What games capture the dreadful feeling and sheer scale of space?

What games capture the dreadful feeling and sheer scale of space?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There's nothing dreadful or scary about it, you b***h. Reflect on that in silence.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I hate that meme too, it only exists because of that "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" book, where the ultimate torture machine showed how insignificant a person was in the universe. The author thought he was being super clever but to be honest it's kind of a weak joke since nobody but narcissists care about shit like that.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You missed Zaphod saying he didnt felt anything.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Well, then it's a good joke. I don't remember the book very well to be honest.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I thought he came out feeling great because he was president over it all or something?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          ACSHUALLY that happened in a pocket universe in which he really was the most important person.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The world is full of mostly narcissistic people, even Ganker is overflowing with gays who think their criticisms are special and educated. Some flip their shit over that vaati guy for stealing THEORIES for fricks sake and not crediting Ganker.
        Fricking rules 1 and 2 of Ganker is you don't talk about Ganker outside of Ganker. Of course he's not going to cite his sources but newbies don't understand that.
        Then you have all the twitter Black folk, sales gays, and popularity circlejerkers who only give a shit about games that have a lot of presence, clout and sales.

        Once you think about it, it's not such a surprise that this is considered horror to these dumbasses.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The world is full of mostly narcissistic people, even Ganker is overflowing with gays who think their criticisms are special and educated. Some flip their shit over that vaati guy for stealing THEORIES for fricks sake and not crediting Ganker.
        Fricking rules 1 and 2 of Ganker is you don't talk about Ganker outside of Ganker. Of course he's not going to cite his sources but newbies don't understand that.
        Then you have all the twitter Black folk, sales gays, and popularity circlejerkers who only give a shit about games that have a lot of presence, clout and sales.

        Once you think about it, it's not such a surprise that this is considered horror to these dumbasses.

        Two people who the joke was aimed at not getting the joke.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          And what's the joke? I didn't remember it having any effect on Zaphod. Anyway, this idea that "oh look how big the universe is I'm going to go crazy!" probably became popular because of this passage in the book, regardless of the author's intention.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >And what's the joke? I didn't remember it having any effect on Zaphod. Anyway, this idea that "oh look how big the universe is I'm going to go crazy!" probably became popular because of this passage in the book, regardless of the author's intention.
            That's because of who Zaphod is. The torture machine is in essence a mirror for the person in it and the reader themselves.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              AAAAAAAAAAA A NEARLY ENDLESS VOID OF NEAR NOTHINGNESS WRAPPED IN A TRULY ENDLESS VOID OF TRUE NOTHINGNESS WRAPPED IN ETERNAL TIME BEYOND TIME SAVE ME FROM MY DIMINUTIVE MORTALITY Black personMAN AAAAAA ITS GETTING DARK NOOOOO IT'S SO EXISTENTIAL AAAAA I CAN'T STAND BEING REMINDED I TRULY EXIST AAAAAAA BUT MUH SIMULATION THEORY AAAAAAAAAAAAA

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's about ego.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                AAAAAAA MY SENSE OF SELF IS AFFECTED BY THE SCALE OF THINGS RELATIVE TO ME AAAAAAA I CAN'T SEE THE IRONY IN BEING UNABASHEDLY SELF OBSESSED IN OBNOXIOUS EXTERNALIZED WAYS WHILE DERIVING MY CONCEPT OF SELF WORTH AS A LIVING SAPIENT FROM HOW INFINITELY MUCH EMPTY DARKNESS THERE IS SOMEWHERE ELSE AAAAAAAAA HELP ME Black personMAN NOOOOO

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    fermi paradox btfo

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      that's not how it works moron

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >fermi paradox btfo
      Not really. If you launched 1 von neumann probe today, you would have every star in the galaxy colonized by those the "offspring" of that little astrochicken in a million years. Exponential growth makes things big fast.
      Honestly though right now is a bad time to start saying there's no life in the universe.
      Keppler's data is still being combed through, and TESS is dumping magnitudes more data on a daily basis. The data sets are so big you can't manually search them, and they have to use machine learning to sift the data, which is to say we've only found the things we're looking for. There could be dyson spheres and artificial planets all over the place, but you've got to refine the search parameters.
      We're also 1 or 2 design generations away from space telescopes that can directly image exoplanets. If we can do this we can start looking at their spectroscopy, if you can look at what the atmosphere then all you need to look for is anything that is off baseline of what we should see through normal geological processes.
      Like if an alien looked at earth they would know something really fricking weird is happening because the atmosphere has too much oxygen, so something must be replenishing it because if you leave oxygen alone for long enough it will just bind to whatever it can.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'm pretty sure anomalies are detected automatically by changing patterns and unexpected values. So if there are things we aren't looking for out there, so to speak, we would still notice them. I'd be surprised if the software they use to analyze their dats doesn't inform them about anomalies.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          These datasets are H U G E, and even super computers working them 24/7 are only skimming the surface.
          If you're interested there are citizen science projects where you can timeshare your PC to help crunch through it all. Or, since its all publicly available, you could write your own program to sift through it all.
          To put it another way, imagine a really big beach. The people looking for exoplanets are out there with a metal detector looking for gold. They find some really tasty nuggets, and decide to keep looking for more.
          Unfortunately their metal detector won't find the giant diamonds and emeralds that could be buried 2 inches under that gold nugget.
          You could sieve the entire beach, bucket by bucket, but that would take ages, meanwhile the guys with the metal detectors now have wheelbarrows full of gold and silver.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah I get what you mean, but considering you're talking about dyson spheres, the assumption is that there is a civilization out there advanced enough to build those and arguably, advanced enough to find the diamonds and emeralds that could be buried 2 inches under that gold nugget, or well, us. And considering those civilizations are so advanced, then why don't they try to contact us? Not that I don't hope myself that there's something out there.

