Comments by "gwugluud 77" (@gwugluud) on "Cool Worlds" channel.

  1. I think there eventually will be a time that possums are as commonly domesticated as dogs and cats are. I'll sometimes sleep on a cot (a nice bed-like one which actually has a mattress) outdoors during winter, and my rural locale has many possums, and they're out at night. I hear possums coming through when I do this backyard camping. I sleep deliciously out in air which is moving, and hearing ambient sounds, such as distant trains. Possums are attracted to people. I've awakened to discover a possum was sleeping on top of me across the blanket. I slide them gently off of me; I can't get past their rat-like tails. I have the impression that possums want to be taken care of my humans.
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  2. I've always assumed that there are other inhabited planets, but lately, I'm starting to think differently.
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  3. I wonder why and how we would be all there is. That just can't be true. I'm going to go with, things like us are rare, maybe only happening once or twice per galaxy. I mean, I sort of can't bear thinking at least that.
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  4. It's because there aren't any.
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  5. None of them have emerged from the stone age if there are. Little wonder, since the planets that may possibly be earthlike are 4 times bigger with 8x the gravity, etc
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  6. They didn't figure out it was just the microwave that time.
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  7. It isn't good because it's a waste of time. If there's intelligent civilizations within 100,000 light years of us, they must have yet to invent the wheel.
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  8. Seems astronomy changes its mind about basics about every six months. In school, they taught us that the sun is a tiny star and that most other stars are routinely 20x and 100x larger. Then someone finally notices at some point that the majority of stars are red dwarfs. I thought I'd always picked up that we're within a filament of a galaxy arm, far from any of the main arms, and that's why our region is mild in relation to most places.
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  9. I thought a red dwarf sun in a planet's sky wouldn't actually be very red.
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  10. Green star discovered In, One, Two...
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  11. People sure are desperate for there to be civilizations on other planets; "maybe they're cloaking themselves"; that's really cute.
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  12. "Kelvin" means absolutely nothing to 99.709% of people.
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  13. On microparticles vs craft traveling at good fractions of light speed... Aerodynamics and streamlining. The surfaces facing the direction of travel being razor-thin, then tapered outward as the vehicle comprises. The dust bits are forced around and away from the craft. It's been working a treat on airplanes on earth vs air molecules for a century now.
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  14. I almost wish we never got the capability to detect planets around other stars. I grew up assuming that each star may have inhabited planets. Now I think planets like ours occur about once per five galaxies, at my most optimistic. Stargazing isn’t as fascinating to me anymore.
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  15. If there were other inhabited worlds, it would just be more assholes inflicting more misery and stupidity upon each other. If we're all there is, that's a good thing.
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  16. On black holes...They're just super-condensed, concentrated objects with (for all practical purposes) infinite gravity. That's strange, but that's the extent of the strangeness. There's nothing psychedelic about them. They're not portals or tunnels. Lay off the THC gummies you get from your buddies at Mensa get-togethers.
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  17. One.
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