i wanna understand why there are people that believe all the space photos we have are cgi and fake.
do they not think humans are capable of going to space??
No, it doesn’t. Purpose is subjective. What makes religion so relevant is that the universe shows no clear purpose at all.
It simply expands, decays, and obeys physical laws with complete indifference to whether anything understands it or not. Humans, however, struggle to endure the absurdity of their existence and the careless nature of the cosmos.
Even this Earth, so often claimed to be specially designed for us, has endured more than five mass extinction events, where nearly all species were wiped out without ceremony. Entire branches of life erased long before humans arrived to congratulate themselves as the chosen species.
Then religion steps in to explain what humans cannot fathom, using God as a placeholder for ignorance. It offers purpose, meaning, cosmic importance, and an afterlife stories that make our brief existence feel grander than it is. It resonates because humans are intelligent enough to fear death, yet vulnerable enough to seek comfort from fiction.
Cosmically, we are far less important than we imagine. Earth is a speck orbiting one ordinary star among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way, itself one galaxy among trillions. Every empire, war, prophet, prayer, romance, achievement, and ego crisis in human history happened on a grain of dust almost nobody in the universe would notice.
And even that grain is temporary. The Sun will eventually swell and sterilize this planet. Our species will vanish like countless others before us. One day, no monument, scripture, nation, bloodline, or memory of humanity may remain. The universe will continue exactly as if we never happened.
Yet some still believe their god dropped them onto this tiny dot to test their free will for admission into a heavenly kingdom. The arrogance is staggering. The stupidity, even more so.
@yayatoureyaya1 Tu parles de méthodes scientifiques et tu fermes les yeux sur ce qui t'es proposé. Ouvre des articles et thèses et cultive toi. Soit ton compte est du ragebait (ça fonctionne), soit t'es perdu. Bref je m'arrête là ça me tend
@yayatoureyaya1 La Théorie de l'évolution ne sort pas de nulle part non plus, l'étude des génomes, la paléontologie, l'étude du développement embryonnaire, des observations à plus petite échelle sur des laps de temps plus petits la soutiennent.
@yayatoureyaya1 Suffit de prendre de la hauteur pour voir un bateau "disparu" à l'horizon "réapparaître", ou de grimper en montagne pour voir plus loin. C'est par un chunk qui se génère mgl. Et puis les images depuis l'ISS et les satellites, c'est aussi du complot, de la CGI?
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.