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- Thu, 26 May 2016 21:42:57 EST VjH9pXwP No.56190
File: 1464313377750.jpg -(328323B / 320.63KB, 960x960) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Forgive me but...
...I was thinking about Dark Matter. My understanding is that in analyzing the universe, they detect there should be like 3-4 times as much matter as we can account for with stars and such. It just reeks of "luminiferous ether" to me

What if though, there's no invisible matter, but the universe is actually made up of 3-4x more stuff, stuff that is just accelerating away faster than we can see it (faster than the speed of light?). Or is that what is meant by dark matter?
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Paul Goldsmith - Thu, 18 Aug 2016 00:41:20 EST rszf0FN0 No.56316 Reply
>>56311
But the actual value is less than the expected value, not more.
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Fred Hoyle - Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:10:47 EST qyc9lsem No.56324 Reply
There's no dark matter. It's just the opposite reaction to the universal constant.

-Λ
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Alan Guth - Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:20:11 EST rszf0FN0 No.56325 Reply
>>56324
No, according to LCDM dark energy *is* the cosmological constant. Also if dark matter/energy comprise 97% of the universe, how could 3% of the universe generate an opposite reaction almost two orders of magnitude greater (and also where is the room for ordinary matter in this model?)

FIRST

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- Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:47:51 EST hnyGB63L No.56176
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Which crime will be the first to occur in a non-Earth environment, rape or murder?
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Johann Encke - Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:52:13 EST YHjXylC8 No.56293 Reply
>>56290
He's saying if you can achieve an erection on earth while doing a handstand, then you'll definitely be able to achieve an erection in space where you don't have gravity acting against your dick.
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Clyde Tombaugh - Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:12:11 EST 3t/weoS/ No.56295 Reply
>>56289

I'd assume you'd loose your hand-standing erection eventually as blood flows into your upper body, though you might pass out before that. Zero-gravity is known to cause a sizable reduction of blood pressure, which is the reasoning behind the claim that getting a boner in space is difficult.

Interestingly NASA sits on data like this but refuse to reveal it thanks to their policies on funny business.
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Walter Adams - Sat, 13 Aug 2016 01:03:53 EST KgKlYmGv No.56309 Reply
>>56295
It's because they send some old saggy cunts over there that have difficulty with getting a boner send me over there and show me some pussy it's gonna be the fastest space mission you'll see

Actual photo of earth ?

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- Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:40:57 EST a9VttgPi No.55637
File: 1440628857139.jpg -(94020B / 91.82KB, 1280x720) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Actual photo of earth ?
Sry if this seems like tinfoil but i just cant get it.
So we have sattelites with further orbit than moon right?
Please give link to an actual photo of earth not some composed bull shit.
Something is going on and this might be the best brain wash ever. Not saying flat earth but hidden land or we just cant get further of some point. Also alot of the other NASA images ...you know, are fakes , there is documentation on this do your research. So a simple request , a photo of earth please :)

Have a nice day :) !
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George Gamow - Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:39:14 EST tQX5ylFX No.56303 Reply
>>56302
doesn't showing that require near light speeds? we can't do that.... yet. wait till the hardon collider forms stable micro singularities we can use to power a warp core.
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Grote Reuber - Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:10:50 EST 3t/weoS/ No.56304 Reply
>>55923

So you're claiming that spherical objects are in fact mathematically flat in our universe?

Not hanging you out here or anything, I'm genuinely curious as it's an interesting claim.

I love space

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- Sat, 23 Jul 2016 05:42:59 EST p24Ges2t No.56286
File: 1469266979554.jpg -(3372909B / 3.22MB, 3069x3006) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I love space
I first became interested in space exploration because of this website nearly eight years ago. Over that time space has piqued my curiosity enough that my dream is to work in a large observatory, or in a lab constructing instruments for spacecraft. I've spent a lot of time learning about the universe, and have simultaneously become interested in philosophy. I'm just really interested to learn new things about reality. It's such a marvelous and incredibly complex place, teeming with things to be discovered.

I want to know whatever is possible to know. Some things we might never be able to know, but I'm most certain that curiosity, as well as necessity, will drive our species towards distant planets in search of answers and new ways to survive as we go out. I really do hope that's how it plays out. Out of all of the possibilities, I think we'll always have a desire to travel into the next greatest frontier. We might travel inwards with digital worlds and biosynthetic machinery, but I believe the physical domain will continue to hold some deeper allure.
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Walter Baade - Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:16:23 EST ma/jJXS2 No.56297 Reply
>>56292
Terraforming isn't a thing yet. Besides, how can we even think about terraforming another planet when the one we were born with which already supports life is being killed by us.
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Hannes Alven - Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:26:26 EST 73EoqW+9 No.56298 Reply
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>>56297
Alright take it easy green peace, the earth is more than capable of supporting life indefinitely
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William de Sitter - Sat, 30 Jul 2016 09:27:05 EST tQX5ylFX No.56299 Reply
>>56298
But Venus is toted as the prime example of what could happen to our world if it got choked completely. Seems more likely a good idea to learn to live indefinitely in artificial environments like stations or Moon bases. In the long run that will be the most common living space moving forward into the cosmos.Terraforming is in the distant future and by the time we could do that we would already be able to live in orbit of every major body in this system if not leave it already.

