If you'd prefer not to watch a video, try this page [1] that has images. Hopefully there will be a zoomable image (like Google Maps) eventually. [1] https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid...
Thank you
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#152This is very exciting. I was part of the Euclid collaboration roughly ten years ago as a grad student. Finally we can see the fruits of the labor of the many scientists involved. The images are of course very exciting, but I'll be even more excited about the scientific results that will be released in the coming years.
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#153A 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 h…
You are right, it is from h2g2.
It's the planet Krikkit, which is a major part of Life, The Universe and Everything, the third book in the series.
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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.
The Romance languages use that name (or something very closely related). English uses "Sun", but just as it borrows a ton of stuff from Latin/French/etc., it also borrows "Sol" for its word "solar".
Also, Captain Archer in Enterprise used the name Sol when making contact with aliens.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I can't think of any English-speaking places that do... but you see it used in "solar", for example.
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So many rules, laws, and systems for all of this to be random. Seems a waste of good code if everything is random. Is an ecosystem random? What happens when one outside force is added to an ecosystem? There's plenty of examples around the globe of this. Life doesn't 'find a way' and balance. The ecosystem is damaged, and often times destroyed by adding a single non-native species. That doesn't seem random does it? Ra…
Ecosystems do adapt. They look broken to us because of our ridiculously small life span. That's why I dislike framing climate change actions as "saving the planet". The planet will be just fine. We won't.
"The planet" is really just a ball of mostly iron and silicates. Of course it'll be fine no matter what. What's important is what's on the surface, namely lifeforms and the biosphere. They're what make this orb so special. Climate change will harm humans, sure, but not just us: it'll harm many other species too, ones which can't adapt fast enough.
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The documents I copied are not as sharp as the original, so the photocopier must not exist.
Photocopying has little to do with simulation of the physical world. First of all, Bits != Q-bits. You can clone bits. You can't clone Q-bits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem Second, photocopies are static. The physical world is not static.
Why would their be exponential slowdown? Time can be relative, but superbroadcasting can help explain the loss of fidelity as we scale down. So you can't "Clone" but you can superentangle multiple copies in a degraded state.
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I see no reason to doubt. I think at the scale of the universe life even thinking capabilities life is almost certainly inevitable. What's not inevitable is that it can thrive, and survive to a galactic scale. That's not even yet certain for us. Universe is too big, we're all too far apart. Civilizations come, civilizations go. Some may not be on a planet where even rocket travel may be possible - no source of energy…
> What's not inevitable is that it can thrive, and survive to a galactic scale. That's not even yet certain for us. Sadly, that's looking less and less likely as time goes on.
See even here there's no reason to be this doomery.
Yes, climate change is a massive problem, and humanity is ignoring it to our own peril.
But peril here means the unnecessary deaths and displacement of hundreds of millions of people - a civilization-defining tragedy no doubt, but ultimately nothing so serious as to cause our extinction.
We have the technology and knowledge to adapt, change course, finally get of fossil fuels, and enter into a new age of sustainable renewable energy.
We're gonna do it too late, and whole ecosystems, species, and far too many humans are all going to perish. Sea life may become extinct.
But at no point is our survival as a SPECIES in question.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you speak Portuguese or Spanish, yes.
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#160It'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...
Ohh I love the idea of a massive telescope that's just compromised of thousands of individual satellites!