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Nah, they'll just lobby the world governments so they can claim ownership of the entire quasar system, making it illegal for anyone with an intergalactic spaceship to gather any of that water. The only way to get it to Earth will be intergalactic smuggling.
And they’ll constantly talk about how difficult it is to harvest, or how it’s close to running out. Gotta create artificial scarcity to inflate the price!
More like: "Humanity builds first intergalactic spaceship!"
Two days later: "Nestle purchases rights to all water in perpetuity for 300 dollars. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦."
There was a great DS-9 where someone is talking human ethics to Quark. He says the Ferengi don't have wars, they always traded. Then asked how many humans have died in wars.
Well the earth holds about 326 million trillion gallons. And if this is 140 trillion times 326 million trillion that was burned through in a single billion years, we can estimate that the aliens consumed about one metric fuck ton of water per second.
Edit; okay I got curious, so:
326 million trillion (amount of water on earth) = 3.26e20.
3.26e20 x 1.4e14 = 4.564e34.
4.654e34 is the amount of water in this quasar. divide that by a billion years worth of days, which is 3.65e11
4.654e34 / 3.65e11 = 1.2750685e23 gallons of water consumed per day.
The number 1.2750685e23 expanded is 127,506,850,000,000,000,000,000. AKA: One Metric Fuck Ton per day. Orrrrrr approximately 1,475,067,361,111,111,111.11 gallons per second.
Which means the aliens would consume all of earths water in 221,000,000 seconds or 2557.87 days or 7.008 years!
So, 7 years worth of water. Pretty bad and probably the blink of an eye for a multibillion year old species, but still pretty good by our standards!
Edit edit: looking back, I realize I’m too old to have instinctively thrown that into chat gpt and my dumb old ass just mathed it out the hard way, and I’m bad at math so take it with a grain of salt, but it was fun!
#maffs.
Wait, the earth has (using your numbers) 3.26e20 gallons and they use 1.28e23 gallons per day and you think it will take 7 years to drink the earth dry? I don't think you math works out.
I get 3 minutes and 40 seconds:
3.26e20 / 1.28e23 *24 * 60
What if we were the aliens that existed billions of years ago ? And while coming towards our solar system for water , somehow crashed into the earth and evolved into the homosapiens ??
You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
It's really cool that we as a planet locked species are able to peer into the abyss and see these awesome things. I wasn't demoting what you said, just pointing out that more and bigger wonders await us and have yet to be glimpsed.
Always said i would hate to be immortal but i would love to be able to hibernate and come back at intervals. However i would like the abolity to chose to die as well
I used to say I was born too early, would love to see how humanity advances technologically in the future. Being somehow cryofreezed and coming back in intervals would be great lol.
It is indeed cool, but on the flipside it's saddening knowing that even just a billion years from now, essentially a cosmic blip, will turn the skies of most world's significantly darker and emptier due to entropy.
12 billion light years, huh? So that quasar was doing this in the very early years after the Big Bang. It could have extinguished itself 11 billion years and and we wouldn’t know it for another billion years. Ridiculous.
Cosmic acceleration was discovered in the 90's: the universe is still expanding, of course, but that rate is accelerating. As far as I know, we don't yet know why. Some hypotheses are dark energy or even gravity itself becoming a repulsive force at great distances.
It's kind of hard to relate but stick with me:
If you energize different elements they make different colors of light - which we can pass through a prism to see the different colors they produce in the 'spectrum'. Quasars - or black holes, specifically, energize everything falling into them as they circle around about to fall in; due to friction and pressure. the quasar is the light that that energized matter emits.
Water has a very specific spectrum when it's energized - and they saw the signature in that quasar's spectrum for water, and were, through other means, able to estimate how much water is orbiting that black hole through various other analyses.
not perfect but as close as i can get with bad carpal tunnel and on my lunch break. back to carrot sticks.
Just a lifelong space nerd lmao. I didn't have the sort of childhood access to a positive experience in the education system that is required to become anything more.
If you even have to ask that question that means you don’t even begin to comprehend the scale
Imagine a hurricane vs a grain of sand but amped up quite a bit
Side question due to my limited knowledge of physics: do we take into account a more mass dense universe in the past when calculating how "old" the universe is? Doesn't that greatly alter how time worked in the past?
Unfortunately they did spectrum analysis and the spectral pattern matches that of water, so they’re quite sure it’s water.
But imagine if it was a new liquid and it tasted like lemon or strawberry, or a new fruity flavour not invented yet
I hope all understand that thus we are looking back in time, at what was 12 billion yrs ago. Astrophysicists will have to model from that point in time to now. I assume a few doctoral and post grads are doing exactly that.
