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SuperJail Warden wrote:

She was probably a Satanist. Very in character for a stripper to be distant from God.

yeah i highly doubt anyone involved in sex work legitimately believes in God. idk if she was a legit satanist could've just been an edgy goth/punk type girl

Congrats on your golf success, frog man.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

lil_droo wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

She was probably a Satanist. Very in character for a stripper to be distant from God.

yeah i highly doubt anyone involved in sex work legitimately believes in God. idk if she was a legit satanist could've just been an edgy goth/punk type girl

Mary Magdelane was a whore. Sex work is as entrenched in Christianity as the crucifix.

That wasn't in the bible but was an medieval invention. That said it was a good one.

There are some things about Jesus I don't like.

A few of my friends started playing golf a few weeks ago and I'm joining them for a game next week.
I haven't swung a club in about 16 years tho.

I think I'd enjoy getting into golf but it also seems like it'll be a massive time sink

Never played golf, my back is too valuable to me.

If you smoke a joint before you start looking at the pics and thinking about the vastness and our insignificance, it makes it like 100× better.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

If you smoke a joint before you start looking at the pics and thinking about the vastness and our insignificance, it makes it like 100× better.

yeah i'm definitely putting on some boards of canada (the closest you'll get to an active psychoactive substance in this country) and wigging out the next time i have some low-concentration citations work or correspondence to see to.

the people who dismissed the JWST because of the tiny mirror strike have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. the thing has been under design since the 1990s. yeah, it did occur to them in the last 30 years that the mirror arrays might take some hits. it has been designed with those redundancies and recalibration features in mind.

we literally have pictures of the universe right up to about 13.5 billion years ago. that's 200-300 million years off from the absolute beginning. kind of mindboggling. less like staring the vastness of "ur mom" and more like looking at a family portrait of you when you were a zygote.

the crazy thing about the deep field imagery is that it relies on gravitational lensing. we're essentially pointing the most powerful telescope we have ever assembled at one of the nature's most vast natural telescopes to peer through the curvature of light in space-time to the beginning of everything.

Last edited by uziq (2022-07-12 13:03:51)

hubble was definitely a paradigm leap, but JWST is just leagues ahead on so many fronts beyond basic optics/range.

JWST's research projects are firmly part of the AI/machine-learning era. there have been several massive all-sky or similar surveys undertaken in the last 20-30 years, e.g. sloan digital sky survey, the gaia survey, etc, that has fetched data on billions of galaxies. using cutting-edge AI algorithms we are able to find interesting candidates, e.g. of gravitational lensing or potential quasars, etc, to generate shortlists of targets for JWST's 'shotgun mic' option. a lot of research into quasars or exoplanets before AI and big data, using teams of human researchers with primitive technology like radio arrays on earth, made the mostly manual search for space objects a bit like fishing for samples in the pacific ocean using a thimble. 

ditto for exoplanets, which is where JWST is really going to deliver. massive projects like TESS, the transiting exoplanet survey satellite, have been generating shortlists of potential systems with exoplanets in them. JWST will, for the first time, be able to zoom-in to these planets at an unbelievable level of detail, so that we can confirm suppositions about the chemical signatures of planetary atmospheres for the first time with high-quality data. exoplanetary research is one of the current forefronts of astrophysics, a very young field comparatively speaking. we've only found about 5k exoplanets in the milky way and a handful of 'extragalactic' exoplanets. JWST is going to be a huge boon to that research.

pretty sure in the next few weeks a lot of papers are going to be published identifying faraway exoplanets with confirmed water signatures, if not even potential markers of biological processes. on planets potentially even in other galaxies. it took us until very recently to even get that sort of detailed information about, say, the moons of jupiter, like the galilean moons, using physical probes. it's going to blow the doors wide open.

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there's nothing that says your life here intrinsically matters, either. nietzsche wrote his famous words almost 150 years ago.

how would your life be rendered 'pointless' if we discovered the oxygen gas traces of (potentially) a bunch of microalgae on a planet 4.5 light years away? weird flex, but okay.

you're not going to heaven anyway. you're a fornicator.

you'll maybe get into microalgae heaven where you belong.

Last edited by uziq (2022-07-12 14:33:18)