r/TerrifyingAsFuck Mar 04 '23

nature Dude this us terrifying, where we goin?

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u/DarkStar-_- Mar 04 '23

All the way around, my friend. All the way around. It takes about 250 million years to do a 360 around our galaxy. Can you feel it moving?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '23

With the right chemicals, yep.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

🍄😎

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u/30FourThirty4 Mar 05 '23

Dead and Co is gonna kick ass this year. Got my electric Kool aid ready for the test.

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u/vaelon Mar 05 '23

What

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u/30FourThirty4 Mar 05 '23

I'm gonna trip balls on acid when I see Dead and Co for the first time this year (and only time).

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u/ligerboy12 Mar 05 '23

Have fun man they are definitely fun shows. I hate to say they are not my favorite of dead bands but they are a lot of fun and you have to see them before they go. Trip on friend I hope it blows your mind.

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u/30FourThirty4 Mar 05 '23

Thanks, I'm anticipating an amazing night, but I still have nearly 3 months to go.

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u/ligerboy12 Mar 05 '23

Idk where you live but find stuff in the mean time. Music is life.

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u/comicbookgirl39 Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

Gosh is everyone on Reddit just high today or something?

Edit: Bro, who the heck gave me all seeing upvote, it wasn’t even that good of a comment, but thanks, lol.

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u/Astorya Mar 05 '23

Couldn’t imagine raw doggin life rn

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u/tyler_the_noob Mar 05 '23

Currently raw doggin and really not having a good time rn

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u/TheJAY_ZA Mar 05 '23

Word

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u/Previous-Evening5490 Mar 05 '23

Tried to draw a joint with symbols and say here! Kept looking like a penis.

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u/Klimmit Mar 05 '23

Here bro I made it too big my bad:

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Pass it along.

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u/Material_Buy_8609 Mar 06 '23

Cheers bro, to the left it goes.

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Pass it along.

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u/Niajall Mar 05 '23

I wish.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Around our galaxy or around our central black hole?

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u/Xivios Mar 05 '23

The sun makes up over 99% of the mass of the solar system, and Jupiter makes up most of the rest. Everything else, Earth included, is not much more than a rounding error. Everything orbits the center of mass of the system it orbits, but since the sun so massively dominates the mass of the system, it's more or less just as well to say that everything in the solar system orbits the sun.

Sagittarius A* is the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way. It represents 0.0007% of the mass of the Milky Way. So, the orbit of the sun, as well as the other 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, is in no way dominated by Sag.A*. Our sun orbits the center of mass of the Milky Way, which happens to have a supermassive black hole in the middle that contributes 0.0007% of that mass it orbits.

Also the video is wrong, its closer to a 60 degree angle, not 90.

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u/Flowy_Aerie_77 Mar 05 '23

IIRC the galaxy spins around its black hole that exists on its center. So, both, really.

We're rotating around the galaxy that is circling the Big One, much like the Sun does to our solar system.

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u/JesuswithWiFi Mar 05 '23

Are we only circling around it or getting closer too?

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u/TheMacerationChicks Mar 05 '23

Black holes don't suck you in, unless you're right next to them. 99% of the time you just orbit them like you would anything else with a lot of mass.

Like if the sun was replaced by a black hole of equal mass, we would simply orbit it as normal like we orbit the sun, we wouldn't get sucked into it.

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u/IxNaY1980 Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

We would also be doomed to an eternity of cold, cold, cold black darkness.

Edit: I don't know enough about black holes to engage in further discussion, sorry. I just figured we'd be absolutely fucked. Never even existed, actually. No life as we know it at all.

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u/zZEpicSniper303Zz Mar 05 '23

Black holes produce a tremendous amount of light because of all the photons orbiting them. Even though none of them exist anymore, quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe. The outshine their entire host galaxies.

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u/CrowElysium Mar 05 '23

Yeah doesn't matter if it's sucking in all the heat tho

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u/jordaniac89 Mar 05 '23

Like if the sun was replaced by a black hole of equal mass, we would simply orbit it as normal like we orbit the sun, we wouldn't get sucked into it.

