←back to thread

First images from Euclid are in

(dlmultimedia.esa.int)
544 points mooreds | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.561s | source
Show context
neom ◴[22 Oct 24 00:08 UTC] No.41909872[source]▶
Some of that zooming in made me feel pretty damn uncomfortable. It really is f'ing massive out there huh. Makes me wonder what this is all about, I'm sure it's something, I wonder what. :)
replies(8): >>41910015 #>>41910437 #>>41910440 #>>41910444 #>>41910670 #>>41910845 #>>41911871 #>>41912134 #
wayoverthecloud ◴[22 Oct 24 01:59 UTC] No.41910437[source]▶
I think that too. That it's surely meant to be something. But sometimes I think what does "meaning" even mean? Does universe really have any "meaning", the term that humans invented and that even they are unsure of? Then, I think it's a big randomness, a random accident, a big joke, just happening with nothing to make sense of.
replies(2): >>41910601 #>>41911668 #
1. feoren ◴[22 Oct 24 06:15 UTC] No.41911668[source]▶
It's not a joke, because jokes have underlying meaning. It is somewhere between a "random accident" and the only way it could have possibly been given the constraints of fundamental physics. I suspect that everything that could possibly be, is, but it's random that you are you and I am me and we find ourselves here in this corner of this galaxy in this part of the universe which might itself be the inside of a giant black hole. But even if our universe is random, that doesn't mean there's nothing to make sense of. There's lots to make sense of.
replies(1): >>41912264 #
2. kortilla ◴[22 Oct 24 08:16 UTC] No.41912264[source]▶
Jokes don’t always have meaning. “I want to play a joke on Bob” can very easily mean “I’m just going to torture Bob a bit for my amusement”. The joke will not have meaning to Bob.