• 1 year ago
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    I was googling and it is apparently possible to see the milky way in the UK. You just need to be in the middle of a national park so there's no light pollution and during the winter months during a new moon period whatever that is so the moon isn't too bright.

    Oh, and you need to chance upon a clear sky. In Britain. In winter.
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      Editing … :-O so basically still impossible.
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      Editing … Sounds like a challenge
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      Editing … I already see a giant truck that plowed it's way onto the national park. Standing there is a balding man with tears of humility looking at the universe.
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      Editing … It's not me I'm not balding yet
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      Editing … I could swear it was you.
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … Somebody else said I was balding last week so I pulled out a photo from 1996 and my hairline is exactly the same, it's always been high.
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      Editing … No bald spots on top?
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      Editing … Nope, but I have a few grey hairs coming through at the sides
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      Editing … Oh hey, my eyebrows have got thinner though. I wonder if that's an age thing? I used to have quite thick dark eyebrows, now not so much.
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      Editing … very much an age thing. I see it in my dad too.
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    Now I'm old I really like old people stuff. I was just kind of stargazing in the back garden(it's hard with all the city lights most nights unless it's a clear night) and really enjoying the peace and quiet and the wonder of nature. The universe is awesome when you stop and look at it. I saw a couple of shooting stars lately too, real big ones that last long enough to see properly.

    I used to laugh at my grandad but we all get wise in the end. I will probably end up growing roses in the garden like all old people, but that's still a long way off yet.

    I would like to go camping out on the Yorkshire moors though so there's very little light pollution and I could get a better view. That would be so good in the summer when it's warm and I have a few cold beers in the cool box. I once did the lightwake walk across the moors at night and the sky was impressive even to an uninterested 22 year old.
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      Editing … I always thought it was so stupid to give up the most impressive sight known to man (a fully visible milky way) just to artificially lengthen the day to unreasonable hours so we can have sleeping problems also. I’m still angry I have never actually seen the Milky Way the way it should look. Still, even the few tiny stars that are still visible are amazing to look at. I am always stopped in my tracks on a clear night while I put the trash outside. Then I think “what am I even doing? Why don’t I look at them more? Inside is shit! Outside is amazing.” Then I get cold and go inside.
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      Editing … Looking at the clear sky is relaxing, if you able to recognize stars with given names. Haven't done such in ages, just to busy with new job at work.
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      Editing … "Then I get cold and go inside" I laughed out loud at that. You know, I'd like to have a go on a real telescope maybe. I don't want to buy one in case it's a fad and I waste a lot of money but I love looking at the moon and trying to see stuff, and in the city clear nights on a weekend when I don't have to be up for work are just a few a year. Dem Youtube videos of the milky way are just amazing, I'm not sure it's visible like that from the UK but wow, I sure would love to see it. I thought I saw the ISS once, I was looking where they said it would be and I saw something but it wasn't clear enough to even begin to say I saw it. I'm not jealous of almost anybody but I am the people that get to see this stuff for real.
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      Editing … @Alex I have no idea what any stars are or the big dipper and stuff. I can point you to the north star from my army training and I can navigate from it, but all these constellations just look like a mess of lights in the sky to me, I can't recognise them.
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      Editing … There's a small collection of rocks in the middle of this lake I go to in the Adirondack mountains. Whenever I camp there if it's a clear night I'll paddle out to the rocks and just sit out there for an hour or so in the dark with the full 360° view of the night sky. It's quite remarkable. I got one really good picture one time at another spot, I'll see if I can find it.
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      Editing … What! Nature spoils you rotten! I wish we had that out here. Oh yeah telescopes are pretty cool. There was once this old astronomy nerd guy who put out his telescope for people to see and he had special filters on so you could look at the sun and its sunspots. If you get one nod you'd better get a good one. Not one of those Lidl kiddy things.
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      Editing … Nice pic Kev. I might get a telescope for Christmas maybe.
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  • 3 years ago
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    I was just learning a little bit more. Life outside of earth is nothing like what it is here. Everything we know is different elsewhere. Take water. It freezes at 0 and boils at 100. Except it doesn't, it only does that with the atmospheric pressure here on earth. Even on Mars there are places where the pressure is so low you can have a glass of water that contains ice and is also producing steam too. It's called the triple point or something.

    This shit really hurts the brain, everything we know means nothing outside our tiny planet.
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    So, if math is the language of the universe does that mean you could program it? In theory you could create the universe on a computer. Is this why some people think we could be living in a simulation like the matrix? I heard Elon Musk once said that but I don't know. It's interesting though, just thinking about the possibilities.
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      Editing … There's so much we don't understand that doesn't make sense such as dark matter though, we have no idea what it is we just detect it. Could that be code? I don't think we're in a simulation, let's be clear. But if math is the one thing that's sure then it COULD be a simulation, right? Shit, once you start thinking about one thing you open a rabbit hole and quickly get lost. Now I'm all confused as fuck. P.S. I still don't think we're a simulation.
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  • 5 years ago
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    Yesterday SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 and successfully deployed TESS – a new satellite that has the mission to look for a new Earth. Can't wait to get off this crowded, idiot-ridden, filthy rock.

    Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpViVEO-ymc

    Farewell Kepler. Welcome TESS And The Quest To Find Earth 2.0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiBqpsedsHE
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  • 6 years ago
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    well well well https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/home-sweet-void/529623/
    "A team of researchers says the Milky Way resides in one of the observable universe’s darkest regions, but some experts aren't so sure.

    Don’t panic. Cosmic voids are actually all around us.

    Imagine an especially hole-y block of Swiss cheese, and you have a pretty good visual for the leading theory for the structure of the universe. Voids, vast expanses of nearly empty space, account for about 80 percent of the observable universe. The other stuff, like dust and stars and galaxies like the Milky Way, exists in thread-like filaments between these voids. As the universe expanded, gravity drew matter into clumps, leaving behind cavernous spheres. These empty regions, which can measure hundreds of millions of light years across, do contain some galaxies, but they’re dark caverns compared to the dense, bright bands of millions of galaxies ringing their edges.

    According to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, our very own Milky Way galaxy may float near the center of one of these voids.

    Using data from large-scale telescope surveys that count galaxies, the researchers concluded that the Milky Way exists near the center of a region that has fewer galaxies than other parts of the universe. They estimated the size of this void to have a radius of about 1 billion light-years. If they’re right, humans are living in the middle of the largest known void in the observable universe."
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  • 7 years ago
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    I love you ^_^
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  • 7 years ago
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    Goddamn this thing's so interesting. Who knew such a thing could exist.
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  • 8 years ago
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    @Papissama, Isn't this a duplicate? 22834
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