There is no dark side of the moon

[phart]

[Toepoke]

Haven't seen a buggering thing due to the clouds 😕

[Orraloon]

15 hours ago, phart said:

Great photo. 

Looks like alien spacecraft to me. This conjunction story is just a cover up.

[exile]

10 spectacular stargazing events to watch in 2021

 

[phart]

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/watch-online/

Perseverance landing on Mars (hopefully) tonight. 7 month journey to get there.

deep space network communicating with it.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

[phart]

 

• Contact with atmosphere: 20:48 GMT (8:48 PM)

• Parachute deployed: 20:52 GMT (8:52 PM)

• Powered descent: 20:54 GMT (8:54 PM)

• Wheels down: 20:55 GMT (8:55 PM)

[Orraloon]

Partial solar eclipse tomorrow. For viewers in northern Canada it will be a much more spectacular annular eclipse.

https://www.space.com/ring-of-fire-annular-solar-eclipse-2021-death-star

[biffer]

The Boötes void, sometimes called the Great Void, is a huge, spherical region of space that contains very few galaxies. It's approximately 700 million light years from Earth and located near the constellation Boötes, which is how it got its name. The supervoid measures 250 million light-years in diameter, representing approximately 0.27% of the diameter of the observable universe, making it the largest known void in the Universe.

At first, astronomers were only able to find eight galaxies across the expanse, but further observations revealed a total of 60 galaxies. Now, while that might still seem like a lot, it would be like stumbling upon ONLY 60 objects across a region larger than the continental United States (and that's just in two dimensions). According to astronomer Greg Aldering, the scale of the void is such that, "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s." Looking at the volume of the Boötes void, it should contain about 10,000 galaxies, when considering that the average distance between galaxies elsewhere in the universe is a few million light-years.

But the question is....why and how this void came to be. There hasn't been enough time since the universe began for mere gravitational forces to clear out a space of that size. There's a theory which suggests that supervoids are caused by the intermingling of smaller mini voids, like soapbubbles coming together.

But a more...maybe creepier...explanation is that the Boötes void could be the result of an expanding Kardashev III scale civilization. As the colonization bubble expands outward from its home system, the civilization dims each star (and subsequently each galaxy) it encounters by blanketing it in a Dyson shell. This might also explain why the void has such a nice, spherical shape.

Oh and we're seeing a snapshot of The Void 700million years ago due to the limit of speed of light. A lot could have happened in 700 million years.

Sleep well.

Edited June 30, 2021 by biffer

[Scotty CTA]

And earth is still the only place that supports life. 

[Mazda]

But does the Moon revolve around it's own axis.

 

[Orraloon]

56 minutes ago, biffer said:

The Boötes void, sometimes called the Great Void, is a huge, spherical region of space that contains very few galaxies. It's approximately 700 million light years from Earth and located near the constellation Boötes, which is how it got its name. The supervoid measures 250 million light-years in diameter, representing approximately 0.27% of the diameter of the observable universe, making it the largest known void in the Universe.

At first, astronomers were only able to find eight galaxies across the expanse, but further observations revealed a total of 60 galaxies. Now, while that might still seem like a lot, it would be like stumbling upon ONLY 60 objects across a region larger than the continental United States (and that's just in two dimensions). According to astronomer Greg Aldering, the scale of the void is such that, "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s." Looking at the volume of the Boötes void, it should contain about 10,000 galaxies, when considering that the average distance between galaxies elsewhere in the universe is a few million light-years.

But the question is....why and how this void came to be. There hasn't been enough time since the universe began for mere gravitational forces to clear out a space of that size. There's a theory which suggests that supervoids are caused by the intermingling of smaller mini voids, like soapbubbles coming together.

But a more...maybe creepier...explanation is that the Boötes void could be the result of an expanding Kardashev III scale civilization. As the colonization bubble expands outward from its home system, the civilization dims each star (and subsequently each galaxy) it encounters by blanketing it in a Dyson shell. This might also explain why the void has such a nice, spherical shape.

Oh and we're seeing a snapshot of The Void 700million years ago due to the limit of speed of light. A lot could have happened in 700 million years.

Sleep well.

I wouldn't think Kardashians and Dysons would ever be a good mixture.

[Orraloon]

10 minutes ago, Mazda said:

But does the Moon revolve around it's own axis.

 

Yes. 

[phart]

2 massive collisions within 10 days of each other detected by LIGO as well.  Neutron star with a blackhole as well for the first time.

[Scotty CTA]

31 minutes ago, Mazda said:

But does the Moon revolve around it's own axis.

One rotation (conveniently and coincidentally) takes as much time as one revolution around Earth.

Just like the moon is conveniently and coincidentally 400 times smaller than the sun and 400 times it's size away.

[phart]

1 hour ago, biffer said:

The Boötes void, sometimes called the Great Void, is a huge, spherical region of space that contains very few galaxies. It's approximately 700 million light years from Earth and located near the constellation Boötes, which is how it got its name. The supervoid measures 250 million light-years in diameter, representing approximately 0.27% of the diameter of the observable universe, making it the largest known void in the Universe.

