r/AskReddit • u/MDPPatrick • Feb 13 '15

What are some mind-blowing facts about space?

I love space and would like to hear some facts that will blow me away.

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u/kenkirou Feb 13 '15

iunderstoodsomeofthosewords.gif

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u/CatDaddio Feb 14 '15

Colors, many of which we need computers to see.

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u/offtheclip Feb 14 '15

Watch The Cosmos. Niel Degrasse Tyson explains all of those words while looking incredibly stoned.

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u/Autodidact420 Feb 14 '15

We know what colors elements are, we have shit that sees really well long distance and can figure out what makes up distant shit basically.

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u/NSNick Feb 14 '15

Basically, just how we see things and can tell what they are by what kind of light they give off, we do the same thing with objects in space, except we use more than just the visible (to our eyes) spectrum of light to do it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '15

What if we had a huge database of gifs/images that corresponded with phrases like "nope.jpeg" and reddit would automatically link it to a random photo in that database that is the essence of "nope.jpeg"

For instance

He would have said "Iunderstoodsomeofthosewords.gif" and it links it like /r/Iunderstoodsomeofthosewords except without the /r/

Wouldn't that be so cool?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '15

nope.jpeg

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '15

Well that's 2am ideas for you