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shel311 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 12:05 pm

nick wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 11:44 am If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb

Low blow, he's not even around to defend himself!!!

Lol smh

I just want there to be aliens so society can cut down on religions and focus on what we should be doing: evolving.

Believe in a higher power, that’s fine. The Big Bang is a higher power to us. But quicker we can stop Mohammed, Jesus, John Paul (or whoever the Mormon was) etc etc I think we’ll actually get to the enlightened period a lot of ppl want. Ironically.

shel311 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 12:05 pm

nick wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 11:44 am If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb

Low blow, he's not even around to defend himself!!!

Took me a minute but solid 8/10 on this one.

For myself, Space is infinitely interesting because it represents infinite possibilities.

The efforts put forth to travel into and explore space generate new technology that proliferates into the world around us creating new industries and driving significant advancements in our lives.

Space today is what the ocean was centuries ago - this vast, unknown expanse that represented a significant challenge to navigate, explore, and understand. Mankind has consistently been driven to know and understand what is out there, whether it was what would be found across the ocean or what will be found beyond our solar system (or even on other planets within it).

For more evidence on why continuing to explore is important, go watch Moana.

DRiccio21 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 1:21 pm I realize/would assume it probably takes years to analyze and draw conclusions from the images but have there been any “holy shit” type discoveries from the first images?

I'm not sure this is something they're sharing right off the bat. I know with the dying star image, there was talk that they knew the system was a twin star system but hadn't gotten clear images of the second star - until now.

Each picture on the image resources page (https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images) has some description/talk about what is in the picture and the science behind what is shown. If people care about it, I think this adds a tremendous amount to go with the images which are otherwise just amazing images that we don't understand or know anything about.

I didn't think much of the first image until I zoomed in and saw they were all galaxies. My mind has been blown these last two days

You guys see that 20 foot shark vid? … … and some of you psychos “love the water”.

https://twitter.com/thedailyjaws/status ... f4iDd5aFJA

nick wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 11:20 am You guys see that 20 foot shark vid? … … and some of you psychos “love the water”.

https://twitter.com/thedailyjaws/status ... f4iDd5aFJA

Fuck that!

I'm pretty sure I had a small shark encounter when I lived in Hawaii and was surfing. It was one of our favorite spots as the water was at least 8 feet deep at it's shallowest. A lot of locals wouldn't surf there due to sharks, but we had been out there for over a year and never saw one. Last time I surfed there I was sitting on my board waiting for some waves and I had something brush my leg. It wasn't a small brushing either, it was at least 3 feet long. I threw my legs up on my board and just sat there and as soon as I did that, my buddy did the same thing and asked if it was a shark, I told him I didn't know but it was long enough to freak me out. I rode the next wave in on my belly and got the hell out.

I bet it was seaweed

id smoke seaweed before i stepped foot in that big death pit.

shel311 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 11:52 am I bet it was seaweed

100% not seaweed. I've had that brush up against me before. Completely different feeling.

Now that is fascinating!

Space, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Even Dak's telescope can't escape the woke mob, they're calling for the James Webb telescope's name to be changed.

shel311 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 5:22 pm Even Dak's telescope can't escape the woke mob, they're calling for the James Webb telescope's name to be changed.

They were calling for that over a year ago.

I don't disagree that he was likely an insufferable asshole that was shit to a certain group of people and actively discriminated against them.

I'm not really caught up in the name - that's all a NASA thing.

So Dak, what have you REALLY been doing all this time you've been "working on the telescope?"

Thats pretty funny.

Mega Millions rolls jackpot over $1billion with no winners this week.
Only the 3rd time in its history to reach the $1billion mark.

I would be happy with the $600mil after taxes, that'll work.

Good lord.

Cnasty wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:40 am Mega Millions rolls jackpot over $1billion with no winners this week.
Only the 3rd time in its history to reach the $1billion mark.

I would be happy with the $600mil after taxes, that'll work.

Good lord.

If I won, I'd give it to my son and make sure he took the 30 year payout. If you were to take the lump sum it would "only" be around $600m. I would definitely make sure we had a contract signed before handing it over to him so we could be paid annually as well.

GeorgesGoons wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:29 pm If I won, I'd give it to my son and make sure he took the 30 year payout

I'd give it to myself!

Pretty sure that if you die, the payments stop immediately on the payout, so that's a big no go IMO.

After the lottery takes their cut and taxes, you generally get about 35-40% actual payment from my understanding, so you're looking at around $350-400mil in a lump sum payment.

I'd never touch a penny of that and just invest it in something super safe and live off the interest. That or do whatever Riccio tells me to do with it.

shel311 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:02 pm

I'd never touch a penny of that and just invest it in something super safe and live off the interest. That or do whatever Riccio tells me to do with it.

exactly this!