I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.

Idiot here. Is it proof that Fauci did 9/11 harbor to fake the flat moon landing on 5g vaccine autism with gay-hurricane-powered Jewish frog space lasers funded by Bill gates and George Soros?

If you're not having a stroke right now, I must be.
- Fi yuo thnik yu'oer hvanig a steoerk, plaees clal 191 imemdaityl.
- If you can't tell which person in your group is having a stroke right now, it's probably you.
New Deus Ex plot sounds dumb
What's everybody got against the Jewish Space Lasers? Rabbi Rabinowitz has been in charge of those lasers since 1998, and he's been doing a damn fine job keeping the Martians and asteroids at bay! You know he's only come down from Skylab II twice since he took the director's position up there? You know what that much zero gravity does to a man? He's been up there so long, he can't come back anymore. He's gonna die up there manning those lasers. That's what Rabbi Rabinowitz has sacrificed for his country and planet! And the gall of some people, ranting about the Jewish space lasers. Are there Jewish space lasers? Yes! And they've been keeping your dumb ass safe from Martians and meteors for decades!

[In my head, I read this in Bernie Sander's voice.]
- I mean, it's quite clear that there are Jewish space lasers, I saw them in this documentary many years ago
- Lol rabinowicz is Slavic for son of the rabbi so “rabbi rabinowitz” sounds like a character from a Bourekas comedy
Uh, it’s hurricane-powered gay Jewish frog-lasers. Hurricanes CAN’T be gay alright.
- Hurricanes happen because of the gays. Get your shit together, people.
The tooth is out there...
Nailed it in one, bro!

Proof that our sun is at the center of the universe and how IMPORTANT humans are in the universe

I mean, it's arguably in the center of OUR universe :D
- You are the center of your observable universe and I'm the center of my own. Granted, at this scale the sun is an acceptable approximation, but the earth's center is even better.
- Our universe? We gotta share?
Also, proof, the universe is flat.

THE UNIVERSE IS INSIDE YOUR EYE

CLICK HERE FOR CRYSTALS THAT EMIT HARMONIC WAVELENGTHS THAT SHAPE THE UNIVERSAL WATER IN YOUR EYE INTO IT'S HARMONIC FORM

Uuh... wrong? That's obviously a Petri dish in full bloom?

Everyone knows this Universe exists solely as a grad student's thesis experiment...
Are those the JO Crystals people have been trying to sell me?
- JO Crystal is the name of my sister's only fans.
My mind goes round like a roundabout. Whistles and sings.

If your anus looks like this, it's time to see your doctor.

It's a bit gaping but not the worst I've seen
- Have you really truly internetted if you haven't seen goatse?
Doctor:

Omg we in an anus

The outer ring is made of 1-3 meter thick bedrock, but you can easily teleport through it. Just remember to bring enough material with you to make a portal to get back to our universe, otherwise you'll have to starve yourself to death and respawn without your gear.

This comment got progressively better the more I read it

Its the observable universe in the shape of an eye, quite clever. We're going to have to figure out how to not let stupid destroy our fragile societies at some point.

We did at one point. I love the turtle myth, for what it is, but shit like this use to just stay myth.
Now hear me out...

Blood for the Blood God.

If you hate this image then why post it. Fun image but please work on your titles lol, my point is it isn't super good when you let some 1000 conspiracy theorists living in some niche forums live rent free in your head to such point they ruin cool images for you

I'm not the one who originally posted it.

Edit: your mom's obviously not a flat earther. It's true I may have a vendetta.
- No wonder, those big dong conspiracists are the worst. Whole universe is nothing more than a giant penis? Ridiculous. All because of the low res labels on observable universe diagrams making a look like o and b look like d
  
  Universe is a dick it's their motto

I don't understand what it shows. Instead of forcing me to make up some crazy shit, could someone explain it to me?

I think its just a circular logarithmic representation of the universe starting at Sol
- just
The further you look in the sky, the further back in time you are looking as well -- there is no way to see what far way looks like "right now". This image shows the visible universe as it appears from our perspective in spacetime, which necessarily smears together the "where", "what", and "when" of it all, but also shows the evolution through time of some of the larger structures.

The tendril things that converge into single celestial objects are clouds of gas condensing to form galaxies and clusters over billions of years.

Got a better resolution version?

I do but lemmy hates it.

