Lets have another late-night space thread, /b/.
What do you think is out there? How deep do you think this rabbit hole we call a universe really goes? Come share your beliefs, theories, speculations, etc.
Be sure to check the filenames for more detailed descriptions of the pictures.
If you like this thread, please give it a bump. It'll die if it's just me dumping.
Anyone here?
Gonna let the thread die if no one is here.
I know there are already theories out there about this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were entirely a 'computer' simulation
Here anon. I remember you from several months ago.
I'm more the meditative type than the scientific one, but your pictures are always beautiful and I find them amazing.
Keep em coming.
>>673445767
I read about a study a few years ago that concluded that not only is it possible that we are all part of some computer simulation, it's actually LIKELY that we're a part of some computer simulation.
It would definitely help explain the origins of the universe, which very little is known about.
>>673445975
Thanks, anon. Glad someone likes my threads.
This is absolutely horrifying.
>>673446012
Yeah, I watched a video of a guy giving a lecture on the idea. Man seemed pretty well educated in general and gave good evidence. I forget the name of the guy
>>673445442
Saw a low budget sci-fi about astronauts on a mission to Enceladus. It tried to picture "alien" life but ended up with a giant squid.
Of course the problem is it's nearly impossible to imagine something truly alien to our nature. Everything we come up with is just an alteration of our nature. Cf: rubber forehead aliens.
>>673446667
This one always reminds me of an eye for some reason
>>673446970
I remember watching some Stephen Hawking TV show where he presented the idea of a living creature made of gas. Now, I know Stephen Hawking is a million times smarter than I could ever be, but a creature made of gas just doesn't sound possible. How would it eat, reproduce, or perform any necessary function? What if its major body parts became separated from it, or what if two of these creatures collided?
>base on dark side of moon, possibly nazi
>Phobos is ayy lmao space craft
>nuclear detonations on Mars
>CIA rekt JFK because was gonna tell about ayy lmao's
Ayy lmao
>>673447397
maybe it would absorb gasses to gain nutrients.
Reproducing could be like a cell splitting into another cell
![[strikeout]an erect nipple[strikeout] Mayall's object, two galaxies colliding at a 90 degree angle.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/oJqQFBW.jpg "[strikeout]an erect nipple[strikeout] Mayall's object, two galaxies colliding at a 90 degree angle.jpg")
>>673447693
For some reason I don't think any of that is true, but hey, your guess is as good as mine.
>>673447846
I didn't realize gasses have cells?
>>673446428
I've reached the age where I have realized there are several things I will never accomplish. Years ago I thought I'd do so much. But my faults, choices, and lack of family or assistance have limited me.
But the night sky is always there. Rigel and Betelgeuse, the planets in retrograde, and all the constellations are always above.
I always think that their tiny bits of light are special because they are non-earthly. Everything I've ever known or seen is from the same planet. The light from Arcturus has nothing to do with earth. It's separated by 36 light years and an expanse of space bigger than anything we can comprehend.
>>673448004
its just my guess im not smart at all, but hey anything is possible in the universe
OP/anons keep posting please.
We were born to early to travel around space. Fucking sucks lads. Probably won't even make contact in our lifetime
>>673447865
That's clearly an embryonic dragon with umbilical cord. ;)
It's a bit disappointing, but you can still explore space from Earth. Study astronomy or astrophysics, get a job with your country's space program, or just buy yourself a decent telescope and look up at night.
Who knows, maybe you'll find something.
>>673448509
Whoops, meant to quote
>>673448215
>you will never live on a terraformed mars
>That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
>>673449119
isnt all of that on the surface just sulfur or something like that?
This one looks delicious, like some sort of giant fluffy space-cupcake.
>>673449253
>Io's colorful appearance is the result of materials deposited by its extensive volcanism, including silicates (such as orthopyroxene), sulfur, and sulfur dioxide.
>>673449515
Thanks for the info anon!
NASA and SpaceX both have Mars as their goal. You think we'll ever make it? Would you go to Mars, if given the chance? Remember, once you leave, you're not coming back.
Honestly I don't see it happening any time soon. NASA is criminally underfunded.
I like this subject so much it makes my life miserable. I can think of so many ways to explain it all.
It might just be a really elaborate game/joke. Being infinite (in any way) seems a bit boring. Why not experience all in an perhaps infinite amount of unique configurations. Being balanced (with ups and downs) seems so much more "godly" if "all" made itself explode (for that matter) just to experience lots of limited consciousnesses. Slowly working your way to let all particles, which are all part of one, understand why things are as they are.
Also, I do drugs a lot, so I guess I could give you a completely different example, and i'd still agree to both.
Anyway. Nice pics, Nice topic.Me like.
What could it have been?
What's really cool about this one is that the walls of the storm rotate every 10 hours, perfectly in sync with Saturn's core's natural radio emissions.
you know how the universe is constantly expanding? what is it expanding into? and whats within that empty space the universe has not yet expanded into?
>>673450264
No one knows, anon. Your guess is as good as anyone else's.
>400 degree ice
>>673449291
... But space terrifies me. God, whatever his form, terrifies me. That pic makes me think of him seeing me, and that concept is full of instinctive awe and fear.
I dreamt once I was on front of God. He wore a robe and hood. When I finally was able to see his face, it was an empty expanse of nebula clouds, stars, and other celestial objects. It seemed his face wasn't empty, but I had a sudden sense of being flat. It made me sorry I was so one-dimensional.
I heard that these don't actually exist anymore. Can someone confirm or deny that?
>>673445767
agree
>>673445975
try to create a meditative and scientific compatible view?
