreventable things that could so easily end us all.

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>>1497326
Wheeeeeeeeee!

>>1497326
Honestly, it's pretty unlikely that we'll get hit by a Dangerous Solar Flare,

Far more likely we'll get hit by the more common but slower CMEs which trigger Geomagnetic storms here on earth, which are the cause of the aforementioned EMPs above

One thing to keep in mind is that the 3 Components are related but not the same

A solar Flare will generally launch first, composed of mostly high-energy particles, it hits our planet in about 8 minutes, flares are often followed by a CME, the flare itself may disrupt over the horizon and satellite radio communications, but the X1 and higher classes are pretty astoundingly rare, and the chance we get hit by one is astronomically small

The CME that follows is much slower, taking many hours to days to traverse the 8 light minutes, however dangerous CMEs are far more common, when a CME interacts with the geomagnetic field of our planet, it causes it to shift one way, then push back into place

This resulting push and pull of our magnetic field is, in essence, what creates the Geomagnetic storm, which messes up most land based communication, and may trigger EMPs and Electric Phenomenon on the planet

Previous notable CME Events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

Further Reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

>>1495355
He's insinuating that it's fake, you fucking tard. I think you already knew this.

>>1496073
Looks like a magnetic field. Don't know much else

>>1491586
>>1490135
Yeah it's DNA replication, the loop is the discontinous strain

>>1497609
Of course I know that, shithead. I want him to clarify how you compare "drawing spirals" to thousands of photos of thousands of intricate galaxies.

>>1485663
Holy shit. My life has no value

>>1499070
Nah, value's a human thing on a human scale. In value terms, a black hole is as big as an atom.

>>1495290
muh gubmint dolarz xD

>>1477044
Not to mention the Sun's perfect straight line path rather than it's actual bent and twirling one as it is also affected by the gravity of it's planets

>>1499246
No, it's not. Stop generalizing it like that and speaking shit.

>>1499413
You'd be surprised how little that deviation is, as massive as the sun is compared to the rest of the planets and other objects of the solar system.

>>1494366
Anytime I'm feeling depressed or existentially sad, I'll take a look at the Hubble Deep Space image field and feel better. In that one tiny, minuscule part of the sky, there's 10,000 galaxies and a hundred-billion worlds all existing out there in the universe. How many countless adventures and romances and tragedies are happening out there right now? How many trillions of men of all shapes and colors are out there, wondering if there's anybody else up in the night sky besides themselves?

i want to start studying into this,
Where the fuck is the better place to start, and how should i move onward

>>1488942
Looks like a tasty donut.

>>1499535
Not too thought provoking really. The ball increases in speed and pulls ahead, then is slowed back to speed by the uphill

>>1499565
But it's still faster then the ball going in a straight line.

>>1499565
>>1499590
The ball that fell will have an overall slower speed after it returns to the same height, such that if there were more track the ball that never fell would eventually overtake the one that did dip.
Due to gravity pulling slightly more on the ball that fell, and the slightly greater time of friction on it due to a longer track due to diagonals, and rolling something then lowering it and raising it back to the same height doesn't retain momentum. (main reason why roller coasters never have points higher than the initial hill unless they have chain lifts on subsequent higher hills; they'd get stuck on the track otherwise)

>>1490303
w2c your eyelids?

>>1487493
The idea makes more sense when you think of the fractal as a substractive process rather than an additive process (as the gif makes it out to be).
First you take a solid cube and you make some holes, then on the "subcubes" you make the same kind of holes and you continue doing this forever.
If you do this forever you get the fractal. Which has 0 volume.

>>1499499
seconding this fervently!

>>1490303
me too nigga

>>1489063
He waited until the girl next to him stood up so that he could bend down and sniff her seat. Presumably he's outie button his penis on her pheromones.

>>1488939
oh so that's how a plumbus is made

>>1488942
Is this a possible model of our universe?

>>1491971
HOLE

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>>1489234
Is there any hope left for women?

>>1496039
Obviously not what ((they)) tell us we are

>>1499590
Think about it this way. One of the balls was going the same speed for the entire track. The other was going that speed for about 2/3 of the track and going at a faster speed for about 1/3 of the track. Which one finishes first?

I don't know why the guy said it isn't thought provoking though, it's definitely an interesting gif

>>1499486
>you will never meet any of these people
>you will never see these countless worlds
>you will never lay your eyes upon creatures from another world and behold their unfathomable biology

Thanks for making me depressed

i cant find the webms of this so here is the link

https://youtu.be/7CXNa_m52r0

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>>1499070

>>1500449
okay I laughed, you idiot

>>1497339
well all of that would happen much much much much faster.

