Well it was huge news when it came out. But a shit ton has happened since then
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Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
the og goatse
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nice. Also, very appropriate username :)
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
People talked about this a lot when it first happened. This is over 7 years old now. Kinda old news.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
yeah, i think for people who even have a passing interest in science this was a pretty popular topic.
Johanno@feddit.org 1 month ago
Now compare that to the age of the black hole.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Wait but it was being talked about a lot, right? It was even being memed
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yeah, a couple of years ago.
Does OP expect things to stay relevant for that long? In this economy?
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t worry, some of us are keeping the astronomy spirit alive in the younger generation. There’s a 5 year old kid I work with who can name tons of celestial objects that my coworkers have never heard of. It makes for fun inside jokes. Sometimes when we’re with another person, he’ll compare our distances to each other and say, “You’re Alpha Centauri A, I’m Alpha Centauri B, and he/she’s Proxima Centauri.”
BigBenis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This feels like it was a whole lifetime ago…
Johanno@feddit.org 1 month ago
Do you have proof humanity on earth was the first one to take a photograph?
Also how does the black hole know? Did you send them a message? Is the message already there yet?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Looks kind of like an eclipse.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Trying to suck all the air out of the room as usual.
jlow@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
(Does that count as a photograph, though …)
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 1 month ago
It’s probably sucks
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 month ago
So does your mom!
Because of the mess you made, she has to vacuum everything for you, lazy bastard.
Also because she has mass.