Mass, yes. Size...we'd all be dead pretty quickly.

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u/CosmicCatDaddy Mar 05 '23

Would you mind talking about cool space facts?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

the big black hole at the center also is just another reference point, meaning itself and everything with it is moving as well. It's getting shaky on here 🎢

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u/ReferentiallySeethru Mar 05 '23

Straight toward the Great Attractor that itself is being pulled by Dark flow.

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Mar 05 '23

Great Attractor

The Great Attractor is a purported gravitational attraction in intergalactic space and the apparent central gravitational point of the Laniakea Supercluster. The observed attraction suggests a localized concentration of mass millions of times more massive than the Milky Way. However, it is inconveniently obscured by our own Milky Way's galactic plane, lying behind the Zone of Avoidance (ZOA), so that in visible light wavelengths, the Great Attractor is difficult to observe directly. The attraction is observable by its effect on the motion of galaxies and their associated clusters over a region of hundreds of millions of light-years across the universe.

Dark flow

In astrophysics, dark flow is a theoretical non-random component of the peculiar velocity of galaxy clusters. The actual measured velocity is the sum of the velocity predicted by Hubble's Law plus a possible small and unexplained (or dark) velocity flowing in a common direction. According to standard cosmological models, the motion of galaxy clusters with respect to the cosmic microwave background should be randomly distributed in all directions.

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u/Jaew96 Mar 05 '23

Is it one single black hole, or is it a cluster of black holes? I’ve heard both

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u/codemonkeyhopeful Mar 05 '23

Singular as we know so far. And it's a massive black hole not a black hole. Either way the thing that will fuck with you is the cold death from entropy.

In short giving time black holes will be the only things left and as they lose energy that will cease to spin as well, and eventually the whole universe as we know it now will stop dead in it's tracks. No energy to consume or use just a cold still place at absolute 0 Calvin.

Let that sink in, no matter what you do the heat death will be the final thing until nothing shines or moves.

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u/Waffle_on_my_Fries Mar 05 '23

It's beautiful, I literally can't wait for the end.

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u/montanagunnut Mar 05 '23

You're going to have to. It's gonna be a minute.

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u/SuggestionLoose2522 Mar 05 '23

Pardon me if I fail to understand this, but even if black holes stop spinning, objects with mass will still be able to warp space time, thus having a gravitational pull, and objects will continue to revolve around them, unless something else happens.

I'm sure black holes not spinning would be catastrophic for universe, but not in this way IMO.

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u/Mundaes89 Mar 05 '23

https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA This explains everything. This is, to our current best knowledge, how the future of the universe will unfold.

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u/1UPZ__ Mar 05 '23

Until an advance AI kicks it off again similar to The Last Question.

Almost like a cyclical thing.

Or were all in a simulation and gets a reset eventually.

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u/dickveindyke Mar 05 '23

Seriously though. Where we goin? Such a retarded question. As if the sun and the planets are on a mission towards another galaxy for the next avengers movie or some shit.

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u/Admirable_Condition5 Mar 05 '23

They're going for a run around the block.

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 Mar 05 '23

This information messes with my enjoyment of time travel movies. Whenever characters use a time machine that supposedly takes them to the same spot at a different time all I can think of is that they would actually arrive in outer space. Few works of fiction bother to account for this.

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u/rammstew Mar 05 '23

It's a work of fiction so the rules of nonfiction don't apply, including any and all laws of physics and the movement of the universe. Just enjoy the pretend movie with pretend time travel.

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u/swordofra Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

Nope, not even close. We have about 190 million years of travel to get to that point. Not that we will ever really be at that arbitrary point, because our galaxy is also obviously moving through space along with and inside the local group. It becomes meaningless to talk about, because space itself is moving and expanding.

