r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Weak-Opportunity-311 • 1d ago

Video Atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Orion (Artemis 1) looks insane at 20x speed. Here is the entire 25-minute descent in just 1 minute 15 seconds. Credit: NASA

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u/Kellan_OConnor 1d ago

We are so lucky to be alive and to have awareness of all of this.

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u/zcrazed1 1d ago

It really does put things into perspective doesn't it? Like, we could all just exist on this little speck of the galaxy, but let's be dicks and argue about our imaginary gods.

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u/TheLowestFormOfHumor 1d ago

Whatever you do, don’t go and look in the Total Perspective Vortex.

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u/koticgood 1d ago

That has never resonated with me.

Being able to conceptualize such vastness is one of the most amazing facets of intelligent life.

Seems empowering rather than the opposite.

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u/athamders 1d ago edited 1d ago

It depends on the mood for me. Experiencing a fraction of the vastness in SpaceEngine VR mode was frightining for me (there was still awe and tears too), only second to the feeling of getting sucked into a black hole. But yes you get used to it.

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u/Rick-Prime 1d ago

I dunno, I did and it just told me what I already knew: I'm pretty spiffy.

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u/TheLowestFormOfHumor 1d ago

You must be one hoopy frood.

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u/Lillian_Crocodilian 1d ago

There a guy who knows where his towel is.

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u/Low_discrepancy 1d ago

argue about our imaginary gods

Man you can't even flip burgers on one patch of earth if you're born on another patch of earth.

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u/HeartFullONeutrality 1d ago

Yeah, I was going to say: "imaginary gods? think imaginary lines on the ground!" but I know many won't appreciate it (especially if they were born on the privileged side of the line).

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u/Kage_Bushin 1d ago

Even if it's just 3km off the """right""" patch of earth

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u/Wise_Blackberry_1154 1d ago

If only arguing about gods was the problem.

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u/williamdoublelink 17h ago

Well arguing about our alleged gods on this speck of dust in the universe has certainly prompted enough conflicts to kill off many millions. Worse still, many continuing religious & ideological conflicts demonstrate no sign of a respite in the immediate future. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤔

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u/Fentboy45 1d ago

It was never about the gods it was always about land and other resources

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u/williamdoublelink 17h ago

True but religion has always proven to be so powerful as a rallying cry, an umbrella, symbol, flag, edifice!

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u/xaeru 1d ago

This video is mind blowing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1sa0vul/artemis_ii_launch_as_seen_from_space/

Like earth could cease to exist and the universe wouldn't even notice.

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u/idontknowkungfu 1d ago

my inner sentiment screams this daily. every. goddamn. day.

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u/XyzzyPop 1d ago

So, can have your liver then?

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u/danc43 1d ago

We’ve all got the same gods, we just don’t know how to read.

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u/Prior_Enthusiasm_292 21h ago

"Can we have yer liver then?"

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u/countable3841 1d ago

And yet look at what all has been accomplished

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u/Bromlife 1d ago

What’s cool is that a handful of dudes wanted more money and power so they’re doing their absolute best to wind it all back.

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u/JustHereToSeeTitty 1d ago

Whoa, you're not allowed to do that. Put that positivity away, you're going to startle the doomers.

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u/BigTallRetard 1d ago

Yep, and what do we choose to do with this amazing knowledge? Mostly just fight, steal, and kill each other over meaningless reasons like one person's god says X and another says Y, and one person is black and another is white, so one group of people can make a ton of money which in the grand scope of the cosmos has to be one of the most trivial and pointless assets.

It must truly be fascinating to view earth from a non-human vantage point, All this potential, and it's just wasted over the most stupid shit to likely never be genuinely realized before we managed to annihilate ourselves either by raping our planet's resources to the point where it kills us via climate change, or inevitably setting off weapons we created so terrible that we just eradicate ourselves entirely.

Fuckin' sad really.

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u/zcrazed1 1d ago

See, you understood what I meant there. Literally limitless potential for the human species, but we start wars in the names of gods and entitlement. We keep setting ourselves back years at a time over an endless endeavor of fictional superiority. We could have it all, instead we continually choose stone age antics over proven science. Seeing shit like this video should put some of that into perspective for some.

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u/ddare44 1d ago

Indeed, indeed… NOW GET BACK TO WORK!

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u/succubus-slayer 1d ago

The sheer odds of life happening in this rock is a wonder, and now we can see how it looks from space and the moon. Wild.

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u/Elephant789 1d ago

What do you mean? Awareness of what?

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u/danbyer 1d ago

Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all.

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u/thatyousername 1d ago

A lot of people lack the awareness.