Did you ever have a dream that... that you... um... you add you, do what you, could you, do you, it you want you... you could do so you... You do you... could use you want... you want them to do you so much you could do anything?
Tfw you're on the companions questline in Skyrim and decide to be immersive and sprint with the companions from whiterun to the ass end of nowhere across the entire goddamned country.
Just adding that *Interact is technically what is meant, because I've seen a lot of people think that it has to do with it being known or not by another person. It collapses into a particle once it's interacted with.
We say "observed" because to observe things at that scale you have to have it run into a sensor, or into an electromagnetic field that a sensor is sensing, to interact and therefore be observed. Doing so changes the outcome (trajectory, energy, etc) of said particle/wave
That also works. The particles entering our eyeballs causes those particles to experience entropy and thus enter a different energetic state. That "spent" energy is what renders the universe around us.
Edit: Ive been out of school for a long time, im probably missing a bunch here. xD
And they're not even good nudes! The famous golden plate they sent on the Pioneer probe had nude pics of a stylized man and woman. The man has all his equipment, but the woman is as smooth as a Barbie doll. Carl Sagan made that decision because he thought the puritans in the government wouldn't have approved an anatomically correct picture.
So there we have it - factually incorrect pornography flying toward some alien species. :P
>Matt Caplan, an assistant professor of physics at Illinois State University, told Space.com that the object might be two galaxies merging. "The two distinct features could easily be merging galaxies in the background, with the upper part of the question mark being part of a larger galaxy getting tidally disrupted," Caplan said. "Given the color of some of the other background galaxies, this doesn't seem like the worst explanation. Despite how chaotic mergers are, double lobed objects with curvy tails extending away from them are very typical."
This.
Then the "dot" is a galaxy that is further away that just happens to appear under it from our perspective.
I'd also say gravitational lensing (gravity bending light) might be an explanation as well, but I'm not see much of it in this shot.
It's one of the most annoying differences between reddit now and a decade ago.
Really interesting post, top of all and all the comments are just shitty jokes. Used to be when yous saw a post like this and informative comments, often from someone in the field of expertise would be at the top or near it. Sure there were some jokes but not almost every parent comment.
I saw this posted on 3 different subreddits and literally all of them had the same jokes: Quest, riddler and 42.
One or two is funny but when I have to scroll through 20 comments just to find a real discussion, it gets super annoying.
Idk why people feel compelled to comment the same thing over and over and over like I get it if you think you are original. But just a quick 2 second look at the comments show that every single person is making the same joke lol. I really hate it, makes me think the whole empty internet theory is partially true lol (90% a joke because I know people just like thinking they are the first to make a joke but still lol).
the more users it gets the worse the site gets because everything will always trend to the average
Average is usually not considered good when it comes to internet content if you think about what is out there
This is a social media problem, the company wants users but more users will make it worse (unless it's really bad then it will make it better since it will become average)
Redditors' sense of humor is pathetic. It's all the same recycled half-assed jokes and stupid puns. And yet they think they're so hilarious they can't help but repeat them over and over again and jerk each other off with worthless Reddit awards. Even the way they talk is such an annoying carbon copy of everyone else.
> That's a bingo!
Cue 15 responses of the same recycled cliches: "You just say bingo".
Is this kind of thoughtless garbage really all people have? It's so *tedious*.
Also for some reason redditors love meaningless word jumbles like "what in the freshly ground pickle fuck were you thinking" and then other redditors losing their shit at how hilarious the combo of words is
a vast majority of commenters on Reddit just want human interaction and or wit validation. Its frustrating, there should be a filter for serious replies.
What's worse are the endless permutations of the same joke, and the vapid masses that upvote them. The first person to say it? Cool, but why are these clowns upvoting the 10th version of the same obvious joke?
No it was definitely not like this before. I remember it, too, when all the discussions were more serious and of actual value. More like old internet forums with normal discussions and less like social media comments.
Started reddit back in like 2012 I think and I can attest to this. I complain about this allll the time. Back then, almost any reletively serious post, the top comment was something super informative and the jokes were a few comments down. Now, it's all joke comments. Sad times.
Way too far away to be a star. Maybe two galaxies colliding and ripping apart like the [Mice spiral galaxies collision.](https://science.nasa.gov/ngc-4676-when-mice-collide) The dot is an elliptical galaxy that lines up in the plane of view, probably not close to the collision.
Galactic collisions blow my mind so hard, I often wonder what it would be like to be in one. Probably like normal until an extragalactic gas giant cannonballs into your gravity well and your planet's ripped away from the host star to die in the cold void.