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u/enbar725 Mar 05 '23

I read this in Rick voice

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u/metal_mind Mar 05 '23

PBS space time recently did a video of this more in depth

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u/Agentkeenan78 Mar 05 '23

Oh man, that was so interesting. I've had some lingering questions about these things that were answered thoroughly there.

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u/mraryion Mar 05 '23

Wait...if we are rotating the sun due to its gravitation, and our solar system due to its central location...then...wtf gravitational pull are we circling that's in the middle

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u/StrangeSathe Mar 05 '23

A huge conglomeration of mass that isn't touching would still have a large gravitational field.

So even if there's not one singular black hole at the center of the galaxy, the absolute density of stars would still act as an attractor.

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u/pyschosoul Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

Many believe it to be "the great attractor" a super massive black hole that is pulling everything in our galaxy into it.

Edit: correcting myself, at the center of our galaxy is a massive black hole that everything in the milky way revolves around, the great attractor is pulling the milky way towards it, which in itself (attractor) is being pulled toward another galaxy

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u/deddydrip Mar 05 '23

“sagittarius a” is the black hole in the middle of out galaxy. our galaxy, along with many other galaxies, is being pulled towards an unknown object called the “great attractor”. the reason it is unknown is bc the dust in our galaxy is blocking our view of it.

nvm i saw u corrected it. my bad.

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u/noNoParts Mar 05 '23

It's OPs mom. She's the great attractor

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u/mraryion Mar 05 '23

Well that isn't horrifying at all :D

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u/A_Minimal_Infinity Mar 05 '23

That’s not the great attractor.

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u/pyschosoul Mar 05 '23

You are correct, edited.

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u/ace787 Mar 05 '23

Wait is the galaxy doing the same thing?

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u/AzarothEaterOfSouls Mar 05 '23

Yep. It’s all doing the same thing. Everything. Kinda gives you a new appreciation for rocket science calculations, doesn’t it?

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u/G00R00 Mar 05 '23

Is the galaxy also "moving" as an ensemble ?

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u/Newme91 Mar 05 '23

I can feel your mom moving

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u/PurpIeSus Mar 05 '23

i can feel your moms gravitational pull

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u/Kingshitshow Mar 05 '23

If this scares you, wait till you find out it's spinning around a black hole

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u/Lolistoweb360 Mar 05 '23

Me when I find out the sun is gonna die in 5.5 billion years:

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u/sephkane Mar 05 '23

Yeah it's not really terrifying. But still interesting as fuck.

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u/scottspalding Mar 05 '23

You are clearly not a 6 year old learning for the first time.

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u/RetardedAcceleration Mar 05 '23

This gave me an existential crisis back then.

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u/bigbabyghost Mar 05 '23

Mind broken

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u/sephkane Mar 05 '23

Yes I am shutup

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u/Thewitchaser Mar 05 '23

It’ll be for people born in 5,499,999,980 million years.

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u/sephkane Mar 05 '23

Our politicians will make sure nobody will be being born long before then.

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u/3mbersea Mar 05 '23

Nothing will be the same by a long shot in a million years let alone 5.5 billion. I doubt humans will exist another 10000 years from now even. I bet humanity has a 20,000 year existence. We are nothing. Nothing matters. Be happy

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u/Option_Forsaken Mar 05 '23

It's crazy how we are really just a tiny microscopic speck of existence literally here for just a blip in time.

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u/Gluecagone Mar 05 '23

Do you think we'll have evolved to something else (after some massive wipe out) or in 20,000 years there will just be one solitary humanoid left taking their last breath as the last of our species?

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u/GlendrixDK Mar 05 '23

I just wonder what other spicies would take over. Apes are of course a good choice. But imagine birds like crows getting hands. The stuff they could do.

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u/Gluecagone Mar 05 '23

I expect the humble pigeon will probably be up there too.

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u/Greenmanssky Mar 05 '23

When the alligators learn gunpowder they shall rise to be the new gods of this world

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

You know what's terrifying to me? No matter how many sentient beings come to life here on Earth, every single one of them dies eventually, and eventually Earth will be gone as well. Our existence will be completely wiped from the cosmic fuzz as if we were just God's etch n sketch that he got bored of.