            Either way, I looked up what you were mentioning, light curves I suppose.

            https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/TblView/nph-tblView?app=ExoTbls&config=koi

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >considering you're talking about dyson spheres
              That was just a for-instance. There are other things an advanced civilization might be able to do that would show up as aberrations in the data.
              And when I'm talking about looking at the spectroscopy of the atmosphere, that doesn't even have to be advanced life, any life in sufficient quantities should leave traces in the atmosphere.
              Even if they were weird fish on an ocean planet who breathe chlorine instead of oxygen who will never achieve any kind of sentience, you should still be able to see some weird peaks that are either explained by some geological mechanism you don't know about, or some form of life and metabolic processes that convert energy to output to do the things life should do.
              And because of the lag in light waves you're only looking at some snapshots in the past. You could continue to monitor these places, but it would be really hard to anticipate when they become a civilization that looks at the stars and has radio telescopes set up and looking in the right direction to catch your "Sup u sngl bby" message.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      how is it BTFO? aliens had like an 8 billion year head start, yet there is 0 evidence of any kind of supreme extraterrestrial intellect at all. we've only been a species for 300k years and have gotten this far, aliens have been given millions or billions more and yet there is nothing. at the very most we're on par with the most intelligent species and at the very worst we're alone.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        why would our clock only start 300k years ago

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He literally never said that.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Anon, we don't really have much data to build from for intelligent life. We have 1 planet. You can't make conclusions either way outside of emotional wants,

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Im not saying alien life doesnt exist, Im saying that supremely intelligent alien life is probably not a thing.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            How do you reach such a conclusion? The universe is so vast and we're a pinprick to anyone looking up. I don't think it's likely but I can't say it isn't possible.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              because if super intelligent life really did exist and they had a billion year headstart, we would see the evidence of it. structures, spacecraft, signals. yet theres nothing.
              we have received a handful of weird signals before but never again. like I said, it would indicate that at the very least we would be on par with an intelligent species in the universe.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >we would see the evidence of it
                I really don't think you understand the scale of space anon. The best way for us to know if there is a civilisation would be if they were able to telegraph with greenshfiting a star.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, you're basically saying that because there are no crabs on a grain of sand that crabs do not exist.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >aliens had like an 8 billion year head start
        I would argue that until relatively recently in cosmic history there wouldn't have been enough metalicity in the universe for advanced life. Two generations of stars and the universe is only 2% not Hydrogen and Helium.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Any radio broadcast from light years away systems would likely be a bunch of nonsense.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          If it's an omnidirectional broadcast.
          If you had a precise target you were aiming for you can get a bit farther out of your radio bubble.
          If you really wanted to build something that would be a light house signaling that intelligent life lives here, your best best is to make giant billboards and cut slits in the side of them like prime numbers, the fibonacci sequence, geometric principles, whatever. Something that would be hard to mistake as a natural eclipse of solar output.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ok let’s get it out of the way.
    Space is fake.
    Now proceed.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Humans will never even leave the solar system. We will go extinct just as all of the others did.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nah bro, we're gonna make it. We're all gonna make it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >World super powers spend trillions propping up failed states all over the world.
        >We will totally have interstellar travel
        I don't think so, Tim.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >people doing their best to uplift their species as a whole more than ever before in human history, to the point it hurts their successful cultures
          >nah bro this is the worst thing ever we have no chance!
          kek
          You just don't want to leave your basement and go on dangerous space walks you monkey

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Outer WIlds, but you probably played it already

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    none. Space is vast and boring. Anyone who plays a game about space that lets you move between planets without a many years long voyage between planets is just playing a fantasy game with sci-fi elements.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      *collapses space in your path*

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Space is vast but not boring at all. There's deadly stuff happening all around us. We're just safe because of earth magnetosphere and the sun heliosphere. Go to interstellar medium and prepare to be blasted and get cancer. Space is deadly.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Go to interstellar medium and prepare to be blasted and get cancer. Space is deadly.
        Just because something can kill you doesn't mean it's not banal. Space is only interesting for the resources we could extract from it. If I really wanted to die to cancer I can do it just as easily here on earth.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Space is full of stuff happening, the cosmic rays is just an example. Thing is, it's not noticeable to the naked eye. The idea it's a boring place because it's static and filled with emptiness is misleading.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Space is vast but not boring at all. There's deadly stuff happening all around us. We're just safe because of earth magnetosphere and the sun heliosphere. Go to interstellar medium and prepare to be blasted and get cancer. Space is deadly.

            that's like saying poisoning yourself with carbon monoxide is exciting just because you can't see it and it's in your garage and it can kill you.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If this gives you an existential crisis, just remember that the milky way galaxy is just one of trillions of other galaxies and that it's actually relatively small. Think about that the next time you're on your way to your shitty job lol.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Heres real existential crisis shit

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Melodysheep makes amazing stuff. Check out his Life Beyond series

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this image represents a point in space thats smaller than making a needle point dot in the sky. always fun to think about while looking out at night

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The sheer insignificance of our existence is honestly a comforting thought. Puts me truly at easy whenever I reflect upon it.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    SpaceEngine, it also helped me get me laid. So I bought the full version later.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      nice what was the guys name

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        U wot m8? U havin a giggle m8?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        holy frick just spit out my cum

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's a weird feeling that beyond our planet there is an infinity of nothingness with some equally as tiny and meaningless planets out there

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    read Star Maker

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't get why the universe requires conscious beings. Why does the universe need "life"? At which point does matter become alive? What chemical bullshit happens for fricking cells to start existing? Why does the brain allow us to perceive shit? How do 2 holes on the sides of my head allow me to experience sound? How do 2 white balls allow me to experience sight? How the frick can I smell shit? Do scientists even understand receptors? I hate this shit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      scientists are almost all materialists. they don't even believe in their own mind, they think we're all just robots

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The universe itself is conscious. It creates conscious beings in order to experience itself from different perspectives

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it doesn't but unfortunately it's hard to simply terminate yourself due to the instinct to survive. The Fermi Paradox somewhat assumes that the filter is resources but it might simply be that once a species gets advanced enough the pointlessness is more apparent.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Why does the brain allow us to perceive shit? How do 2 holes on the sides of my head allow me to experience sound? How do 2 white balls allow me to experience sight? How the frick can I smell shit?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Scientists btfo'd

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I like the theory about life being a good way to conserve energy. So it's just consequence of a natural mechanism of entropy increasing and energy conservation.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's easy. 2 things. One is evolution. We grow things inside us to survive through trial and error, 99% of the things we grow are eventually discarded, 1% we keep until the best things survive.

      The second is entropy. A constant flux from energy being abundant to energy dissipating.

      The real questions are these: is why the frick does organic matter exist and what's the endgame? Why does time exist and why do we perceive it? Why did the universe decide to create carbon? Where did it come from? Is it everything some quantum determnistic frickery? Did Outer Wilds get it right?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >why the frick does organic matter exist and what's the endgame?
        Firstly, organic matter exists because hydrogen and carbon are relatively light elements, therefore a huge amount of them has been created in stars in the course of 13 billion years. So, that's the reason organic matter exists. Organic chemistry is some of the lowest forms of chemistry that the universe has.
        But since you're probably talking about biology, not organic molecules, the answer is that an endgame does not exist. Too many people who apparently never received the equivalent of an European 8th grade education thinks that evolution works towards something when it obviously doesn't. All it does is make it more likely for the kinds of attributes to propagate that make a living being stay alive longer. It does not have an endgame because that implies intention. It has evolved to continue to evolve based on natural selection, because if it had never done so, it wouldn't exist for us to have emerged to eventually ponder that fact.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I misphrased that. I meant, why is there a need for natural selection and why did carbon decide to make fricking DNA out of all things?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >why is there a need for natural selection
            "Need" is the wrong term. The behavior of our universe simply does neatly produce some chemical reactions that are self-sustaining in an open system, and natural selection selects away those that fail to sustain themselves. The reactions and their reactions with other related reactions propagate based on the same set of universal behaviors. That's what natural selection is. It does not "need" to happen, it just a property of our universe and its causality.
            >why did carbon decide to make fricking DNA out of all things?
            Those universal behaviors also determine the chemical bonds between the atoms that comprise the molecules that comprise the amino acids that comprise deoxyribonucleic acid. Those things merged together because those are how the electromagnetic interactions between elementary particles do. Our universe simply happened to have matter where electrons, protons and neutrons are that way, and not some other way. And any other universe that is another way would have been irrelevant because life as we know it wouldn't be there to think about its own existence.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      universe needs to observe itself to exist and we are the observers

