I'm truly in awe at this. I just looked at a picture of the black hole in the center of M87. It is mindblowingly far away, and one of the most exotic things in the universe.
I honestly never thought that we'd do something like this in my lifetime.
100 years ago we didn't know that black holes existed. In essentially one human lifetime we went from not knowing something existed to building a planet-sized telescope to look at it. It is so far away that while we can put numbers on it, it's still just an abstract
I've walked 800 km before, took 26 days straight.:)
That's a slow pace. In WWII the 506th PIR completed a 115 mile forced march in 31 hours. That's a pace of 6 km an hour, with full combat gear. Even cutting that pace by 2/3 gets you 800km in less than 20 days.
Veni, Vidi, VISA:
I came, I saw, I did a little shopping.
Wow. (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm truly in awe at this. I just looked at a picture of the black hole in the center of M87. It is mindblowingly far away, and one of the most exotic things in the universe.
I honestly never thought that we'd do something like this in my lifetime.
100 years ago we didn't know that black holes existed. In essentially one human lifetime we went from not knowing something existed to building a planet-sized telescope to look at it. It is so far away that while we can put numbers on it, it's still just an abstract
Re:Wow. (Score:0)
I've walked 800 km before, took 26 days straight. :)
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I've walked 800 km before, took 26 days straight. :)
That's a slow pace. In WWII the 506th PIR completed a 115 mile forced march in 31 hours. That's a pace of 6 km an hour, with full combat gear. Even cutting that pace by 2/3 gets you 800km in less than 20 days.