Interstellar

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- Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:11:01 EST FWszKHrA No.54647
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Thoughts on this fucking terrible movie?

its about space chill out mods
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Joseph Taylor Jr. - Sat, 06 Jun 2015 22:19:14 EST 9Jg5Dok5 No.55388 Reply
>>55383
But it was marketed as "realistic" sci fi and people actually give it high notes on that merit alone

opinion:discarded
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Edmond Halley - Wed, 27 Jul 2016 04:39:06 EST pjhpxsvC No.56294 Reply
>>54848
>I guess I'm just not a big fan of Nolan himself. I couldn't sit through Inception even though I tried to watch it at least 3 times. These kind of movies rely too much on short, loud, shocking, and emotional scenes to keep the audience captivated and I can't stand that shit.

Wait what? Did we see the same Inception? Inception didn't have any emotional scenes. It only had scenes where people were being emotional.

The whole film was a dry emotionless philosophical stroll through a virtual reality hidden in a virtual reality hidden in a virtual reality hidden in a virtual reality...

microscopic telescope

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- Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:11:48 EST nsJ3UhuK No.56285
File: 1469207508500.png -(11018B / 10.76KB, 798x294) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. microscopic telescope
I just wondered, I have never heard of a microscopic telescope. By this I mean a device along the lines of a large nature-style camera lens or traditional telecope that is able to zoom in to the target area of a physical item and produce a 3d environment of that area through the lens? Surely theres an infinite amount of detail from a physical item We have all this advanced astronomical technology these days to look at things that lie in the distance. What would happen if technology was put into microscopic telecopes thanks everyone

TLDR: a lens of intricately layered magnifying glasses that self multiply
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Johann Bode - Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:39:53 EST aZptiHhB No.56287 Reply
>>56285
The resolution of a telescope can be limited by a few things, diffraction, the atmosphere, the quality of the optics and the sampling of the camera. You suggest adding a microscope, in optics that concept already exists as focal extenders which increase the effective focal length of the telescope increasing the magnification. The problem is more magnification will only improve the resolution of a telescope if it's resolution is sampling limited, that means the pixels are too big to capture the full resolution. The vast majority of telescopes are not sampling limited, generally they are limited by the atmosphere or by diffraction if they are in space or use adaptive optics. No matter how much you increase the magnification you will never beat those limits. There is not an infinite about of detail you can achieve, there are physical limits such as diffraction. A telescope like Hubble is diffraction limited what you suggest would not improve it's resolution. You can only improve on diffraction buy building a bigger telescope or using shorter wavelengths.

You can't use this to make a 3D map either.

First telescope..?

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- Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:07:05 EST ZvL5JrzH No.56129
File: 1458068825227.jpg -(11180B / 10.92KB, 236x197) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. First telescope..?
Hi guys.
When I'm high at night, I love to watch moon/stars/...
So I figured it would be nice to look at it with a telescope ...
The problem is that I know absolutely nothing in astronomy !!!
I need some advice for choosing a telescope not too expensive (Max budget: $200)
>What can I expect to see with that?

(I live in a small town without light pollution)
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Edward Pickering - Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:11:32 EST qdIfo3Zb No.56218 Reply
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>>56129
I know it's been a few months, but maybe you'll see it if you haven't bought one yet. I have a Celestron NexStar 102GT and it is awesome. It has the capability to track objects and it has decent magnification. It was right in the $200 range iirc, but I bought it years ago. I'm able to see the rings of Saturn(though it just looks like one ring). A couple of nights ago i realized Jupiter was in the sky and I was able to actually see some of the differing colors of the cloud bands. That was really cool. Pic is a snapshot from a video I took using a mount for my phone.
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Edward Pickering - Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:13:53 EST qdIfo3Zb No.56219 Reply
>>56218

Well shit, picture looks worse on the computer than it does on my phone, but you can still make out the different colors.

Grey goo

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- Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:30:57 EST ityObSKZ No.56249
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Do you think somewhere grey goo is destroying everything?
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Alan Guth - Fri, 24 Jun 2016 16:18:56 EST 3t/weoS/ No.56253 Reply
>>56250

All you need is to program the goo to build Von Neumann probes from asteroids and them using to spread.

Can't imagine any species would do such a thing but hey humans are crazy enough for nukes and M.A.D. so who knows?
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Kiyotsugu Hirayama - Sun, 26 Jun 2016 04:02:45 EST sMBupno1 No.56254 Reply
goo cant melt steel beams
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William Fowler - Thu, 30 Jun 2016 04:20:28 EST x7oDvr/y No.56255 Reply
>>56254
Your steel beams have been assimilated; all is goo, all is good.