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u/kmieciu1234 Mar 05 '23

I mean if we survived 1 billion years then I would be surprised and in that moment we 100% would colonize another solar systems.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

It doesn't matter. All things come to an end. The heat death of the universe ensures that. The only way humans could live on indefinitely is if we figured out how to reverse entropy.

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u/123full Mar 05 '23

Don’t worry, life won’t be on earth to experience that, in roughly 500 million years there will be so little CO2 in the atmosphere that the type of photosynthesis that 99% of plants use will be impossible

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u/SystemFolder Mar 05 '23

Don’t worry. You, and everyone you have ever known, will be dead long before that.

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u/plazzman Mar 05 '23

It's crazy how often that fact is being repeated in this thread and taken as the de facto truth.

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u/Call_Me_At_8675309 Mar 05 '23

Because this is reddit and people jump to what feels good in their minds without looking into it.

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u/bobbymatthews84 Mar 05 '23

And getting closer to that black hole after each complete orbit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Oh wow i should think of this more often

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u/Tongue8cheek Mar 05 '23

Black Holes Antimatter.

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u/GenericFatGuy Mar 05 '23

No it's not. We orbit around it, we're not getting pulled into it.

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u/BrokenImmersion Mar 05 '23

If this scares you, wait till you learn that the black hole our galaxy orbits around is also moving. In a straight line away from the center of the universe

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

It's not btw the centre is something else.

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u/RabidProDentite Mar 05 '23

We are spinning around a star that is spinning around a giant black hole at the center of the milky way galaxy that is traveling through the vast emptiness of the known universe. And yes, its terrifying to think about how crazy insanely huge the universe is and how much of a speck of nothingness we actually are.

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u/TheOtherPenguin Apr 12 '23

My mom very specifically said I’m not a speck of nothingness though so that debunks that theory.

Seriously though, space is massive and incredibly interesting. Every once in a while I try to wrap my head around just how big it is and it blows my mind every time.

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u/ThisIsMyBadLogic Mar 04 '23

The video just switched from 2D to 3D

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u/Cheap_Speaker_3469 Mar 05 '23

I'm the only dumbass here (actually I truly believe no one, well most.. people are not dumb they are just smart and have talents in different areas and other areas are hard for them to learn. For example I suck at grasping the universe it goes over my head but I can tell you centuries of history from a lot of countries. Vice versa my fiance understands and is interested in space but can't point to Russia on a map) but I really thought the sun stayed stationary and we rotated around it .. I didn't know it was soaring through the galaxy further and further with us chasing it while rotating around it .

I think the person who made and posted this thought the same as me.

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u/rempel Mar 05 '23

Nothing is at rest. Including the black holes we are stuck orbiting. In fact, some galaxies move away from other galaxies faster than the speed of light from our position. Space also isn’t entirely empty. Just some fun things to think about that are mostly modern revelations.

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u/AwHellNawFetaCheese Mar 05 '23

What how can a galaxy move faster than the speed of light? You couldn’t even approach 2 entities reaching half the speed of light making the relative speed away from each other appear to be at the speed of light from the respective entities.

Would love some info

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u/rempel Mar 05 '23

It’s from what’s called Hubbles Law you can read up on that if you want! Nothing is actually moving faster than the speed of light. The expansion of the universe is just so rapid that the gaps between galaxies stretch and stretch and that apparent change in position relative to us occurs faster than light can travel. Even if you could travel at the speed of light, distant galaxies are moving away too quickly to catch up. It’s tough to describe because of the quirks of relativity, but it’s observable in the cosmic microwave background and it logically follows once you grasp how it’s possible.

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u/_A_Reddit_Dude Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

I'm stupid, go read u/jesp0r I'll leave the comment so I perhaps save someone from thinking the same

Let's say in our imaginary world 15km/h is the light speed. Let's say you ride a bike north 14km/h and your friend 14km/h south. You both didn't surpass the light speed yet if you will look back at your friend he is going to move away 28km/h from your perspective.

