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I installed Maya LT yesterday and started messing around with some old lowpoly files.
Hello! I hope you are having a good day! if you like space what is your favorite thing in space? Example: Nebula, Galaxy, Plantes, black hole, etc.
mine is probably black holes or Nebulas
Stay safe!
Oh hi! This is my first ever ask on here!
And good gods above this is a tough question, bc everything up in space is just *so* interesting. I gotta say black holes and the expansion of the universe are the most interesting things scientifically, but nebulas and galaxies are very pleasing visually. Planets and stars are also really interesting especially with just how varied and different they can be- even in our own solar system we have so many different varieties of planets! None of our planets are anything alike and it's so amazing.
Another really interesting thing to think about is the way things travel through space, like light, heat, etc. It's especially exciting (for me at least) to think about how many things must be accounted for when making spacecraft, which is a far-away dream but a dream nonetheless for me.
Have a good day & stay safe as well!
Technology and machinery is fantastic!
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drawing hack:
if you hate drawing spaceships because of their similarity to cars (I hate drawing cars), you can trick yourself into drawing spaceships by drawing the body shapes of cool bugs and then adding spaceship bits. it's hard for me to explain exactly which parts to pick and choose from but here's the result:
like ok yes you can definitely tell I never practice drawing spaceships but trust me, they’re way better than what I had before
Untitled #spaceship – https://www.pinterest.com/pin/206321226664657409/
A Sign of the Times #spaceship – https://www.pinterest.com/pin/206321226664815862/
Pascal blanche shipwreck2 #spaceship – https://www.pinterest.com/pin/206321226664939779/
It is sad, yes. All things fade, even the greatest things. The sky itself, around us, here.
But it's wonderful to me that we have it now, we can see it now, and we can study how it came to be.
And considering our lifespans, if we ever visit across it, it'll probably still exist.
Laniakea - The Supercluster of Galaxies🌌
Or: the infodump I'm writing to prevent myself from feeling upset.
Earth is part of our solar system, that is part of our home galaxy called Miky Way, which is part of a 'local group' of galaxies, which itself is part of a bigger group of galaxies called the Virgo cluster.
But the Virgo cluster itself is just one of a large number of galaxy clusters, themselves collections of hundreds to thousands of large galaxies which have been mapped out in the nearby Universe: the Virgo cluster, with the Centaurus cluster, the Great Attractor, the Norma Cluster & many others!
Together, they make up a much larger structure & if you sum up every galaxy in it, it is fully anticipated that the total number should exceed 100,000.
This is the collection of matter that is called beautifully after the hawaiian word which means 'immense heaven'
✨️Laniakea✨️
But let's start with the beginning, shan't we?
The Big Bang happened roughly 13.8 billion years ago & in the early stage of all that matter, antimatter, radiation, fields, etcetera, there wasn't a uniform sea of these energetic quanta.
Instead, there were tiny imperfections - at about the 0.003% level, which is VERY VERY SMALL- on all scales, where some regions had slightly more or slightly less matter-and-energy than average.
In each one of these regions, a great cosmic race ensued. The race was between two competing phenomena:
The EXPANSION, which works to drive all the matter & energy apart
The GRAVITATION, which works to pull all forms of energy together & causes massive material to clump & cluster together
With both normal matter & dark matter populating our Universe - but not in sufficient quantities to cause the entire Universe to recollapse (IMPERFECTIONS saved us!) - the first star formations happened & then star clusters, with the first ones appearing less than 200 million years after the Big Bang.
Over the next few hundred million years, structure began to appear on even larger larger scales, with the first galaxies forming, star clusters merging together, & even galaxies growing to attract matter from the lower-density regions nearby.
As time went on & on, galaxies gravitated together to form the Universe’s first galaxy clusters. With up to thousands of Milky Way-sized galaxies in them, massive mergers form giant elliptical behemoths at the cores of these clusters!
On even larger spatial scales & even longer timescales, the cosmic web began to take shape, with filaments of dark matter tracing out a series of interconnecting lines.
Dark matter drives the gravitational growth of the Universe, while normal matter interacts through forces other than gravity as well, leading to the formation of gas clumps, new stars & even new galaxies on long enough timescales.
Meanwhile, the space between the filaments, the so-called underdense regions of the Universe, give up their matter to the surrounding structures, becoming great cosmic voids.