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Seething Christcucks.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Because why not homosexual

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Evolution isn't "designed" or "guided". Things develop by accident and if they work they stick and if they don't they die off. Conscious things can spread and develop in ways unconscious things can't, and intelligent things can spread in ways unintelligent things can't, so they spread.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What a fricking cop-out.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nobody knows how or why consciousness exists, but life when viewed externally is a phenomenon like any other.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >why are we here
      To turn the entire universe and all of its components into a massive thinking computer.

      What a fricking cop-out.

      >What a fricking cop-out.
      We are not designed nor needed. That is not a cop-out in the slightest.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      1) consciousness is an illusion, you're not conscious, you just think you are. A puppet that thinks it is pulling the strings instead of the other way around.
      2) the universe needs life in the same way that rocks need to fall down: it's a natural consequence of the laws that govern it
      3) experience is an afterthought. At any given time you're experiencing a lot of things that "you" aren't experiencing, because it's already several milliseconds later. Your only see the results after they have already been acted upon.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >A puppet that thinks it is pulling the strings instead of the other way around.
        So... it still thinks?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I think anon tried to say that the puppet thinks that it thinks. It responds to stimuli from its environment, and only the next moment after this one does it reflect back and think that it has made free choices. The only true free choice is acting on insanity, and even then instinctual irrational acts are the choices that the living thing make, based on whatever, if not on reason. You are either a slave of what you sense or of chaos itself.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Thoughts are pulled along on strings as well. Consciousness is like a symphonic orchestra: your brain has hundreds of musicians (modular, partitioned, but not entirely because they still have to play together - cooperative agents). Where is the music coming from? From all of them, but the 'whole music' is an illusion of hearing multiple players at the same time. The musicians can hear each other, and they can hear the symphony, but the symphony is the illusion.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No, you’re the only puppet npc in this thread frickboy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The universe didnt exist before the first pseudo concious animal observed it. Then it retroactively existed.

      Source: came to me in a dream

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        How could the animal form before the land? How did it know it needed paws to walk before it was aware of its environment?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It thought itself into existence from the dream of a sleeping interdimensional being from another place in the beforetime.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous
          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Wtf why did we rip off the plot of rayman

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I think John Rayman (developer of Rayman and inventor of the dolphin masturbation device interestingly enough) must have been tapping into the truth during his meditation sessions with Xi Yingping (they were college buddies and went to the same buddhist monk)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      shut up Black person, you don’t ask yourself these questions outside this thread

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The universe cannot exist without conscious observation

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You're breaking the npc conditioning. Materialism is the state sponsored religion, and it's gay

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think the coolest gameplay part of Elite Dangerous is that since it would take 15,000 real life years for its entire playerbase to explore all of the galaxy in it, you genuinely do sometimes discover things as the very first player ever.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wow nice, congrats dude you discovered randomly generated dot #532789438

      its more exciting discovering a randomly generated cave in minecraft

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You're such a homosexual

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >should I test this first by touching it with my feet?
        >nah let's just step right onto it and see what happens

        ????

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          it looks like she was trying to test it but lost her balance.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            they are supposed to be walkable
            this one was destroyed by rot, that's unexpected

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >randomly generated
        It's not randomly generated. The stellar objects in ED are generated out of data and extrapolations of data that we know about the Milky Way. When you run into a star of a specific classification with certain types of planets orbiting around it, that star is there because of the particular composition of that part of space.
        Minecraft is randomly generated, but it too has its own rules for why things emerge in specific places.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          nice try, but that's bullshit

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Oh, I wasn't actually giving you the option of disagreeing with what I saw. I watched the developers' own presentation about the galaxy generation system a few days ago and I was telling you how it works.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              same

              *tips fedora*

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >I wasn't actually giving you the option of disagreeing
              quite based ngl

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                People need to learn to not waste their time trying to justify what they're saying when they know with absolute certainty that they're right. When you know something and want to tell it to someone, do not make an argument. Just dictate. Anything else is a waste of your time.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Layers of irony my man
                There are people larping as flatearth tier morons, while others larp as someone who would answer seriously, while others larp as the desperate or simply above it all, this how the the bigger boards have operated for years, and only a small percentage are new or actually moronic enough to act genuine. One way you can identify newbies is by how seriously they reply to things, true oldgays are all gone or returned to lurking 90% of the time.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                This place has been filled with newbies for such a long time now that I'm past caring about it and graduated to recognizing just plain old gays. Those are the ones who are left, who still care about oldgays and newbies.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >or returned to lurking 90% of the time.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The wayward journey ends where it began, at the traveler's feet.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I believe it for the stars at least. Doesn't change that it's a boring piece of shit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is this somehow different from Minecraft, no man’s sky or any other procedurally generated game?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, it's even worse and you can't mod it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I dislike black holes in ED

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        As opposed to disliking the ones in real life?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I mean, they do nothing
          it's just a transparent thing you can just pass through
          also no accretion disk and shit like that
          updated visuals would be good for ED black holes

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Every time I learn something new about E:D I'm disappointed.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If you want the autism of size but also have a "game" then Elite Dangerous is the closest to that.
    Grind some money through the fotm money maker, get an exploration ship. Then Plot a course for the center. or the systems that are habited close to the center.
    Its a chill trucking experience but the emptiness and danger of space at long trips are truly scary.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Forgot image.
      These fricks are the most stressfull and dreadful shits to interact with.
      Especially if the system is binary or some other frickery.
      Dropping into a binary neutron star system where at that point of day, the orbiting star was close to the drop point of the main star. Dropped straight into the beam and the alarms and creaking of the hull really stressed me.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    where the frick is the james webb picture that biden said he was gonna reveal 50 minutes ago

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Don't know about that, but there's a predicted supernova explosion happening in the next 6 months (1800 LY away) that we may be able to see live. A super close orbiting binary is going to merge.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Photo of a planet 7.5 BILLION kilometers away from our blue marble

