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Webb telescope’s new images of stars, galaxies and an exoplanet will be revealed today
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| Updated 8:19 AM EDT, Tue July 12, 2022
| Ashley Strickland
Posted on 07/12/2022 5:25:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: central_va
The "closest" star is 4 LYs away. To put this distance in perspective, if you scaled the sun down to the size of a pea, Alpha Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor, would be 117 miles away.
Imagine two peas separated by 117 miles. These are the distances we are talking about.
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:07:21 AM PDT
by
Drew68
(Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
To: central_va
And the ”New World” was past the point where “there be dragons.”
Fortunately, there are people who still understand the need for exploration.
To: Drew68
To put this distance in perspective, if you scaled the sun down to the size of a pea, Alpha Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor, would be 117 miles away. Imagine two peas separated by 117 miles. These are the distances we are talking about. 117 miles is less than two hours on the expressway.
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:09:26 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Vermont Lt
Ok so how long should I gaze at little colored dots to prove I am “curious”?
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:09:55 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: central_va
The "closest" star is 4 LYs away. THERE IS NO CHANCE OF HUMANS EVER EXPLORING SPACE. So enjoy the little colored dots....4-dimensional travel will make light-year distances trivial.
Folding space will be the key.
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:11:31 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: central_va
Ok so how long should I gaze at little colored dots to prove I am “curious”?Low curiosity: 23.4 seconds.
High curiosity: 2 minutes. 7.1 seconds.
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:12:31 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Vermont Lt
Fortunately, there are people who still understand the need for exploration.Have you ever taken a physics class or astrophysics class in college? I have , many of them. Humans are stuck here get used to it.
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:12:41 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Hot Tabasco
It’s hard to wrap one’s mind around the fact that there is no end to the universe........The bad news is there is no end to liberal hate and liberal lies.
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:13:14 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: central_va
Have you ever taken a physics class or astrophysics class in college? I have , many of them. Humans are stuck here get used to it.You need to attend a spacefaring alien race's college. I have and I aced Space Folding 402, and my senior project was a new implementation of the Tantalus drive.
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:14:30 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Lazamataz
Do you think a space folder will also work on your laundry as a side benefit?
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:15:15 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:15:52 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: JackFromTexas
When I was a kid (long before velcro) we threw cockle burrs at each other. They stuck to clothing. I never bothered to examine them and see the tiny hooks but you could pinch them between you fingers and they did not penetrate the skin.
To: central_va
I have a hard time believing you took a physics class in college. But, yes I understand the problems with space travel.
That said, there are millions of tons of materials on the moon that can be mined. There are asteroids that can be mined. There are moons on Jupiter that should be explored.
Sitting on our hands and thinking we’ve “done it all” is just lazy.
To: central_va
Do you think a space folder will also work on your laundry as a side benefit?No. As you know, the Hermi Exclusion Principle states that folding the 4th dimension will in no way effect the 3rd dimension, so by the principle of dimensional non-intersection, you will notice no change in your laundry's status.
See: "Dimensions: Their Limitations and Possibilities, Chapter 3, pp 803-1023. (ISBD 0198526636. Author: Sk2'sje KerNw, (c) 198,102 PE.)
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:21:13 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Vermont Lt
I have a hard time believing you took a physics class in college. You can't change a mammal's gender and you can't travel anywhere near the speed of light. I'd try to explain it to you in mathematical terms but you would not understand.
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:32:23 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Lazamataz
"my senior project was a new implementation of the Tantalus drive. "
Hey Man, you think I could borrow that again this weekend?
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:33:12 AM PDT
by
misanthrope
(Deranged, sinister, deplorable troll)
To: Red Badger
According to NASA’s website that image has THOUSANDS of galaxies in it and covers a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length!
To: Red Badger
I can still hear that inner eight year old voice in my head giggling after thinking this might be pictures of light, reflecting off gasses from Uranus.
Just had to get that out there. Freegards,
H-T
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:36:00 AM PDT
by
Hat-Trick
(Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
To: Red Badger
Great comparison side by side!
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:42:56 AM PDT
by
telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
To: central_va
Laundry always came out already folded with Maureen's machine
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posted on
07/12/2022 6:43:11 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
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