Has studying blackholes and pulsars or any deep space object yielded any practical applications?
>>8130002
Helped develop new models for your mom's gravity field.
>>8130009
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>>8130009
but we already know why food and cocks get sucked into her
>>8130009
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>>8130009
OP BTFO.
>>8130002
The first exoplanets were discovered because of strange readings from a pulsar.
The truth is it could tell us anything. Helium was only discovered after observing the first spectra from the sun. There are too many unknowns, but things we don't have an explanation for always lead to something new.
>>8130009
Your mom is so fat when she rolls over she modifies the einstein field tensors.
I feel like the whole concept of hawking radiation could lead a lot of places.
Also pulsars as good indicators of distance, and as "markers" for things incredibly far away. Practical but not ground breaking
>>8130009
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So no? No practical applications? Ive had the same question before, especially during previous semester's cosmology course
>>8130002
>has studying things that don't exist yielded any practical applications
>>8130002
Astronomy is all about discovering and understand the cosmos, if you want practical things go to the nanotechnology department.
>>8130002
Intel on deep space threats. Like we're outside the high threat area of our galaxy for gamma ray burst from the poles of supernova's and their Shrapnel. And deep space aliens remain undetected.
Practical application: Grant money keeping our deep space scouts alive and studying the deep space frontier, so we don't get wiped out by a surprise attack or Indiana Jones boulder.
Also they have driven detection limits down, array telescopes, their day to day business drives tech limits.
Astronomical information has been available online since the early days of the Internet. Physicists were early adopters of the Internet and the web, and astronomers were not far behind. For example, when comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck the planet Jupiter back in July 1994, images taken of the event were immediately put onto the web. People from all over the world could see the images as soon as they were posted, and professional astronomers could immediately download scientific data. This was one of the first major scientific events that demonstrated the power of the Internet and the ability of the astronomical community to share scientific images and data quickly with the public (Egret and Heck 1994).
>>8132395
Not dieing is a pretty practical application.
>>8130002
Yes. By studying the behavior of these massive bodies, we can accurately predict when we need to hit the buffet line before your mother comes and eats all the fucking food.
the more we know how incredibly unimportant we are in contrast to the huge and incredible universe, the less people believe in spaghetti monsters and similar. so alone the push back of religious blunder-heads is gold
>>8130002
Perhaps not directly, but given they are such massive objects that are rather unique they could be used to test other unrelated theories in some way
>>8130002
Pulsar's can be used for deep space navigation because of what we learned from studying them
>>8132578
>deep space navigation
>practical
>>8132413
underrated post
>>8130002
Define 'practical application'. Since much of what is learned from space is for when we begin physically exploring it.
summer.
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top kek
Build better Starships to maintain the balance of terror with the Romulans.
Yes. Epic IMAX animations to watch when stoned.
>>8130002
Who cares, it's pretty fucking cool regardless.
>>8130002
My philosophy about that is to just keep pushing the limits of what we know, and the practical applications will follow naturally. You're not always going to know what new thing you can do with a piece of knowledge until you have it. The biggest gift our knowledge of the stars will potentially yield would probably be interstellar navigation. That's gonna have to require some knowledge of the gravitational fields of Black Holes for the practical reason of, you know, not getting pulled into them.
The only practical use I could think of is asteroid detection and empirical evidence for theories in theoretical physics.