    Y'know, it will be quite the sight once we send a probe to the nearest star system. Photos of a different star system up close will be fricking wild. Too bad such a mission would still take decades if we found out how to make shit go really fast

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Planet
      OH NONONONONO

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lol imagine if we figured out how to make wormholes and shit and we found a planet with just barely sentient life and we started opening wormholes all around the planet and we connect them to our toilets lmao

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You just described India, but replace wormholes with streets.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    when is president bidingdong gonna fricking show the pictures already it's been an hour

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      pictures of what?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        president biddy suppose to present the farthest ever picture taken of deep space with the new james webb telescope

        tomorrow nasa will dump more images taken with the telescope

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Wow so basically nothing

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Well that's space for you.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            nah

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >already an hour late
          lol he's actually sleeping

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          unless its an eye staring back at us i don't think its gonna be much. i have plenty of galaxy wide shots already

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it's happening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z13QK1shc7A

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Comments are turned off. Learn more

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          the NASA stream is also turned off

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        what the frick is wrong with the sign language lady? why is she making faces?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

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  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Endless_space 2 with the map setting on maximum with your ships without a single movement upgrade

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There could be galactic empires out there that we will never know about because they are on the other side of the observable universe

    Even if there is a civilization like a hundred light years away from us, its light would still take a hundred years to reach us. Think of where we were a hundred years ago technologically

    You will never see any of the natural wonders of alien planets. You will never see alien architecture, languages, culture, monuments, technology, history, etc..

    Imagine how differently a civilization would develop if it for example developed on a tidally-locked planet, or a moon orbiting a gas giant. Imagine all the myths and legends and religions that would arise from that. Imagine all the alien literature that would talk about these things. An alien civilization that ventures to the hot and cold sides of their tidally-locked planet. The civilization that sends probes to other moons of a gas giant, or the gas giant itself. A civilization that sees 3 suns in the sky. A civilization that sees another green lush planet in the far distance when they look into the sky and makes crazy theories about what could be happening on that other world.

    you will never experience any of it. The universe has locked its secrets behind trillions of kilometers of void. All you can hope for are microbes or fish under the thick ice sheets of Europa and the other icy moons. The craziest thing you will see in your lifetime are first humans on Mars, and some probes sent to moons like Titan.

    How do you cope with this?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I cope by believing in reincarnation. I believe we will have to experience every life form of the universe before we can ascend.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That sounds like a fricking nightmare.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          How would you know? You could have lived millions of lives before this without being aware of it (besides maybe in your deep subconsciousness). Also if you didn't gain any negative karma in this life then your next incarnation should be more comfy than your current one.

          In the end it's just a theory though, who knows what death will bring.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        you're simply addicted to conscious experience

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What would there be without conscious experience? Without it you couldn't perceive anything. Maybe you meant materialistic experience?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >What would there be without conscious experience?
            What did your face look like before your parents were born?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Wha--I...what?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You've experienced nonexistence already. We all have.
                People don't freak out about what happened before they were born like they do with freaking out about what happens after they die.
                if we take out everything we DON'T know, I think we can all agree that your conscious existence is an infinitesimal blip in a much longer period of nonexistence.
                You Aren't.
                Then you Are.
                Then you Aren't again.
                No reason to suspect the original bout of nonexistence would be any different than the one that precedes your lifespan.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I don't think the stream of consciousness ever ceases to exist because I believe consciousness isn't a product of our bodies. I've read many books about out of body/near death experiences that have led me to believe this, and I've even had some personal experience with this phenomena.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Then you should be able to remember what you looked like before you parents were born.
                If your consciousness is independent of the time you are here in your body then what happened before, what happens after, and if (You) isn't changed by the fact of being Not-(You), then what ARE (You) if it isn't who (You) are now?
                And if Not-(You) is still (You), then does that mean Me, who is also Not-(You), is (You)?
                Which isn't to say I don't think you shouldn't believe whatever it is you want, I am just an old head who has spent long hours meditating on ontology.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                When we die I think all of our old memories will return to us. Some people are even to remember their past lives in this current life.

                But in the end what do I know except for knowing that I know nothing?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            if you destroy a radio, there's no more broadcast, but it doesn't affect the signal at all.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Consciousness = the signal and the radio is the brain. What do you think consciousness means?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                consciousness is the broadcast. no radio no broadcast. no brain no consciousness.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                That's the materialistic worldview but it has never been proven.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                it's not materialistic at all. you're just misidentifying yourself as the broadcast and not the signal.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're saying the broadcast = the ego or something?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The only reality that matters is the one I perceive, everything else is below my notice or care. I am the single greatest and most important being in reality from birth until death.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The idea of solipsism is entertaining until someone else writes about his solipsistic worldview, where it just becomes pathetic.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        In my life you only exist as this single post you just made. Youre less than an NPC in my universe. Dont bother replying. I am leaving the thread and you no longer exist.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      those don't exist, silly frogposter

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      our bodies aren't built to handle long distance space travel. we will never be able to explore most of the universe ourselves. if there are other entities that can do this and encounter us instead, we are fricked and at their mercy. pray that there is no one else out there

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        cope

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      feels bad, man. but putting it in perspective: think of what humans felt before we traveled the ocean to visit other countries. their whole world was their little village. maybe they had a "capital" but they didn't know much beyond their king's castle.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Black, i haven't even held a girls hand, you think i feel bad about missing out on hypothetical space shit?

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lads how did they take a pic of the Milky Way if we're inside of it?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They used long selfie sticks

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >there's people ITT who believe in space
    I thought 4chins was better than this.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      please let us get to atleast 100 posts before schitzos start dumping their entire flat-earth mental illness folders

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        if the world isn't flat why do they call japan the east when americans would go west to reach japan quickly? Because this is literally what earth is its not round

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          because until they knew they could go around they would go east to get there, it's not complicated. Like Japan just assumed no one was over there so the sun always rises on themselves first.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What are the stars then? And if you say anything to do with god or fairy tale magic I'm gonna shit in a church pew.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        How should I know? But if you payed me 50K a year I am sure I could mix up a satisfying explanation for you.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      ofc people that play video games will believe in the "base layer of reality"

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The qt anthro girls live here

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Where do 12 feet tall gentle mommy doms live?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Blue circle

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          looks like I'm gonna have to learn how to jump very high

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine the smell

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Imagine the blue hair everywhere

        Would be shortlived relatiobship unless she vaccums like twice a day

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Constantly gets mad at you because it's hilarious to chase her with the vacuum cleaner

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Blue circle

      you realise the range is the blue dot in the middle right

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    "Science" believers believe:

    - Universe and time came from nothing through random chance
    - Life came from inorganic matter (never replicated even in a lab)
    - That first single-celled organism turned into all life on Earth through random genetic mutation and you are related to a potato
    - Irreducibly complex biological mechanisms like sexual reproduction from asexual organisms can be formed through random genetic mutation
    - Horseshoe crabs were practically the same 400 million years ago but you were a fish
    - Lining up fossils of similar looking animals is proof that one evolved into the other
    - Modern humans existed for 200,000 years but did practically nothing for ~196,000 years and then suddenly started building amazing civilizations and leaving documents/records

    Absolutely no proof of any of this

    Soft tissue and blood cells have been found in T-rex bones.

