Recent comments in /f/space

FalseVaccum t1_j6u87he wrote

Reply to Have you ever thought how/what it would look like to wander through space forever? by Twidom

I actually have a reoccurring nightmare about this. I’m floating away from Earth into the void of space feeling panic as I drift further away from the only place I know in the universe. Knowing I will never see my friends or family again, loneliness completely envelops that causes a feeling of emptiness as vast as the deep space I am now imprisioned in………..Yeah na I’m good.

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bad_syntax t1_j6u4gpu wrote

Reply to comment by bad_syntax in Once-in-a-lifetime green comet makes closest approach to Earth in 50,000 years today by ReverseGarfield

People voting me down, which is funny.

I went outside, back yard. I have maybe 10' to my pool. Once I left the cover of my house, solid ice, smooth as glass, all the way to the water. I had to follow the small area without ice along the side of my house to get any traction at all.

I then went out the front, where I have a large driveway for my 2+1 car garages. Its flat in the immediate area, again, solid ice, you can kick a small piece of ice across 30' of driveway with almost no effort. Take any step more than a few inches, you fall. I was able to get to the grass, which has a sheet of ice on the top but I could punch through. Walked down to my mailbox to see how the road was. Some slush in the gutter, but again, solid ice, everywhere. If not for the grass, I would have 0 chance of making it down my minor slope into the road, and 0 chance making it back up. I'm 100% positive that I could get my car out, and into the road, about 60% sure I wouldn't go into the neighbors fence, and 0% sure I could get it back up into the driveway.

Here is a pic:
https://pasteboard.co/tiXcslc2oLDq.png

None of that you see is snow, its all ice. Solid on the hard areas, a sheet across the grass. Up to about 1" thick on flat areas where it accumulated.

HOWEVER, I do have a remote controlled Zubr Hovercraft, and it is about to go have some fun.

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orelsewhat t1_j6u3gxz wrote

Reply to Have you ever thought how/what it would look like to wander through space forever? by Twidom

You're wandering through space right now. Travel someplace with no light pollution, and look up. That's what the universe would look like if you were free falling in space.

If you could do that forever, you'd eventually notice the stars reddening and disappearing en masse, and assuming 'The Big Rip' doesn't happen, you'd spend eternity seeing nothing, not even yourself.

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Private-Sun186 t1_j6u0ttf wrote

Reply to Have you ever thought how/what it would look like to wander through space forever? by Twidom

Imagine a lifeboat. Permanently anchor it at Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean. Use whatever science you used to make yourself immortal to make the sea around you as far as you could see completely flat. Use that same science to eliminate the weather and exclude all wildlife and deorbited debris. Now climb into the lifeboat.

That would interest you longer than being in space would because you could at least dip your hands or feet into the water for a break from the sensory deprivation. But, it would only delay the slide into insanity, not stop it.

However, if you could safely land on planets, take off again, and voluntarily enter suspended animation or at least hibernate, that would be interesting.

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ferrel_hadley t1_j6tupya wrote

Reply to Have you ever thought how/what it would look like to wander through space forever? by Twidom

>Assuming you drifted long enough to get away from the sun, would it look like our night sky, with hundreds, thousands of shiny dots everywhere you looked?

And could we see galaxies, nebulas and other space phenomena or are they too far apart, too big or in a spectrum we can't perceive?

Dont really need to get away from the Sun. Once you are in shadow you do not recieve reflected back glare from dust in the air like happens on Earth. You will be in pretty dark space.

You can see Andromeda, a huge galaxy a couple of hundred light years away. And the Mangellic Clouds, satellite galaxies of our own. So you can see a couple of galaxies.

I dont think you can see nebula with the naked eye. They tend to be gas clouds that only resolve with telescopes.

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Anonymous-USA t1_j6tug22 wrote

Reply to Have you ever thought how/what it would look like to wander through space forever? by Twidom

It depend upon which direction you go. At first it would be closer to the night sky you see along the equator where there’s no ambient city lights. But as you leave the Milky Way and travel towards Andromeda, you’d spend 2.5M years seeing little change, no stars, just dim galaxies. Yawn! 🥱 (because while you may live forever you still won’t travel faster than light)

If you head towards the center of the Milky Way, after about a hundred thousand years, you’ll approach the center and it will definitely be more populous and brighter and beautiful. But heaven forbid you should run into our supermassive black hole there, for you’ll live “forever” with nowhere to go!!! 🥱

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Ok_Explorer604 t1_j6tt6dq wrote

Reply to Have you ever thought how/what it would look like to wander through space forever? by Twidom

Drifting aimlessly through space little a piece of debris would be the stuff of nightmares, and truly hell. You'd go insane from the oppressive nothingness.

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Considering it takes light about 100,000 years to traverse the Milky Way, and our galaxy is nothing but a speck of sand on the beach, that's the universe.....you'd lose you mind before you even made it out of the solar system.

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