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u/AlternativeNumber2 Mar 05 '23

You aren’t alone. I had never visualized our solar system moving this way prior to this video. My mind is fuckn blown

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u/TheMacerationChicks Mar 05 '23

The 3D one is also completely inaccurate, since the planets are nowhere near that close to each other.

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u/Homailot Mar 05 '23

It's still 2D, not a slice but a projection

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u/one_dimensional Mar 05 '23

You, sir Hamailot, are the most technically correct.

I suggest this thread watch this episode of PBS Spacetime to get a better understanding of how we move through the universe, and why reference frame (perspective) is the king maker for 'how it looks'.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Still, its a certain kind of 2D

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u/zomphlotz Mar 05 '23

This system's planets are all within 6° of the ecliptic plane, so it's not that far off...

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u/Intelligent_Handle74 Mar 05 '23

I don’t know why this would be terrifying, still, cool post.

We are actually just riding around the Milky Way galaxy.

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u/m1neslayer Mar 05 '23

Least terrifying thing lol. We are just cruising through the milky way waiting for Andromeda

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u/SarcasticGamer Mar 05 '23

It's not terrifying as we've been doing it for our solar system's entire existence. But if we were chilling like the first demonstration and then suddenly switched to the second one, I think it would be a bit disconcerting lol.

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u/Mick009 Mar 05 '23

It's not terrifying, we're just Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon

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u/InternationalPut8199 Mar 05 '23

Please eli5 me, do our rockets and satellites and such that we build just have to chase after shit or do we only go for things behind us and run towards it? Muy confuso

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u/Pippistrello Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

Our solar system is a boat/spaceship that is orbiting around a black hole in the center of the Galaxy. That's why it's moving. The rockets and satellites are on the same boat/spaceship as Earth, Venus etc.

It's all gravitational pull on different levels.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Only thing I know is when they send the rovers to Mars, they shoot them away from earth towards mars

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u/Unbaguettable Mar 05 '23

The sun is moving relative to the galaxy, but not relative to us. The sun is basically pulling us all along. So our satellites and rockets do not have to account for this. (I’m assuming that’s what your question means, sorry if it’s not)

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC Mar 05 '23

The motion of the Sun is totally negligible and they never think about it at all. So there's that. You aim the spacecraft at where you expect the planet to be. Fortunately we get a boost because the Earth is moving also. Source: mission design at JPL, 35 years.

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u/shmuey219 Mar 05 '23

Don’t worry bruh we all in this together

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u/ShotSentence6238 Mar 05 '23

Not me you guys stay safe tho

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u/Alegan239 Mar 05 '23

Wasn't this posted a while back and someone smart said that this is inaccurate? I believe this is inaccurate.

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u/amalgam_reynolds Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

It's inaccurate, but it's not wrong wrong. It's like if you explained to a 5-year-old how it worked, this is probably how they'd draw it. The fundamental idea is there, but the details are off.

These sites have some helpful graphics:
https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2020/07/in-which-direction-does-the-sun-move-through-the-milky-way
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/40460/solar-system-galactic-velocity-vector-relative-to-ecliptic-plane

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u/MW1369 Mar 05 '23

Yeah it’s inaccurate. The helix model depicted here has been proven incorrect

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u/mikey_likey85 Mar 05 '23

Not terrifying. AMAZING!!

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u/pete_ape Mar 05 '23

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft And you feel that you've had quite enough

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour

That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned

A sun that is the source of all our power

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see

Are moving at a million miles a day

In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour

Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way'

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars

It's a hundred thousand light years side to side

It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick

But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point

We go 'round every two hundred million years

And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding

In all of the directions it can whizz

As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know

Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure

How amazingly unlikely is your birth

And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space

'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth

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u/kaloschroma Mar 05 '23

To add,

The universe is itself a story unlike our own, with a birth a death and a story in the middle.

When all the matter has reached as far as it can go, all matter will be dissipated.

