It reminds me of city snow piles that are almost melted out.
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This is fascinating, this rock that hurtals threw the black void of space for billions of years, and here it is. Photographed. If we can get here, we can go anywhere.
Voyager could reach Proxima Centauri in about 75000 years at the current speed (if it was aimed at it).
The biology, sociology and physics of interstellar travel are brutal and unforgiving.
Not quite anywhere. The rocket equation is a bitch that way. Nor does the hardware live forever, or even us.
If we can get here, we can go anywhere
in a few thousand years at light speed.
I think the primary reason there's so much psychological revulsion in this thread is because the only times you see something like this on Earth is in deep cave footage
And typically these types of ecological niches are completely filled with insects
Evolution primes the brain to pay attention to threats
No insects? They're hiding. —> Dread/Fear
While there is an Air and Space museum, there is no air in space.
why this scary
It is a very safe place, as all people are extremely far away.
Have you ever thought about what it must be like in space? That shit is scary. We take for granted that we have an atmosphere to disperse light, as well as a ground for light to reflect off of. In space, some shit could be right in front of you and you would have no idea. If there were an asteroid between you and the sun, you wouldn’t realize until it was so close that there was a huge black spot covering the sun up.
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This makes me feel a bit nauseous.
Perhaps because you can see mountains at the same scale that allows you to clearly see the object's horizon/curvature. It would be like if Earth had mountains thousands of miles high. It's a landscape that feels deeply unnatural.
Because of the soildier attempting to hide behind the rock (middle right)
Something about it is a bit nauseating
It looks super cool
It would have been cool if they had named the spacecraft Urashima since they were going to Ryugu, but I guess it wouldn't make sense because in the story, the gift Urashima brings back from Ryugu ends up fucking him over. At least, that's how I understood it as a kid.
What do you mean "asteroid"? That's my basement. /j
Your vacuflo might need a emptied dude
This is cool and all, and I am super stoked we can do this...but my brain keeps saying, yeah, so what, it's a big rock.
It's not just a big rock, It's a big rock really far away!
Scientists: Yes, we finally did it! We captured a picture from our probe that touched down on a big rock in space! We are awesome!
Me: Holy shit! That is so cool, you are awesome! What did the rock look like?
Scientists: Like a big fucking rock
Me: Dude, no way!
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