Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Samwise on April 30, 2007, 05:14:24 AM
Title: Earth seen from Saturn
Post by: Samwise on April 30, 2007, 05:14:24 AM
Wow, I just saw this picture, it\'s pretty amazing. Earth is the small spot to the left (and slightly up) of Saturn.
Title: Earth seen from Saturn
Post by: Titan on April 30, 2007, 07:59:40 AM
Which small dot? There are a lot.
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Post by: Samwise on April 30, 2007, 09:25:43 AM
Looky here small man:
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Post by: GmanJoe on April 30, 2007, 09:53:26 AM
Earth = Earf in ghetto-ese.
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Post by: clips on April 30, 2007, 11:04:52 AM
it\'s pretty amazing that we have technology that can transfer data of this magnitude from this deep in space...
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Post by: GmanJoe on April 30, 2007, 11:30:50 AM
Quote from: clips
it\'s pretty amazing that we have technology that can transfer data of this magnitude from this deep in space...
When we can press a button to transport our poops from our colon to the toilet, I\'ll be impressed. Til then.....it\'s ho hum.
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Post by: Titan on April 30, 2007, 12:47:00 PM
Quote from: Samwise
Looky here small man:
How do you know that one of those other dots isn\'t the earth?
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Post by: Evi on April 30, 2007, 12:53:52 PM
Because you\'re drunk.
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Post by: Samwise on April 30, 2007, 01:07:10 PM
Quote from: Titan
How do you know that one of those other dots isn\'t the earth?
Are you daft? It\'s not like I made the images. They\'re like official NASA stuff or some shit. I doubt they\'d lie about which dot is Earth. :)
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Post by: Titan on April 30, 2007, 02:54:03 PM
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Are you daft? It\'s not like I made the images. They\'re like official NASA stuff or some shit. I doubt they\'d lie about which dot is Earth. :)
Yeah but you would ;)
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Post by: Joker on April 30, 2007, 03:32:40 PM
Quote from: Samwise
Are you daft? It\'s not like I made the images. They\'re like official NASA stuff or some shit. I doubt they\'d lie about which dot is Earth. :)
THEY LIED ABOUT THE MOON LANDING!!!
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Post by: Evi on April 30, 2007, 03:40:29 PM
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Post by: luckee on April 30, 2007, 04:37:05 PM
that could be a nice wallpaper..any hi-res versions available?
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Post by: Titan on April 30, 2007, 08:26:49 PM
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that could be a nice wallpaper..any hi-res versions available?
Stole your idea and using it for my wallpaper ;)
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Post by: Samwise on April 30, 2007, 10:46:04 PM
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that could be a nice wallpaper..any hi-res versions available?
You mean besides the giant picture in my first post?
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Post by: Evi on May 01, 2007, 12:08:56 AM
^^
Maybe he has a 30" display or something? Somehow though...I doubt that.
+10 for using the word "daft". :D
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Post by: Joker on January 12, 2008, 08:48:51 AM
Was going to make a new thread about this but I rememberd Sammy already had one.
I went to hear a lecture at Toronto University recently by various astronomers. It was an immensly fascinating experience, one of the points they brought up was this picture of earth.
Which has already been stated really puts things into a better perspective of how insignificant we are.
They also had a segment on Carl Sagan and talked about space travel and how we just might be too far to ever reach the stars. Even if we had a space craft that could travel at the speed of light it would still take 4 years to reach the nearest star. Kind of a downer, not that I expect mankind to have the technology to reach a star in my lifetime. But knowing that regardless of how advanced we get we still might not be able to do is a let down.
Regardless, I still found the information they presented to be very humbling.
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Post by: Samwise on January 12, 2008, 09:58:19 AM
All we gotta do is bend the universe! Or use an Einstein-Rosen bridge.