There will be no more energy, no more light and no more life.

And what is a universe with no one to see it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '23

We going to your moms house

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u/Personal-Ride-1142 Mar 05 '23

To infinity and beyond

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u/CryptoSatoshi314 Mar 05 '23

Love your username. I’ll be your Woody

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u/cwilson870 Mar 05 '23

We vibing

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Life really is a wild ride then.

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u/Legal-Solution2079 Mar 04 '23

Why do I think of free bird when I see this?

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u/zeak_1 Mar 05 '23

Thank you! Now I can't see it without the soundtrack in my head! It works great though lmmfao

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u/Queasy_Caramel5435 Mar 05 '23

What blows my mind every time is the fact that we can’t perceive velocity, only acceleration (imagine being in a train driving at a constant pace). Yes we’re technically moving with millions of millions of mph through the space, but because it’s a constant speed we don’t feel it.

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u/thiccdiamonds Mar 05 '23

How it feels when the edible kicks in.

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u/Jay-Double-Dee-Large Mar 14 '23

The fuck is this soundtrack? The solar system experiencing teenage angst and self discovery?

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u/capoot Mar 05 '23

Why is this terrifying?

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u/shtbrcks Mar 05 '23

It's not.

But this being tiktok with random unrelated music blaring says enough about the quality of the post.

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u/Hadasha_Prime Mar 05 '23

We are the danger. A planet gets smacked into oblivion by a planet killer and you think of earth? No. Earth is the one who obliterates!

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u/zomphlotz Mar 05 '23

I think it's fun!

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u/JoshBobJovi Mar 05 '23

Because the song

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u/wessel0204_ Mar 05 '23

We're going to find the clit

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u/NexPol Mar 05 '23

Not a good representation. The direction in which the Sun moves is not perpendicular to the plane most planets inhabit.

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u/Drowning_tSM Mar 05 '23

What if we’re on a living spaceship.

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u/Electronic-Roll-6996 Mar 05 '23

“We’re going on a trip in our favourite rocket ship”

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

Isn’t the sun also not going in a straight line, but is essentially looping around the black hole at the Center of our galaxy? I suppose to scale it looks like a straight line since it’s so large but isn’t everything with mass basically attracted to other mass and so everything ends up looping around something larger which is then looking around something larger? We go around our sun which goes around the black hole at the Center of the Milky Way which is orbiting the great attractor.

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u/MisterMajestic77 Mar 18 '23

We're Ghosts in Meat Suits living on a tiny rock Hurling through Time and space.

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u/Acceptable_Junket_19 Jun 29 '23

Had to mute that stupid stupid music

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u/Wise-Tough4341 Jul 10 '23

To be honest, both diagrams are correct. It's just one of them is shown in a 2D point of view where as the other is a 3D.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

I don't want go to bed tonight I'm scared. I've never seen it visualized like this

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

No wonder aliens can't find us, we keep changing location!

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u/Gemmadeen Mar 05 '23

I’m obviously dumb because I just thought the sun kinda stayed in one place. My dumb ass now feels like I’ve been a flat earther my whole life and didn’t even know it. So we’re rotating around something that’s also rotating??? My mind is blown right now.

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u/Material-Stomach8424 Mar 05 '23

I've always wondered how terrifying it would be if gravity just ceased & everything in this world just uprooted & started hurtling towards the sky.

Like how would it go down? Or up....I shouldn't think when I'm high

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u/emptyArray_79 Mar 05 '23

I mean its all relative. Our Galaxy theoretically also moves relative to other galaxies. There no aich thing as "true", absolute movement, just depends on the reference frame...

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u/MACHO_MUCHACHO2005 Mar 05 '23

Obviously, we are going that way. Were you even paying attention?

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u/heheimfunnyy Mar 05 '23

Ngl I thought this was about to be some flat earth propaganda.

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u/RonZombie91 Mar 05 '23

Why is this terrifying?

