the observable physical universe, or at least the current understanding of it, just isn't overawing and huge enough for some people - they want more!
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 18:20 (ten months ago) link
Here is a thing that I have read and that I am not sure I believe: If you accept that more than one universe exists, you are almost inexorably drawn to the conclusion that an infinite number of them exist. With all the extant possibilities.
The reasoning goes that there is no logical boundary short of infinity. Like, if the total number is 52, one might ask, "why not 51 or 53?" Arbitraryness creeps in.
Hence, the suspicion that the number is either one, or infinite.
Personally I see no reason why the answer can't be 3 or 47 or 576.
The universe has no obligation to make sense to us.
― Landfill Collins (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 18:31 (ten months ago) link
sure (but no way it's 3 ffs)
also tbh the multiverse is a different thing than dimensions
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 18:45 (ten months ago) link
Mark s what is your beef with the tripleverse
― Landfill Collins (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 18:47 (ten months ago) link
sucky number, get rid
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 18:50 (ten months ago) link
I'd like to think we're in one of the posher universes, instead of the dumpy, cold, sandy ones
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 19:12 (ten months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 19:15 (ten months ago) link
as many universes as gecs
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 19:35 (ten months ago) link
so there's no set limit to the number of universes but rather it's limited to the capacity of the servers these universes are running on
― silverfish, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 19:38 (ten months ago) link
Hey trinities are ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8lRKCw2_Pk
The past and the present and the future
Big daddy, son, and spook
Peter, Paul, and Mary
RGB
Etc.
Etc
― Landfill Collins (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 19:43 (ten months ago) link
betelgeuse has now gone from the night sky (i.e. it's in the direction of the sun) for the next six months, so if it's still getting brighter we have no way of knowing.
this did happen tho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_2023ixf
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 25 May 2023 06:56 (ten months ago) link
when come back bring superpie
― mark s, Thursday, 25 May 2023 08:31 (ten months ago) link
Good thread https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-December/033318.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 04:23 (three months ago) link
good galaxies https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_reveals_structure_in_19_spiral_galaxies
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 17:55 (one month ago) link
What does this mean? this doesn't make sense
Skyscraper-sized asteroid to pass within 1.7m miles of Earth on Friday
An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7m miles (2.7mkm) of Earth on Friday.
Don’t worry: there’s no chance of it hitting us since it will miss our planet by seven times the distance from the Earth to the moon.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 February 2024 18:05 (one month ago) link
what doesn't make sense about it?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 February 2024 18:25 (one month ago) link
presumably the m in 1.7m is for million
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 1 February 2024 18:58 (one month ago) link
(I skimmed at first and thought it said "1.7 miles" so maybe Andy did too)
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 1 February 2024 18:59 (one month ago) link
it's 1.7 millimiles, i.e. about 8 feet.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:11 (one month ago) link
well that seems a little too close
― gbx, Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:38 (one month ago) link
Yeah, I thought it was less than two miles... I was hoping to go out and watch it pass over the neighborhood
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:54 (one month ago) link
In terms of interplanetary space 1.7 million miles is just a skip and a jump away.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:57 (one month ago) link
the James Webb telescope spotted a drunk riding on it, so it might swerve closer
https://www.blog.lepetitprince.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/buveur.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 February 2024 20:00 (one month ago) link
Dessin-moi un mouton
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 February 2024 20:40 (one month ago) link
gbx!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 February 2024 03:40 (one month ago) link
hey whats up
― gbx, Friday, 2 February 2024 15:00 (one month ago) link
good to see you! hope you are well!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:50 (one month ago) link
thanks man! likewise!
any new space facts i should know
― gbx, Friday, 2 February 2024 18:15 (one month ago) link
nah it's pretty much over
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:58 (one month ago) link
whew!
― gbx, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:25 (one month ago) link