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Gamma Ray Bursts
Gnarliest shit in the universe. Intense beam of radiation created by a high-mass star collapsing into a neutron star, a quark star, or a black hole. A typical burst, which travels at the speed of light, releases as much energy in a few seconds as our sun will in its entire 10-billion year lifetime. If a burst was to directly hit earth, the exposed half would be vapourized instantly, whilst the occupants on the sheltered half would theoretically die from either boiling to death, freezing to death, asphyxiation, starvation, or a combination of the above. The likelihood of this actually happening though is miniscule
Bonus fact: if you had a drinking straw that was 8 foot long and you looked up through it into the night sky, if your eyesight was strong enough you would be able to see 10,000 galaxies.
Just something cool I heard about the Planck length, if you can't grasp how small it is. If you scaled
.1 millimeters up to the size of the observable universe, the Planck length would then be .1 mm.
I've always been completely fascinated about what it would be like to go on a space walk. Like when you're repelling off of an overhang and you're maybe 100 feet up, and 50 feet from the wall in front of you, you feel like you're in such an empty space (like the opposite of claustrophobia). So trying to imagine that, but with just nothing anywhere around you is crazy. It must be an INSANE feeling .
Pikachu.I've always been completely fascinated about what it would be like to go on a space walk. Like when you're repelling off of an overhang and you're maybe 100 feet up, and 50 feet from the wall in front of you, you feel like you're in such an empty space (like the opposite of claustrophobia). So trying to imagine that, but with just nothing anywhere around you is crazy. It must be an INSANE feeling .
There you go. From what I have read it is either an euphoric feeling or the scariest fucking thing in the world. The video talks alot about the euphoric feeling, trying to find some stuff about the scary feeling that astronauts go through.
There you go. From what I have read it is either an euphoric feeling or the scariest fucking thing in the world. The video talks alot about the euphoric feeling, trying to find some stuff about the scary feeling that astronauts go through.
That was an awesome movie to get ready for work to. I love the new perspective most of the astronauts gained after gazing back at Earth. Really cool and scary to hear them talk about our atmosphere as well.
To me, its crazy to think that this spacecraft could literately just float around endlessly, forever. And while its floating endlessly it is going to be searching for new worlds and planets that could sustain life.
The planet it found is 180 light years from earth.
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies. IC 335 is part of a galaxy group containing three other galaxies, and located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster 60 million light-years away.
Neutrinos are cool for quite a few reasons. One is that they are very hard to detect, because they don't interact with most things in the universe. Them not interacting with most things allows them to pass through almost everything, including us and the Earth. As a matter of fact, approximately 65 billion neutrinos pass through you a second. After they pass through you, they travel through whatever else is in their path. If the Earth is in front of a neutrino, it'll just go right through, out the other side, and continue on through space.
if you were to fall feet first into a black hole the difference in the strength of gravity on your feet and on your head (due to them being a few feet apart) would stretch all the particles in your body thousands of miles long
duder227if you were to fall feet first into a black hole the difference in the strength of gravity on your feet and on your head (due to them being a few feet apart) would stretch all the particles in your body thousands of miles long
If you could make it that far (which you couldn't) your body would just get completely obliterated on a molecular level. There would be nothing left
Black holes are insane. Time dilation is what reks me the most. The higher the mass of an object, the slower time occurs around it. Time dilation increases to infinity, too, which means that, whilst you wouldn't observe any change in the rate of time, an outside observer watching your spacecraft drawing nearer to a black hole would perceive you to fall/move slower and slower until eventually it would appear that, due to the limits of human perception, you'd come to a complete standstill.
Now apply that to the fact that at the center of our galaxy, and most likely all other galaxies, there is a supermassive black hole (ours being approximately 3 million times the size of our sun), of which all objects in the galaxy orbit around/fall towards. We are technically suspended in time outside of a black hole, which could also help explain why the universe appears to be accelerating outwards at an ever increasing speed: we're just moving closer to the black hole.
I wanna jizz in space and watch its forward momentum carry it, knowing that one day my jizz will hit a planete that no one has ever been to, and who knows? maybe populate it with aliens that will one day destroy the earth.
The fact that essentially everything in the movie Interstellar is actually scientifically accurate, even the worm hole stuff, is pretty cool. It was kinda lame how they dumbed most of it down for the general population but they pretty much had to.
The black hole scene was stupid and not science at all though.
las.If you could make it that far (which you couldn't) your body would just get completely obliterated on a molecular level. There would be nothing left
Black holes are insane. Time dilation is what reks me the most. The higher the mass of an object, the slower time occurs around it. Time dilation increases to infinity, too, which means that, whilst you wouldn't observe any change in the rate of time, an outside observer watching your spacecraft drawing nearer to a black hole would perceive you to fall/move slower and slower until eventually it would appear that, due to the limits of human perception, you'd come to a complete standstill.
Now apply that to the fact that at the center of our galaxy, and most likely all other galaxies, there is a supermassive black hole (ours being approximately 3 million times the size of our sun), of which all objects in the galaxy orbit around/fall towards. We are technically suspended in time outside of a black hole, which could also help explain why the universe appears to be accelerating outwards at an ever increasing speed: we're just moving closer to the black hole.
Thats what i mean. Obviously you wouldn't be able to experience it and no one would be able to see it but thats what would happen, all the molecules in your body would stretch into a perfect line. the first being the molecule closest to the black hole, the last being the one farthest away. but yeah space is cool
