Living History

[briareos_kerensky]

... We don't need eyes to see...

I'd still like Kos to grant me eyes.

[Neon Ignition]

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Luminous plankton in New Zealand cause a rare Aurora of the Sea

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/aurora-of-the-sea-luminous-plankton-light-up-new-zealand-shores

[cutmymilk]

We have that in Wales.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10694949/Fragment-Chicxulub-asteroid-unearthed-remains-dinosaur-killed-impact.html

The fossil remains of a dinosaur have been found. This is one of the most significant examples ever found however as this dinosaur is one that died on the day that the asteroid struck the Earth wiping them out.

[QualityChimp]

We have that in Wales.

"Muuuum! I wanna see Star Wars!"

"We have Star Wars at home!"



STAR WARS AT HOME:

->Open Spoiler<-

[cutmymilk]

Haha yeah but this time it's fo real

https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/countryside/a28203694/glowing-blue-plankton-wales/

My mrs was lucky enough to swim in it.

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Titanic - 110 Years

[Cassius_Smoke]

Nasa will release the first full colour image from the James Webb telescope today.

[Cassius_Smoke]

And here it is. It's a section of space the size of a grain of sand held at arms length.

https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

These are not stars but galaxies. The ones with a red colour are Red shifted, meaning they are so far away that the light wavelength has faded down to infrared on its journey to us. They are some of the youngest galaxies ever seen, about 3-5 billion years after the big bang.

[Neon Ignition]

And yet to many the Earth will still be the only part that matters because it's all God created with life.... oh, and it's flat too with the only moon made of cheese


Stuff like this really shines a light through just how small minded religion is and how much it just spoils peoples lives on the whole. So much hand wringing about things that don't matter when really the insignificant meaninglessness of the human race frees you up to simply enjoy the simple joy of getting to have existed, not needing to worry about the every day little things actually mattering

[teddymeow]

Jesus, that photo on the NASA website is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen!

[Asura]

The scale of the universe combined with the "speed limit" of light is absolutely infuriating.

[Cassius_Smoke]

It's worth also remembering that most of those galaxies are so old that they don't exist anymore! We are looking billions of years in to the past

Oh and the James Webb only took that image as a comparison against the same image taken by Hubble, which it pisses on.
Just wait until its focused on something like distant nebula