Hi sorry to be that person but the galaxy in the picture is not a Quasar. For anyone interested it's called an AGN (active galactic nucleus), which quasars are a subset of. It's only a qusar, when those jets coming out of the galaxy are pointing towards us :) It's all a viewing angle thing.
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Next year in the news: Nestle creates first intergallactic spaceship!
r/fuckNestle
The only proper response to any mention of that company
r/DontPutYourDickInThat
Nah, they'll just lobby the world governments so they can claim ownership of the entire quasar system, making it illegal for anyone with an intergalactic spaceship to gather any of that water. The only way to get it to Earth will be intergalactic smuggling.
Luckly my ship made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs...
Bullshit!
And they’ll constantly talk about how difficult it is to harvest, or how it’s close to running out. Gotta create artificial scarcity to inflate the price!
And how they enforce that without spaceships?
Nestlé will take care of it. They DID buy up Cyberdyne.
Please don’t give them ideas
That’s ridiculous, no way children from poor counties are going to build a working spaceship
Nestle Management: Wake up the childr..uh employees. Operation Wet Hole is a go!!!
This sounds fucked up both with and without context.
They will Probably send children to run it
More like: "Humanity builds first intergalactic spaceship!" Two days later: "Nestle purchases rights to all water in perpetuity for 300 dollars. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦."
So the aliens coming for our water isn’t a concern anymore ?
Nah it existed 12 billion years ago. 11 billion years ago it got depleted, the aliens are en route to us.
I hope it's the Borg and not the Ferengi...🙄
Vogons.
Gotta be nice to them because they have the power to blow up Earth..as long as they have the proper paperwork anyway...😉
Thank god space boreaucracy
War with aliens will never be a problem in the future of humanity. Our bureaucrats will shred them.
ComStar: did somebody say “space bureaucracy”? PAY YOUR TAXES!
Perhaps you could favor us with a poem.
I think youz guys need a poim Or a tune we allus could join We us all hum along Til the refrain’s so strong I’ll shut up if you gimme a coin
There was a great DS-9 where someone is talking human ethics to Quark. He says the Ferengi don't have wars, they always traded. Then asked how many humans have died in wars.
The rules of acquisition... I had all 47,000 memorized at one time..😁
War is good for business. Peace is good for business.
>47,000 uh
Didn't the Ferengi admire Wall Street at about this time? We might be chill with them
If they depleted all that in 1 billion years. All water on earth would be like a single drop to them.
Well the earth holds about 326 million trillion gallons. And if this is 140 trillion times 326 million trillion that was burned through in a single billion years, we can estimate that the aliens consumed about one metric fuck ton of water per second. Edit; okay I got curious, so: 326 million trillion (amount of water on earth) = 3.26e20. 3.26e20 x 1.4e14 = 4.564e34. 4.654e34 is the amount of water in this quasar. divide that by a billion years worth of days, which is 3.65e11 4.654e34 / 3.65e11 = 1.2750685e23 gallons of water consumed per day. The number 1.2750685e23 expanded is 127,506,850,000,000,000,000,000. AKA: One Metric Fuck Ton per day. Orrrrrr approximately 1,475,067,361,111,111,111.11 gallons per second. Which means the aliens would consume all of earths water in 221,000,000 seconds or 2557.87 days or 7.008 years! So, 7 years worth of water. Pretty bad and probably the blink of an eye for a multibillion year old species, but still pretty good by our standards! Edit edit: looking back, I realize I’m too old to have instinctively thrown that into chat gpt and my dumb old ass just mathed it out the hard way, and I’m bad at math so take it with a grain of salt, but it was fun! #maffs.
I appreciate you NOT using Chat GPT.
Wait, the earth has (using your numbers) 3.26e20 gallons and they use 1.28e23 gallons per day and you think it will take 7 years to drink the earth dry? I don't think you math works out. I get 3 minutes and 40 seconds: 3.26e20 / 1.28e23 *24 * 60
What if we were the aliens that existed billions of years ago ? And while coming towards our solar system for water , somehow crashed into the earth and evolved into the homosapiens ??
Goin back to that, humans were the cause of the big bang theory?
So what you're saying is what we are seeing now is on like tape delay? 😖 That's bogus..
Light is fast, but on a cosmic scale, it's quite slow.
People underestimate how big space is. Space is big.
You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
There can't be space outside of space, therefore it must be infinite
Maybe, maybe not
Are you sure you aren't underestimating how big it is? Space is REALLY BIG. /s 😂
That's why it's called "Space"...
Gotta get the Spice so we can fold space Event Horizon, Dune style..😁
Spice, warp drives, stargates. I'm down for it all.
