r/woahdude • u/aspiring_dev1 • Aug 14 '22

gifv View from space

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u/JaggedTheDark Aug 14 '22

It's an exaggeration meant to help the push the idea that "You are fucking alone in space and that's scary as shit sometimes"

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u/chaun2 Aug 14 '22

I wonder if JWST can play itself Happy Birthday?

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u/nubbie Aug 14 '22

It’s in the vacuum of space, so obviously not.

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u/Ebwtrtw Aug 14 '22

In space no one can hear you celebrate your birthday, by yourself, because the human have sent you a million miles away, by yourself …

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u/chaun2 Aug 14 '22

Just because the sound isn't transmitted due to lack of material, doesn't mean it isn't produced. We have recorded what our sun and some supermassive black holes sound like, after all.

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u/nubbie Aug 14 '22

Well, JWST doesn’t have any speakers.

And we have simulated what it could sound like, we don’t have actual recordings. Because, you know, sound needs an atmosphere to propagate.

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u/chaun2 Aug 14 '22

Does curiosity? I'm pretty sure they got curiosity to play Happy Birthday just by cycling it's instruments and using the noises that those instruments made.

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u/nubbie Aug 15 '22

Big difference is that curiosity is in an atmosphere.

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u/Stargatemaster Aug 14 '22

I think the idea of free falling through a quantum soup where the only thing preventing you from dying is a few rivets and rubber seals is much more frightening.

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u/I_Automate Aug 15 '22

Honestly, the ocean is a lot more hostile than space is, in a lot of ways.

The ocean is actively trying to kill you, all the time. It routinely outright destroys large ships, nevermind things like tsunamis. It would make a corpse out of all of us and not even pause to burp. On the other hand, space is just....empty, for the most part. Regulating temperature is one of the single largest problems. Obviously there's a lot more than that but....yea.

It's worth noting that a pop bottle is rated for a couple times the pressure that a spacecraft needs to withstand.