    This has never actually been "debunked" or "explained" (articles you find claim "It must just be possible for soft tissue to be preserved for ~60 million years").

    The universe and Earth was actually created in 4004 BC.

    Most fossils were formed in the 2348 BC global flood. You don't turn into a fossil by just dying on the forest floor you have to be rapidly buried.

    Fools like you believe soft tissue could survive 60 million years.

    How do you know the universe is 13.4 billion years old and Earth 4 bil?

    Radiometric dating and cosmic background radiation, that's literally it, and it's flawed. No other scientific evidence.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >If I simplify everything and make shit up, I will sound like le epic cool freethinker
      >BROOO THE HECKIN SCIENTISTS ARE ALL MANIPULATED BY THE HECKIN LIZARD DEEP STATE PEOPLE AAAAAA

      meds

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Scientists are all manipulated by heckin lizard deep state

        well, grants don't grow on trees and you don't get grants by saying 'everything is looking fine'

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >>If I simplify everything and make shit up, I will sound like le epic cool freethinker
        THE HECKIN SCIENTISTS ARE ALL MANIPULATED BY THE HECKIN LIZARD DEEP STATE PEOPLE AAAAAA
        >
        >meds
        It's not even that, they're butthurt christians who can't take that their religion is bullshit so they grasp at any straws to try to justify their belief in it. Everyone else must be wrong because it can't be them.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Pretty much every Christian sect worth a damn accepts the Earth is more than 6000 years old, only cooky evangelic sects insist otherwise.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Absolutely no proof of any of this
      actually, that's the problem with belief
      they have the proof, and you have the celebrity fanfiction tome that you take too seriously

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      actual answers, tard:

      >We don't know how the universe was created. The big bang is a theory.
      >We don't know how life came to be. Doesn't mean le god from your favorite religion created it. Even if a god exists, he is not the one in your books
      >Yes. Everything is infact related. If you don't understand how it works, that is not my problem. Apply this point to every argument of yours that denies evolution
      >There are cave paintings that are 50 thousand years old you moron. If you don't understand how that works, then it is not my problem

      >The universe and Earth was actually created in 4004 BC.

      no it was fricking not and you have no proof.

      >Most fossils were formed in the 2348 BC global flood. You don't turn into a fossil by just dying on the forest floor you have to be rapidly buried.

      No they were not

      >Radiometric dating and cosmic background radiation, that's literally it, and it's flawed. No other scientific evidence.
      >ITS FLAWED BECAUSE I SAID SO

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >We don't know how the universe was created. The big bang is a theory.
        You might have saved some credibility by actually knowing what a theory is. Nobody who went to a school at some point is going to read the rest of your post when you exhibit that kind of ignorance in its first greentext.
        Something that you just think up to explain something you have no clue about is not a theory. A theory is the best confirmed, most supported information model to explain something, that allows you to use it to predict the outcomes of real world experiments in a way that does not contradict with anything else known about existence. It is as close as anyone can get to "fact" or "truth". Anything that is not "just a theory" is in fact less credible than just a theory.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >excuses to not address the rest of the post
          >scientists openly admit that they cannot explain a handful of things in the whole of existence yet, therefore the rest of the whole scientific corpus is invalid and my completely unsubstantiated fantasy story is reality

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You mistook me for someone completely different based on my refusal to read past misunderstanding of basic scientific terminology. I admit, all I did was read the greentext to confirm that the post in fact was not quoting the previous one, and thus assumed that the ignorance was original, and proceeded to invalidate the rest based on that.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What's the point of debunking things if you're not replacing them with anything?
      I know that's beyond your ability but think about what you're doing, all you really want is too feel smart and not be intimidated by people who are superior to you and their works. You will never put a similar a effort into anything but still feel entitled to the same intellectual position as them.
      Do you not see you're the cancer of this age and that you're merely practicing intellectual crab mentality?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        i haven't seen anyone refute his opinions though, only the creationism ones but that's easy

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Most of them are specious arguments really and demonstrate either a fundemental lack of knowledge or more likely low quality b8.
          You could take the time and educate anon on every single point he's made and all you'll get for your trouble is a dump of schizophrenic infographs and links to youtube videos while he screeches about muh sheeple.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >- Universe and time came from nothing through random chance
      There was not "nothing" at the bigbang but everything at one point in space
      >- Life came from inorganic matter (never replicated even in a lab)
      Life came from organic matter, which is defined as chemic bonds with carbon
      >- That first single-celled organism turned into all life on Earth through random genetic mutation and you are related to a potato
      There could've been multiple instances of abiogenesis
      >- Irreducibly complex biological mechanisms like sexual reproduction from asexual organisms can be formed through random genetic mutation
      Yes.
      >- Horseshoe crabs were practically the same 400 million years ago but you were a fish
      "I" was not a fish and fish didn't exist back then. Ancestors of the horse crabs existed back then.
      >- Lining up fossils of similar looking animals is proof that one evolved into the other
      No because you oversimplified it.
      >- Modern humans existed for 200,000 years but did practically nothing for ~196,000 years and then suddenly started building amazing civilizations and leaving documents/records
      You have no idea how long a thousand years is.
      >Absolutely no proof of any of this
      There is a tremendous amount of proof for all of this. You just decide to ignore it without any proof to the contrary.
      >Radiometric dating and cosmic background radiation, that's literally it, and it's flawed. No other scientific evidence.
      Why is it flawed?

