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Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by araes »

glimshe wrote: post #287
ratedgene wrote: post #255

This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my whole life. I'm just over here worried about small nothings and now I'm filled with an overwhelming feeling that I should be a part of something much larger. Truly inspiring, and a little bitter sweet. :)

When I look to the heavens in awe, thinking about humanity's future and our place in the Universe, I remember that we still have JavaScript and thus very far from space exploration.

That's alright, Javascript already has space travel. [1] And quite a few other software languages [2]: Credit to Andrei Kashcha (Github anvaka) [3] previous post on Hacker News for "Software Galaxies" [2]

Also, to @ratedgene if you feel left out, you should be part of something meaningful. Go join the exploration mission for space travel and astronomy. It's a resume submission away. [4]

Having worked at NASA, the work environment, while critical and argumentative much of the time, is still very much sci-fi fans and the dream of galaxies far far away. If European, then ESA. [5] If Asiatic, possibly JAXA [6], China's space agency [7] is usually off limits to posters on HN.

If not those, how about grants and research in related areas. There are many ways to contribute. [8] Checking, there's currently 18 of 3331 solicitations due in the next 30 days. [9]

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/dive-into-anything-ghost-js-bIYvFm...

[2] https://anvaka.github.io/pm/#/?_k=4hdian

[3] https://github.com/anvaka

[4] https://www.nasa.gov/careers/

[5] https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Careers_at_ESA

[6] https://global.jaxa.jp/about/employ/index.html

[7] https://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/

[8] https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/

[9] https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/solicitat...

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #288
seanw444 wrote: post #275

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This is short-sighted. Maybe not in our lifetimes. If it were 1902, you'd probably be mocking the Wright brothers.

There are three levels of difficulty in innovation: New Engineering, New Science, and New Fundamentals. What the Wright Brothers did was the easiest of the three: New engineering . It didn't contradict anything then known in accepted science. Fusion energy is being studied now, and it's substantially more difficult than what the Wright brothers did because it requires New Science. But it doesn't violate any of the ac…

IF you believe the whistleblowers, all the tech already exists.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-house-overs...

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by mixmastamyk »

dyauspitr wrote: post #234
Keysh wrote: post #170

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Probably closer to 300 billion stars. (It's roughly the same size as the Milky Way, which is estimated to have ~ 100 to 400 billion stars.)

Yeah, that’s what I meant to type. 300 billion.

Billions and Billions —Sagan

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Post by SamPatt »

imchillyb wrote: post #66
wayoverthecloud wrote: post #55

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I think that too. That it's surely meant to be something. But sometimes I think what does "meaning" even mean? Does universe really have any "meaning", the term that humans invented and that even they are unsure of? Then, I think it's a big randomness, a random accident, a big joke, just happening with nothing to make sense of.

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…

Non-native species don't exist when you use long time scales and realize humans are species too.

Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction by Chris Thomas is an interesting book on this topic.

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by uhtred »

ratedgene wrote: post #255

This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my whole life. I'm just over here worried about small nothings and now I'm filled with an overwhelming feeling that I should be a part of something much larger. Truly inspiring, and a little bitter sweet. :)

Yes but what did you work on yesterday, what will you work on today, and are there any blockers?

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by vjk800 »

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 and the smallest thing that got zoomed in in the video was a galaxy. Like our milky way galaxy, so still fucking huge.

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by vjk800 »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #245
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. :)

The actual problem is that we were made early enough to begin to understand the full scale of it, but we're still not mature enough to go out there and explore it. Therefore, you can reason that now is the right time to get behind anything that pushes us beyond the Earth.

Since we don't observe any sign of anyone else explore it, or even broadcast themselves through it, it might be that it's not possible to explore it.

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Post by mmooss »

kortilla wrote: post #171
feoren wrote: post #132

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It's not a joke, because jokes have underlying meaning. It is somewhere between a "random accident" and the only way it could have possibly been given the constraints of fundamental physics. I suspect that everything that could possibly be, is , but it's random that you are you and I am me and we find ourselves here in this corner of this galaxy in this part of the universe which might itself be the inside of a giant…

Jokes don’t always have meaning. “I want to play a joke on Bob” can very easily mean “I’m just going to torture Bob a bit for my amusement”. The joke will not have meaning to Bob.

There is a lot of subtle meaning layered into that:

Cleverness: I'm funny and I'm confident enough in it to risk doing it publicly

Status: The statuses of you and Bob allow you to play a joke on them. Often such jokes are a public demonstration of status, like children do more explicitly and often unconsciously in the schoolyard.

Empathy: 'I say suffering is funny'; it asserts a willingness to violate a taboo, be unempathetic, and therefore potentially dangerous

Personal power: I'm powerful and independent enough to do something on a whim

etc.

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by colordrops »

mr_mitm wrote: post #202
colordrops wrote: post #102

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Why do you think the chance of intelligent life is a very small number? Considering we know of several million species, the chances are that we are right in the middle of the curve, and can't recognize the vastly more intelligent species the way an ant can't recognize our intelligence.

How is the number of known species correlated to the probability of life emerging? As far as we know, life emerged only once on earth, and all species evolved from a single common ancestor.

I'm talking about the chance of intelligent life, not life emerging at all, in response to the comment above.
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