Galaxies dot these filaments & fall into the larger cosmic structures where multiple filaments intersect.
On long enough timescales, the most spectacular nexuses of matter even began attracting one another, causing galaxy groups & clusters to begin forming even larger structures:
💫Galactic Superclusters💫
For me, it's a beautiful & a very comforting idea that represents structures on scales larger than a visual inspection would reveal.
But there’s a problem with Laniakea in particular & with superclusters in general: these are not real, bound structures, but only apparent structures that are currently in the process of dissolving away entirely.
There isn't just this "race" between an initial expansion & the counteracting gravitational force caused by matter & radiation.
In addition, there’s also a positive form of energy: dark energy. It causes the recession of distant galaxies to speed up as time goes on & gets more relevant the bigger the scale gets from which you look at it.
If there were no dark energy, Laniakea would most certainly be real.
Over time, its galaxies and clusters would all mutually mutually attract, leading to an enormous grouping of 100,000+ galaxies!
Unfortunately, dark energy became the dominant factor in our Universe’s evolution approximately 6 billion years ago & the various components of the Laniakea supercluster are already accelerating away from one another.
Billions of years from now, Laniakea will be torn apart by the Universe’s expansion, forever adrift as lonesome islands in the great cosmic ocean.
A bit sad, huh?
Thanks for reading, have an... air hug? Or a cookie. Let's stay with the cookie. 🍪
Please have this WONDERFUL visual of Laniakea:
Found on Pinterest.
If you really read all that - Wow. I wouldn't have thought that.
You have my honest appreciation.
💜✨️💜
See this is why I'm studying space
The urge to start a whole new wip after reading a few books in a new genre...
Musings of a Space Trucker
It’s relaxing, doing what I do. Pick up cargo on distant relays, popping by ‘stations and lighthouses. Half the time, drones intercept my course with cargo, and we’re slingshotting off to the next drop off.
It’s relaxing. Beautiful. Lonely in a.. blissful sort of way. I sit, read, listen. My ship flies herself with prowess and grace, a trillion tons of hyperstrong glass, synth-chitin dark as midnight waves. Engines with hungry obsidian as black hole energies ripple and dance. I carry enough food to feed a thousand solar systems, enough bullets to fell a hundred billion soldiers, enough ore to build fifteen dyson shells.
Cargo hallways and storage spaces so vast they have their own silent, ghastly weather. Repair bays that could build cities with a flick of a lightscreen. Matter-weavers, forging cathedrals. On and on. A ship so immense she can drag comets and asteroids and half-worlds into looping, unsteady orbits. When we arrive in a System, our warptrail shines like a violet-crimson Star. Beautiful.
I love my job.
“Ladies and gentlemen, as of now, you no longer exist. You are not dead, you are not ex-communicated, you are not black operations— you simply do not exist. Mountains of documents that once demonstrated your reality: erased. Relationships with family, friends, lovers, children: erased. As of now, and from now until your deaths, you are nonexistent persons. So perfectly vanished that your oblivion will and has always been the truth. Erased.
You will never set foot on the Earth again. On this day, your loyalties previous to the Mission are abolished. Your identities wiped away like dreams upon waking because that’s all that your life was prior to this undertaking, a pitiful and muted dream, tiny to the vastness before you now. Your oaths prior are void. No longer do you serve earthly nations, no longer are you submissive to it’s whims or gravities.
Today and from now onward, you have a new purpose. A new design sovereign of anything you could possibly imagine back on the Earth. You have been selected because of what you proved you could be, who, you proved you could be. Exceptional. Dedicated. Adaptable. Superiors to the people far below us. This Mission will test you beyond your limitations, however higher they may be to those from before. Some of you will not survive. The Void is harsher than any terrestrial nightmare, uncaring and cold to your survival, your every living need. It will take without mercy.
Look before you. Out into the Dark. Secrets, mysteries, and powers lie far beyond the comfort of our Sun that are inconceivable, greater than any miracle or terror our ancestors could imagine. Greater than anything the many of the Earth can handle. You will be the Vanguard of Humanity, Wardens of the Solar System traversing the stars to ensure our ascendancy.
Welcome aboard the ISV SOVEREIGN, Captain Hawthorne, out.”
Tom Sachs: Spaceships Exhibition. 2022.
An investigation of the accepted understandings, assumptions, epistemology, and consensus of what constitutes a spaceship.
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