It was on the front page of reddit yesterday, so it's probably on every single entertainment/news site on the internet by now.

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Oh man, seeing anything of such size and basically everything space related gives me a strange tingly feeling in my penor area

You'll like this one, then

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It was on the front page of reddit yesterday, so it's probably on every single entertainment/news site on the internet by now.



You'll like this one, then

And then you realize that that is just one galaxy among 100-200 billion.

If you were to spend a mere 3 seconds looking at a picture of every known galaxy (that's approximately 30,000 images a day), It would take you 19,000 years just to look at all of them.

Not to be a devils advocate, but it's the kind of thing that makes me wonder how anyone can look at this and think one being created all of it. You need to be insanely arrogant to honestly grasp how insignificant and pointless you are in this glaxy and think that you're special in some way. BUT, at the same time it's fucking awesome. Like, look at all that shit. All those dots. And as far as we know, WE'RE the only ones to evolve to such levels of technology and have the ability to look at and understand all this stuff not with fairy tales, but with cold hard facts and there we are, a tiny little speck that is home to possibly the only life for billions of lightyears around.

To quote Carl Sagan. "The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."

People are scared of living in a universe that is indifferent to them. Hence they fabricate stories to make themselves feel more important.

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Not to be a devils advocate, but it's the kind of thing that makes me wonder how anyone can look at this and think one being created all of it. You need to be insanely arrogant to honestly grasp how insignificant and pointless you are in this glaxy and think that you're special in some way. BUT, at the same time it's fucking awesome. Like, look at all that shit. All those dots. And as far as we know, WE'RE the only ones to evolve to such levels of technology and have the ability to look at and understand all this stuff not with fairy tales, but with cold hard facts and there we are, a tiny little speck that is home to possibly the only life for billions of lightyears around.

That's kinda scary if you think about it. I mean being alone at home is tough enough for some people. And the earth itself is alone in the solar system. But being the only planet with life for Billions of light years around? That's just a spine shocker to me considering how much a billion is, let alone the distance of one light year itself.
(Spine shocker, a term used to define one being freaked out-definition and word created by lamitrov)
Edit: Also what do you mean by a devils advocate?

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You know it, sss ;)

I spend 50% of my time in Space Engine just looking into black holes. I don't know, they just look so damn cool. (as this video demonstrates)

Also the new corona effects that the dev has added in the newest update are basically awesome.

I dunno if you guys realized, but they have a donation thing going and if they get $80,000 they'll make an actual game with this. Basically, imagine No Mans Sky but we actually have a demo of how fucking awesome this thing is already.

http://en.spaceengine.org/index/funding_and_donations/0-26

They're at $26,000~

And look at all the other fucking perks if they get even MORE! It sounds like a fucking dream come true. If I was a madman I would take out a loan, give them the damn money and tell them "NOW MAKE THE GOD DAMN GAME"

I would love to see what kinds of stuff game devs could make with a Space Engine SDK. :o A Mac port would also be pretty useful, as there are zero adequately-powerful Windows computers in my house and I'm currently forced to play SE on a school computer.

Somebody tell Notch to donate a couple hundred thousand bucks to this game.

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I saw that picture of Andromeda. I spent like 30 minutes looking at it. It's only just a part of the whole galaxy too. DAT SCALE.

This is also really cool
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

I love when people use small things to scale the universe. (Objects such as a basketball or an apple, etc) I enjoyed this version, thanks for showin it :D

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I would love to see what kinds of stuff game devs could make with a Space Engine SDK. :o A Mac port would also be pretty useful, as there are zero adequately-powerful Windows computers in my house and I'm currently forced to play SE on a school computer.

Somebody tell Notch to donate a couple hundred thousand bucks to this game.

Haha, right? Thats not a bad idea, I mean he gave a bunch of money to Oculus and they ended up sucking dick. Heck, that was BEFORE he was a billionaire!

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I dunno if you guys realized, but they have a donation thing going and if they get $80,000 they'll make an actual game with this. Basically, imagine No Mans Sky but we actually have a demo of how fucking awesome this thing is already.

http://en.spaceengine.org/index/funding_and_donations/0-26

They're at $26,000~

And look at all the other fucking perks if they get even MORE! It sounds like a fucking dream come true. If I was a madman I would take out a loan, give them the damn money and tell them "NOW MAKE THE GOD DAMN GAME"

We need to help this. The very idea of this turning into a single player game is awesome already.

Best part is I dont think it'd take very long to make it happen once they got the funding. The terrain generation is there, and so are actual ships with actual controls, all you gotta do is make it so you could exit the ship, walk around and whatnot. I wouldnt even demand caves or destructible terrain, being able to fly around and gather resources to build bases and shit would be the bees-fucking-knees.