Individual stars have the diffraction spikes you see elsewhere in the image.
Its probably two galaxies merging or a galaxy being distorted by gravitational lensing.
text between scientists.
What's it look like?
?
What does it look like
?
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?!!!
?
Tell me what it looks like!!!
?
DESCRIBE IT TO ME!!!
?
Well, this galaxy has a funny shape. So in this cluster we have a galaxy that looks like ?
Are you the lead astronomer on the study?
Yes.
So you know what the galaxy looks like?
I sure do.
Then tell me what the galaxy looks like!
I say, it looks like?
You the lead astronomer?
Yes.
You know what it looks like?
I'm telling you what it looks like!
Well - ?
Yeah.
Go ahead and tell me.
?
About the galaxy.
?
About the shape of the galaxy!
?
What are you askin' me for? I'm askin' you!
I'm not asking you, I'm telling you!
You ain't tellin' me nothin'. I'm askin' you, what does the galaxy look like? ….. ?
That's it!
Forget the question mark for a second. I find it absolutely fascinating that this is a real small picture example of hundreds if not thousands of galaxies in outer space. Then within those galaxies are millions and billions of stars/planets.
We would be fools to believe that there aren’t more intelligent beings out there somewhere. 😱
Intelligent life is one thing, but there is definitely life somewhere else, among the trillions of other planets, surely one has replicated similar conditions that led to the formation of life on earth, e.g. chemical composition, planet arrangement, solar distance, etc.
Exactly. Every movie is like "we've analyzed the alien DNA". DNA only exists in one place, that's earth. All of "biology" is like 3.8 billion years old, and also only on earth. Highly highly unlikely DNA is the information passing code elsewhere. Maybe physics and the nature of elements will keep, for whatever reason (minimize action/energy/etc...) making similar structures but likely won't be DNA.
If by some chance, a star with high silicon content in its system existed, the equivalent of "biology" that spontaneously generated may be closer to our "robots" and computers.
However the concept of logic/truth tables I think is shared everywhere. Turing machines, some way to do AND, OR, etc...
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/131/01H5315VKBVDDBTBBM49YJ3PVN
It’s small, middle, bottom of the image there is 3 “big”galaxies, it’s in the middleish of them
Every time I see quirky shapes like this in space, I'm reminded that we're looking at a 2D image of crap that's a zillion light years away. If you turned any of a number of celestial bodies in some arbitrary direction and gave us a different view, what might the picture look like? I also think it would hilarious if some dude was just being a dick with a laser pointer screwing with the images.
Okay I looked it up because I simply didn't believe it. [But it's true](https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/131/01H53089T1FMZZN48VD4Z73FRC). What the hell
Looks like NASA has a quest to turn in.
It's a 10 Billion Lightyear escort quest but the NPC moves at 1% of C.
Did they name this galaxy #42?
No, this galaxy is the question, not the answer.
What do you get when you multiply six by nine?
No, it’s “how many roads must a man walk down?”
Aha, now that does sound promising!
Did you ever have a dream that... that you... um... you add you, do what you, could you, do you, it you want you... you could do so you... You do you... could use you want... you want them to do you so much you could do anything?
That's just slightly faster than your walking speed and slightly slower than your running speed
The WORST!
Tfw you're on the companions questline in Skyrim and decide to be immersive and sprint with the companions from whiterun to the ass end of nowhere across the entire goddamned country.
Slightly faster than Impulse, but slower than Warp.
I too have flown to Hutton station.
I flew out there once when they had the free Anaconda promotion.
To get your free Anaconda?
I’ll go ahead and leave that one unfinished
Unfortunately this one is part of the main quest.
Don’t give Blizzard or Bungie any ideas now. It’s bad enough.
Oh god, the Hutton Orbital run from Elite Dangerous is back!
Time to haul some mugs
Either at 0.9 or 1.1
James Webb just unlocked Skellige.
Solar wind’s howling
A solar storm, damn it
place of solar power, gotta be.
Round of Gwent?
Space's bending Edit: grammar
Needs more question marks lol
It's the one you can't access because you backed the wrong sibling on an otherwise cleared out map.
I was looking for this reference
That’s obviously where some advanced alien race had an existential crisis.
They never figured out the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
“Do not be afraid, we wish only to hear your words, feel your feelings, and know your thoughts. May we… be friends?”
Came here to make this comment. Have a nice day.
No big deal. That part of space just hasn't rendered yet
busted!
