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Cant go back lost the technology to get there and cant rebuild lmao

It was a max structural load test, so it wasn't supposed to fail. Could be anything from a popped valve to crushed soda can. We need more details.

Omg going to check that out thank you.

As a friend once put into words something I feel, "the pale blue dot is the closest thing to a spiritual experience that I have ever felt" (or to what I think a spiritual experience is based on what people more inclined to spiritual things claim).

In 2021 I took a simple telescope my brother bought to my parent's back yard (they live in the outskirts of the city, less light pollution) and we took a picture of Saturn and Jupiter. We could see the rings in Saturn and maybe 5 of Jupiter's big moons. I felt like crying. It is very "pixelated" (bad phone camera sitting on top of the telescope which isn't a good one, and also my brother and I are not skilled into operating the thing).

Anyways, wall of text to say "yes, I have felt emotional when looking up to the sky, quite a few times actually".

Same, I think it definitely serves as escapism sometimes when things get rough in life. This idea that everything is going to end and we're only a tiny tiny part of a big big big big infinite space.

So well put Natiak, I'm going to frame this response

I got to tour it a few years back , insane!

My comment was regarding the title, not the article.

"Endurance" by Scott is a great read.

After all, you live in a block sized prison, but with no fresh air at all. Working your ass off. The view is great though.

Now you aren’t ignoring me, you are ignoring astronomers, astrophysicists and scientists. What we think and “know” are two different things. You keep presenting theory as fact. Science much?

I’m curious if my health would drastically improve, thanks to the sudden absence of pollen and other usual plant allergens that drag me down so hard.

On the other hand, living in such tight quarters with nonexistent privacy would drive me insane within days.

Tell me what a wet-dry scrubber is, the purpose of blowoff and a recirculation line right now and I will answer your question.

Since you clearly know about this stuff you should be able to answer.

Deploy your magic scrubbers that are going to undo all the damage done to the planet. Go ahead and tackle pfas while you're at it.

But SLS also took twice as long as planned to reach first launch and twice as much money as planned. So we get no cutting edge technology and all of the same cost issues that come with new technology.

Deploy what? Maybe spend more than 3 seconds formulating a response.

CMU has some seriously good robotics students. The NREC and Planetary Robotics labs are wild.

We can surmise that Earth has been meaningfully hit with GRBs over its history (even before ours) by taking ice and core samples and finding decaying isotopes that shouldn't be there.

Honestly, if radiation from a GRB close enough to hurt us hit you, the first thing you'd notice would be intense nausea and/or unexplainable blindness.

And with a prolonged full body dose of radiation that would probably make the Chernobyl Elephant's Foot look like a Rabbit's Foot, your central nervous and immune systems would be overwhelmed by a complete bodily failure and you'd just pass out and never wake up.

True. And it might be worth it overall. Like, a laser would evaporate ice and material on the asteroid, which would push away from the asteroid, changing its trajectory.

They said civilization, not species evolution.

Yes, but I'm thinking we could reach it faster, and from further this way, and apply more energy in total. I'm not suggesting it would be worth it, more that it's a fun thing to think about.

More specifically under 150 lightyears. Cancer rates will skyrocket, ozone layer will be depleted and it could even trigger an ice age. Under 25 lightyears is just a death sentence. It'll cause mass extinction of almost all life forms on Earth. Luckily there's not one star that will go supernova anytime soon within this radius and there's not much to worry about.

Considering the fact that homo sapien and sub species history is about 1.5 or so million generations and recorded history is only about 20 thousand generations it's just a blink in time of a lifetime of each of us. There are physical phenomena that we deduce from our surroundings though. As we reach further into the past to collect data about facts with technological advances .........we still won't approach a meaningful understanding of our universe. Unless of course we somehow evolve . But then there won't be humans anymore. I think in the end all of this can't be fully resolved.