Disappointingly the doors failed to open when I went through, really cut into the magic having to take the little door on the side.

I was also hungover as sin, so that movie was not a good time.

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But the fact is that we just don't know how common life is (and more importantly intelligent life). Currently we have a sample size of one and that isn't enough to draw any meaningful conclusions.

Life has to come from something and the stark reality may simply be that for all those variables to come together in the perfect sequence and environment may not be as easy as we might imagine.

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Absolutely true, was there in 2019 and I remember I got all choked up.

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these are using ZWO's LRGB

I wasn’t putting this up for debate, I said “it is believed” not “it is a fact” or “andromeda is already merging”

I was simply stating what I’ve seen.

"Slightly" is doing a lot of work in that sentence https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/andromeda-brighter-youd-see.html

This is exactly why I believe the Fermi Paradox is bullshit. Space is insanely and wildly beyond-belief-large. The only way that there ISN'T life out there is if the vastness of space is part of what keeps us happy and unaware of "The Simulation".

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https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1349542/milky-way-andromeda-galaxy-merger-underway-astronomy-space-news-evg

Here is an article that suggests the galaxies may already be a touching

There was this news about the galactic halos (? I think) of both maybe being way bigger than previously thought, and if they are as big as the new calculations showed, then yes, the two galaxies would technically already be touching. The actual collision is still way ahead of us tho.

Can you convert that to half life 3s?

I don't think that is true? Both galaxies have diameters of around 100k-150k light years but are 2.5 million light years apart.

It’s stunning when those doors open. Took my breath away.

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Good chance that some stars are flung out into the void though. Imagine being a young civilization in one of those, your understanding of the universe would be pretty handicapped.

It is believed that our galaxy is already merging slightly with andromeda

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Oh my goodness this is so awesome, thank you so much for it! It looks amazing!

Better than that broken link someone posted earlier

Aw, the ‘updated tracking information page’ requires a login.