FabSwingers.com > Forums > The Lounge > Who likes space?
Who likes space?
Jump to: Newest in thread
 |
By (user no longer on site) 4 weeks ago
|
"I don't mean freedom to move around.
Anyone else really into the mystery of the universe,black holes and the vastness of the cosmos?"
I'm from London - land of tbe light pollution but when I get out to tbe country and see how the night sky actually looks it blows my mind. Space is awesome |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site) 4 weeks ago
|
Yes. I've been fascinated by the cosmos since the Apollo 11 moon landing that I saw in TV as a kid. Watched Sagan's 'Cosmos' series, 'Einstein's Universe', etc. Love space-related movies, of which 'Interstellar' is the GOAT imho. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site) 4 weeks ago
|
I've never been interested in it to be honest. I get it's fascinating to see what else is out there but because it's all so far away, I don't understand how it benefits us. Like when they talk about finding a planet that has water vapours so could sustain life. Oh great, how far away is it. Oh you know, 50 bajillion light years away 🤷♂️ |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *avexxMan 4 weeks ago
cheshire |
"I've never been interested in it to be honest. I get it's fascinating to see what else is out there but because it's all so far away, I don't understand how it benefits us. Like when they talk about finding a planet that has water vapours so could sustain life. Oh great, how far away is it. Oh you know, 50 bajillion light years away 🤷♂️"
... this is the problem joe we cant travel fast enough  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
It is the end of it that I want to see. Someone should build a restaurant there for the view. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
We're blessed to be living a short drive from Kerry International Dark Skies in Ireland, and I got a new telescope too for this winter! Have a google at it
Anyone visiting should put it on their itinerary. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *wo4thirdCouple 4 weeks ago
St. Leonards-on-Sea |
I think Elon Musk has a bit of interest in it.
Whilst I am fascinated by the whole space travel and universe stuff I have a greater interest in our oceans, so much of it is unexplored and we don't know what could be down there just like we don't know what could be out in space. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
It’s awe inspiring, and the scale of it is beyond comprehension, how the conditions on this planet are so tenuous and almost unique for life… watch Prof Cox stuff avidly.
I’ve seen the stars with zero light pollution and zero cloud from horizon to horizon sailing across the Atlantic and from the middle of the Namib desert… the Milky Way so beautiful, tears of bewilderment and awe |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site) 4 weeks ago
|
"I think Elon Musk has a bit of interest in it.
Whilst I am fascinated by the whole space travel and universe stuff I have a greater interest in our oceans, so much of it is unexplored and we don't know what could be down there just like we don't know what could be out in space."
There are monsters down there. Literally freaking monsters. Love all those strange and wonderful underwater aliens. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
In thousands of life times we will only have searched a small part of it, the distance between galaxy's is crazy, Love watching anything about space but also ancient history, Currently watching Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"I don't mean freedom to move around.
Anyone else really into the mystery of the universe,black holes and the vastness of the cosmos?"
Yesssss very much so. Especially the episode on Black Holes in the Brian Cox series Universe. That episode freaks me out sooooo much.  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"It doesn’t really interest me and I think the billions spent exploring it would be better spent on the planet we occupy.
I kind of agree with you there "
I really don't... It's the striving for greatness that gives all of mankind hope. (ALL, no matter the differences on Earth where we can't come together) |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *ML49Man 3 weeks ago
Burnley |
"I don't mean freedom to move around.
Anyone else really into the mystery of the universe,black holes and the vastness of the cosmos?"
Have you been watching those space programs just recently??
I find it fascinating and complicated all at the same time. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"It doesn’t really interest me and I think the billions spent exploring it would be better spent on the planet we occupy. "
I agree! We're fucking this planet, and in future generations if the only option to survive is in space... Most of us aren't going to be able to afford, nor be useful enough to make it on that space ark  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
Bought a telescope recently and have been using it when the brutal weather shows some mercy, amidst all the London light pollution. I watch Interstellar whenever it's on the theatre. Have been reading numerous books about physics too. Does that all count? |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *ascaIMan 3 weeks ago
Cheshire Liverpool Manchester |
I love most things space and Brian Cox does a good job of making it easier to understand for a drip like me. I read about the story of Laika recently, the dog that the Russians sent to space. So sad. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"I love most things space and Brian Cox does a good job of making it easier to understand for a drip like me. I read about the story of Laika recently, the dog that the Russians sent to space. So sad."
You want to read about Twix the cat in recent news  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"I don't mean freedom to move around.
Anyone else really into the mystery of the universe,black holes and the vastness of the cosmos?"
I love this and the key to understanding it isn’t to think of it as vastness and being infinitely huge think of it as being really really tiny that helps to get your head around it. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"It doesn’t really interest me and I think the billions spent exploring it would be better spent on the planet we occupy. "
The problem with the planet we occupy is it only has finite resources and we are exhausting them at an ever increasing rate.
If we don't find a way of exploiting extra-terrestrial resources civilisation might only have a couple of centuries left. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"It doesn’t really interest me and I think the billions spent exploring it would be better spent on the planet we occupy.
The problem with the planet we occupy is it only has finite resources and we are exhausting them at an ever increasing rate.
If we don't find a way of exploiting extra-terrestrial resources civilisation might only have a couple of centuries left."
That’s the purpose of all space exploration isn’t it it’s about minerals and ore than we can use here but that in itself comes with issues of we did manage to do that. We have longer than a couple of centuries though |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *ascaIMan 3 weeks ago
Cheshire Liverpool Manchester |
"I love most things space and Brian Cox does a good job of making it easier to understand for a drip like me. I read about the story of Laika recently, the dog that the Russians sent to space. So sad.
You want to read about Twix the cat in recent news "
Thanks for this 🥲 Got my Monday off to a great start 😅 Poor thing. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
Oh I just love this topic!
It blows my mind watching the Brian Cox doc's.. I love thinking about the vastness of the universe but even closer to home our Galaxy... takes 100,000 light years just to cross this...and it's one of a trillion galaxies...wowsers! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
I find it absolutely fascinating, the vastness and age of the universe, the fact it is expanding, that time moves slightly differently once you get outside of the earths atmosphere, zero gravity, black holes, seeing stars in the past….. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
» Add a new message to this topic
