Rants

Space Rant

I love stars, and space. Did you know that there is estimated to be over 10 billion trillion stars in our observable universe? That's a lot, that's about 1.25 billion trillion times the amount of people on Earth, which is 8 billion. Space is really big; in fact it's always growing. If you were to go fast enough through the universe, you would eventually get to a point where you were just stuck. You are going at a speed and are in a place where you will never reach your destination, and never be able to go back to your starting point, because you are getting closer and farther away at the same time, because you are at the edge of the universe, and you are pulled along with it as it expands, so you can never get closer or farther away from your destination. Almost like your stuck in time. That's also what happens in a black hole, time becomes weird. Except in a black hole, you die. You are forced around by the immense pressure and eventually are under too much pressure and die, and your body may stretch with the pressure, almost like a noodle. Space is scary. Black holes are, but so are white holes. They look like black holes, just white. They cannot be entered from the outside, but can emit energy matter, light and information. So, it's like a reverse black hole. You can get into a black hole but not leave, and you cannot get into a while hole, but leave. People think that maybe because there has to be a supermassive black hole for a galaxy to exist, and that when they are created, they also create a white hole. I don't know where they come from, but I like learning about it. Did you know that the temperature of the void in space is around −270.45 °C? That's -454.81 in Faren height! That's really cold, you couldn't survive out there. Well, you couldn't survive anywhere in space without the proper gear. Did you know that if you get shot into space without a helmet, and hold your breath your lungs can explode form the pressure? Even though you can't breathe holding your breath can kill you, but not by suffocating you. Cool, right? I love learning about space! There is so much stuff to think about and to then learn about, it can never get boring! There is always something new being discovered, and something new to learn about! Since the universe is constantly expanding, there is constantly new opportunities to find out more about where we live! I also love learning about the planets too, because they are so interesting! Did you know that Uranus has rings like Saturn, but they are flipped around? Like Saturn, Uranus has rings, but instead of going right to left around the planet, they go up to down! Isn't that cool? Did you know that 1.3 million versions of the Earth could fit inside the sun? It's that big! The sun is massive compared to the Earth, but compared to other planets and stars, the sun is tiny! The largest known planet is an exoplanet, meaning it is outside of our galaxy, is called HD 100546 b? Weird name I know, but it measures up to 6.9+2.7 −2.9[1] 3.0038 (true) [citation needed]. That's really big! That's so big they couldn't even really create a name for the number! I honestly love exoplanets too; they are so interesting! There was even one planet they found that looked almost identical to Earth. The horrible conditions made it impossible for us to survive on there, but since it looked like Earth, it was considered. Since then, Mars is still probably our best bet, or the O'Neil Cylinders, which are like really big cylinders that people can live in, like a lot of people, and it just cycles around the sun like Earth does and is almost exactly the same as living on Earth! I wouldn't want to live in one though, I would be scared to live in space, even though we technically already do. But like, travelling through space scares me. So many things could go wrong before or after the travel. I think astronauts are really brave, I could never do that. It would be too scary.