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Scourge wrote:Think you got your numbers a little off. It's 300,000 km/s and 18,000,000 km/min. 144,000,000 km or 89,477,451 miles. Just forgot a few digits.

Oh yeah, right.

Transient wrote:Here are some more:

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The last one took some color correction on my part to bring into focus something I think NASA may have missed.

:olo: :olo: :olo: :olo: WINNAR!

tnf wrote:This is America. It's right around 186,300 miles/second.

I'm pretty sure about half of this forum lives in UK (which is in Europe), about 35% lives in US, and the rest are non-English speaking countries (like mine). About 99% of the world uses metric system, only 3 countries on the world still stick to Imperial. That is USA, Myanmar and Liberia (totally didn't look that up). Myanmar and Liberia has been using metric system in parallel of the imerial one for quite a bit of time now, and they're in the process of conversion to metric system, which will leave USA the only country in the world to use imperial system. Luckily, some folks over in US start to find metric system useful and much easier to use than imperial, especially in measurements. Because metric system makes unit conversions easier with the use of decimal number system, people have an immediate idea of how long a kilometer actually is. Measurements are so much easier in metric system.

Oh, and speaking of NASA - they also use metric system, despite being American institute. Isn't that funny?

Hook, line and sinker

CZghost wrote:

tnf wrote:This is America. It's right around 186,300 miles/second.

I'm pretty sure about half of this forum lives in UK (which is in Europe), about 35% lives in US, and the rest are non-English speaking countries (like mine). About 99% of the world uses metric system, only 3 countries on the world still stick to Imperial. That is USA, Myanmar and Liberia (totally didn't look that up). Myanmar and Liberia has been using metric system in parallel of the imerial one for quite a bit of time now, and they're in the process of conversion to metric system, which will leave USA the only country in the world to use imperial system. Luckily, some folks over in US start to find metric system useful and much easier to use than imperial, especially in measurements. Because metric system makes unit conversions easier with the use of decimal number system, people have an immediate idea of how long a kilometer actually is. Measurements are so much easier in metric system.

I'm pretty sure tnf was being facetious.

What's this 'metric system' you speak of?

When I was doing research I routinely mixed up concentrations of various biological solutions at 1 x 10-30 pounds per microgallon.

Transient wrote:Hi tnf!

Hey Transient!

Transient wrote:Hi tnf!

Hi tnf. You been good?

... and speaking of metric vs imperial..

CZghost wrote:Oh, and speaking of NASA - they also use metric system, despite being American institute. Isn't that funny?

Weird maybe but here in Australia we are 'metric' and decimal (currency) even tides are now measured in metres but weirdly news, particularly weather reporters, report waves heights on the beaches and for the surfing fraternity in feet!

Not everything is measured in metric system. For example, here in Czechia, we're mostly using metric system, but plumbing is measured in imperial system (especially sizes). It's a kind of standard to be honest. Imperial system is actually worked externally into the SI metric system via conversion formulas, so it is possible to convert between miles and kilometers for example.

get your VPNs out....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... e-universe

I'm gonna watch this when I'm home.

Oh my god, I tried it, and didn't work. Turns out BBC is fairly thoughtful of this and blocks VPN access:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/ques ... uk-message

This is my VPN settings. This server is optimized for video streaming.


So unless you set up your own VPN service somewhere on Amazon or Google or Digital Ocean servers (while specifically selecting servers inside UK), you're not going to be able to visit BBC's sites. And I doubt that using Tor would help you, I'm sure BBC was thoughtful of that as well. You could theoretically use Tor in Bridged mode (which will specifically select servers that are not publicly listed), but it's still a little bit of lottery to find an exit node that is situated inside UK and you may end up rerouting Tor circuit couple of times. And even if you happen to find one, it's still not entirely optimal for video streaming, you may end up buffering a lot or watch garbage quality low resolution video. Not worth it I guess.

EDIT: I should have translated the name of the place, which is Wonderland. For some reason some places names are translated to Czech.

New image out today from NASA of the cartwheel galaxy, which is about 500MLY away. Best spot to see various resolution images and the write-up from NASA is here:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/medi ... 2RNSQWTCTH

Every time I see a new picture from that telescope I feel just a little bit of existential dread. Just look at all those fucking galaxies all over the place!

Transient wrote:Every time I see a new picture from that telescope I feel just a little bit of existential dread. Just look at all those fucking galaxies all over the place!

BUT WE ARE SPECIAL AND THERE IS NO LIFE ANYWHERE ELSE

Don Carlos wrote:

Transient wrote:Every time I see a new picture from that telescope I feel just a little bit of existential dread. Just look at all those fucking galaxies all over the place!

BUT WE ARE SPECIAL AND THERE IS NO LIFE ANYWHERE ELSE

I highly doubt that we're the only living creatures in the entire universe. However given how far galaxies and solar systems are from each other, we're experiencing something called "Fermi Paradox", which basically means that while it is statistically impossible for us to be alone in the entire universe, it's also impossible for us to see extraterrestrial life forms as they're so far away that they're unreachable for us. Light coming from these far galaxies are millions of years old, for what we know, these galaxies may no longer exist or may look entirely differently from what we perceive. Some galaxies could be swallowed by their own black holes, some could be merged into other galaxies, some could simply be dissolved. We don't know a shit what's out there.

Oh rly I had no clue.

CZghost wrote:I highly doubt that we're the only living creatures in the entire universe. However given how far galaxies and solar systems are from each other, we're experiencing something called "Fermi Paradox", which basically means that while it is statistically impossible for us to be alone in the entire universe, it's also impossible for us to see extraterrestrial life forms as they're so far away that they're unreachable for us. Light coming from these far galaxies are millions of years old, for what we know, these galaxies may no longer exist or may look entirely differently from what we perceive. Some galaxies could be swallowed by their own black holes, some could be merged into other galaxies, some could simply be dissolved. We don't know a shit what's out there.

That's an impressive theory you came up with. Btw have you met fellow astrophysicist Kracus?

tnf wrote: This is America. It's right around 186,300 miles/second.

:olo: I was being polite for the metric majority.

Doombrain wrote:Oh rly I had no clue.

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More new stuff from NASA today - Tarantula Nebula

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news ... s-2022-041

Stunning.

... and those specks in that minute field of view are stars. Mind bending

In a moment, I thought the images were done by talented artists drawing realistic galaxies.

But if these are real, it's spectacular and marvelous.