Alex

Thanks so much, I appreciate it! It sure has! I have not seen it yet, haven't really had time, but I definitely want to, because I've heard a lot of praise for it! Yeah, that was super cool, I watched both the launch and the splashdown live, I was too busy that week to watch much else live but I agree, all of the pictures I've seen from the mission have been incredible! Yeah, the aurorae are surprisingly visible and I've always found that fascinating. Interesting, I haven't seen that comparison but that is very cool! And definitely fitting haha. One of my favorite parts of the mission was that they actually got a solar eclipse because of the trajectory they took, and that trajectory was only possible because of when they launched, had the delays not happened or more delays had happened, it wouldn't have happened, but it's so cool being able to see all in one photo the Earth's illumination of the moon, the moon itself, the outer solar corona, and the stars and several planets. I also hear they saw flashes on the side that was experiencing night, which were likely small impacts, and the amount/brightness of them that were seen was more than anticipated which I find very interesting.

by Alex; 1776398242; Report

Thanks so much! You seem pretty rad too! Of course, always happy to accept friend requests from awesome people :-) That stuff is very cool as well! Have you heard of the YouTube channel Isaac Arthur? He makes really cool videos about those sorts of things with a dash of the other stuff I'm more into, but honestly my favorite videos of his are about humanity's distant future and all the crazy cool stuff we could do with space infrastructure, megastructures etc. He also does very informative videos on the Fermi Paradox and various proposed solutions to them, pros and cons of these solutions, and such. Very interesting videos all around so I'd highly recommend!

by Alex; 1770873131; Report

i somehow hadnt encountered him before. great tip thank u! i'm excited to watch his vids later :)

by snowy_forest_emo; 1770901492; Report

You're welcome! I'm glad I could suggest something you're excited to check out :-)

by Alex; 1771003418; Report

Thanks! I appreciate that a lot. I wish they would but I'm probably still a long way off from that haha, unfortunately. But maybe one day. Thanks! I should actually currently be in my last semester for this degree now, there are some other things I want to do at this college though but hopefully I should have my degree here soon :-)

by Alex; 1770873538; Report

Thank you, I appreciate it!
I'll definitely have to try that out! I love games where you can customize/upgrade/etc your spaceship, those are my favorite space games, Avorion is one of my favorites for that reason, among many other reasons of course :-)

by Alex; 1768971297; Report

Woah! Avorion is so cool looking!! I've never heard of it before but I'm definitely gonna play it now that I have :D

by Sacrificial-Ritual-Subject; 1769043207; Report

Definitely do! I've had so much fun playing Avorion, one time I was legitimately starting to build my own faction on the map with a fleet and supply chains and everything! Maybe we could play it together sometime! Is Starbound the kind of game where playing together would be a possibility there as well?

by Alex; 1769062599; Report

Having a whole fleet is super cool :D must've been so worth it to see the results of hard work, watching all your routes in action
It is multiplayer!! I didn't know that since I've only played alone but upon further inspection it apparently is which is really cool!!

by Sacrificial-Ritual-Subject; 1769129620; Report

Absolutely, it was really cool even just to sit back and watch the factories trading resources even with NPCs, my ships flying around doing their rounds or mining or patrolling or whatever, and the bigger your fleet/faction grows the more resources you have to make it grow further, I never got too crazy far with it but theoretically you could basically take over the galaxy if you wanted lol.
Ah awesome! I get that, as I often play games singleplayer too, so sometimes I need to check haha. So we could play either/both together, awesome! (not at the same time lol, although Avorion used to be automatable enough for that to be a possibility, not as much these days unfortunately)

by Alex; 1769151525; Report

Thanks so much! It's always awesome to have a professor excited about what they're talking about! I was really happy when I took Stars and Galaxies because my professor was also excited and happy to talk about it, you can really tell he really loves the subject. When I took uni physics 1 with him the semester before last he and I started working on getting an astronomy club started, hopefully it should be official starting later this month! As for my simulations, I have a bunch posted on my YouTube channel, I've recently even began creating soundtracks for the videos! Usually, I like to simulate scenarios with galaxies, star systems, black holes (although unfortunately, my simulations are Newtonian, so only approximations for a couple of effects from General Relativity), supernovae, planets and rings, tons of stuff really. What I would most like to do is simulate the formation of star systems and exoplanets but geez those are difficult computationally! Anyway before this wall of text gets too enormous lol, feel free to send me a message if you want to talk about astrophysics stuff or anything really, as you can see I'm happy to talk your ear off lmao!

by Alex; 1767663581; Report

Hey thank you for responding to my comment!! and oh my gosh I hope the club does get started soon!! I got introduced more enthusiasm when the astronomy club in my uni planned a trip to an observatory to see the Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS !!! we got like,, bad pics but it was something to at least see considering we couldn't see it at ALL with our bare eyes unlike certain countries... (we had bad smog so its fair)!! and your simulations sound so interesting !! I wish I could discuss more but I don't know or understand how to go by them, But I am interested in hearing more about your simulations!! and have you uploaded the music by chance? I'd love to listen to them !!

by SpectreBurbank; 1767826052; Report

Of course, I'm quite happy to! And I've seen the messages you've sent me, I'll get to those once I've responded here :-) I hope so too! I believe we've got all the requirements met but I haven't gotten confirmation that we're official yet, unfortunately, but hopefully that's just because we're in between semesters currently. That's super awesome! I hear the old astronomy club at my college did that sort of thing too before it disbanded for a number of reasons, and hopefully we'll eventually be able to in the new one too, because that sounds really fun! Well, I'm happy to talk about them haha. I'm not sure what you mean by not understanding something to discuss more, but if you let me know I'll help as best I can. If you mean the music for the simulations, I haven't uploaded the music anywhere aside from the videos of the simulations, but I do plan to release them on music platforms with my other music eventually, that's just quite a while off unfortunately. Guess it gives me time to make more and make an album of it lol. By the way, here's the link to my YouTube channel where I upload the videos of the simulations I run, the most recent few are the ones with the soundtracks, all of the other ones are silent.
https://www.youtube.com/@physics_hacker/featured

by Alex; 1767890200; Report