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why does this bother people? I feel like it'd be claustrophobic if it wasn't that big. I remember crying as a child when someone told me the universe wasn't infinitely large because it meant I was trapped inside some kind of universe box and you could theoretically run out of things to do and explore.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Space is real, it's just that 99% of astronomy describing it isn't. Space doesn't expand, time is absolute, black holes don't exist, neutron stars don't exist, gravity is an artifiact of electromagnetism, dark matter and energy don't exist, planets don't form by accretion, redshift isn't a good measure of distance and is actually an effect of stars aging, the fermi paradox probably isn't a thing as scientists are just looking at the wrong places (assuming life must be more common around yellow dwarfs because we happen to orbit a yellow dwarf).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Time is not absolute, there are things we do on earth that literally require us to take relativity into account.
      I wish pseuds who probably work a desk job at best would stop thinking that everything has to be dumb enough for them to understand.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Everything that is more complicated than in an 8th grade test doesn't exist because I don't understand it

        you are also moronic

        You believe only what popsci and *maybe* undergraduate textbooks tell you.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Everything that is more complicated than in an 8th grade test doesn't exist because I don't understand it

      you are also moronic

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Test

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Homeworld

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    SpaceEngine VR

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    meh

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >3 trillion in taxes to take a wider picture that hubble already took before

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Good. Better than going to foreign wars or gibs, homosexual

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          implying they will ever stop giving money to certain overlord country or certain 13% population

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Hubble was primarily visible light.
        What makes JWST such hot shit is it that it is going to see deeper into IR than any other satellite we've sent up there.
        Visible light is pretty dogshit for astronomy. It gets blocked and diffused by dust and gas that IR and UV can blast through. The only thing visible light telescopes are good for is taking pretty pictures to keep the public engaged and willing to spend more money.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      well... they're certainly very big, and very far away, and very bright...
      or at least they were billions of years ago or some shit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I could have made that in photoshop for free

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      > lens is already warped
      my frickin sides

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >no mention of Space Engine
    >set ship speed to speed of light
    >start flying
    >nothing moves because its so far away even light speed is slow

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If you could travel at the speed of light your trip would be instantaneous.
      A photon doesn't experience passage of time.
      This is one of the more simple explanations for the problem with traveling FASTER than light.
      If the TIME component of SPACETIME approaches 0 as your accelerate towards the speed of light, then increasing beyond that speed means your T is now a negative number, which is to say you would arrive at the location before you left, which violates causality.
      The thought experiment is the tachyon anti-telephone.
      A tachyon is a theoretical particle that can travel faster than light, so if we could make a tachyon telephone we could call ourselves in the past, and tell our past selves not to make the call we are making now, in the future.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        prove it

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's me, you from the future, you'll fart in 3 seconds and it'll smell like india

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Kerbal space program shows how vast space is and how long it takes to get anywhere despite being only 1/10 the size of the real solar system. But it's also satisfying to learn how to do successful interplanetary missions.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Theoretically, how large of a camera would you need to take high-resolution photographs of exoplanets?

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    imagine getting filtered by existence

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yeah lol imagine

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The great filter is fake and gay

        Rare earth theory is where it's at

        Also scientists are looking in the wrong places.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        the great filter is faster than light travel
        there's so many civilizations like us that will never get out of their solar systems, ever

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          lol, there's only one civilization in existence, ours

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            right now there's a flergonian posting this exact same thing on their version of Ganker, 3cóü

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, it must truly be impossible, or at least experimenting with it inevitably destroys your civilization or deletes it from existence.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah we all played elder scrolls but you don't have to larp

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Like skyrim?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >the great filter is faster than light travel

          This

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I WISH existence would filter me.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >space is fake

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i think being scared of space is the greatest midwit identifier of all time

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i love space and existential dread

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw no alien frens to roast marshmellows with while gazing at the stars

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Soon

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I've been following this guys work in the threads and I still don't understand why he's essentially making a worse version of Freelancer

      its fricking 2022, he could make something so much better

      nostalgia is a hell of a thing

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >has giant space squids
        How in the world is that worse?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He's afraid of squids.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            What does he think of the Welsh?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >hates squids
            >has no faith in pasta
            >probably has no faith in todd
            Wow just shit taste all around

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Too bad Starfield's not about how space is terrifying but how humanity triumphs over it.
              At least Prey's basically that.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                space isn't terrifying it's just rocks and gas surrounded by nothing

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                And squids*

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What's worse about it?

          problem is it's just the same thing as Freelancer but it's going to have less content because there's no way a single dude is going to be able to outdo a whole team of devs working for 6 years

          it might as well have been a Freelancer mod

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You overestimate how much content Freelancer had.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >because there's no way a single dude is going to be able to outdo a whole team of devs working for 6 years
            Freelancer had thirty star systems and a single campaign. It's a tiny game, it still somehow captured the terrifying feeling of space though.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Feeling is more important than accuracy, that's why.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Maybe back in 2001, but these days game software and tools are so braindead that any dedicated tard with enough time on their hands can make tons of content.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What's worse about it?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >spend half his time making dude trains for fallout because...just because
        >wasting time playing fan make mods, think he could do better
        >his followers are easily trigger, can't take joke
        >still using unity, demo still bugging
        There's so much wrong with the game. Even if you tell him he should remove half the shit, his followers would defend thats it a feature

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          weird ESL take

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Mods for Bethesda games usually are better than the base game though
          It's what will make Starfield good, that you can mod it into being a space existential horror game where everyone also happens to be chocolate skinned girls with huge breasts

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Starfield will be good at launch.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Nope. Betesdha has never released a non-broken game at launch.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              This is your reminder that there are people out there, right fricking now, who are making skyrim, and oblivion mods for characters to get fricked by every single animal, monster, and race in the game, that know the Gamebryo/creative engine better then the vast majority of the development team over at Betesha ever will.
              And it is these same fricking denerates taht you can thank for having a working Skyrim, morrowind, oblivion, and Fallout 3/NV/4

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, and?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                oh nothing, just like reminding people that the degenerates are the ones that keep the game running.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Okay

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    A living and even "intelligent" and "civilized" thing who evolved on a completely different planet would likely be so different from us to operate on an entirely different plane of thought, if they think at all. Perhaps they have no concept of radio waves, or even waves at all. Perhaps they are clouds of small bacteria-like nano cells who can manipulate objects and create advanced tech, but have no curiousity nor interest in alien life.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ever since H.P Lovecraft, people have been trying to be too smart about their hypothetical alien existences, trying to come up with things that are "unimaginable" as if the universe does not have the same laws and approximately equal material composition everywhere. Things made of certain stuff, emerging in certain environments and evolving along certain lines simply are more likely due to the universality of certain factors. Life has existed on a world like ours for an unimaginably long time, and the thing that became smart enough to wonder about things is a carbon based humanoid.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nobi Nobi Boy was a kinda unusual take on it. But they ended up adding a lot of multipliers so people would stretch far enough to do a lap of the solar system before we died of old age.

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I have Elite in both exploration and trade and honestly was enjoyable, but why the frick is combat such a drag? I usually love pew pew space ships but in Elite I have to do 348573904985304958 missions just to get to dangerous. What the frick is up with that? Horizons only.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know about you, but I can't really even get into combat because the grind to engineer a ship good enough is too excruciating.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No man’s sky
    Elite dangerous.
    All games where there’s nothing to do and thousands of planets to do nothing on

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >All games where there’s nothing to do and thousands of planets to do nothing on
      Starfield will hopefully have those thousand planets that Todd talked about, combined with the base building system from Fallout 4 except you don't build literal junk out of junk. So you can really pick your own world and build an outpost in the middle of actual nowhere.