Edit: wait a second. You're not going to use it to make your universe eye cult, are you?
- I just think it's cool and want to look at it in more detail.
https://pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/the-infographic-and-artistic-work-named.html

Here you go, buddy. Go make that eye cult.
- It's not a cult. It's just a group of like minded individuals.
- ALL HAIL THE GREAT EYE!

For those wondering, this is a (cropped) version of a art piece called "The Celestial Zoo".

The original:

But what about the attack on ganymede?

It reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out. One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out.
Remember the Cant

Looks like they were right. The universe is a sphere, not Earth!!

Looks like proof of the flat earth

Kill me

MitocondriSol: powerhouse of the cell.

Its obviously the eye of the goddess, who is a huge selfish dragon, which is why were all so screwed - we're nothing more than a microscopic mote in the eye of a selfish dragon lesser demi-god.

Wait, is this not common knowledge?

So the universe is flat, right?

Yeah that outer edge is called the firmament.

/s

That said the models of flat earth would make pretty dope wallclocks even if based on some wildly stupid shit.
- Yeah that outer edge is called the firmament.
  
  I mean, it's not the worst name for the CMB.

its the universe that is flat
everything revolves around and everything is illuminated by the Sun
the Sun is the largest structure
the veins at the outer edges arent bleeding yet so you can stretch it a bit more
Uranus is in Ouranus

Louis Rossman had a video recently that I think applies here: don't give in to the premises of assholes. This was particularly directed at Gamer's Nexus and how Steve over there handles Linus, but it's good life advice for anyone. I had a roommate that I was thinking of in this regard, and I wish I had this advice at the time.

There are people in this world who try to set conditions for their own benefit at the expense of you. Don't let them do that. This image is a good example; it's a perfectly valid model for certain use cases. Don't let anti-science idiots take that away with their stupidity.

Hell, I think the whole Final Experiment with flat earthers is an example of giving in.

Now and then I'll watch a Louis Rossman and Gamer's Nexus video but I don't follow Linus. Did something happen between them that I missed?
- Oh, yeah, lots of drama.
  
  Gamer's Nexus has always wanted to do very careful testing with wind chambers and sound chambers and such. They've been building that sort of thing up over the last few years, but the options for that are at the limits of what they can invest in at their level. However, they're also very careful about how they do it and document everything.
  
  Now, Linus Media Group was putting together the same sort of lab, but they don't have the same reputation that Gamer's Nexus does on being careful and taking your time to get it right. Just the opposite, in fact. What they do have is the capital to invest in a much more elaborate setup. Then some of the staffers made a comment on video directly aimed at Gamer's Nexus and how LMG's lab will be better.
  
  That's when Steve went gloves off and made a whole video detailing LMG's sins of poor reviews and staff that wish they could spend more time to get things right. Things like "this mouse feels bad when you drag it around the desk", and it turned out they forgot to take the plastic protective coating off the bottom.
  
  This dominoes into a few other incidents that I'll spare for the moment so this post doesn't get too long. Suffice it to say, LMG lost a lot of subscribers because of a series of issues that were highlighted to the community by Gamer's Nexus, and then that opened up into even more things. It revealed how much LMG's internals are steeped in bro culture, just in case that wasn't obvious.
  
  The two have mostly ignored each other since then, but there was one thing that recently surfaced it. Steve apparently had an old phone that had been doxxed some years ago, and he doesn't use that number anymore. Now, Linus and Steve had been texting at various times to Steve's new number. Linus recently sent a text to the old number, knowing that Steve wouldn't ever see it, and then claims on video that Steve isn't responding to his text on an issue between them. That's what prompts Louis to make the "don't give in to the premises of assholes" video.
  
  Linus clearly set that situation up. Louis is more familiar with how people like that function, and he had to walk Steve through the logic of what was going on. That's the part that reminded me of my old roommate, because I was often in Steve's situation, and like him, I didn't recognize it for what it was.
  
  Edit: s/Lewis/Louis/

Kinda weird to put the sun in the center imo. Cause we're not the center of it all. But if you put the earth in the center and started spacing out from there it would be pretty cool IMHO

Why is it weirder to put the sun at the center than to put the earth at the center?
- We kind of had that discussion in the 16th century, really.
- Well if Earth is at the center than this is everything we can see in the observable galaxy from our viewpoint. Having it this way seems like out solar system is the center of it all

Scientists Prove Universe Revolves Around Our Sun!