>>1489546
That's fucking amazing!

>>1497339
The only solace with shit like this is that it's painless oblideration. You exist one moment, and then do not then next. You probably wouldn't even have time to process the pain.

>>1502076
Unless you're on the night side I guess. Then you get the steam hurricanes.

>>1496400
I actually wish it WAS near us. Nothing like a giant black event horizon of doom to get us to stop our silly bickering and become a space faring civilization.

>>1499070
isn't it liberating?

>>1487467
he wasnt smelling the chair he was picking up a drink

>>1488926
i was so proud of myself when i discovered this one for myself irl

>>1500994
well, granted he is cheating
he weighs less, because obvious reasons

>>1503033
The 50-60 pounds less he is is countered by him only using one arm to do it instead of two.

>>1496039
A piece of the universe that knows it is.

>>1502390
It really is.

>>1491790
I made friends with a tweeked out homeless dude named Kenneth the other day. He told me scientists didn't know how light or electricity worked. I almost tried explaining photons but I figured dropping a truth bomb like that on a 56 year-old vagrant on speed might cause him some distress.

>>1494088
Space Engine works a lot like the Hubble telescope. The more you focus on a planet's landmass the more details your computer will render. Leave your potato long enough and it will stop working.

>>1487446
>Dwarf Fortress, patch 1.5

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>>1503755
That's not at all how it works. The resolution of the bump maps and textures used are of course finite and space engine will stop when it has rendered them. If those are too much for your PC you can also set it to lower detail so it will stop earlier.

>>1503854
Holy shit.

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>>1503919

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>>1503913
Simulations are wonderful things.
Here is one of a red supergiant (Betelgeuse) as it would appear to the naked eye (sped up of course, this covers a span of almost 8 years).

>>1486314
Not really debunked. Just nit picked like an autist.

>>1485663
>yfw you find out thats not even the biggest black hole

sad_frog_rainy_trainride_webm.com

>>1488958
>constantly thinking if the green gear moves a little bit out of the way the yellow gear will fall and break the whole thing

>>1503934
Wow, I'd never seen that simulation before. That's unbelievable.

>>1503934
>to the naked eye
If it were close enough to see in any detail, wouldn't it be like staring at the Sun (or much worse)?

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>>1504024
This interested me so I fired up Space Engine and found out.

The distance at which it has the same apparent brightness as the sun is about 95 AU. To put that into perspective, Pluto is at 40 AU (the earth is at 1 AU, per definition).
And look how big it is at that distance already, the sun is much smaller in the sky than that. And keep in mind that brightness is spread over a bigger area than the sun, 662 times bigger to be exact. So at this point you could probably still look at it. You'd get quite the magnificent view.

The sun at 95 AU is so faint at that distance that Space Engine starts showing stars and the milky way, if you set it to use auto exposure (which imitates the human eye).

>>1486375
>the central supermassive black hole has about the mass of 4 large magellanic clouds
>black hole with four times the mass of a small galaxy
what the fug
this is not ok

>>1494357
I came to this conclusion a day after it happened.

Then I realized shortly afterward that's some serious death note all according keikaku shit just to sniff a chair.

>>1488959
THE GENERAL SAT
AND THE LINES ON THE MAP
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEEEED FROM SIIIIDE TOOOO SIIIIIIIIDEEEEEEEEEEE

>>1497339
>friend of mine wanted us to watch this movie when a bunch of us got together for her birthday
>had to strongarm her into watching something cheery because she wanted us to be bummed out because she was depressed that day

>>1497339
this is actually a great movie

>>1504268
>Space Engine
interesting, I had not heard of that. Might give it a try.

>>1493652
i usually smoke pot to play and it's fucking awesome

>>1495290
go back to facebook you cristian fag.

>>1476627
fake and gay

>>1505193
It's great. Using it can be finnicky until you get the controls and shortcuts down and it is quite unstable if you push it too hard and the simulation isn't too in depth but the visuals are amazing.

I always have a chuckle when games with budgets of millions boast about their procedual planet generation and it always looks worse than Space Engine did 3 years ago. And Space Engine is made by a single russian dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0Bpmx8Fk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_MtkeXqtf8

>>1489021
>urge to operape intensifies

>>1503945
It's not nitpicking. The sun moves along the same axis that the planets revolve around.

>>1488885
this is the worst graph I have ever seen

>>1501266
No, that's false. The one that is sped up has also to travela longer way. If the balls have started with the same horizontal speed they will reach the same spot horizontally at the same time. It is quite possible that the path the 'faster' ball travels has less friction overall.