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I HECKIN LOVE SCIENCE.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      nice

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Where is the furry girl galaxy

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      2nd to the left

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Where is the FUNNY girl galaxy?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No such thing

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Dont worry, the sun went out millions of years ago and all life has been gone for aeons. This is just an echo. A wave.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >sexy aliens will never visit us

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >we will visit sexy aliens

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >we'll never leave this Earth
    >all traces of humanity will be destroy when the Sun goes out

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      isn't it great?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Good or bad depending on how I happen to feel at the time

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      we will leave the earth and colonize mars and eventually other planets in the solar system, but yeah, we personally will never colonize any other solar systems. our best bet is to send an ai that automates the colonization process then clones human beings.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        nah. we won't. humanity will collapse once the source of easy energy we've had, oil, runs out. there's nothing to replace it.

        even then, a very good chance we'll be extinct within 10,000 years.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >humanity will collapse once the source of easy energy we've had, oil, runs out. there's nothing to replace it.
          lol, we've had water as a power source for a long time now, but big oil does whatever it can to suppress that. until we topple the monopolies, nothing will change.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There's more important things than space, like fixing gender and minority issues here on earth.

      Ya know, things that actually matter?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >all traces of humanity will be destroy when the Sun goes out
      That's wrong though, since we have probes in the Oort Cloud already. Whatever Sol does, it can never affect those things. Though it's very unlikely that anything will ever find those probes, since they will be inert objects millions of years before Sol goes out.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        literally the chance of anyone finding these objects we send out is so miniscule that there's probably a bigger chance of aliens personally invading us 3 minutes from now, specifically to rape op's butthole then leaving instantly

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Sol

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The Sun and The Moon are internationally recognised as the only names, across all languages.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Sun
          Souless
          >Sol
          SOVL

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >not

            >Sun
            Solless
            >Sol
            SOL

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That makes absolutely no sense at all. How exactly are the English names for those objects "internationally recognized as the only names" when I know there's a name for them in English, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian and Icelandic just to name a few? Internationally recognized as the only names?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It means it isn't Latin across the world moron

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              No, it means "internationally recognized as the only names". That's what the sentence reads. It does not read otherwise. Anon said something that was incorrect.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Its called sol in scandinavia.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                That's not latin

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The reason people give up arguements with you online isnt because youre winning, its because you dont make any sense and its mentally exhausting.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                because public arguments aren't about finding truth, they're about making the opponent be quiet

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You failed to argue the point otherwise. It is The Sun, not Sol.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Its the Sun in english. And we are currently writing in english so it makes sense to call it the Sun. If thats your point.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It is The Sun, everywhere, not Sol.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's also the Sun in other languages

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's also the Sun in other languages

                They are multiplying...

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's also the Sun in other languages

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The Bible is also known as "the book" (the biblio).

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No they aren't silly. the IAU is the international organization in charge of giving everything an "official" name.
          The Sun, Moon, and Earth are specifically and officially called "Whatever they are called in your native language" because you've got to be the biggest butthole in the galaxy to claim discovery and naming rights to any of those.
          It's also literally irrelevant to make any distinction until you live on another planet with a different moon, live on another planet besides earth, or around another star that isn't our Sun.
          At at that point, it will be called "whatever it is called in the language of the people who live in those places will use for the distinction."

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      we eventually become part of the great blackhole and thus, part of the new universe

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      We have 3.5m years before heatwavedeath

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >havent written a single word yet in my testament
        >just 3.5 million years to heatwave deadline
        >cant stop shitposting on Ganker

        Bros....... Its been an honor... Its over

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      We have more than enough time, resources and technology to launch countless generational ships, even terraforming extrasolar planets won't be outside our grasp.
      But still there will be people who will stay behind just so they can say they died by supernova.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I wish I had your optimism but without the illusionary moronation

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          There's no optimism, i'm just not a defeatist homosexual, it's going to happen because it's highly likely, not because i want it too.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >generation ships
            >highly likely
            I think that I have already argued with you about this on some board here a couple of months ago. I recognize the wording and punctuation. You're still wrong.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Not that anon, but with existing technology we could humans to alpha centauri inside of a human lifespan.
              It would require world peace, and shitloads of money, but theoretically possible.
              If you're willing to wait a little longer you could use a fusion drive and travel under 1g acceleration the whole way and get there in 25-ish years.
              Its not warp speed, but you're talking about settlers, and not generation ships.
              Once you got to alpha centauri survey the system and get to work building some solar collectors in orbit around the star.
              You can now use these solar collectors to accelerate and decelerate light craft between the sun and alpha centauri.
              If you are able to build self sustaining habitats in orbit you can just keep exploiting orbital resources to get everything you need to grow and thrive, and then sending out another ship to the next star, where they build a solar collector, and colonize the system, and so on and so forth.
              It's not star wars, but you could absolutely have an interstellar human civilization that can maintain contact among themselves.
              The average distance between two stars in the milky way is only about 5 lightyears. That's not close, but its not existentially crushing distances either.
              And all that is predicated on is fusion working out, and material sciences to figure out how to make a light and strong enough light sail.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >space colony in your lifetime
    bros... are we gonna make it??

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >get out of earth's gravity well
      >immediately try to get stuck in another one
      Space for the Spacenoids.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What do they eat?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          (you)

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Kinky

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >I'll never move to a hellish inhospitable offworld colony and drink recycled urine and live in a shipping container for the rest of my life
    why do science lovers say they want to go to space so often?

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    https://discord.gg/rcC74AeK

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I miss Ganker deep space and deep sea threads. But now there are way too many shitposting homosexuals to really have them.

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That's okay

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The nearest ET civilization is in the Sirius system 8 light years away and they are well aware of our presence here.

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If we pick up a signal from ayylmaos there's always the possibility of it being travelling for something like 20k years so whatever sent it is long gone

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah it's a mostly futile endeavor
      Sometimes I wish I stayed ignorant to laws of physics and could remain in my 90s youth of watching UFO shows at night or the X-Files looking forward to the day it will finally and definitely happen

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        As a kid I think having a blue star as the sun would be cool. Then I realized said star would have gone supernova before any life could develop. Said nova would annihilate any planet around it too.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          But planets far out would enter their goldilocks.
          It why Mars in the next few millions will have waterfowl and Titan could serve as the next life incubator when Earth is burned away.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Water flow, I mean.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Ah that's when our sun turns into a red giant in 5 billion years or so. It'll be nice until said red giant collapses into a white dwarf

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              White dwarf can also sustain planets itself. These are million years scales, enough for life and extinction to occur

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Actually, not quite. Red giant doesn't just occur like that, it will have been doing so and expanding outwards for a million years before it reaches peak.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Water flow, I mean.

            lol I was like "holy shit there's going to be DUCKS on MARS?" like the future of life on other worlds depends on ducks

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              haha imagine bro

              that would be quite funny my friend!

