silver-fusion t1_jdq2grs wrote on March 26, 2023 at 8:24 AM

Reply to comment by Fantastic_Beans in Research found after six years spent tracking health outcomes among nearly 925,000 Danish seniors, investigators determined that when a man between the ages of 65 and 69 loses his wife he is 70% more likely to die in the year that follows, when compared with his non-widowed peers by Wagamaga

/> Live long and happy life

/> Work for 99% of my adult life

/> Spend life with soulmate

/> Finally retire

/> Body has been falling apart for years. Everything aches.

/> Soulmate permanently and irrecoverably exits life

/> Don't really feel like prolonging the suffering or getting dementia

/> Let's nature take its natural course

/> Get criticised by a misandrist with no life experience online

silver-fusion t1_j5y2ak5 wrote on January 26, 2023 at 10:28 AM

Reply to comment by Apprehensive_Map863 in TIL star systems are much closer together near the center of the galaxy, with some being only 0.4–0.04 light-years apart by yoguckfourself

Voyager 1 was launched 74 years after we invented powered flight. That's a single generation.

Cosmologically the rate of progress is scarily fast. It took billions of generations to get from mammal to human. It took trillions of generations to get from multicellular life to mammals. It took billions of trillions of generations to get from single cell to multicellular.

It took one generation to go from land based organism to putting objects so far away from land they are measured in the speed of causality. The highest speed achievable.

silver-fusion t1_j5ucw22 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 5:06 PM

Reply to comment by Wagamaga in Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Gargantuan Survey of the Milky Way. The DECaPS2 survey, which took two years to complete and produced more than 10 terabytes of data from 21,400 individual exposures, identified approximately 3.32 billion objects by Wagamaga

Thanks for sharing. The image link is here: https://www.legacysurvey.org/viewer-dev?ra=195.1948&dec=-62.1975&layer=decaps2&zoom=4

It's difficult to find the words to describe the scale. Even at the most zoomed in there are a hundred stars on my monitor. When I zoom out its a banana of endless stars. And it's just a fraction of our own average sized galaxy. And for every star in our galaxy there is a galaxy in the universe with its own set of stars.