>>1503036
Women, in general, weigh less than men

>>1485663
God sure knows how to create something so big and vast, making us all sit in awe of his power.

>>1488961
I'm sure this would be impressive if I actually knew what shape they were trying to represent.

>>1506185
Ever stop to think how little sense that makes?

>>1506169
Not US women.

>>1506761
They do compared to US men.

>>1506767
But not to the rest of the world.

>Can we safely say that the US is the most MASSIVE nation in the world?

>>1506852
Not even the fattest, that's Mexico

>>1498222
>there's nothing there
ok, we're cutting your funding
>*furious scribbling*
>OH WAIT THERE'S ACTUALLY BILLIONS OF GALAXIES WE NEED MORE MONEY FOR A BIGGER TELESCOPE
*sigh* fine, here's some money that could have been spent on schools or infrastructure
>[thug life intensifies]

>>1503919
>>1503921
neat

>>1485663
>>1485663
>>1485663
>>1485663
>>1485663
IS THERE ANYONE ON EARTH WHO SEES THIS AND ISN'T IMMEDIATELY FROZEN WITH FEAR? IF SO, HOW THE FUCK AREN'T YOU, TELL ME YOUR SECRET

>>1507534
In the unlikely event this would actually be a threat, we'd have neither the time to care, nor the ability to do anything about it. For you personally, it's the same as randomly dying of a stroke.
Live life to the fullest, it could be over in a second.

>>1507559
i don't mean i'm scared of it killing me. i'm just scared of it, and i have no idea why. it makes me so terrified. i'm not afraid of death, i'm afraid of existence.

>>1489380
shin triangler Z

>>1507534
Shit like this is so far above us and so much bigger than us that there's really nothing to care about. It's like telling bacteria about MAD during the cold war.

>>1499486
How does that make you feel better? When I look at the sky all I see is... death. Where you see adventures, romances and strategies I see civilizations brought abruply to an end by all the myriad of cosmic "accidents" that can occur.

If i remember correctly we detect, on average, 1 gamma ray burst per day. Imagine a planet like our disappear every day.

>>1500504
no our universe is center fleeing

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>>1476620

>>1507534
Your own death is indefinitely more scary and indefinitely more likely tbf.

>>1489183
i love this, he just loves what hes talking about

>>1476629
MAKE IT STOP

>>1485663
>Phoenix central cluster black hole
>one of many
>ONE
>OF
>MANY

i can't even communicate the dread i feel.

>>1507486
No one here agrees with you. Science as a whole only takes 1% of the national budget; NASA's budget is a half of that, and they still manage to safely and consistently send spacecraft all over the solar system which continue to operate well past what they were designed for. NASA is one of the few government funded programs that makes every cent count.

>>1491789
Teared up and saved / 10

>>1494088
FAAAAAACK

>>1508149
rouge black holes are way scarier. We know where these large ones are, they aren't going anywhere and they pose no danger. rogue blackholes are "tiny" ones like the manahattan sized example that are flying freely through the galaxy and could just pop in at random and swallow us all up.

>>1477044
not only that but it gives the idea that the sun is leading the planets when planets often go in front of the sun then get sucked back behind it.

>>1485663
I kept yelling at my computer to stop counting suns. This webm is fucking amazing, thanks anon.

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>>1507486
>there's nothing there
You realize the Hubble has taken hundreds of thousands of images, right?

>fine, here's some money
as >>1508187 said, NASA is just one half of one percent of the entire budget.

The only one "scribbling" is you.

>>1495290
Quit being such a gosh darn goof.

>>1505270
>And Space Engine is made by a single russian dude.
Seriously? Goddamn I love slavs more and more every day.

>>1507486
You're fucking retarded anon.

Is it weird that I imagine almost everything in space to be screaming at all times. It's always confused screaming, angry screaming, or panicked screaming. The kind of screaming that the King Crimson album cover is doing. Not just cuz of that Rick and Morty episode either, I've been thinking of planets this way ever since I was a kid.

>>1503921
sauce? This is awesome!

>>1505529
>If the balls have started with the same horizontal speed they will reach the same spot horizontally at the same time.
Only if they maintain the same horizontal speed, which they don't.
One ball is accelerated by gravity, then decelerated back to initial speed (with some losses by friction).

>>1499499
This being what?
Interesting gifs?
Maths?
Physics?

>>1508187
>can't even do a supply run to the ISS without two failed launches and an explosion

But sure, there's satellites out past Pluto

>>1506185
here's your (you)

>>1503108
exactly this

>>1508333
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjz9m1TkQ_A

>>1485663
what happens if you collide two black holes of equal size?

