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Interstellar

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- Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:11:01 EST FWszKHrA No.54647
File: 1415661061349.jpg -(225767B / 220.48KB, 1047x1572) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Interstellar
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?

So New Horizons..

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- Sun, 05 Jul 2015 17:48:57 EST LNoHYvqf No.55473
File: 1436132937924.jpg -(2382B / 2.33KB, 530x297) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. So New Horizons..
Just went safe mode, for seemingly no reason. Either NASA saw something that they don't want us finding out, or some kind of aliens are trying to prevent their discovery. I mean, Pluto seems completely, artificially placed. It orbits on an entirely different plane than the rest of the planets in the solar system. I'm not a /tinfoil/ faggot, and I'm not talking about "greys". I want to have a serious discussion on the possibility of this, because I got super stoked about seeing high-res pictures of Pluto after reading about the last few developments, and this just seems too coincidental.
>pic related, newest pictures of Pluto.
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Tadashi Nakajima - Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:16:57 EST Kz5Q207u No.56145 Reply
>>55492
>We have exactly one datapoint for how rationally a species capable of space flight behaves, and it's "not at all".
I know his claim is baseless, but your implication is a logical fallacy. A lack of evidence showing that species capable of space flight behave rationally is not evidence that none (can) behave rationally. Not to mention there's a huge difference between space travel at the distances required to reach us/other planets supporting sentient life, and just being able to make it into space. We don't have even a single data point at all in regards to the level of rational behavior a species capable of space flight at those distances possesses.

Your argument is shit. His might be shit too, but he's not positing that pluto is an alien space station that houses blue-visioned aliens and serves as a research lab where they perform tests on humans. Therefore, your argument is shit and your criticism of his criticism is retarded.
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Tadashi Nakajima - Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:17:46 EST Kz5Q207u No.56146 Reply
>>56145
rationally is not evidence that none (can) behave rationally... or necessarily would*

Where's The Flux

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- Fri, 25 Mar 2016 03:54:23 EST t1vMK9Uc No.56140
File: 1458892463622.png -(603447B / 589.30KB, 854x480) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Where's The Flux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852

tl;dr - star has some really odd brightening and dimming patterns inconsistent with any hitherto known natural phenomenon. The best explanation is a comet having broken up in an extremely regular pattern at a really silly angle. A possibility raised is a civilization setting up a dyson swarm, or basically a bajillion solar panels coordinating with themselves to stay in orbit and produce the energy a super advanced space faring civilization needs, but on the other hand the system is dark in infrared light suggesting that the light from the star isn't being absorbed and converted into anything (which heats things > releases infrared, because nothing is 100% efficient)


any ideas on where the infrared might be, given that it's a dyson swarm? Or opinions on the correct natural explanation?

Moonbase 3

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- Fri, 12 Feb 2016 11:23:14 EST +eqmThO1 No.56048
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Ran across this and thought /sagan/ would appreciate it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAE712CF17EC14903

This is a 1973 BBC/20th Century Fox/ABC production, created by Dr. Who's Terrance Dicks. It only ran for 6 episodes, and didn't take off, mostly because it was just a little too realistic, concentrating on scientific accuracy over B.E.M.s and green bitches and space dogfights, but I thought it'd find some new fans here.
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Russel Hulse - Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:15:13 EST AonVP/Hg No.56136 Reply
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>>56066
duuuude, found a torrent of the manga and it kicks ass, highly recommended
thanks a lot!

I hate the fermi paradox

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- Sat, 30 Jan 2016 02:53:49 EST Y6cuAVAn No.55979
File: 1454140429941.jpg -(232492B / 227.04KB, 600x400) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I hate the fermi paradox
The Fermi paradox is not a fucking paradox. It's completely reasonable that in a universe this large and the short amount of time we have had are ears open looking for radio broadcasts AND the fact that intelligent life evolving or even evolving with the senses that would make radio waves a logical invention for them is highly unlikely. Given what we know about how many planets are in the habitable zones of stars.

It's totally reasonable that we have not heard a thing from anyone. Maybe if we listened for like I don't know 3 million years THEN we can safely say "yes fermi was right this IS a pardox" can anyone prove this idea wrong?
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Joseph Taylor Jr. - Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:34:15 EST YHjXylC8 No.56127 Reply
>>56126
But evidence of life starts very soon after the earth cooled.
This implies either those molecules are incredibly likely to occur on a scale of millions of years, and certain to occur on a scale of billions of years given pre-earthlike conditions.
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Joseph Taylor Jr. - Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:51:44 EST YHjXylC8 No.56128 Reply
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>>56127
*This implies those molecules are incredibly likely to occur on a scale of millions of years, and certain to occur on a scale of billions of years given pre-earthlike conditions.
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Bart Bok - Thu, 17 Mar 2016 03:05:33 EST 3t/weoS/ No.56130 Reply
>>56127

For prokaryotes it seems the odds are in their favor, but eukaryotic life which is near required for multicellular life needed almost half the lifetime of Earth to develop. Which makes sense as they were born from symbiotic relationships between different prokaryotes, something that need specific spesializations to occur beforehand.
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