Hmm...

Many of you have probably seen this picture, its fairly common around the internet and all, but I finally got curious about something involving it today.

Imagine for a second that you were that Astronaut in the picture. What do you think you would feel (aside from emotions). Do you think you would hear it as it happened? Do you think you would feel it?

In the dead of space, the deep end-less void that it is, do you think it would be possible that you would hear the blast from this happening even being thousands of miles away?
Do you think you would feel the shockwave echoing through space? The vibrations of a world now being obliterated and shot out of orbit into an uninhabitable zone?

Just some food for thought. Obviously if this happened, we would probably simply be in shock from the emotional toll that this would cause, such an immediate loss of life and loved ones as to be unimaginable, inexpressible through words. However, this is simply regarding whether or not you think it would be possible to hear and feel it as it happened.

EDIT: For clarification, don't think scientifically , just let your imagination flow

 

Erm....It would shatter the planet once it hit the core. We would all die with in hours just from the heat and frankly? It's pulling the Atmosphere away too so suffocation takes 7 minutes.

If we were to live though the initial shock wave? (Unlikely) There are 7 minutes to live, with out air.

If I were that person on the moon? What recourse do you have, outside the emotions, probably just open the helmet.

 

First of all I have to be nerdy. Something that large headed for Earth would be detected quite some time before it actually hit and we would be able to prepare and stop it or at least kiss our asses good bye. Also sending astronauts to the moon wouldn't be top priority.

Also sound does not travel through space as there is no medium such as air in the vacuum. So you would "hear" nothing. In a related matter the cool "pew pew" sounds lasers make in scifi space battles also wouldn't happen in RL.

 

In space there is no air, thus no noise.

Irrelevant. Unless you are talking from a fiction standpoint.

Are you?

 

PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW KABOOOOOM

Mostly yes, I'm genuinely curious as to what people think, regardless of the science behind it (which obviously you wouldn't). Aside from fiction, you could also look at it from a psychological standpoint, whether or not you can hear things in space, a lot of movies and such have given us a perception of what things -would- possibly sound like, and it is very possible for your brain to trick you into hearing such things.

 

All the nerdy stuff aside and getting to the emotional stuff. For most people about the only thing left to do would be to open the helmet. Or just hang out on the moon until you run out oxygen and/or food supplies.

Unless you get picked up by aliens and taken to the alien planet to live among their society. If that were to happen I would hope to get picked up by the yuatja(predators) and taken back to their planet to learn the ways of battle and of the hunt and do many great deeds and upon defeating many xenomorphs get rewarded with being made a honorary yuatja and then receiving breeding requests from the female yuatja which I would probably turn down because they're not really all that pretty. Now if they were sexxay like the Asari then I'd be all like HELL YEAH!

The alternative would be to get back on the Normandy and begin my cross galaxy quest of making tough meaningful and impacting decisions to unite all the species of the galaxy in one last massive counterattack on earth to defeat the reapers once and for all. And then it would all end in massive disappointment as some holographic kid tells me to pick a color.

 

Well, wouldn't that be a bit hard to say? We can sit here and say this and that about the emotional toll and that we would probably just end up wanting to open our helmet, but we have a natural survival instinct that may very well override that in such a situation.

Some people could do it, I'm sure, and maybe being someone who could accomplish the great feat of getting on the moon as an astronaut in the first place would be that type of person, but theres no real way of knowing. Some people would maybe be more content wandering around the moon until they finally run out of oxygen, food, water, and whatever else. Possibly making a descent into madness with the emotional toll of what happened conflicting with the will to survive and ultimately knowing that there's no possible way you'll live for long.

That is, until the mass relays are discovered and the Normandy pops out of nowhere to rescue you.

 

That's why I said a lot of people would also just go back to their ship and/or wander around until they run out of oxygen or supplies. While some people could just pop off the helmet and end it, many wouldn't be able to due to the strong natural instincts of self preservation almost every living thing is born with. And that raises up even more questions from extreme events and/or mental trouble people have that make them suicidal to even things such as "heroism" where people risk and sacrifice to their lives to help others. And that goes against eveything evolution stands for which is surviving as long as you can and making lots and lots of babies.(Well self preservation and passing along your genetics)

And don't forget about the Yuatja. There is also a chance that the moon is an ancient Alien vs Predator hunting ground and it is hunting season and that you manage to kill an alien and thus the Predators take you into their society and teach you the ways of the hunt.