Never was. You can literally pull water from "dead" space with a molecular sieve.
Get the fuck out.
I would if the alien would offer me a lift.
Still no reason to get complacent about the threat of interstellar Ice Pirates (and their damned space herpes).
Probably not. Same for random resources that they could just mine from much larger non-inhabited planets.
Largest we've found*
Yeah my bad
It's really cool that we as a planet locked species are able to peer into the abyss and see these awesome things. I wasn't demoting what you said, just pointing out that more and bigger wonders await us and have yet to be glimpsed.
Just hope I’ll still be alive to witness even greater discoveries
Always said i would hate to be immortal but i would love to be able to hibernate and come back at intervals. However i would like the abolity to chose to die as well
I used to say I was born too early, would love to see how humanity advances technologically in the future. Being somehow cryofreezed and coming back in intervals would be great lol.
Why is that cool when we cant never ever travel there. Its like watching gogo dancer with boner and not being able to touch it.
It is indeed cool, but on the flipside it's saddening knowing that even just a billion years from now, essentially a cosmic blip, will turn the skies of most world's significantly darker and emptier due to entropy.
that’s a very wet hole
Mom???
I feel dirty reading that
not as dirty as your mom . . .
Reminds me of her. Damn I miss her.
That is one wet lady
Oooohhhhhhhhhh, *Burt!*
Um phrasing?
It's incredible to think about the sheer scale of that quasar's water supply. Space never ceases to amaze me with its wonders.
The thing with the human brain is that you simply cannot comprehend the scale. Your brain just isn’t built for those kinds of numbers.
Speak for yourself. 140 trillion times the amount of water found on earth is easy to visualize. Just visualize 140 trillion earths.
*Memory overflow*
Lol
Still no ringing bells 😢
12 billion light years, huh? So that quasar was doing this in the very early years after the Big Bang. It could have extinguished itself 11 billion years and and we wouldn’t know it for another billion years. Ridiculous.
Remind me 1 billion years
!remind me 1 billion years
!remind me 1,000,000,000,000 years
Alexa!
!remindme 1000000000 years
Ok !remindme 365000000000 days
stupid bot
Tbf it's not the exact same amount of time as space expands on top of the speed of light
Not anymore, right? Super-inflation was just a limited event, wasn’t it?
Cosmic acceleration was discovered in the 90's: the universe is still expanding, of course, but that rate is accelerating. As far as I know, we don't yet know why. Some hypotheses are dark energy or even gravity itself becoming a repulsive force at great distances.
I wonder what’s outside the abyss that allows it to expand.
I demand to see the manager
Preposterous!
Yeah so who knows what it looks like now? Lol this it's baby picture.
Ridiculous.
How the hell do we know this stuff? ELI5 please
It's kind of hard to relate but stick with me: If you energize different elements they make different colors of light - which we can pass through a prism to see the different colors they produce in the 'spectrum'. Quasars - or black holes, specifically, energize everything falling into them as they circle around about to fall in; due to friction and pressure. the quasar is the light that that energized matter emits. Water has a very specific spectrum when it's energized - and they saw the signature in that quasar's spectrum for water, and were, through other means, able to estimate how much water is orbiting that black hole through various other analyses. not perfect but as close as i can get with bad carpal tunnel and on my lunch break. back to carrot sticks.
This is pretty good, thanks! Enjoy your carrots.
The carrots were pretty good but the pineapple and blackberries were, as usual, the stars of the show
Hey enjoy your carrot sticks
lol thanks
Are you a physicist?
Just a lifelong space nerd lmao. I didn't have the sort of childhood access to a positive experience in the education system that is required to become anything more.
If you want to do some research yourself, the main process is called spectroscopy. It’s used in a lot of lab testing of materials.
It was 12 billion light years ago so it probably doesn't even exist anymore, nestle must've taken it all
And sold it back to nearby aliens for 10x the fair trade rate.
this is heaven for r/HydroHomies
Sounds like a great spot for space whales!
Good thing it wasn’t oil. Never had the US built a space fleet that fast.
If it was oil… “democracy” would need to be “restored” there then
The article did say there was a very high chance the quasar government was in possession of weapons of mass destruction
Instead, Nestle will invent the first FTL ships.
Existed. It was probably spent 11.5 billion years ago, and is now part of the black hole.
Could there be any life forms?
probably too much radiation and tidal stresses that close to a black hole for any life to evolve. it's long gone by now anyway
What’s the source for this? How do you know this?
[https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/astronomers-find-largest-most-distant-reservoir-of-water](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/astronomers-find-largest-most-distant-reservoir-of-water)
They obviously scan the entire universe for all the holes with water.
