Jupiter

is awesome

Yes.

And if you turn it into a sun, Europa will melt, and free the sea creatures trapped under the ice!

that would be sweet, but I really want to get a telescope just to get a look at jupiter, it's so mysterious and huge!

you can fit like 100 earths in Jupiter.

the storm is about the size as earth!

Jupiter has always been my favorite planet. It's such a badass.

It's not as awesome as the Martian moons. Deimos has a fucking awesome name, Phobos is shaped like a potato that's been ripped to shreds, they are named after 'Fear' and 'Dread', respectively, and they both appear in the first Doom game. Also this picture always makes me laugh...



Also, am I right in saying that if Jupiter didn't exist, Earth would be fucked? I read that Jupiter's gravity pulls in all the shit that's flying towards Earth. Apparently humans could live in Jupiter's atmosphere, too.

Space is fucking awesome.

space is big... i like Saturn more.

I thought this thread was about this Futureheads song and I got all excited:


But space blows my mind. It's such a head fuck. The scale of it is just beyond my comprehension. Bill Bryson's book A Short History Of Nearly Everything has a few chapters on space that I've had to re-read several times because it's just so fascinating to me.

This scares the fucking shit out of me.

See, that's what I mean. That is mass on a unimaginably large scale. Freaky shit.

Also, what I love is that we have things that can photogrpah this sort of stuff. That is an amazing achievement, and probably involves some sort of witch craft. We get so used to seeing this sort of thing that I think sometimes we forget how amazing it is and just how clever things have to be for us to see stars that are light years away. Humans have done some great stuff.

We'd weigh something like 9x our weight on jupiter. I also like Europa! It looks like an unzambonied ice rink



is unzambonied a word?

Zamboni is sometimes used as a verb, so unzambonied is acceptable.

That picture of Mars and Phobos made me lol.


Horsehead Nebula ftw!

space always blows my mind. You see a tail from a comet on your TV and your like "thats cool i guess." then the narrator says "the tail from this comet is 78126123576 miles long." wtf, It takes 24 hours to get to Key West from Baltimore.

then you think we have only explored 4% of the Ocean...

pintsogin wrote:

space always blows my mind. You see a tail from a comet on your TV and your like "thats cool i guess." then the narrator says "the tail from this comet is 78126123576 miles long." wtf, It takes 24 hours to get to Key West from Baltimore.

then you think we have only explored 4% of the Ocean...

It makes you feel small, doesn't it?

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth.

That's my favourite statistic

Imagine what the ancient civilizations would think if they saw our modern pictures of space.

I imagine their face could compare to mine if I saw a room full of muffins.

The thing is though, there's probably civilisations out there that have mastered time control and teleportation and been destroyed. Every person's movement on Earth is probably being watched by someone out there.

I always wonder what little things will be different in extra-terrestrial civilisations. Like... do they eat with forks and knives? Did robots take them over? What do they look like? That's crazy. Maybe Jesus was from another planet, and his father was called God on his home planet. Fuck.

Fuck ET's. I was just walking my dog and thought this.... What if theres a whole civilization under the Ocean? B/c of water pressure we can't dive that far but what if there's a race with the opposite problem. They need the immense pressure to survive. The further to the surface they travel the less pressure and instead of being crushed they fall apart...............

Yeah with Challenger Deep, I think they saw life surviving down there at water temperatures of like 300 celsius or more. They're the only things I'm interested in, Space and oceans. I say the only as though they're not fucking huge.

pintsogin wrote:

Fuck ET's. I was just walking my dog and thought this.... What if theres a whole civilization under the Ocean? B/c of water pressure we can't dive that far but what if there's a race with the opposite problem. They need the immense pressure to survive. The further to the surface they travel the less pressure and instead of being crushed they fall apart...............

Have you ever seen the movie where that's actually the thing. There's this advanced society in our ocean really far down. I don't remember much else about the movie other than being awed by the thought.



Is anyone else bummed that NASA is closing down about the time when they're supposed to be putting up a new satellite that's supposed to be a shit load stronger than the one that's up there, giving us the ability to see things we've never seen before and better pictures of what we have seen?

I keep hoping that one day we'll take a picture and accidentally snap a picture of a creature that lives in space.

nah, i was thinking of star wars ep. 1 with the gun guns.

NASA is shutting down?????

pintsogin wrote:

nah, i was thinking of star wars ep. 1 with the gun guns.

NASA is shutting down?????

Kind of? I think officially there's still going to be a NASA but it's not really going to NASA. It's part of the budget cuts to cut down our national debt. Apparently the pursuit of awesomeness costs too much.

There is also the great debate on whether to keep spending a shit ton of money on space research or use that money to solve problems here on earth.