At first, astronomers were only able to find eight galaxies across the expanse, but further observations revealed a total of 60 galaxies. Now, while that might still seem like a lot, it would be like stumbling upon ONLY 60 objects across a region larger than the continental United States (and that's just in two dimensions). According to astronomer Greg Aldering, the scale of the void is such that, "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s." Looking at the volume of the Boötes void, it should contain about 10,000 galaxies, when considering that the average distance between galaxies elsewhere in the universe is a few million light-years.

But the question is....why and how this void came to be. There hasn't been enough time since the universe began for mere gravitational forces to clear out a space of that size. There's a theory which suggests that supervoids are caused by the intermingling of smaller mini voids, like soapbubbles coming together.

But a more...maybe creepier...explanation is that the Boötes void could be the result of an expanding Kardashev III scale civilization. As the colonization bubble expands outward from its home system, the civilization dims each star (and subsequently each galaxy) it encounters by blanketing it in a Dyson shell. This might also explain why the void has such a nice, spherical shape.

Oh and we're seeing a snapshot of The Void 700million years ago due to the limit of speed of light. A lot could have happened in 700 million years.

Sleep well.

The bootes void is something like the 70th largest void we've observed.

[phart]

2 minutes ago, Scotty CTA said:

One rotation (conveniently and coincidentally) takes as much time as one revolution around Earth.

Just like the moon is conveniently and coincidentally 400 times smaller than the sun and 400 times it's size away.

What's convenient about it?

[Mazda]

6 minutes ago, Scotty CTA said:

One rotation (conveniently and coincidentally) takes as much time as one revolution around Earth.

Just like the moon is conveniently and coincidentally 400 times smaller than the sun and 400 times it's size away.

 I'm not so sure Scotty.

Tesla didn't think so either.

[Scotty CTA]

They can tell you what they want.

[Scotty CTA]

3 minutes ago, Mazda said:

 I'm not so sure Scotty.

Tesla didn't think so either. 

"YOU CAN TELL IT’S REAL BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO FAKE." Elon Musk

[phart]

The reason the moon has "roughly the same period" is due to gravitational tidal forces. It wasn't always liek that it emerged as forces oscilated towards a very rough equilibrium which doesn't take into account the shape of the orbits it's a very elementary school way of explaining it. It's not even a constant we have lunar libration as well so at different times during the cycle we see different parts of the moon.

Also since it the orbit isn't circular the roation speeds doesn't always match so when the moon is in perigee (closest) part of the orbit you see a different part of the moon and when it is in apogee (furthest away) , in fact they differ by 16 degrees one from the other.

Also the moon is further away now than it was in the past we can measure it moving further away over the years as well, so all this "co-incidence" of relative size and distance is just cherry-picking a time period. The moon moves about 4 cm a year further away from us each year.

So all the original claimss aren't even accurate to begin with.

 

[Toepoke]

She should've spent longer on this thread...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/police-officer-followed-by-jupiter-24554188

 

[Orraloon]

1 hour ago, Toepoke said:

She should've spent longer on this thread...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/police-officer-followed-by-jupiter-24554188

 

Some more material for Scot Squad. 

[Dave78]

On 6/30/2021 at 12:04 PM, biffer said:

The Boötes void, sometimes called the Great Void, is a huge, spherical region of space that contains very few galaxies. It's approximately 700 million light years from Earth and located near the constellation Boötes, which is how it got its name. The supervoid measures 250 million light-years in diameter, representing approximately 0.27% of the diameter of the observable universe, making it the largest known void in the Universe.

At first, astronomers were only able to find eight galaxies across the expanse, but further observations revealed a total of 60 galaxies. Now, while that might still seem like a lot, it would be like stumbling upon ONLY 60 objects across a region larger than the continental United States (and that's just in two dimensions). According to astronomer Greg Aldering, the scale of the void is such that, "If the Milky Way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s." Looking at the volume of the Boötes void, it should contain about 10,000 galaxies, when considering that the average distance between galaxies elsewhere in the universe is a few million light-years.

But the question is....why and how this void came to be. There hasn't been enough time since the universe began for mere gravitational forces to clear out a space of that size. There's a theory which suggests that supervoids are caused by the intermingling of smaller mini voids, like soapbubbles coming together.

But a more...maybe creepier...explanation is that the Boötes void could be the result of an expanding Kardashev III scale civilization. As the colonization bubble expands outward from its home system, the civilization dims each star (and subsequently each galaxy) it encounters by blanketing it in a Dyson shell. This might also explain why the void has such a nice, spherical shape.

Oh and we're seeing a snapshot of The Void 700million years ago due to the limit of speed of light. A lot could have happened in 700 million years.

Sleep well.

Or maybe they're hiding themselves from our (and other's) prying eyes?

Have you read the Three Body Problem trilogy? If not, you should, highly recommended 

[phart]

[phart]

Space society also selling these haha

Captain Tardi McTardiface