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                haha agreed haha

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The closest thing we had to alien contact was the Wow! Signal, and it came from some gay fricking star hundreds of Light years away

    What are some movies that show contact with aliens? Not the gay green le ebil aliens

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Arrival

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Is it watchable? I remember it having mixed reviews

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Slow, iirc

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Its "kino" (Ganker slang)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Arrival
      Annihilation

      The list does not go on

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I got filtered by Annihilation from being too small brain to understand it

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Annihilation
          It's just Chernobyl if it were a Sci fi
          Watch Interstellar instead.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Really? Its not an intentionally obscure film. My girlfriend got it.

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Elite dangerous Pre Odyssey. Gave you an actual scale of the galaxy, how fricking empty it was, and how long it fricking took to travel across it.

    Elite Dangerous has 2 major "bubbles" the first being "The bubble" which is where the main empire is, the other being Colonia. To travel between the two, even in ships that push the upper bounds of jumping which is like 60LY jumps, the trip still fricking takes like 3 hours real time to do. If you are in a ship that can only jump like 32LY its like a ~5 hour trip.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I was considering getting a cheap VR headset just to play and immerse myself in it
      Did the release of Space Legs frick up other parts of the game?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >ED for VR fricking do it, ED is really god damn good and fun for a VR experience, Get your self a nice hotas and you will be entertained for hours.
        >Did space legs ruin it
        Yes, its hands donw in my 20+ years of playing video games the worst exp i have ever seen launch ever. The controls are shit, the exp was a graphical down grade, the lighting was a down grade, the performance was a down grade, the planet tech was a down grade, you know what frick it every thing in the game unironically got worse after the exp, you can search yotube for a shit tone of videos on the topic, But it was bad, really fricking bad. Also its interily fricking pointless none of the actitiveis you do on foot tie back to the rest of ED.

        However you can still play horizons, which is the pre odyssey content and you can hop into odyssey any time so.

        The biggest issue of ED is that its a sand box, you have to make your own fun, and if you have goals in the game, then there is something to do, like if your goal is to get into a federal corvette then you have a lot of game time to get there, wanna get it fully engineered? you got a lot of things to do.

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Find religion.

    Then you won't be obssessed with space anymore or be terrified by it.

  59. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Plenty.
    EvE feels dreadful only when you are on a cheap, shitty ship in either lowsec, Nullsec, or Wormhole space.
    Literally everything and everyone can frick you up at any moment making days of grinding going away in just a moment, and you are not even safe in HighSec thanks to gankers.
    Even when there is no one nearby, there is somekind of collective psychosis regarding gankers and pirates.
    I have never got ganked in months, but every single time i say im going to use a hauler with maximun cargo and no tank, travelling for hours on autopilot, people will scream at me to never use autopilot because i might get ganked this way, and its better to lobotomize myself for 4 hours to move some shit.
    Also, Starsector. Especially when you junp into a system without noticibg a vuoy with a red flash on it.

  60. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    SpaceEngine is pretty nice.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >years ago
      >space engine had some big update
      >Ganker plays it, anons posting cool images, trading tips on finding cool places and how to take the best photos
      I loved those threads.

  61. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bros of any preferred pronouns, can i realistically freeze myself to awaken when humanity has cured death, touched the stars and beyond?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Freezing yourself is the only non-zero chance you have.
      But its expensive, and someone has to keep paying those bills, hope the company never goes out of business, and if anyone would want a moronic caveman waking up and stinking the place up.

  62. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the existence of consciousness is the universe observing itself

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wow guys! Look at this radical take out of nowhere! How strange nobody mentioned this five billion timewhy dont yiu frick off frickign retbjfdb never post sgsin fkfdbbfbfnf kgjtk nnnniiiiiiigghherr

  63. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >universe is... le big...
    Okay, so that means only one intelligent species in one planet exists, in a universe of 500 000 000 000 000 000 000 plus vacant planets... more evidence of God.

  64. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >religousgays pushing their shit
    frick off this website has never been for you

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Hello troony, stop pushing your "2 spirits" cult or "born in the wrong body" non-sense because both implies the idea of a soul and that's religious. You are your body, therefore you cannot be born in the wrong body, you can only think incongruent things about your functioning body, ergo, you have a mental disorder, not a physical one, therefore, you require mental treatment, not surgeries or body altering hormones.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        or they can just alter their body kek

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          NO REFUNDS

  65. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ignore the mental illness and check out the new black hole rendering coming in the next update: https://spaceengine.org/news/blog220705/

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      comfy

  66. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Sun boss is too strong.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the sun really is some kind of eldrich horror
      >white/yellow ball in the sky
      >can't look at it directly or you become blind
      >can't stay in it's presence for too long or it burns you
      >without it's presence you're blind too and that's when the beasts appear

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        She is called Sol.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Same as the concept of sleeping and dreaming
        >Have the need to stop being conscious for a third of the day when the sun is away
        >Be absolutely defenseless for hours
        >Enter a self generated realm of chaos
        >Without it you experience hallucinations and die

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Without it you experience hallucinations and die
          I've been up for almost 36 hours.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Close your eyes, anon

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Drink more coffee homosexual, go for a new record

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >saturn

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Is this real?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              yes
              but these are sounds captured with wave receptors

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >time segment thing lists Mars and Earth as the same

  67. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    spess is a ruse

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit /x/ is so fricking bad and cringe these days. Sickening to see the sorry state its in. Go back to your larp worm pit underage.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >cringe
        stopped reading there. you haven't been here since before 2016 and nothing you say has merit

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Not reading your posts so dont bother replying, should have mentioned that

  68. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Our only hope is to upload our consciousness into robot bodies. We must become machines.

  69. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It really is a comforting thought that there are people on the other side of the planet taking their time and effort to read and reply to your posts just for the sake of entertaining, educating or convincing you of their worldview without the possibility of you two ever knowing each other. It's just not important and it's therefore one of the purest forms of human communication.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      UR GAY

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I know you had a continuous day for the last couple of weeks but the ball in the sky is still called Sun you Stellaris playing scandinavian homosexual.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I think about this too anon.
      It's weird, sometimes I'll stop and think "all of these are people, actual people on other ends of the computer somewhere doing what I'm doing." It sounds dumb but it is comforting.

  70. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not mass effect that's for sure. No way ten newer species are fighting over territory in our massive galaxy. Shit's huge. There are probably thousands of habitable worlds in the pixel representing out system in that pic

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