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THE MOON RULEZ #1

Star & Flag!!!!!1

I am going to go love myself long time!
Thanks lunar thing!

This is but a mere distance. Considering we're roughly 90 million miles away from the sun.
We are but a speck of a speck in the grand scheme of things.

if we're 90million miles away from the sun, this pic is taken from about 200million miles from the sun? Is that right?

yes sir.

Er, ma'am.

that's mir to you.

To put it bluntly, we can barely get anything out of our solar system yet, let alone our galaxy. That's like opening the front door to your house and taking a step when you have to walk to China. We haven't even reached our fucking mailbox yet. what the fuck maaaaan

This is true, and it pisses me off because I have a check in the mail.

AND THEN ONE DAY YOU'LL REALIZE
JUST A SPECK IN THE SPECTRUM
INSIGNIFICANT, AM I?

If you look closely you can actually see my balls from this pic.

hahahaha

hahahaha i hope i was pooping at the moment that picture was taken.

I hope I was dog plowing ryans mom when this pic was taken

wow, i didn't realize how far a light year was. (5,878,630,000,000 miles) which means that light could go back and fourth between where this pic was taken, and the earth 55000times in a year. holy moly.

Why did you quote yeti for that?

roughly 6 times a day.

yeah you should have quoted the offal so it could be like dog-plowing Ryan's mom 55000 times a year.

That is fucking so gnarly; mind blowing. The universe could shake earth off like a bad case of the fleas...makes you realize how insignificant people are in the big picture.

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the Solar System, to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space.

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Carl Sagan

just watch this:


bennyhillifier

that was going to be the next thing I post!

arillius, that video is amazing.

This is why I refuse to pay taxes or have any real morals.

Not exactly. It looks like this pic was taken from the Messenger probe in orbit around Mercury. So Earth and Mercury would have been on opposite sides of the sun. Mercury's orbit is around 30 million miles.

valid point, you have.

More accurately, the Sun is a single grain of sand on a moderately sized beach of a small island floating on just one of the billions of archipelagos across the universe.

MAILBOX OR GTFO

The universe could be just one of many.

Only the front door to your house is real.

That's kinda why i asked, i thought it might be that way.



AND i quoted yeti because i like the thought of him pooping. shove it, bitches.

could be possible but could never be proven. the properties of light don't allow us to see further than the number of years this universe has been around. Maybe someday we might be able to detect subtle gravity or magnetic fields from stuff beyond the edge of our universe. But who cares, that shit can't affect us anyway. We gotta figure out how the stuff close to us works before we can really start looking far away.

Also, this thread is bringing up my love of orbital dynamics. If I was smarter and realized earlier what I wanted to do with my life I would have studied physics more and maybe I'd be on my way to be an orbital engineer by now.

VIBRATING STRINGS ALL UP IN THIS BITCH

String Theory

String Cheese Incident Theory

^ What he said....

What about the Cheese String Theory?

Nothin. Guilty pleasure of mine haha.

Well, string cheese incident at least. Fuck it, anything string cheese is awesome.

So are you also a fan of the band "the string cheese incident"?

yessah

only Red Harvest is real.

are you talking about the band or the star wars novel?

a little of column A, a little of column B.


i've actually never read Red Harvest, but i'm getting into Star Wars fiction. i'm in the middle of "Millenium Falcon" right now. i just thought of Red Harvest due to their vast "spacey" sound.

stop the conspiracy. only the dark sucker theory is real!

....dark...sucker?

Fuck that.

DARKSPACE


SPACE BLACKMETAL AT ITS BEST!

..dark sucker theory?

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/rogermw/darksucker.html

haha oh shit, that's right

Only cold dark matter is real

only links to crystallinks are real.

Darkspace ftw. Either that or Sun of the Blind.

"The reason for all this darkness is: All objects have darkness embedded within them. Every time a dark sucker operates, it pulls this intrinsic darkness out of all surfaces that are in an unobstructed path to the dark sucker...

This intrinsic darkness is bound into the electrons of the surface material. We might even call a surface a "host material" for darkness. The more dulled ("darker" looking) the host material is, the more readily it gives up darkness in response to a dark sucker. (A perfectly reflective material, if such a thing existed, would give off no darkness at all.) The reason host materials get warmer as they release their intrinsic darkness is that there is a binding energy between darkness and its host material. Sucking out darkness releases that binding energy in the form of heat. The stronger the dark sucker and the duller the surface, the more darkness gets divested from the host surface and the hotter the surface becomes...

Eventually, the surface can become so hot that it glows with incandescence, and becomes a dark sucker itself. It should be noted that objects which glow due to their own heat, called "blackbody radiation", always cool off as a result of this radiation. This cooling off is merely the darkness being sucked into the blackbody radiator (hot dark sucker) and making the dark sucker itself into the darkness's new host material. The darkness-to-new-host binding process consumes heat to form its new bonds, each of which has its own binding energy, and the blackbody gets colder as a result." ~Roger M. Wilcox

hmmm quite interesting, that is.

Tony - sadly, i think MF is one of the weaker novels to come out in a while. If you're gonna be reading star wars, at LEAST give a brotha a call first. Seriously man, i've read almost 60 of them now. The series that MF leads into is awesome (Fate of the Jedi - 5 books so far), and the series right before it is incredible. (legacy of the force - 9books) AND the series before that is probably the best overall series, it's called "The new jedi order" and it's about 20books, that's the series i was telling you about where the Yuuzhan vong invade new republic space....come to think of it, don't even buy any more books, tell me before shows we play and i'll bring you a gaggle of them.

Where's my damn Graham Hancock book at nilla!!

didn't you lend that 1300page book to me? How quickly did you think i was gonna read it?

lol

yeah, that's what i thought nilla!

How ironic, on the History channel right now is the show The Universe" about light speed. get on that folks. Watching now.

black holes are so powerful light can't even escape them. FACTBOMB

You know what could escape a black hole?? Brett Favreeee...

Gravitons. WHERE DOES THEY GO??!?!!!1

ROCKET LASER ARM

Bill Brasky is so powerful black holes can't even escape him. FACTBOMB

I once saw Bill Brasky having intercourse with a black hole while eating out Alpha Centauri. yet another FACTBOMB.

i've only read Death Star, i never thought to get into the books until recently. one of the guitar players from Wreckoning is obsessed with all things Star Wars, and he was raving one day about the Yuuzhan Vong series, The New Jedi Order. That series is next on my list. If you want to supply me with the first few of those it would be greatly appreciated.

star and flaggeddddddddddddd