I think this says less about supernovas and a lot more about how staggeringly, incomprehensibly vast the observable universe it.
It would be a tragic shame for life to inhabit such a vast universe only for faster than light travel to be impossible.
How many supernova explode every year?
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would like to hear what you have to say about forever.
I imagine step 1 will be figuring out a way to reverse entropy?
That’s actually [the _last_ question](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html), not the first.
I liked the DS9 episode where the mutants realized that the universe was collapsing into the Big Crunch, so they demanded “antigravity generators, lots of them!” Their cosmology was wrong, but only because the show had the misfortune to be written in the past. Their enthusiasm was great :)
Re: How many supernova explode every year?
#173Two questions come to mind. 1) When was the last supernova observed in our own galaxy? 2) How close would one have to be to be observed with the naked eye?
1604. One could say we are overdue. I’m not sure about dust or other obstacles blocking it, but based on brightness alone a supernova in our galaxy should be visible with naked eye.
1604? Sort of; SN 1987A was visible to the naked eye at 3rd magnitude. It was in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is almost in our galaxy but not quite. 170k light years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A
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#174First off, dont look at the outer wilds discussion on here, just play the game. Second - they didnt say how many letters we need to encode all of the observable supernova in a given year! So 100 billion galaxies, 1 per year per galaxy, we have around 1 billion to encode. Sorry two edits this moring, first one was right. due to math without coffee. 1e9/26^6 is about 3, 1e9/26^7 is less than one. So we might see 'SN205…
I bought Outer Wilds based on recommendations like yours and I found it kind of boring. The world is mostly empty and the repetitiveness wore me down. I didn't finish it. It's a great looking game though and the first hour or two I had a blast.
I rage quit Outer Wilds. So repetitive, I couldn't take it despite the novel premise. The controls suck and I'm an experienced player.
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Same here. I found the controls to be frustrating and the game-play loop to be kinda dull. The story on the other hand, is very good. I get that the game-play is meant to illicit certain feelings, but it just didn't do it for me. I did enjoy reading a synopsis of the story on the wiki though.
Question for you and commenter above, do you play games with controls similar to Outer Wilds often? Do you play many games in general? I've seen this comment a few times and I'm curious why this is such a common talking point. I thought the controls were very intuitive, so I'm curious if it's a familiarity issue or something else.
First person games: yes, quite a lot. Flight sims with wonky physics? No, not really at all.
Some of the controls were fine, but I found the ship piloting experience to be barely usable and definitely not enjoyable.
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#176Re: How many supernova explode every year?
#177This reminds me of a few years ago when I was doing my MSc our group was learning how to work one of the remote telescopes and we were asked to point it at the brightest object found by Gaia that week and it turned out to be a supernova. Very cool for your first observation using a remote telescope! If anyone wants to see it here it is https://ibb.co/Kzqbfq30
And here is the Gaia data http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia23bqb/
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess even a republican can be right?
/dev/random is right sometimes, too.
If you ask someone "What is 2+2?" and they answer 4, you can say they are "right" even if you do not agree with them on other topics or generally dislike them.
If you ask /dev/random "What is 2+2?", that question makes no sense as /dev/random does not listen to you and just spits out random binary output.
Go and disagree with /dev/random.
Re: How many supernova explode every year?
#179I think this says less about supernovas and a lot more about how staggeringly, incomprehensibly vast the observable universe it.
Now let us all stop thinking about the incomprehensible and go back to providing value to our shareholders.
Re: How many supernova explode every year?
#180I think this says less about supernovas and a lot more about how staggeringly, incomprehensibly vast the observable universe it.
It would be a tragic shame for life to inhabit such a vast universe only for faster than light travel to be impossible.
Unless it keeps civilizations safe from each other.