 

I'm not very good at FPS games so I doubt I'd be able to headshot very many aliens with a shoulder mounted laser turret.

I bet the predators would kill me after trying to teach me and facepalming so much they'd have net marks on their head.

 

Newbies don't get the laser turret. You have to earn that and most of them are self targeting. You also don't get guns. Your first kills have to be delivered the old fashioned (and IMO the much more fun and satisfying) way. Melee. nd the predators wouldn't kill you no matter how much you make them facepalm. For you would either succeed your trial by fire or become alien food and in a few days alien poop. Is THAT what you want!? To become alien poop. I didn't think so. Now sharpen your arm blades, draw your sword, and extend your combispear cause it's time to kill. I would say hunt but hunting implies failure. And BE A MAN!

[video=youtube;ZSS5dEeMX64]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64[/video]

 

Regardless of what you may or not think of me, I do enjoy fiction pretty much, I do enjoy laser sounds in space opera movies and science fiction flicks.

Yet your whole post does not made that clear, and since it does not do that, considering it even with a little seriousness is absurd, because there is no a general frame to put yourself into context.

Now that you said so, since its fiction because of the air and sound in space, I ll fly toward the earth before the meteor impacts it and deviate it with my massive space armor propelled by the state of the art twin plasma reactor... since I am Iron Man, it will work. In consequence I would most likely feel even more powerful than ever and I would have more sexy time with all the beautiful women of the world that would trow at me like zergs, feeling like they own me the world whole life, and they will be saying the truth indeed.

After that I ll could convince the world leaders to hand me the moon for personal use and I ll build the first battle moon armed with gigantic anti space bodies armament to pulverize all and any treats to the human race. And then proceed colonize the Solar System, turning our society in a 2nd Stadium one by creating the first Solar Reactor, using the power of our Star, the Sun, to produce ridiculous amounts of energy that will allow me to work in the first FTL drives to reach Proxima Centaury.

After my futurism skill tells me that maybe the first Human Galactic Empire will be born. Further spreading the colonization efforts to other worlds and stars, leading us to our first interstellar wars when the colonies decide to declare their independence. Costing millions of lifes and the destruction of several planets, even returning to the dire times of slavery and human ownership. Dark times indeed awaits us in the deep corners of space.

Thus making me realize if it wouldnt have been better to just let that asteroid destroy earth, back in that fateful day, and simply lift the visor of my helmet and watch in contempt how the whole human race and their pitiful dreams perish in a single moment, finally realizing how insignificant we are in the middle of the vastness of the universe, how irrelevant our desires are in the face of causality. Maybe even shedding a tear in silence for the billions that were silenced in just a split of a moment without even realize that their diversity and hope is what made them great in the first place, but were always fighting and warring for the absurdity of the persuit of equality.

And then simple flying of to my command ship setting course to the next star and cryogenize myself in my Stark battlecruiser, in the hopes of being found by a sentient race, and then contaminate them with the petty squabbles of the human race, thus starting all over again.

 

wat.

Am I supposed to think something of you? o:

 

"Houston, we have a problem."

 

In theory you have an idea of any person you meet, talk, type, or dignify yourself to answer. So, yeah you are thinking.

 

Theoretically/subconsciously, yes, though I'm fairly apathetic when it comes to how I feel about other people, unless you're someone I just really care about that much (in a good way), I otherwise don't care and won't base an opinion of someones post on what I've previously seen them post or anything like that.

 

I'll do what the protoss did in the prophecy in starcraft 2(the archives part).

 

Dont basing an opinion is already having an idea of having one. Thats the problem of subjetivity which rule all humans, you are not free of it no matter how apathetical you are, or might think you are. In any case by any form or shape of emotion you have already cared enough to answer this. Any conscious action taken from that point reflects it. Its pretty fun.

In any case, the thread was badly posted, which is what caused all this.

 

I blame the jungler.

 

Of course I care enough to answer, but what I'm saying is my perception of the person isn't really affected by their posts and all. I may argue a point because I care about it, or I may randomly respond to a person because I care about them, but just because someone might troll one day or be really nice another, doesn't really affect my perception of what they say any more than the wording of their post itself does.

EDIT: and obviously there's people on the forums I like more than others, I'm specifically referring to the content of posts though, and how I perceive/respond to them.

 

I feel like the jungler is involved your perception of people but I'm not quite sure.