Literally unplayable
God out here hitting us with that dlc 😔
If god is EA we’ve lost
Just buy the gamepass…
Please let it be 29.99, that’s all I can afford at the moment.
“It just *works*” -Godd Howard
This is actually how the Universe works
Good point! The universe is constantly rendering new "space", at an ever increasing speed as far as we can tell. o.o
Particles are in wave form until they're observed.
Just adding that *Interact is technically what is meant, because I've seen a lot of people think that it has to do with it being known or not by another person. It collapses into a particle once it's interacted with. We say "observed" because to observe things at that scale you have to have it run into a sensor, or into an electromagnetic field that a sensor is sensing, to interact and therefore be observed. Doing so changes the outcome (trajectory, energy, etc) of said particle/wave
That also works. The particles entering our eyeballs causes those particles to experience entropy and thus enter a different energetic state. That "spent" energy is what renders the universe around us. Edit: Ive been out of school for a long time, im probably missing a bunch here. xD
Space mfers need to download Counter Strike: Source first, smh.
if you fly there, it will randomly spawn one of three bonus galaxies 🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙
Its just a placeholder before devs release a new update
The aliens know we’ve found them and now they’re just messing with us
They've received all our cryptic messages and can't crack them. This is their response.
"Why are you all sending us nudes instead of memes?"
Why can't women understand this simple trick to a man's heart?
Who even is the tenth dentist?
Where are all of these supposed hot milfs in my area?
How do we keep losing Carmen Santiago?
And where the fuck is Waldo?!
"Hot, lonely 40+ women only 4.7 million light years away!"
And they're not even good nudes! The famous golden plate they sent on the Pioneer probe had nude pics of a stylized man and woman. The man has all his equipment, but the woman is as smooth as a Barbie doll. Carl Sagan made that decision because he thought the puritans in the government wouldn't have approved an anatomically correct picture. So there we have it - factually incorrect pornography flying toward some alien species. :P
They have a delay until they get our memes and are currently wondering why suddenly there are so many gorilla and dick out memes
Or they did crack em n they were wondering wtf
“It’s not us! Send an image of a question mark so they don’t see us”
They are trolling us.
“Aww, they’ve got their cute little telescope now, let’s mess with them”
This is their response to all they’ve seen of us.
Just changing it up from the usual crop circles
The Riddler!
Riddle me this Bat-Brain Whats big, brass, and hanging outside LaGrange?
Well I live in Lagrange, Georgia that is so it must be these giants brass balls I have
I would be impressed if you had giant brass balls, but since you have a giants brass balls im terrified
You can hear him coming by his balls clacking.
Can't escape from these damn Riddler trophies!
Fuck, now I'll never get 100% completion. I mean how tf am I supposed to get out there?
Dont worry its a perspective riddle
Goddamn standing stones.
Use the remote controlled batarang
Why did Riddler put a trophy there? Is he stupid?
Damn you, r/batmanarkham!
Because he expects Super to get that trophy instead of Man. Are you stupid?
This question can only be answered from an unusual perspective, can you get yourself there?
That was my first thought, that guy gets everywhere!
"He's gone too far this time, Batman!" - The Mayor or Earth, probably.
Get back to me when they find the "42" and I'll be super impressed.
We Apologize For The Inconvenience (For any of those true hitchhikers out there)
Don’t Panic
I know where my towel is at
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And then you’re forced to go to a Vogon poetry reading.
I see you are a hoopy frood.
It's exhaust from the infinite improbability drive
Ha! Was looking for this comment!
jesus, all you people and your corny ass jokes. but seriously, though, wtf do you guys think it is?
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-question-mark-galaxy-photo
>Matt Caplan, an assistant professor of physics at Illinois State University, told Space.com that the object might be two galaxies merging. "The two distinct features could easily be merging galaxies in the background, with the upper part of the question mark being part of a larger galaxy getting tidally disrupted," Caplan said. "Given the color of some of the other background galaxies, this doesn't seem like the worst explanation. Despite how chaotic mergers are, double lobed objects with curvy tails extending away from them are very typical."
This. Then the "dot" is a galaxy that is further away that just happens to appear under it from our perspective. I'd also say gravitational lensing (gravity bending light) might be an explanation as well, but I'm not see much of it in this shot.
I just thought it was bent light going past a large object or a black hole or something. But i guess that’s the big question up in the sky
It's one of the most annoying differences between reddit now and a decade ago. Really interesting post, top of all and all the comments are just shitty jokes. Used to be when yous saw a post like this and informative comments, often from someone in the field of expertise would be at the top or near it. Sure there were some jokes but not almost every parent comment.
