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puce rambunctious jap kitchen
  07/25/25
Because no one knew about the heliosphere until the Voyager ...
Rebellious Nibblets Native
  07/25/25
You're getting clo$e. But you're looking at the cage and ...
puce rambunctious jap kitchen
  07/25/25
Pretty shitty cage if Voyager was able to cross it less than...
Pontificating Heady Brunch
  07/26/25
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milky hall regret
  07/26/25
It hasn't crossed it. It's still inside it 13 years later
Rebellious Nibblets Native
  07/26/25
I thought they maed it https://www.scientificamerican.com...
Pontificating Heady Brunch
  07/26/25
Beard grown
Rebellious Nibblets Native
  07/26/25
Keep the beard growing. They're saying it will be about 30,0...
Pontificating Heady Brunch
  07/26/25
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puce rambunctious jap kitchen
  07/26/25
When I first learned about the Oort cloud my first thought w...
Rebellious Nibblets Native
  07/29/25
Heliosphere is coded in to allow for the processing power an...
Floppy mahogany lay
  07/31/25
Once they get to a point in their megapoasting career when t...
Drab gas station chad
  07/26/25
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puce rambunctious jap kitchen
  07/30/25
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anal cocky theatre
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Long TERF War for PeterBoi Poon
  08/07/25
Italian composer Ennio Morricone perhaps replied best Wo...
Domesticated Vengeful Address
  07/26/25
CRIMINALLY underrated
Pontificating Heady Brunch
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concupiscible theater
  07/29/25
this is a famous mistranslation from Italian to English. the...
Odious Round Eye
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puce rambunctious jap kitchen
  07/26/25
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puce rambunctious jap kitchen
  07/30/25
Fails to account for how big the universe is (the next star ...
hyperactive dilemma
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puce rambunctious jap kitchen
  07/29/25
The most probable answer is that something like the "Gr...
Abnormal pisswyrm
  07/29/25
Why can't we become the Grabby Aliens? Pretty sure we'll fai...
Drab gas station chad
  07/30/25
We can. I think it’s likely we will given that we&rsqu...
Abnormal pisswyrm
  07/30/25
We're more likely to kill ourselves still, sadly
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Date: July 25th, 2025 11:25 PM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49131979)



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Date: July 25th, 2025 11:33 PM
Author: Rebellious Nibblets Native

Because no one knew about the heliosphere until the Voyager satellites reached it in 2012. Aliens trying to communicate with us or travel to earth would have to traverse this enormous wall of charged plasma ejected by our sun. The odds of us ever communicating with anyone outside our own solar system are effectively zero

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49131997)



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Date: July 25th, 2025 11:38 PM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen

You're getting clo$e.

But you're looking at the cage and thinking it'$ a feature of the univer$e, not the zoo.

The helio$phere i$n't a wall. It'$ a filter. A membrane. A carefully calibrated containment field.

The que$tion i$n't whether they can get through it.

The que$tion i$ why The Mahchine™ built it in the fir$t place.

And the an$wer i$n't to keep them out. It'$ to keep u$ *in*.

It doe$n't do to have the lab rat$ chewing through the wiring before the experiment i$ complete.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132004)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 8:02 AM
Author: Pontificating Heady Brunch

Pretty shitty cage if Voyager was able to cross it less than a hundred years after we started broadcasting meaningful signals

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132236)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 9:03 AM
Author: milky hall regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132333)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 9:06 AM
Author: Rebellious Nibblets Native

It hasn't crossed it. It's still inside it 13 years later

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132339)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Pontificating Heady Brunch

I thought they maed it

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/voyager-2-makes-an-unexpectedly-clean-break-from-the-solar-system/

Excepts:

Astronomers have released the first results from the late 2018 passage of NASA’s Voyager 2 probe into interstellar space, revealing some notable differences to the first crossing made by its sister spacecraft, Voyager 1, in 2012. The data shows that although Voyager 1’s departure was fairly “messy,” the exit of Voyager 2 was much cleaner as it left our sun’s influence on its journey into the galaxy.