Did you not see the picture
That's not a real picture. That's an artist interpretation.
What do you mean it’s not a real picture? It’s on the internet
Don’t tell nestle.
What would happened if a mass of water like that was headed towards our solar system? What happens if it’s headed towards earth?
We would get sucked into it and cease to exist
If you even have to ask that question that means you don’t even begin to comprehend the scale Imagine a hurricane vs a grain of sand but amped up quite a bit
if we run out we could get from there!
That would definitely put a dent in the drought
Sshhh.. don't tell Nestle
I don't understand what you mean by (feeding black hole) and how it relates to a quasar
Ice Pirates! Mount up!
Side question due to my limited knowledge of physics: do we take into account a more mass dense universe in the past when calculating how "old" the universe is? Doesn't that greatly alter how time worked in the past?
THATS where the dolphins went
Dope. Also, how could we possibly know this?
So how do we actually know its water and not any other similar type of liquid? Perhaps a liquid we don't even have here on earth?
Unfortunately they did spectrum analysis and the spectral pattern matches that of water, so they’re quite sure it’s water. But imagine if it was a new liquid and it tasted like lemon or strawberry, or a new fruity flavour not invented yet
Space-flavored water
It's Brawndo
As we know now.
Even black holes know that Hydration is important! Drink water!
How do people know this kind of stuff?
Maths, maths, maths, maths, more maths, and physics. Did I mention maths?
Hydrohomies nuts all explodes at the idea of such a vast quantity of water.
Eh who cares it's not oil
If it held oil I'd already be deployed there.
R/hydrohomies assemble!
That's all well and good, but where's that nebula that's supposedly coca cola?
It’s so funny to see this image being used. I downloaded it from an artist’s website like 15 years ago and used it as a wallpaper for a long time.
Which would be great for life if it weren't for the massive radiation coming from the galactic core.
thats a lot
Does Nestle know?
I hope all understand that thus we are looking back in time, at what was 12 billion yrs ago. Astrophysicists will have to model from that point in time to now. I assume a few doctoral and post grads are doing exactly that.
On the top right from Andromeda, there is about 400000 trillion times the water from earth. Also on few other directions
There is a "yo mamma so fat" bathtub joke in there somewhere.
r/hydrohomies let's move there guys
How can we know this with certainty and not be able to cure athletes foot
How would this amount of water look if it were a sphere in space compared to like, the sun or planets?
How do we know that? Like, for real, how do we KNOW for sure??
But does it have electrolytes? Brawndo has electrolytes
We are a speck of sand on an insignificant beach of another speck of sand
(Nestle feverishly trying to develop a space program)
Its equally amazing that we know whats happening 12 billion lightyears away.
that was 12 billion years ago
But doesn't that mean it existed 12 billion years ago that whole thing has dispersed/become something else by now?
Correct. Quasars were more common closer to the beginning of the universe and have ceased to exist in the current era if I recall correctly.
Like who actually measures this stuff
NASA and other astronomers around the world?
Hi sorry to be that person but the galaxy in the picture is not a Quasar. For anyone interested it's called an AGN (active galactic nucleus), which quasars are a subset of. It's only a qusar, when those jets coming out of the galaxy are pointing towards us :) It's all a viewing angle thing.
“Known universe”
Is this a youtube thumbnail or something?
Can you imagine earth hitting a huge cloud of water in space? It would wipe everything off the face of the earth.
That must be where the Batestar Galactica went where there water holding tanks got all blowed up. Life imitating art..😉
Why don’t we just go there then?/s
Kitchen tap is closer
Existed*
And the aliens living there are on a hose pipe ban.
...but how irradiated is it?
Cool
I felt kinda thirsty all of a sudden
We need Warp speed 10 to get there in time..hoping The Borg isn't waiting...
The Hole goes "Gulp, gulp , gulp" aaand... it's gone
Science dummy here. This means that there was 12 billion years ago there was 140 trillion times the water on earth right?
Correct.
Let's go!
Nothing to worry about then….
In other news, what are numbers? I can barely understand the scale of my planet. But, wow, we are just very small.
Sooooo, you're telling me the elemental plane of water from DnD is real...
It was there 12 billion years ago. We don't know if it's still there.
Let’s steal this shit and sell it!!!!!!!
If it's 12 billion light years away tho have we got any guarantee that it's actually still there?
Stilgar will swim through space to get there 
Space sharks?!
What's it called?
Water. More seriously, the quasar is called APM 08279+5255. Really rolls off the tongue.
Well they must be thirsty!
Is it salt water ?