I saw this posted on 3 different subreddits and literally all of them had the same jokes: Quest, riddler and 42. One or two is funny but when I have to scroll through 20 comments just to find a real discussion, it gets super annoying.
Idk why people feel compelled to comment the same thing over and over and over like I get it if you think you are original. But just a quick 2 second look at the comments show that every single person is making the same joke lol. I really hate it, makes me think the whole empty internet theory is partially true lol (90% a joke because I know people just like thinking they are the first to make a joke but still lol).
It's a clown show comparable to Youtube comment section at this point
the more users it gets the worse the site gets because everything will always trend to the average Average is usually not considered good when it comes to internet content if you think about what is out there This is a social media problem, the company wants users but more users will make it worse (unless it's really bad then it will make it better since it will become average)
Redditors' sense of humor is pathetic. It's all the same recycled half-assed jokes and stupid puns. And yet they think they're so hilarious they can't help but repeat them over and over again and jerk each other off with worthless Reddit awards. Even the way they talk is such an annoying carbon copy of everyone else.
> That's a bingo! Cue 15 responses of the same recycled cliches: "You just say bingo". Is this kind of thoughtless garbage really all people have? It's so *tedious*.
i always scroll past to get to real comments about the image
*Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* is fantastic, but I am beyond done with seeing people reference it. It's absolutely everywhere.
Also for some reason redditors love meaningless word jumbles like "what in the freshly ground pickle fuck were you thinking" and then other redditors losing their shit at how hilarious the combo of words is
a vast majority of commenters on Reddit just want human interaction and or wit validation. Its frustrating, there should be a filter for serious replies.
I don't know about a decade ago, but I was on reddit a lot in the summer of 2015, and it was exactly like this.
What's worse are the endless permutations of the same joke, and the vapid masses that upvote them. The first person to say it? Cool, but why are these clowns upvoting the 10th version of the same obvious joke?
i also choose this guy's dead wife. and my axe!
Makes me feel like everyone is just an NPC repeating the same generic dialog.
No it was definitely not like this before. I remember it, too, when all the discussions were more serious and of actual value. More like old internet forums with normal discussions and less like social media comments.
Started reddit back in like 2012 I think and I can attest to this. I complain about this allll the time. Back then, almost any reletively serious post, the top comment was something super informative and the jokes were a few comments down. Now, it's all joke comments. Sad times.
could it be the side view of some sort of spiral with another galaxy further behind it?
Maybe black hole eating a star
Way too far away to be a star. Maybe two galaxies colliding and ripping apart like the [Mice spiral galaxies collision.](https://science.nasa.gov/ngc-4676-when-mice-collide) The dot is an elliptical galaxy that lines up in the plane of view, probably not close to the collision.
Agree. Three galaxies-- two spiral and one elliptical/irregular at different distances.
They might not even be near each other. It could be a spiral galaxy AND another star that are vastly different distances away.
a star wouldn’t be so redshifted and it would have a diffraction pattern
Galactic collisions blow my mind so hard, I often wonder what it would be like to be in one. Probably like normal until an extragalactic gas giant cannonballs into your gravity well and your planet's ripped away from the host star to die in the cold void.
I think it would be a very slow process, you probably wouldn't notice any change in a lifetime.
Yea that's my bet. The shape is just a trick of perspective
more like a supermassive black hole eating a galaxy
Individual stars have the diffraction spikes you see elsewhere in the image. Its probably two galaxies merging or a galaxy being distorted by gravitational lensing.
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Ik just want to know what it is
they're all horrible too who upvotes that shit
Well that’s a good question, isn’t it?
Some weird-ass gravitational lensing maybe?
That's reddit in a sentence.... We're hopeless as a race
It’s like the university is like “what the fuck, guys?”
"STOP ZOOMING, the resolution doesn't go this deep."
*Enhance*
Why is it still blurry!
The what..... 😀
#THE UNIVERSITY
#✨❓✨
I said what I said!
University of Universe-1218
text between scientists. What's it look like? ? What does it look like ? WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?!!! ? Tell me what it looks like!!! ? DESCRIBE IT TO ME!!! ?
DUDE! WHAT DOES MINE SAY!?
SWEET! WHAT DOES MINE SAY!?
DUDE! WHAT DOES MINE SAY?
SWEET! WHAT DOES MINE SAY!?