>>1476627
earth is flat roundcuck

>>1492097
Program still continues have faith anon

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>>1508933
Here's a simulation of the black hole merger LIGO detected in 2015, slowed down about 100 times.

One black hole is about 36 times the mass of the Sun, the other is about 29. The final black hole is about 62 solar masses, so about three Suns worth of mass energy were radiated as gravity waves.

>>1506406
All

>>1491801
>a few days later, tha man was disturbed by a visitor at the door
>IOTARA "BING BONG!" DE NARUKARA
i think these subs are overselling this guy

>>1508892
Now I just imagine them to be screaming, but with little itty bitty faces.

>>1505464
Where does it say what the frame of reference is? If you want to nitpick at least know basic mechanics.

>>1509383
from every frame of reference, the planets have the same relative speed as the sun aside from the orbit.

>>1508339
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izfMNhaQ7SQ

There's another thought provoking thread here

>>1467109

>>1509618
That one went more with philosophical quotes, this one went more with "hory shiit stuff is big". (With some side track about supposed seat sniffers, for some reason.)

Any good YouTube channels that have this sort of stuff?

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>>1507534
>>1508149
If you want to be worried about something, think about the 1000s of earth-crossing asteroid orbits.

>>1509738
@lowflyingrocks just got fixed, it tweets whenever a known asteroid passes by like
>2016 VS, ~8m-18m in diameter, just passed the Earth at 10km/s, missing by ~1,050,000km

Really adds a touch of existential dread to your timeline.

>>1490303
it's reverb singals from your brain! neat huh!?
see the electric signals for your vison and hearing are 2-way paths so when you stop taking in signals you can sense what your brain is sending back to your eyes!

>>1485663
>Holy Crap value 100
lost

>>1507924
Yeah but I'm sure all those planets had some kind of memes to help them get to the top of the food chain, so it's all good

>>1491815
>they are really just black holes in overdrive with bulimia.
This is gold

>>1499070
You can still enjoy dank memes and watch big anime tiddies bounce around, so be happy.

>>1507853
>MAD
Why would bacteria care about that silly magazine?

>>1511044
Oh, you said it yourself. "There's really nothing to care about".
Ignore me.

>>1488878
>you melon

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>>1510220
>@lowflyingrocks
neat, bookmarked.

>>1499538
Sexy

>>1511067
I typed what I meant.

>>1508347
It'd be Black holes and all sorts of what i guess is astronomy, unless 'm misnaming them.
This thing is just mind numbing and i want to know more

>>1511118
I'm not mocking you, I think it's funny and cute

>>1507534
im not a power autist

>>1488939
Looks like a coronal mass ejection or something related to the sun and magnetism.

>>1501360
;_;7 based Sagan

Might as well continue in this thread
>>1510746

>>1489183
>And as soon as that happened, the birds started moving in!

I just about cried. This is so beautiful for some reason.

>>1511099
>dat slow moving ufo

>>1508983
I wonder what happens to the objects caught between the two swirling black holes. I mean,I know they'll be spaghettified in a stream of quarks or whatever,but still,fascinating stuff.

>>1508983
>slowed down
>100 times

FUUUCK

>>1501307
I think the most impressive part of that is "piece of paper folded in half 100 times"


goddamn exponential growth nigga.

>>1511099
>>1513115
>ufo
It's obviously a meteor

>>1497339
Could you imagine being on the dark side of the planet during one of those? You wake up one morning and see on the news that half the Earth and population just got scorched in an instant. With our current technology there is most likely someone you knew and talked to online every day who just flat out disappeared for no reason but causality.

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>>1513330

>>1485663
>>1507534
meme holes dont actually exist. A literal retarded convinced a bunch of losers that it does just so he could get some pussy.

The scary thing is that im not even trolling, they really dont exist, anyone who has done undergraduate in theoretical physics knows this.

>>1514175
Yes, the thousands of black holes we've cataloged, the basic laws of physics that allow the construction and operation of such devices as the one you are typing on and the infrastructure that supports them, that predicts their existence, and indeed, requires it for galaxies to form, is all a conspiracy theory run by tens of thousands of cosmologists, astronomers, and engineers, all in an effort to get laid. (Despite the fact that I rather suspect that cosmologists generally have a fairly low number of hash marks on their bed posts.)

Also the Earth is flat, and hollow, relativity is a conspiracy, someone keeps fsking with the clocks, satellites don't exist, politicians are reptiles, and gravity doesn't exist, the Earth just sucks.

>>1514175
>A literal retarded convinced a bunch of losers that it does just so he could get some pussy.
[citation needed]

>>1488939
>>1512795
>>coronal mass ejection

That's what it looks like but I can't locate a source.