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Stuck on Mars without a suit? The low atmospheric pressure (about 0.6% of Earth’s) is below the Armstrong limit, causing your bodily fluids to boil. You lose consciousness from hypoxia in 10–20 seconds. Ebullism follows, with swelling and evaporating fluids. Death occurs in 1–2 minutes from asphyxiation and tissue damage. Extreme cold and CO-2 rich air speed it up, but pressure is the main killer.

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Red pill or Blue pill?

Red pill – you wake up, no more lies, see the world for what it is, for better or worse…

Blue pill – ignorance is bliss, you stay in the dream, where life is potentially better…

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Did you know? You can fit every single planet in our solar system—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—inside the gap between Earth and the Moon… at least when the Moon is at or near its farthest point from us (apogee).

The average distance between us and the Moon is 233,813 miles(surface to surface). But at its furthest point, the distance is about 246,000 miles(surface to surface).If you lined up all the other planets side-by-side, they would take up roughly 241,046 miles.

That leaves around 5,000 miles to spare. 🌌

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Fomalhaut (The "Eye of Sauron")

Located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, this system contains a massive debris ring that resembles a biological eye.

The scale of this "Eye" is hard to wrap your head around.

The ring alone is about 25 billion miles across—that is over four times farther than Pluto is from our Sun.

Watch the full video for the breakdown:

🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/csj7guw9vz0?si=8gsTxZAl7CcJq6Hy

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The Six Phases of Black Hole Formation 🌌

Black holes form from the deaths of massive stars (>8 solar masses), where gravity overwhelms all. Here’s a quick breakdown with timelines. (Images: NASA-inspired renders—add sources if needed.)

1. Massive Star (~10 million years): Hydrogen fuses to helium in the core, balancing gravity with energy output. Fuel depletion looms.

2. Red Supergiant (~500,000 years): Core shifts to heavier elements; star balloons outward, layers like an onion.

3. Advanced Fusion (days to years): Rapid burning of neon to silicon builds an iron core—iron absorbs energy, halting support.

4. Core Collapse (milliseconds): Iron core implodes to neutron density at ~23% light speed, protons/electrons form neutrons.

5. Supernova Explosion (seconds for blast, weeks visible): Rebound shockwave ejects outer layers, forging heavy elements and outshining galaxies.

6. Black Hole Formation (instantaneous): If remnant >3 solar masses, collapse to singularity with event horizon; spacetime warps eternally.

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Are We Living in a Simulation?

What if the entire universe is just code running on some post-human supercomputer?

Philosopher Nick Bostrom dropped the bomb in 2003: If any advanced civilization can create hyper-realistic “ancestor simulations” (think: The Matrix but with galaxies, black holes, and your morning coffee), and they run tons of them… then statistically we’re almost certainly in one right now, not “base reality.

Quantum glitches? The universe fine-tuned perfectly for life? Light speed as a hard-coded render limit? Gravity acting like data compression?

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Is this the nucleus of an atom, or the Sun? It’s the Sun, the Sun only appears yellow when viewed through our earths atmosphere, and also through the specialized cameras needed to photograph it. But the true color of the Sun is WHITE! View the Sun from space, an astronaut’s perspective, and its pure white light.

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Neutron Stars — volume-wise, they are 200 trillion times smaller than the Sun (1/200,000,000,000,000th its volume). But mass-wise? They are 1.4–2 times the mass of the Sun.

Yup, a star no bigger than New York City, creating a bigger dent in the fabric of spacetime than the entire Sun. Gravity here is so intense you’d weigh 200 billion times more than you do on Earth.

How SMALL is a Neutron Star? TINY, yet extremely HEAVY.. #celestialquickfacts. For more on neutron stars check out my YouTube page down below!

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The silence of the universe isn’t a mystery; it’s a warning. If the Great Filter is behind us, we are the luckiest souls to ever exist. If it’s ahead of us… we’re just waiting for the lights to go out.

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We spent centuries trying to build faster ships, only to realize the ship was the problem.

The body is heavy. Carbon is slow. But light? Light is free. Upload, encode, and beam. One second you're in a lab in Nevada, the next you're a radio wave crossing the Oort Cloud at 299,792 km/s.

Would you leave your skin behind to see the stars?

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Directed Panspermia is the theory that life on Earth didn’t start by accident in a "primordial soup." Instead, it was deliberately seeded by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization using robotic probes or spacecraft, carrying digital DNA. Will this be our ancestors fate? For more, check out my YouTube page

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Longtime Washington State lurker turned space enthusiast—obsessed with relativity, black holes, exoplanets, and the mind-bending mysteries o