Somebody post something far out please

Discussion in 'Random Thoughts' started by Fairlight, Mar 13, 2014.

  1. Fairlight

    Fairlight Banned

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    Somebody please just post the most far out thing you can think of I'm totally bored.I'm numb and zoned out.Or just stop by to call me an idiot.( I'm a "far out" junkie)
     
  2. GLENGLEN

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    The Planet Mars, Thats Pretty Far Out...:)



    Cheers Glen.
     
  3. Fairlight

    Fairlight Banned

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    Mars is very lonely.
     
  4. SpacemanSpiff

    SpacemanSpiff Visitor

    here ya go

    fill your ears with Kak


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcBsMoHL9E"]Kak - Kak Ola (1969) Full Album - YouTube
     
  5. Fairlight

    Fairlight Banned

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    Okay.In outer space there is no such thing as up and down or left or right.All sense of direction is relative to the object.I think Glen will concur here.You're not feeling upside down are you Glen? Although relative to me you are.If we put on jet packs and met at the equator,Glen,who would be the right way up?We would both feel the right way up but I would see you as being upside down and vice versa...Oh hang on,I haven't quite thought this through...What a ya think?
     
  6. GLENGLEN

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    If I Flew Up From Downunder I Would Be Correct Side Up,

    If You Flew Down, You Would Be Totally "Ass About"...[​IMG]



    Cheers Glen.
     
  7. pensfan13

    pensfan13 Senior Member

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    I think if the earth was in view of where you are in space then you would be more inlined to keep your head level with the north pole....i dont know maybe those down under would do the same for the south pole. Glen might have meant that but i was talking about after the flight was over and you get out and float about ou in space.
     
  8. Fairlight

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    The Northern hemisphere is presented through history as being at the top,i.e "up" because modern cartography originated in the Northern hemisphere.Because of this,through time everyone has been inculcated with the notion of a world/cosmos that has an up and down.But this is a complete logical fallacy.Notice how pictures of Earth from outer space always show this Euro-centric positioning of the earth as having a "top" and a "bottom".If map making had originated in the Southern hemisphere we would get a totally opposite picture.The Southern continents would be "up" etc...Correct me If I'm wrong.
     
  9. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    You need to read some Bucky:


    Dymaxion Map
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  10. ThePepsiSyndrome

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  12. pensfan13

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    this is something i never asked someone from the south. i recently was thinking about the seasons and how they are different. but i would have been more interested in how they see the globe. do they see it the way we do (in that the person viewing is always right side up) or do they themselves consider themselves upside down.
     
  13. pensfan13

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    there is just something about that to make me think the black science man had never said that.
    and that is backed up by science bitches!!
     
  14. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    I guess most stars don't contain any atoms....:confused:
     
  15. Joshua Tree

    Joshua Tree Remain In Light

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    there are more possible chess games than atoms in the universe

    (10 to the power of 120 versus 10 to the power of 80)
     
  16. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    There are also more possible bitcoin addresses than atoms in the universe (can't post numbers cuz I forget where I read it)
     
  17. SpacemanSpiff

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    nobody here likes Kak in the ear ?
     
  18. Moonglow181

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    truth is stranger than fiction
     
  19. porkstock41

    porkstock41 Every time across from me...not there!

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    they just discovered a star that is like 1300x the size of our sun. if it was placed where our sun was....the fucking star would extend past jupiter.


    that first neil tyson quote did blow my mind....wonder if it's true.

    i heard that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
     
  20. Moonglow181

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    We see stars that do not exist anymore.....light is just reaching us from them
     

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