New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies

Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by flippyhead on Monday February 08, 2021 @06:40PM (#26071905)

Right, but, what does it all mean?

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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by 2112 on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:02PM (#26072573)

There might be only one way to find out ;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_mushrooms

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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by todd_t on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:09PM (#26072144)

It means we won the cosmic lottery.

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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by pklausler on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:00PM (#26072563)

If qualifying as a technical civilization can be defined as being able to launch a self-replicating interstellar probe (a/k/a a Bracewell-von Neumann probe), we can be confident that our galaxy has not yet had one. Once those probes are out there, they'll saturate the galaxy permanently; and once a technical civilization can launch one, it'll happen eventually. A modern billionaire could probably fund such a project now.

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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by jakear on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:21PM (#26072689)

> We can be confident that our galaxy has not yet had one

How can we be confident of that? For all we know the Cambrian explosion was precisely that.

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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by mmazing on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:22PM (#26072261)

Or - there's tons of lottery winners and we're bad at finding them.

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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by 01acheru on Monday February 08, 2021 @06:53PM (#26072027)

Maybe nothing, but just the fact that we're talking about it is something, IMHO.

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