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Post by: Viper_Fujax on January 12, 2008, 10:06:44 AM
im really into this stuff. I even want to minor in it just because i love it, but it\'d be pretty useless with a business major. I wouldve majored in it but you need to be brilliant to make any money with it..and i suck ass at advanced math
but yea, logistically right now its hard to fathom that well ever reach another star. It actually is physically possible to go the speed of light if you gain enough momentum. But to go that speed you need a ridiculous amount of fuel..and you need to be able to carry that fuel, and probably enough to get you back. But even if you go the speed of light, that\'s 4 years in space. Not to mention all of the stars we\'ve seen (meaning farther than 4 light years) are uninhabitable..maybe when we get technology to see planets smaller than huge jupiters
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Post by: Joker on January 13, 2008, 07:33:48 AM
I hear ya viper, I would of loved to work in astronomy but I simply don\'t have the brains for it. So I just remain a fascinated observer from the side lines.
I read one theory about colonizing was to send robots with frozen human embryos to places we might want to colonize. Or building a ship the size of a city that could house generations of humans. But as you already said, finding a fuel source to support a craft like that is impossible at the moment, let alone trying to fuel something as big as a city.
I watched Sunshine last night from Danny Boyle (he made Trainspotting / 28 days later). Its about 8 astronauts trying to deliver a gargantuan bomb to the core of the sun to reboot it pretty much, sun is dying and earth is left in a solar winter. I would recommend checking it out if your into this stuff, or at least the first hour of it. The 2nd hour turns into a horror / slasher movie for some reason. But the first hour when the story is mainly about the vastness of space is really interesting. Its science fiction not science fact in the least, but the effects aren\'t all glitzed up hollywood style. Visually, at least for me anyways I found it believable, as in I found myself saying "Yeah, I could see it looking like that."
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Post by: fastson on January 13, 2008, 07:46:45 AM
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Post by: Samwise on January 13, 2008, 08:21:30 AM
I loved Sunshine.
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Post by: Viper_Fujax on January 13, 2008, 10:45:05 AM
surpised it\'s actually good. After seeing the majority of movies about space trying to be realistic disappoint, i didnt think twice about it.
Is it about the sun dieing and us freezing? because i thought with how the sun baloons up when it dies that the sun gets closer to earth and fries it..then it dies and we freeze. or is it not a natural death of the sun?
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Post by: Joker on January 13, 2008, 11:09:22 AM
Yup its about us freezing to death. They don\'t really explain to a point why its exactly dieing, just that it is and 8 astronauts are on their way to give it a jump start. 7 years after the first ship they sent dissapeared.
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Post by: Titan on January 13, 2008, 01:10:44 PM
I\'ll have to check out that movie. Its really hard trying to find a good space movie nowadays. I seem to find the best space and sci-fi movies were around in the 70s and 80s. They were the most believable to me. I remember watching the original Battlestar Galactica in one of my classes in high school and really enjoyed it. My only complaint was the Cylons looked kinda dumb but the visuals were pretty good. And forget about Alien and Aliens. Those movies were just works of art :). If I get involved in the movie industry, I\'d love to do an independent space movie using more or less 70s and 80s special effects methods hybrided with some newer methods to make a really good movie. I\'ve got ideas for stories. I just need to get cracking writing them down. Though, I feel they are better miniseries or serial movies.
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Post by: Samwise on January 13, 2008, 01:37:33 PM
Cool Titan, I feel the same way. I\'d love to do an "old school" sci-fi movie.
By the way, Blade Runner was recently released in the best form yet (The Final Cut). The negative was scanned at 4K resolution and digitally restored. It has never looked or sounded this good. Pure cinema!
EDIT: Have you seen Primer? It\'s a time travel movie made for about $7000. It\'s actually pretty decent as far as I remember.
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Post by: Joker on January 13, 2008, 03:16:46 PM
Blade Runner, theres a movie thats been on my must see list for years. I guess now would be the best time to finally see it.
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Post by: Samwise on January 13, 2008, 11:30:03 PM
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Blade Runner, theres a movie thats been on my must see list for years. I guess now would be the best time to finally see it.
Yes! You must. :D
Just make sure you get the new restored DVD set. The old DVD version sucked ass.