Space
Whoa... Get your for real face on before you read this lol.
I'm watching stuff about the Hubble Telescope. Man they are talking about some wacky shit. It's so hard to wrap your head around space. I mean we're floating in a nothingness, and if you get bored go look at what Hubble captures... it is like something straight out of some crazy graphic designers head. The images are LIGHT YEARS wide! And by seeing light formations they are basically chasing time. They are literally seeing the past. They are capturing light as it is still traveling into nowhere so therefore they know how long ago it happened and even what it came from! I'm not going to lie... I would do just about anything to see space in person. Like I would be more than happy to drop everything and go in a shuttle and just jump out of that bitch in a suit and float around until I explode (or implode... not sure about how what you do with no gravity and no suit). I know this sounds ridiculous, but I've really just been awe struck by the thought of space here lately. With so many things being explained in this world by some of the smartest people to ever step foot on the earth, and then to hear them say they just don't know what the hell some of this stuff is, is crazy. They just discovered an area where things literally speed up for no reason. The guy gave the example of throwing his keys in the air:
On earth you throw them up and they fall due to gravity
In space you throw them and they move up at a continuous speed theoretically forever
In this area (I can't remember its name) you throw your keys and they move up and then begin to speed up exponentially.
WTF! that is ridiculous.
And there are real black holes (I've known this but I didn't realize what they were) They are areas of mass that are so dense that they literally EAT everything that comes near it...ie: light, stars, rocks and they disappear! holy fucking shit.
Feasting Black Hole Blows Bubbles from Galaxy NGC 4438:
And NO I'm not high lol. If I were, I would probably be able to figure it all out haha. Just watching too much TV and it's really interesting.
Pics from hubble:
1) A brilliant white core is encircled by thick dust lanes in this spiral galaxy, seen edge-on. The galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light years from Earth.
2) The Horsehead Nebula is a cold, dark cloud of gas and dust, silhouetted against the bright nebula IC 434. The bright area at the top left edge is a young star still embedded in its nursery of gas and dust.
3) The Veil Nebula, left behind by the explosion of a massive star thousands of years ago, is one of the largest and most spectacular supernova remnants in the sky. This is only a small section of it.
4) This detailed picture of the Helix Nebula shows a fine web of filaments, like the spokes of a bicycle, embedded in the colorful red and blue gas ring around this dying star. The Helix Nebula is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth, only 650 light years away.
5) When a massive star exploded, spewing out its gaseous layers into a turbulent, star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, it left behind this chaotic cloud of gas and dust. The star that produced this supernova remnant was probably 50 times the mass of our Sun.
6) A Sun-like star ends its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which form a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center.
To see these things with my own eyes would be so overwhelming. I truly don't know what I would do. This is some deep shit here, I mean there aren't really words to describe how I would feel. I think that's as close to realizing how complex we are as people and how amazing life as we know it is.
That just happened.
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Originally Posted by yungdz
