What if Sol is not our Mama, but our Pied Piper? 🎺
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Probably true for Pluto.
That’s not Mama, that’s our son!
Just a loop around Sag A*
Sun: “Hey, do you want toooo… go for a walk?”
Planets: go apeshit
Based on how Earth is doing, she might be taking us to the big farm upstate. :(
Earth is fine, it’s seen worse than humanity. Geology doesn’t care about what biology does.
We can make it care, just got to tell old donny up in the whitehouse that something doesn’t care about his wishes.
IDK sometimes it feels like everything is just gonna explode one day
Warp 11?
The sun is not a sweet mother, he is armed with the great serpent Xiuhcoatl and demands the hearts of our enemies.
Did everyone forget about the galaxy? It’s also a giant circle, and the sun orbits it like we orbit the sun.
Perhaps the real question should be “Where is the Galaxy taking us?”
“Where is the Galaxy taking us?”
Towards the andromeda galaxy which is over twice the size of the Milky Way. We are hurtling towards each other at about a quarter millions miles per hour.
For thousands of years after you die, that little fuzzy spot near Cassiopeia will slowly get larger and larger in the sky, and in about a four billion years, long after the Earth’s oceans have dried up and the sun is a giant, reddish monster hovering in the sky, and our magnetic field will have long since died out, our atmosphere will have been mostly stripped away and the weather will feel like being on the highest mountains in an oven, the night sky will be covered with a dazzling display of the Andromeda galaxy overhead, spiral arms visible with the naked eye stretching from horizon to horizon.
We will merge, in a series of passes through each other, with almost no stars actually colliding most likely, although a good number will be ejected into the emptiness of intergalactic space, and will finally settle into a new shape, and may trigger a new phase of star formation as new clouds of gas and dust collide and collapse in the new super-galaxy.
First thank you for filling in OP’s coverup of Mama’s intentions.
We will merge, in a series of passes through each other, with almost no stars actually colliding
So then, we’re just going for a ride to a farm upstate :(
But you’re still coming in to work, right?
Not if it’s Thursday. I work from home Thursday
Oh no you zoomed out to far and triggered the weird sensation. How bizarre it all is!! To know these things as little ape creatures. So small as to barely exist in a lake of space and an ocean of time. Whywhywhyhowwhyhowhowhow is any of this real???
You’re also made of 30-trillion little microscopic machines with vastly more complexity each than even the most fantastic clockwork we’ve ever devised, that are each working in harmony with each other, creating a vast machine that is continually breaking itself apart and rebuilding itself from parts of its environment as it moves through time and space.
And somehow you can breath either manually or automatically without breaking a stride.
So what you’re saying is, we’re all just REALLY good factorio runs
The Milky way and Andromeda may not collide.
Interesting article but it’s sad to see that website using dark patterns like subscribe popups and fucking with the back button.
I don’t know between the firewall, pihole and ublock I don’t see ads anywhere, not even the amazon ads.
Knowing there’s no chance imaginable of being able to witness all this is so depressing… My death anxiety feeds on thoughts like this.
On the plus side, we live at a time where we can still observe the cosmic microwave background radiation and total solar eclipses.
Since the moon’s orbit grows by 3" every year, after a few million years it’ll be far enough away that it won’t completely eclipse the sun anymore.
And in a billion year’s time, the CMB will be redshifted so far into deep radio wavelengths that it’ll be impossible to observe
As far as I know we’re headed toward another galaxy. Luckily we’ll all by long gone by the time that collision happens.
The galaxy is taking us to see its friend
Now do the local group and super clusters! The universe is wild!
We’re going in a circle, I like to imagine it like a parent driving around the block to put their kid to sleep
Wait a minute… We’re moving?
Always have been.
Hey, that’s the same path my life is taking!
Fun, fun, we skip along together!
Swirling towards the center…
Where there is no pain and we are truly together, forever.
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Eat at Arby’s
burma shave
May I have a point of reference?
There was a twitter account that went by nihilistic arby’s and they posted stuff like this.
Thanks! Also, like your usrname :)
I saw that once and thought that it was an actual jingle for an Arby’s commercial x_x
Does the sun actually travel in a straight line, or do the orbits of the planets wobble it, and to what extent?
Juipiter’s orbit wobbles it, as others said, the barycenter of the system is outside the sun’s radius, but the scale of the planets vs their orbits is so great such a small wobble is imperceptable if you can see multiple orbits.
Yeah - you’re onto it. Relative to what?
Everything in the solar system (even the Son) orbit around the center of mass of everything in the solar system. This epicenter is just outside of the Son, on the side that Jupiter is. So the Son wobbles by a little bit more than 1 of its radii.
Sun, I am disappoint.
This epicenter is just outside of the Son
*Sometimes. The other planets can counterbalance Jupiter’s effect on the barycenter to pull it back into the surface of the Sun.
Also, it’s Sun, not Son
barycenter
That’s the word I couldn’t remember.
Also, it’s Sun, not Son
Yeah, I don’t know how I messed that up 3 times. I think my brain was stuck between calling it the Sun and Sol. Also the mama and son/sun puns in this thread.
I am under the impression that straight lines don’t really exist in the Universe.
They don’t. There is new research where the universe is constantly expanding, while we are traveling in an orbit around the sun, the universe is exponentially expanding, growing outward kinda like a reversed funnel.
More like outward from the center of a sphere
I think the graph shows relative position of the planets from the sun, so the straight line is just a baseline.
Like if you jump up and down on a plane, and the graph just shows you moving a couple of feet up and down rather than including the entire altitude change of the plane itself
Isn’t this what Sepiroth wanted to do woth Jenova?