>>673446012
yes
Also, sometimes I feel like I'm resposible for all of this. The feeling kinda sucks..
>>673450731
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/01/the-pillars-of-creation-dont-actually-exist-anymore/
does this help?
>>673450264
The universe doesn't actually expand like this. There is no "edge" you can stand on and watch it "grow" ahead of you. Instead, everything already exists (we think) but the distances between them are growing. Since the forces at work keeping us together are stronger, we are fine, but on the galactic level things are getting further apart.
And it's getting stronger. At the rate it is going, we are pretty sure it will rip apart everything, until not even molecules can bond.
But of course, all of the stars that exist will have already burned out and even black holes will have evaporated by then.
Maybe one day we will know why!
Saturn is so fucking cool.
The universe is infinite , and there is life in many planets , even if we can't see it ! We are too ignorant to imagine all that is out there . Also I believe spirits to be aliens , but I'm sure there are other material aliens .
2spooky4me
>>673451443
Are we in an univeral womb?
Can I get a bump? We're getting dangerously close to page 10.
>>673452353
here have a bump
okok another bump. i like dem pics
>>673452452
and let be known that i am enjoing this thread
>>673452465
>>673452452
Thanks, anons.
I still got a shitload of pictures left to dump.
>>673448731
>or an o'neill cylinder
>>673452888
what is this to be exact?
>>673452779
This thread is so cool
Space is cool
>>673453019
A hypothetical space habitat designed by Gerard O'Neill. The cylinder spins to create artificial gravity.
>>673453236
yeah but it can be terrifying aswell
>>673444845
I believe that there exists a higher power somewhere in the universe, responsible for everything. I'm a deist so I believe in something like that.
>>673453379
>playing space engine
>type in coordinates
>start moving
>start slowing down way too early
>what, why am i slowing down
>suddenly, motherfucking black hole out of nowhere
Nearly shit myself.
>>673453288
dang i wonder what the area around that storm is like, assuming from the surface if it has any
>>673453480
What if it were me?
>>673453870
Jupiter has no "surface", like the Earth does. Jupiter is a massive sphere of gas.
>>673453985
but does it have a core?
The Hubble is actually set to be replaced in 2018, by a new telescope called the James Webb Space Telescope.
>>673453889
Yeah but it's not
>>673454252
Hell yeah
>>673454217
We're not sure. NASA is planning to launch an orbiter to Jupiter that will help determine that.
>>673454217
>Jupiter is thought to consist of a dense core with a mixture of elements, a surrounding layer of liquid metallic hydrogen with some helium, and an outer layer predominantly of molecular hydrogen. Beyond this basic outline, there is still considerable uncertainty. The core is often described as rocky, but its detailed composition is unknown, as are the properties of materials at the temperatures and pressures of those depths.
What do you think it feels like to be spaghettified?
>>673454678
Do you think it would be possible for us to increase Jupiter's mass until it achieved fusion?
>>673447397
maybe the gases are held in place by thin membranes kind of like an slelington/exoskelinton
This is where you live, /b/.
>>673454678
well i assume it has a core because of the "strong Gravity" pressurizing the gases
>>673454986
Not really an expert on the subject. Doesn't fusion rely more on extreme amounts of heat and energy, rather than mass?
>>673454924
do you happen to have the picture of venus surface?
>>673455291
I've got pictures of your mum's surface.
>>673455573
no need to be a childish fag anon
Well, that's about it from me, /b/. Please keep this thread going, space threads are always the best threads on /b/.
Some cool stuff to check out:
apod.nasa.gov
https://youtu.be/QgNDao7m41M
https://youtu.be/DNlLnaJiGY8
https://youtu.be/o8TssbmY-GM
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
>>673455291
Why yes, thanks to the former Soviet Union.
>>673455673
Thanks anon!
>>673456180
Looks like that moon dust just gets everywhere.
>>673450519
400 k =~125 ºC or 260 american degrees
>>673456689
For some reason, I feel like Pope Francis isn't actually religious at all.
>>673456975
>supreme pontiff of holy mother church
>living representative of Jesus Christ on this world
>not religious
>>673457307
kek'd
>>673452485
>tfw you will never see Kharak burning
>>673448731
The sad fact is that Mars will NEVER be terraformed because it has no magnetic field to prevent solar wind from stripping away any atmosphere that might be created there.
>>673458387
What's the difference between a magnetic field and a magnetosphere?
>>673444845
Somewhere out there in the vast endless space there is kars.
>>673458869
The magnetosphere is made out of particles which are under the influence of a magnetic field.
My phone is about to die but post again soon anon! I'd love to share some crazy theories
>>673446012
True, it's definitely a possibility. But it wouldn't help explain the beginning of the universe at all, if we are in a computer simulation then the beings that created it must've originated from some scientific event and creation point of their own.
>>673459736
Kars from jojos bizzare adventure. he got chuncked into space after achieving perfection.
>>673460069
I think it's infinitely irreducible somewhere there is the origin universe which made the beings that made the simulation universe where the beings made a physics experiment which made a universe that made the people who made a computer simulation where every black whole a singularity where universes are made where... The origin universe was made where...
>>673460586
Shit's complicated yo. The very thought of it blows my mind and I doubt if our race managed to survive and gain the knowledge of a billion years of research that we'd find the answer. It's unusually comforting that we don't know in a way, so that we can all believe whatever theory we want to as individuals.
>>673461309
You can believe what you want. Mine is the only true one
>>673460586
All we know for sure is that 14 billion years ago, all the matter in the universe was condensed into an extremely tiny spot, smaller than an atom. Then, for some reason, it exploded.