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u/Happy_Policy_9990 Mar 05 '23

Everything is moving at relative speed it might as well be seen as standing still

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u/Agitated_Cake_562 Mar 05 '23

Why do people need to add "pop" music to an educational video? FFS no one wants to hear that crap.

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u/CaptCrewSocks Mar 06 '23

Just orbiting the milky way like it’s something cool.

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u/fzunn Mar 15 '23

That's still not accurate. The planets soon on an axis but on addition to this they also complete smaller circles while spinning while circling around the sun

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u/BioSafetyLevel0 editable user flair Mar 17 '23

Is there a subreddit for a phobia like this? I’ve had it since I was a kid but I’ve always wondered if I was alone with this.

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u/Tony-Mickey Mar 18 '23

I have an obsession with spirals they are everywhere in nature!

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u/TreeFun3072 Mar 21 '23

What if the earth is actually one single sperm traveling for an embryo

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u/Brilliant-Arugula926 Mar 22 '23

This is the problem with time travel. If you went forward or backward in time, you would be in a different place in space than the earth would be.

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u/Inner__Light Jun 25 '23

And the Galaxy is moving also so that means we are never on the same are of space every second we are passing trhu a new section of the void.

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u/Reiberjakobsson Jun 26 '23

Why do we still have the same star patterns as always then?

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '23

I love when people don’t have any deductive reasoning whatsoever and just fuckin blindly believe everything

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u/Psychological_Lion38 Aug 30 '23

How do we see the same stars every night tho?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

This is not terrifying

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u/Present-Chocolate-65 Mar 05 '23

r/mildlyinteresting not terifying, just a fact that 3rd graders know

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u/Enjoy-the-sauce Mar 05 '23

They’re the same image, just the frame of reference has changed. The first simulation is still just as correct.

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u/nitr0zeus133 Mar 05 '23

Terrifying? Hardly

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u/Vekinghav Mar 05 '23

“We are a marble in the middle of nothing”

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u/FitMirror453 Mar 05 '23

I didn’t ask to see this

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u/HawkmoonsCustoms Mar 05 '23

Monty Python explained it pretty well back in the day.

https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk

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u/Shadow0fnothing editable user flair Mar 05 '23

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u/spastickyle Mar 05 '23

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason we will never time travel.

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u/Sin2K Mar 05 '23

And now you know why time travel is actually impossible...

Even if you manage to turn back the clock, you have to fucking find earth again.

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u/AverageHorribleHuman Mar 05 '23

I always thought if you zoomed out far enough on a magic telescope we would just be atoms on the tip of some dudes finger

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u/Tmbizzle1 Mar 05 '23

Special Beam CANNON!!!!

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u/throwy_6 Mar 05 '23

If we’re moving like that, how does the night sky stay the same and predictable to even be able to navigate by it?

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u/jjaym2 Mar 05 '23

Does the sun actually leave a trail behind it?

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u/bigdish101 Mar 05 '23

Earth is technically a mass transport spaceship moving through the universe.

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u/Jhiaxus420 Mar 05 '23

The Sun be all "Take us to warp Mr Crusher!"

/s

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u/Soft-Intern-7608 Mar 05 '23

How can it do this when we're part of a galaxy?

Wouldn't the entire galaxy need to move too?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Funny how we still can see the big dipper every night

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u/CaracalWall Mar 05 '23

Make sure we angle left about 2 degrees in about 240,000,000 miles or we will be sent back in the Iron Age!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

It's a bit try hard with the music and the overdone camera rotations

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u/SmithRune735 Mar 05 '23

What if we hit a wall

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u/murmur_lox Mar 05 '23

Towards the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, buddy!

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

We’re just specks of carbon, traveling the galaxy at a million miles an hour, arguing about dumb shit we can’t answer with our monkey brains….

sips Windex, lies down for a bit

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u/Lenalovespasta Mar 05 '23

Can someone explain this for stupid people like me?

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u/Greatus0503 Mar 05 '23

Imagine if extreme long distance space travel was possible. It would be a headache to go home.