PoppersOfCorn
PoppersOfCorn t1_j53vjer wrote
Reply to comment by Mutex70 in Does it bother you that you won't be alive when we discover aliens & start to colonise other worlds by [deleted]
The "needs of the environment" is why we we develop the traits that make that survival easier.
For instance, people who have lived at high altitudes for generations tend to have larger spleens and looped capillaries because that is what was needed to live easier in that environment
PoppersOfCorn t1_j539qhd wrote
Reply to comment by Mutex70 in Does it bother you that you won't be alive when we discover aliens & start to colonise other worlds by [deleted]
Actually, yes, it does.. how do you think we developed different human traits catering to the need of the regions they first emerged?
PoppersOfCorn t1_j538tdu wrote
Reply to comment by Mutex70 in Does it bother you that you won't be alive when we discover aliens & start to colonise other worlds by [deleted]
That's exactly how evolution works... favourable(some not so favourable) traits are bred through generations until they are common amongst the population.
PoppersOfCorn t1_j5366qb wrote
Reply to Does it bother you that you won't be alive when we discover aliens & start to colonise other worlds by [deleted]
If we get to that stage, we will no longer just be a single human race. We will have evolved to the needs of our environments. We will be a link in the chain of evolution
But no, it doesn't bother me at all. We are alive for the birth of the technology age, and that is amazing
PoppersOfCorn t1_j4yvmu3 wrote
Reply to comment by aspheric_cow in Are Two Tidally Locked Earth in One Solar System Possible? by Thirdy-DOg
The inverse square law proposed by Newton suggests that the force of gravity acting between any two objects is inversely proportional to the square of the separation distance between the object's centers.
So it is not as simple as the moon is tidally locked to earth, so, therefore, two earth sized planet could be tidally locked
PoppersOfCorn t1_j4yoba7 wrote
Reply to comment by Patrick26 in Are Two Tidally Locked Earth in One Solar System Possible? by Thirdy-DOg
It wouldn't be that simple. You have to take the the inverse square law Into consideration
PoppersOfCorn t1_j4dl3j5 wrote
Reply to Moon tilt illusion? by ThatFlashCat
Apart from that the sun and moon are really far away and that you can clearly see why the moon phase is what is it because of how it is orientated in relation to the sun, just because the sun is setting for your perspective doesn't mean the moon is is going to be looking "down" on the sun
PoppersOfCorn t1_j48y19g wrote
Reply to space themed room by abslte23
There are "galaxy" night light/projectors that cast a light on the ceiling/walls. Relatively cheap, and there no need to redecorate if they change themes
PoppersOfCorn t1_j285it8 wrote
Reply to comment by TheOutlawStarLord in If you could observe an object in space while traveling towards it from earth at light speed, would the object appear to be in “fast forward”? by fatandlean
Yeop very possible.. I never mentioned stopping 🤣
PoppersOfCorn t1_j284l6b wrote
Reply to If you could observe an object in space while traveling towards it from earth at light speed, would the object appear to be in “fast forward”? by fatandlean
At light speed, time would be instant. You would just arrive..
PoppersOfCorn t1_j281ntw wrote
The timeframe, distances.
Also, there have probably been detections of the formation of black holes by LIGO and VIRGO when they have felt the gravitational waves from neutron stars colliding.
PoppersOfCorn t1_j21t7we wrote
Reply to Question About Life Beyond Earth by HealingKami
Because all life that we know of have evolved using water/oxygen and are carbon-based life forms. So there is no proof of it evolving in other ways, so to assume would just be pure speculation based on zero previous hints or evidence. However, if you check out extremophiles, it will show you the range in which life can evolve through our current knowledge.
PoppersOfCorn t1_j1yfwsk wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Moon Landing by LifeguardFlat2887
As mentioned by someone else, i doubt the Russian would have just gone, yeah, sweet you made. They would have been monitoring the journey too
PoppersOfCorn t1_j1yfh1a wrote
Reply to Moon Landing by LifeguardFlat2887
Get off YT... I can't believe 50 years later, people are still so misunderstood that they choose to think it was faked
PoppersOfCorn t1_j1tt24h wrote
Reply to comment by Dry_Operation_9996 in Hypothetically speaking, how many humans could live on Pluto? by [deleted]
And with the low gravity, you could probably build some tall skyscrapers
PoppersOfCorn t1_j1h8993 wrote
Reply to What happens when galaxies are passing by each other, and 2 stars smack into one another? by Kitkatphoto
Just imagine how long the process takes. While everything is moving fast, there is still a gravity well, and they wont just collide head on like a car crash
PoppersOfCorn t1_j1ggjib wrote
Reply to Did you know it will still take 46 billion years to cross the universe at the speed of light? 65 mph = 4.8 * 10^17 years! by NotAndroid545
*observable universe, and in that time, the universe will have expanded even more so you would never be able to reach the edge of what we witness at this moment
PoppersOfCorn t1_j1cv3uy wrote
From everything we know, you can only travel forward but not backwards
PoppersOfCorn t1_j0ye1hj wrote
Reply to comment by Patrick26 in Which theory about aliens is the most likely? by [deleted]
In the whole infinite(pretty likely) universe or that we will ever make contact with?
PoppersOfCorn t1_izmztau wrote
Reply to comment by goatharper in Could we one day reach other planets? by Proof-Economist-4731
>Sure, we could send people to other planets. The question is: what could humans do that machines couldn't?
>Answer: nothing.
With current technology, a lot. Computers are inhibited by the programs they run on and can only learn on what they encounter.
Whereas humans can look at different areas that Computers never will, also if we were to find other life, we would react differently than any computer.
Is this a reason to send humans atm, No. But dont think machines can do everything humans can with the given tech
PoppersOfCorn t1_izhc9q9 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in How do we know what the milky way looks like? by Riceeatingcommunist
We can see other galaxies, that's how there are photos of them. As for the Milky Way, we can see towards the centre and some of the arms so we can deduce the shape based on that and what we see from other galaxies
PoppersOfCorn t1_iyzozh6 wrote
Reply to How can we see satellites? by CantaloupeForward898
A lot will depend on your light pollution levels. The lower the bortle level, the better opportunities you have. I live in a bortle 3/4 and can see plenty of satellites throughout the night
PoppersOfCorn t1_iy79h20 wrote
Reply to comment by Radiant_Nothing_9940 in what would be different if we had two moons by Any_Palpitation_3110
So basically, from the gravitational interaction between earth and the moon. The moon creates a bulge on the earth surface(tides) but this bulge isn't directly underneath the moon, so it causes torque, and the difference slows the earths rotation and also results in the moon continually moving away from earth
PoppersOfCorn t1_iy6ql60 wrote
Reply to comment by Any_Palpitation_3110 in what would be different if we had two moons by Any_Palpitation_3110
The moon caused a lot of drag on our rotation and massively slowed us. It is reckoned the Earth used to have a ln 8/10 hour that gradually slowed.
So if we had another moon and depending on what type of resonance it had as well as its mass, yes, it could have changed our day either nearly nullifying the drag from the other moon, or even causing more "drag" and slowing our day even futher.
PoppersOfCorn t1_j53xaop wrote
Reply to comment by Mutex70 in Does it bother you that you won't be alive when we discover aliens & start to colonise other worlds by [deleted]
Our needs..
We will have evolved to the needs of our environments
Im not saying the environments needs..