Yesterday, 09:43 PM
Comets = panspermia.
That's all I can think about when I see the graphic of these 7 comments.
So it looks like being able to see more than one of them with the naked eye (at some point) within the frame of a year would constitute as unusual activity.
7:05 so how many will we ultimately be able to see with the naked eye? That's what I wanna know. Apparently Atlas will not be visible to the naked eye at any point in time.
I'm gonna judge it by that standard...
Say 2 or 3 comets started becoming visible with the naked eye, that'd be noteworthy...
With everything we've learned about ancient civilizations during the past decade, they probably DID have telescopes, otherwise how the fuck did they know about celestial bodies we only discovered within the past 200 years??
But if we were fresh out of the caveman days as ancient humans who were starting to look toward the sky, what we could see with the naked eye would be of the highest importance.
14:05 I love seeing comets on the coronagraph. It's always real exciting... I remember back in the day people used to trip super hard about it.
15:15 3I/Atlas coma is damn near 500,000 miles... that's insane.
17:16 see... panspermia. I'm fucking telling you.
That's all I can think about when I see the graphic of these 7 comments.
Quote:Roughly one comet per year is visible to the naked eye, though many of those are faint and unspectacular. Particularly bright examples are called "great comets"
Quote:There is no fixed "normal" number of comets at once; at any given time, there are likely a few dozen comets visible to professional telescopes, but only a fraction of those are bright enough for amateur astronomers to see, and rarely is a comet visible to the naked eye. However, roughly ten times that number are discovered each year, meaning there are many more comets in the Solar System than are currently observable.
So it looks like being able to see more than one of them with the naked eye (at some point) within the frame of a year would constitute as unusual activity.
7:05 so how many will we ultimately be able to see with the naked eye? That's what I wanna know. Apparently Atlas will not be visible to the naked eye at any point in time.
I'm gonna judge it by that standard...
Say 2 or 3 comets started becoming visible with the naked eye, that'd be noteworthy...
With everything we've learned about ancient civilizations during the past decade, they probably DID have telescopes, otherwise how the fuck did they know about celestial bodies we only discovered within the past 200 years??
But if we were fresh out of the caveman days as ancient humans who were starting to look toward the sky, what we could see with the naked eye would be of the highest importance.
14:05 I love seeing comets on the coronagraph. It's always real exciting... I remember back in the day people used to trip super hard about it.
15:15 3I/Atlas coma is damn near 500,000 miles... that's insane.
17:16 see... panspermia. I'm fucking telling you.
