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First of all, I'm only respected by a small majority in here. Quite a lot of people in here hate me, despise me, and don't mind to see me leave the forum forever :-P.
Secondly, what are stars for you then? Christmas lights?
Well, I do agree with you that there's a lot of stuff out there that we can't possibly understand. And I think encountering and confronting that 'weirdness' is beautiful by itself. I don't get fearful by it.
But even as we still don't know a lot about all of this, you can't possibly think that space is a 'hallucination cast by lights'?
I mean, these are not hallucinations. These pictures are proof of all the beauty of our universe:
Planet Mars last week:
The beautiful white spots of our dwarf planet Ceres:
And the 'nature' of another dwarf planet, Pluto:
Didn't they say that once about the Moon?
May I invite you to start studying math, before you proclaim we're not capable of calculating these things? It's too easy saying 'no'to things like this without learning yourself.
Have you ever been on an airline? Have you ever tried to lift one of those planes off of the ground with your bare hands? Isn't it impossible that they fly?
Science is not about 'beliefs'. They just don't come into it. You may doubt an outcome, but that has nothing to do with beliefs.
Science is allabout trying, and we've come far further then you seem to want to aknowledge. But you can find out for yourself. Visit a family of one of the austonauts up there in the ISS, see him come down. Look him in the eye and then see if he's part of an elaborate setup.
In the meantime, check out this for pure awesomeness:
Also, NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover keeps surprising us with stunning new pictures. These are the so called 'Murray Buttes', which were carved this way by thousands of years of wind erosion....and perhaps water erosion:
Make no mistake, NASA is damn serious about getting to Mars before 2040. Earlier this month, NASA announced that it will be launching a monster rocket called the Space Launch System as its first launch in this mission. First testflight of this SLS rocket will be in September 2018. These charts give you an idea how....insanely big these rockets are:
Don't forget that NASA's Cassini probe is still in orbit around Saturn and is still making flyby pictures of the mysterious moon Titan. This is another picture of the wonderful ethane/methane seas (and rivers) of Titan. The sea is named 'Ligeia Mare':
And the latest picture from NASA's Dawn probe, which is orbiting the sweet little dwarf planet Ceres. On this picture you see the enormous ice volcano 'Ahuna Mons'. It has a height of more than 5,500 m:
Last week NASA also released some more pictures from the south polar methane snowcaps on Pluto. Watch the strange rusty colors of methane deposits. The New Horizons Probe is still relaying pictures:
I recently came to the conclusion....that it's much better to steer away from the 'Next American President Topic' and focus on the most positive achievements of human civilization :-)
Sometimes I really would like to be on Mars now :-). Being alone there. In a space suit. Discovering some new life and stuff like that :-). That's what drives many of my hobbies and work.
I think you guys will therefore love Erik Wernquist's video as well. Narrated by an author I admire, Carl Sagan:
And that video sure is a master piece.
From 1min 30sec and onwards it gets dramatic. It also shows that the orbit of the Juno probe is very much elliptical with farthest and closest approaches of Jupiter during one whole orbit.