Is the radial scale logarithmic? Or is it even more compressed than that?

First thing I will point out is there is no known shape of the universe.
- If we assume the hubble constant is the same in all directions, the farthest we'd be able to see would be a sphere, dictated by the time light has had to travel to us.
- obviously the eye of our universe is flat
- Is saddle still the best candidate? Like when you move a circle across a circle you get a torus, and when you move a parabola across parabola you get a "saddle"
It's not really to scale at all. Look at the distance between earth and the moon in relation to the other planets.

Everyone sees the butthole too, right?

It's buttholes all the way down.
I see a fucked up eyeball.
I see an eye.
- A brown one?
Well I did see a kiwi slice, but now I may not be able to look at kiwis the same

This is what the human eye looks like through a microscope, from the perspective of a germ on a microscope slide.

What my ophthalmologist sees after giving me the numbing eye drops.

I thought it was Warhammer 40k shitpost at the beginning

It's the eye of terror.

Hmm yes, we are all pondering this spherical orb right now.

"A planatir is a dangerous tool, Sarumon"

Do you mean woo-woo shit or conspiracy shit? Or both?

Yes

Serious question: Do we know how far removed from the exact center of the Big Bang we are? Is that something that can be deduced?

According to current theories, the Big Bang happened everywhere at once, so there was no center. One somewhat useful analogy is an inflating balloon; the entire surface of the balloon is expanding, but there's no center to the expansion.
- But there should be an approximate center of the “balloon’s” area, right?
  
  (I swear to god I’m not trolling.)
  
  I think I phrased my question wrong. If the universe is expanding and we can see the extreme edges of that expansion, where is the center of that and where we, the Milky Way Galaxy, in relation to it?
"the exact center of the Big Bang" is not a phrase that makes sense.
I'm not sure if this answers the question, but it might help.

Everything in space is moving, but it's not expanding outward from a central point, like an explosion. Instead, the space between the things is getting bigger.

The balloon analogy gets thrown around a lot, but I find it misleading- It's not about the balloon getting bigger, expanding outward from the center of the sphere. It's more about the surface of that balloon stretching.

The rubber sheet analogy helps. Scatter a bunch of things on a infinite rubber sheet. Now stretch that in all directions - the things get further apart, but are not moving away from a central point.
- Does it mean space being created out of nothing between things? I’m not good at it but wouldn’t that violate conservation of energy?
I think that's the point of the webb. Well not the center.. I forget.

Well, it's showing the moon lit up while it's behind the earth, so clearly it should all be dark due to the eclipse. So I can only conclude that it's trying to get the word out that we actually live in a binary solar system.

Reminds me of Outer Wilds. Excellent game.

I can definitely hear the banjo playing in this image

Is that where the sperm swims to?

Proof that the universe is an egg. Armageddon will come when the Christian God's sperm comes to fertilize us and we'll be reborn into Heaven unless climate change aborts us as a foetus

FAKE!

Even children know that the sun isn't the center of the universe - it's Earth. Duh!

Fractals all the way down.

I mean, isn't it obvious? Christianity has traditionally believed that Earth is the center of the Universe. Everything in the Universe is moving away from us, as if we are sitting at the very spot where "Let There Be Light" resulted in light being let. Physics has proven that we are at the literal single unique geometric center of the Universe. /s

Everything in the universe is moving away from us.

Frok now on, I'm gonna attribute it to Christianity.

Sand worm's maw.

The Great Brown Eye

Gaze not into the abyss

Well, clearly everything gets smaller as you go out.

it's obviously a cop of coffee that looks like an eye

Best explanation

HyperRogue is an awesome game!

BE NOT AFRAID...🙄

Hal, is that you?

Right outside this lazy summer home

Ain't got time to call your soul a critic , no

The firmament!

is that a reference to the epic band The Ocean?
- Nope. Flat earthers.

I just say it's the universe version of the homunculus. I think that gets the idea across but only if they're even slightly educated. 😅

Some say that the universe only exists insofar as it is perceived. This is true, but we are not the observers. All of the world is a grand eye and that eye is spread across itself again and again. We are all but figments in the eye of the world, floaters thinking themselves eyes and seeing nothing. This is all to say that the elf on the shelf is REAL and this image PROVES IT!