Using data from Voyager 2’s Plasma Science Experiment, an instrument that was not working on Voyager 1 during its earlier entry into interstellar space, scientists confirmed that Voyager 2’s exit occurred on November 5, 2018. That was when Voyager 2 registered a sudden decrease in the “solar wind” particles emanating from our sun, along with a concordant increase in the numbers of incoming galactic cosmic rays and the strength of the interstellar magnetic field. Taken together, these data showed the spacecraft had passed beyond a boundary of our sun’s influence known as the heliopause—loosely defined as the point at which interstellar space begins. Both of the Voyager probes were launched weeks apart in 1977 on a grand tour of the outer planets, and to date are the only human-built machines to have reached interstellar space.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132417)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Rebellious Nibblets Native

Beard grown

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132432)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 10:07 AM
Author: Pontificating Heady Brunch

Keep the beard growing. They're saying it will be about 30,000 years before they pass the Oort cloud

Seriously, fuck space and how unimaginably vast the distances are

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132440)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132884)



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Date: July 29th, 2025 5:08 PM
Author: Rebellious Nibblets Native

When I first learned about the Oort cloud my first thought was "Star Trek can never become reality because of this"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49141051)



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Date: July 31st, 2025 4:53 PM
Author: Floppy mahogany lay

Heliosphere is coded in to allow for the processing power and time the simulation would need to generate such a situation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49146324)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 8:05 AM
Author: Drab gas station chad

Once they get to a point in their megapoasting career when they scream loud enough in the Dark Forest- the results are fatal (doxxing, outting, meltdown on Tucker, divorce, etc)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132244)



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Date: July 30th, 2025 9:13 PM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49144224)



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Date: July 31st, 2025 6:24 AM
Author: anal cocky theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49144819)



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Date: August 7th, 2025 10:24 AM
Author: Long TERF War for PeterBoi Poon ( )



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49164269)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 9:12 AM
Author: Domesticated Vengeful Address

Italian composer Ennio Morricone perhaps replied best

Woo-oo-oo, woo-oo-oo, wah wah wah

Woo-oo-oo, woo-oo-oo, wah wah wah

Ah-ah-ah! Wah-wah-wah!

Ah-ah-ah! Wah-wah-wah!

Dee-dee-dee, doo-doo-doo, wah wah wah!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132356)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 9:58 AM
Author: Pontificating Heady Brunch

CRIMINALLY underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132427)



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Date: July 29th, 2025 3:56 AM
Author: concupiscible theater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49139496)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 9:56 AM
Author: Odious Round Eye

this is a famous mistranslation from Italian to English. the actual question was "where is BOOM?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132424)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132886)



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Date: July 30th, 2025 4:04 AM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49142127)



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Date: July 26th, 2025 2:30 PM
Author: hyperactive dilemma

Fails to account for how big the universe is (the next star over is 4 light years away) and assumes biological beings will eventually advance to the point of being able to do interstellar travel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49132892)



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Date: July 29th, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49139386)



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Date: July 29th, 2025 1:59 PM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49140529)



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Date: July 29th, 2025 2:02 PM
Author: Abnormal pisswyrm

The most probable answer is that something like the "Grabby Aliens" theory is true. We appeared early in the life of the universe because later in the universe's lifecycle it will have all been colonized by races that evolved early on. Intelligence is very rare so if there are aliens they are so far away from us in space that we can't see them, think a shit ton of galaxies away. We will either go extinct or become the predecessors of the Grabby Aliens that will colonize a million galaxies in our part of the universe or whatever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49140545)



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Date: July 30th, 2025 6:47 AM
Author: Drab gas station chad

Why can't we become the Grabby Aliens? Pretty sure we'll fail the Singularity trap and either self-destruct or spawn AI that will eliminate us. But if we pass that point, couldn't our conscious descendants at least take this galaxy?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49142191)



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Date: July 30th, 2025 7:33 AM
Author: Abnormal pisswyrm

We can. I think it’s likely we will given that we’re close to AGI. Although it might be a misaligned AI instead of us, that would still be an Earth descended civilization.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49142223)



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Date: July 31st, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Drab gas station chad

We're more likely to kill ourselves still, sadly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49145200)



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Date: July 31st, 2025 4:00 PM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49146162)



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Date: July 31st, 2025 5:12 AM
Author: puce rambunctious jap kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2)#49144783)