*bounces up and down repeatedly* sPaCE 🚀 SP ACE 👽 S P A C E 🌠 space 🌙 I LOVE ME SOME SPACE 🌑 MMMM YEAH THAT ouTERspACE 🌟✨ DAMN THAT SKY THAT OUTERSPACE☀‼💫💥❇⭐📡🔫👾♦
I love how they respond to him, as if he is actually a captain, even more.
Nasa confirmed for huge fucking nerds
This is awesome and priceless and people that work on space stuff are the best people of all time.
Honestly this just about brings me to tears.
Roddenberry, Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols and all the rest of the original Star Trek cast and crew had no small role in making the moon landing as important as it was. A few years before they set that lunar module down, this little TV show came along and fanned the dream into wildfire with an image of what humanity in space could actually look like—not only peaceful on our own world, endlessly curious, and prosperous enough to pursue it, but an active force for good in the greater universe. Carrying not what’s most toxic about us, but what’s best about us out to the stars.
Everybody who has worked at NASA or any other space agency for the past 50 years is waiting for the day when that unmanned probe doing a flyby on a comet can be controlled from the bridge of a space-faring vessel. When we’re not just looking at that comet through a color-coded sonar map, but we can look out a porthole and see it tumbling by with our own eyes. When as a species we can finally outgrow hate and fear and violence, and turn our faces with joy toward all the beauties and wonders that lie waiting to be discovered.
And every time he does this, Shatner is reminding them of what that hope feels like.
So apparently there’s a sound that is 36 or so octaves below middle c that is so low that it kills you. The sound waves literally kill you. And this sound is only found in dark matter (for what we know). This is so cool
This is silly. Also totally wrong. First of all, the sound comes from black holes, not dark matter. Second of all, it’s not 36 octaves below middle C, it’s 57 octaves below middle C. Third of all, a sound cannot be “so low it kills you.” Or so high it kills you. There is a range of sounds that we can hear, and sounds outside that range have no effect on us at all.
A sound can be so LOUD that it does you physical harm. And this sound is definitely very, very loud. Scientists know it’s there from measuring the ripples in interstellar gas. Sound waves are mechanical: they physically move the things they travel through. You can see this happening when a noise makes something vibrate, like for example a window during a loud party. This noise is so loud it’s shaking the interstellar gas around it across a distance of hundreds of thousands of light years, so hard that we can see it happening through a telescope in ANOTHER GALAXY.
Kimchi and Justice 