Living Organisms as White Holes

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- Sat, 04 Jun 2016 23:40:16 EST 6lTk9kB6 No.56212
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I have deduced that all living organisms are White Holes. I call this the Living Organisms as White Holes Theory.

Evidence :
  1. when the cells of a living organism divide, it emits minute levels of light.
  2. living organisms create and excrete their own matter.

Please help me compound on this theory I want to talk to a real scientist. I have more to add but I need to go do chores. More later, like being four dimensions opposite of zero. (thought. The final frontier)
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Walter Adams - Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:16:50 EST AR+FDxN1 No.56245 Reply
I used to think that maybe a life form is like a bubble of negative entropy. All around the universe matter is getting less organized as systems disperse their energy, but in life matter harnesses energy to organize itself temporarily. But I was wrong. It doesn't make any sense to think of life as a closed system. We radiate so much heat and excrete so much shit that there isn't any logical boundary to call a bubble. There is temporary organization, but it is constantly part of the greater universe. Everything is causally linked. Especially EM waves. Photons are being absorbed and radiated by your cells. In a trippy way, doesn't that make you a physical part of your surroundings?
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Jan Hendrik Oort - Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:32:53 EST 3t/weoS/ No.56247 Reply
>>56245

As far as I understand entropy, clustering of energy like in the form of planets or lifeforms is in fact a part of it. A zero-entropy universe would be stable, or in other words uniform.
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Russel Hulse - Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:44:04 EST pjhpxsvC No.56248 Reply
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I wouldn't say that all living organisms have white holes, but caucasian girls certainly have white holes, if you know what I mean...

Biology is one hell of a science.

From the ISS

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- Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:56:07 EST an1HFu9H No.56166
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I just came down to give you these /sagan/
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Georges-Henri Lemaitre - Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:06:00 EST YHjXylC8 No.56205 Reply
Why are they all perfectly looped?
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Karl von Weizsacker - Sat, 04 Jun 2016 01:59:24 EST gk6gFOAI No.56210 Reply
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>>56205
If you look closely it actually fades to the beginning of the clip just before it restarts. Pretty clever imo.

poll time

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- Sat, 06 Dec 2014 23:06:10 EST Zbe0PVOU No.54770
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Do you pronounce it "yur anus" or "yuran us".
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Caroline Herschel - Sun, 29 May 2016 15:16:47 EST 66iQx6Zw No.56199 Reply
Your anus.

As in "I can see the ring around your anus"
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Edward Barnard - Tue, 31 May 2016 13:07:46 EST 3t/weoS/ No.56201 Reply
>>56200

I've heard it's more gasy than moist and nutty though.

Its happening!

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- Wed, 13 Apr 2016 05:21:04 EST zo6zX05v No.56151
File: 1460539264849.jpg -(207439B / 202.58KB, 950x534) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Its happening!
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/12/us/breakthrough-starshot-space-probe-stephen-hawking-feat/index.html
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Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin - Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:14:40 EST r6jFVsbC No.56163 Reply
>>56158
Why would they need to? I think idea is more or less for a flyby.
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Edward Pickering - Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:37:24 EST /CR0/A7p No.56175 Reply
>>56158
>>56163

But long term, this would be cheaper than combustion. This would also work for manned missions.

You'd have to start decelerating 50% of the way there, if they're doing both with lasers. But they'd probably just use combustion to decelerate, which would significantly reduce weight too. Since it's for stopping and not the initial thrust. So I think that might work.

I realize it works great if you're just sending things out, but why develop this huge and incredibly useful ability and just use it to send out a dozen more voyagers?

NASA Mars announcement

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- Mon, 28 Sep 2015 04:30:10 EST piwlLnxF No.55700
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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/is-it-aliens-nasa-sends-space-fans-into-frenzy-with-news-of-a-major-announcement-20150927-gjvxsf.html

>The biggest hint is that one of five speakers at the news briefing will be Lujendra Ojha from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Ojha made headlines in 2011 when he co-authored a study suggesting that liquid water flowed during the warmer months on Mars.

>He said at the time that, by accident, he noticed irregular features in images taken for another study of gullies in Mars craters. Using a computer algorithm to monitor changes over time, he began to see "finger-like" features and streaks that strongly resembled water. They would appear during warmer seasons and die away during cooler seasons. He has conducted research ever since, to determine if it is definitely water.
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Viktor Ambartsumian - Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:15:03 EST tQX5ylFX No.56096 Reply
>>56093
You put a 4 month old thread up for that? Good one bro!
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Friedrich von Struve - Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:02:08 EST pgmu6mYO No.56101 Reply
>>56096
Why is everyone on this board such a bitch?
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