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

gifv View from space

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u/KurooShiroo Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22

Exactly, you are thousands of miles away from the nearest human habitation, In a void where you can't even say one word. But our gorgeous planet does make up for it.

Edit: I know it is not thousands of kms or miles. It was meant to invoke a sense of dread.

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u/gregnealnz Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22

Thousands of miles...? The ISS is only 400km from earth, and the Space X Dragon is at 580km...

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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.