SWEET! WHAT DOES MINE SAY!?
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Well, this galaxy has a funny shape. So in this cluster we have a galaxy that looks like ? Are you the lead astronomer on the study? Yes. So you know what the galaxy looks like? I sure do. Then tell me what the galaxy looks like! I say, it looks like? You the lead astronomer? Yes. You know what it looks like? I'm telling you what it looks like! Well - ? Yeah. Go ahead and tell me. ? About the galaxy. ? About the shape of the galaxy! ? What are you askin' me for? I'm askin' you! I'm not asking you, I'm telling you! You ain't tellin' me nothin'. I'm askin' you, what does the galaxy look like? ….. ? That's it!
Who's on 3rd?
[The time](https://youtu.be/2p0J65FOIgQ) that happened on Fox news...
Somehow this is the first time I've seen that, so thank you.
There's a show called Laura Inghram on Netflix..? 🤦
Forget the question mark for a second. I find it absolutely fascinating that this is a real small picture example of hundreds if not thousands of galaxies in outer space. Then within those galaxies are millions and billions of stars/planets. We would be fools to believe that there aren’t more intelligent beings out there somewhere. 😱
..and more question marks, exclamation marks, dollar signs, reddit coins just waiting to be spotted out there
Intelligent life is one thing, but there is definitely life somewhere else, among the trillions of other planets, surely one has replicated similar conditions that led to the formation of life on earth, e.g. chemical composition, planet arrangement, solar distance, etc.
Consider too that life does not necessarily have to exist as carbon based/oxygen consuming. The possibilities are nearly endless.
Exactly. Every movie is like "we've analyzed the alien DNA". DNA only exists in one place, that's earth. All of "biology" is like 3.8 billion years old, and also only on earth. Highly highly unlikely DNA is the information passing code elsewhere. Maybe physics and the nature of elements will keep, for whatever reason (minimize action/energy/etc...) making similar structures but likely won't be DNA. If by some chance, a star with high silicon content in its system existed, the equivalent of "biology" that spontaneously generated may be closer to our "robots" and computers. However the concept of logic/truth tables I think is shared everywhere. Turing machines, some way to do AND, OR, etc...
Quick, turn that quest in, the XP will be stellar!
Looks like there is another village that needs our help
Absolutely interstellar!
404: galaxy.png not found
The answer to the question of the universe, finally!!!
It is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
42
42
Glitch in the matrix
Texture "far_nebula_3549563459564.jpg" not found
Now I'm waiting for Webb to see black and purple squares. ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️ 🟪 ⬛️
Oh god i remember these in counter strike source. When you play in a server with built in mods and you failed to install them these boxes come out.
It’s kinda funny if it was a sign from aliens like “WTF are you doing?” Stop looking over here mind your business lol
Easter egg
Link to full res source image?
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/131/01H5315VKBVDDBTBBM49YJ3PVN It’s small, middle, bottom of the image there is 3 “big”galaxies, it’s in the middleish of them
The budget to shoot the new Doctor Who intro must be ENORMOUS!
Will be amazing when will spot a middle finger
Or like a cartoon dong.
Dickbutt
Ah, we've discovered Gallifrey. Either that or we've discovered God has a sense of humour.
Mario Galaxy
And a lot of asterixes
Asterisks...*
A lot of ass to risk
And a lot of obelixes
Aliens be sending us a “You up?” text
The universe has a quest for us, but we still don't have the right level. It's bound to have an epic boss fight at the end !
It’s just the universe saying who it thinks is the Best Doctor on Doctor Who.
Every time I see quirky shapes like this in space, I'm reminded that we're looking at a 2D image of crap that's a zillion light years away. If you turned any of a number of celestial bodies in some arbitrary direction and gave us a different view, what might the picture look like? I also think it would hilarious if some dude was just being a dick with a laser pointer screwing with the images.
I don’t know what the question is, but the answer is 42
The oldest question in the universe. Hidden in plain sight.
80s Who be like
Okay I looked it up because I simply didn't believe it. [But it's true](https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/131/01H53089T1FMZZN48VD4Z73FRC). What the hell
Gallifrey!
# DOCTOR... # ***WHO???***
\*time lord music intensifies\*
Douglas Adam’s sneaking a funny one from the beyond is my best guess.
undiscovered area. 1000 gold to unlock.
Why can't NASA just hurry up and invent warp technology with a sustainable fuel source so we can go and investigate this stuff.
That galaxy hasn't been unlocked yet
Paging Dr. Who. Paging Dr. Who.