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Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD »

lefrenchy wrote: post #63

It's just so crazy to me to see a galaxy 420 million light years away. That is so much time for what we're seeing to have changed. I presume life can form within that window given the right conditions, so to some degree it just feels a bit sad that the distance is so great that we can't actually see what may exist in this moment that far away

It might be possible to build a powerful telescope to see life on planets that are closer to us, though: https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/10/18/its-time-to-build-th...

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by PUSH_AX »

We’re so lucky to exist in a time where everything is so close together, as absurd as that sounds.

There will come a time when a civilisation will look up and see only darkness, due to the expansion of the universe.

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by yread »

neom wrote: post #10

Some of that zooming in made me feel pretty damn uncomfortable. It really is f'ing massive out there huh. Makes me wonder what this is all about, I'm sure it's something, I wonder what. :)

Yeah. Do you want to donate your liver?

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by sva_ »

PUSH_AX wrote: post #142

We’re so lucky to exist in a time where everything is so close together, as absurd as that sounds. There will come a time when a civilisation will look up and see only darkness, due to the expansion of the universe.

It is not clear to me that the conditions of the universe at that point of increased entropy would be able to support life

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by patrickmcnamara »

shiroiushi wrote: post #52
bikamonki wrote: post #7

So many solar systems out there, life evolved in many planets for sure. No proof but no doubt.

No, there's only one solar system in the entire universe. There's countless star systems though, but only one of those stars is named Sol. /pedant

Do people actually call the Sun "Sol"? I thought that was more of a video game thing.

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by beAbU »

gorgoiler wrote: post #101

A fun thing I like to do every so often is to try to break away from the natural notion that space has a horizon and that instead force myself to feel that it continues equally in all directions. We’re naturally inclined to be ok with giant distances on the horizon. It’s natural to put more emphasis on that part of the world. Hold up your thumb to the horizon and notice how many things fit alongside it compared to yo…

Many years ago I read some sci-fi novel, and in it was a sub-plot of a warring alien species that started destroying anything and everything they came across in their travels.

The story went that their local system was in some sort of a dust cloud, so they had no stars visible from their planet. At some point, that cloud somehow dissipated. On the planet, one of the inhabitants bothered to look up one night, and it hated everything it saw. So the race developed a space program to go out there and destroy it all.

For some reason I think it was Adams' H2G2, but the tone of my recollection does not quite feel on-brand for those stories. Not sure.

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by bilekas »

sva_ wrote: post #144
PUSH_AX wrote: post #142

We’re so lucky to exist in a time where everything is so close together, as absurd as that sounds. There will come a time when a civilisation will look up and see only darkness, due to the expansion of the universe.

It is not clear to me that the conditions of the universe at that point of increased entropy would be able to support life

Eventually there won’t be any life given no stellar body will be in range of a star to support life I guess?

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by PUSH_AX »

sva_ wrote: post #144
PUSH_AX wrote: post #142

We’re so lucky to exist in a time where everything is so close together, as absurd as that sounds. There will come a time when a civilisation will look up and see only darkness, due to the expansion of the universe.

It is not clear to me that the conditions of the universe at that point of increased entropy would be able to support life

I’m assuming gravity will keep solar systems together? But admittedly know little about it.

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by gukov »

thierrydamiba wrote: post #40

Fun to imagine someone or something out there mapping us as well. What a cool video. I think one of the best things about space travel will be the loss of ego we go through when we really understand how vast the world is.

Apparently psychedelics can cause the so called ego death. I wonder if it’s the same driving force: a realization of how vast and limitless the world is.
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