Perth Thread

[K-Man]

im just clownin nik, tbh that all went way over my head... but we can talk key changes and time signatures all day!!

serious question tho, im honestly invested in the answer to this: aren't all these black holes and supernovas and whathaveyou like tens and hundreds of light years away? If so, wouldn't that mean if something is say 100 light years away and we pick up telescopic visuals of it now, we're really looking at an image from 1920 at the absolute most recent? Am I not understanding this particular measurement of distance or is the time latency just an accepted thing?? Inquiring minds wanna know

[Alienator]

stars are just spotlights the government put in to fool you

[K-Man]

certainly have not ruled that out !

[fat lesbian]

im just clownin nik, tbh that all went way over my head... but we can talk key changes and time signatures all day!!

serious question tho, im honestly invested in the answer to this: aren't all these black holes and supernovas and whathaveyou like tens and hundreds of light years away? If so, wouldn't that mean if something is say 100 light years away and we pick up telescopic visuals of it now, we're really looking at an image from 1920 at the absolute most recent? Am I not understanding this particular measurement of distance or is the time latency just an accepted thing?? Inquiring minds wanna know

you were also not wrong and yes, that’s just an accepted thing actually. a lot of the things we see were probably gone way before the earf ever formed. there are more factors than just that though like the expansion of spacetime itself which is not constrained by the speed of light (it is obviously not bound by the same rules as like uhh things) which is why the edge of the observable universe is farther away in light years than the universe is old in years. so the further things are the faster they’re moving away from us. but keep in mind this only really matters when things aren’t gravitationally bound. so like things within galaxies won’t be affected by this in relation to each other for an extremely long time. like 10 to some exponent i don’t feel like looking up years. this one is in the milky way tho so yea it’s about 25000 years old lol

[CharlieH]

but we can talk key changes and time signatures all day!!

oh boy! What are you favourite key changes and time signatures? 

my favourite time signatures are the 10/4 phrases on King Me by Lamb of God

and my favourite key change is I wont let you down by OK GO (which is doubly cool in the video because it marks the start of the big finale)

[K-Man]

I like F# minor! With tasteful accidentals! And 5/4 is cool if you do it right!

But back to space, that's fascinating as shit actually. Seems like any discoveries of distant celestial bodies & events are logically sound theories, but difficult/impossible to prove due to the unreachable distances and time discrepancies... like, what if telescopes were actually sending us distorted imagery due to the nature & interferences of space and what we're seeing is not at all what it actually is?? They are just mirrors after all, we could be hypothesizing off of optical illusions. Imagine if all far-away galaxies were actually just this very same galaxy but from alternate timelines even though they all appear different? Maybe we were never meant to travel there or see their true nature because it would be a catastrophic cataclysm to the fabric of time-space??

This is the shit I like to talk about. Big topics, good brain food. Thinking is fun :)

[fat lesbian]

well that’s why we filter the data. that’s how i made the radio images, you find what looks like it should be something and you add filters until the noise is at a consistent level with the background. this is usually done with Fourier transforms and it is fairly reliable, and we also usually check in multiple different spectra if possible if something isn’t visible on optical. That’s why a lot of composite images of nebulae and stuff are different wavelengths overlayed. we usually get a decent idea of if it is what we think it is. my research is focusing on finding low mass supermassive black holes though which have pretty significant radio signatures that we r looking for and things like that do things that couldn’t really be caused by anything else per GR

[Kentucky Fried]

a mix of drunkenness, loneliness and a desperate need for validation made me download grindr yesterday and damn there are a lot of old men who want threesomes

[K-Man]

Best Non-Sequitur Post 2020, Winner: Kentucky Fried

[Kentucky Fried]

thank you thank you
i would like to thank my parents as well as all the pervy old man on grindr without them winning this award would have been impossible

[Alienator]

In a way the whole universe could be a giant meat grindr

[K-Man]

old ass planets tryna to have threesomes, what a nasty galaxy

[Kentucky Fried]

NASTY old sun grows HUGE and absolutely DESTROYS small and YOUNG planet

[K-Man]

[grue]

well did you go for that threesome or not