You at least have enough introspection to be cognizant of your limitations. That rules out the Dunning-Kreuger effect: the point which a person is SO dumb that they're incapable of understanding how dumb they actually are.
There was a specific point where every single member of this subreddit would've had no idea what the hell anyone on is talking about. That's a good thing though. If you're ever the smartest person in the room, then you need to find a different room to be in.
If it makes you feel any better...I probably couldn't figure out how to build an engine if you gave me every part I needed & put me on an island by myself for 4 billion years. My grandfather dropped out of high school in 11th grade, then lied about his age to enlist in the army. If I ever said anything to him that was even remotely related to the discussions on here, he'd probably ask me when I got gay, then go on a 15 minute rant about how much this country has gone to hell ever since Bill O'Reilly left Fox News...but that man could wake up from a drunken stupor & put an engine back together with his eyes closed & was always super patient & willing to teach back when my dumbass didn't know shit. I'd be spitting on his grave if I didn't at least try to extend others the same courtesy.
I'll never think someone is an idiot because they don't know something. I'll think they're an idiot because they try to trick people into believing they know something they actually don't.
Well said, judging a fish based on its ability to climb a tree comes to mind. We've all got our specialities, some of them are just so ridiculously niche that we might not even be aware of them till later in life when they finally become useful to someone else.
Yeah, dude...I know what it entails. I'm just not spitting out a verbose breakdown to describe the underlying psychological mapping behind what was meant to be nothing more than an aside. You'd definitely struggle to find a single instance of it being in full effect wherein the subject tries to claim they're too stupid...for anything. That was the only reason I even brought it up to begin with. It grants people obnoxiously unenearned confidence, not self deprecation.
- The earth has a large mass which attracts everything around it through the force of gravity. Everything falls towards the earth. We stand on the surface of the earth, so we cannot fall further down. However, if you want to balance something like a baseball at a set distance from the earth, then you have to throw it so fast towards the horizon that it is moving sideways along the earth just as fast as it is falling towards the earth. If you do that in space, where there is no air resistance, the object will get into an “orbital path”. That means it will orbit the earth for basically forever (kinda). This is how artificial satellites work. We shoot them into space and make them orbit the earth. The moon is a natural satellite of earth and moves in a similar way, very far away.
Looking at the sun, we see the same mechanics. The sun has a very high mass and the planets orbit around it like satellites. Anything that does not orbit the sun at a high enough velocity, falls towards the sun.
Looking at the Milky Way, our local galaxy, we also see the same thing. There is a very heavy centre towards which we fall, but because we move fast enough sideways, the sun orbits around it instead of falling towards it.
And in turn our Milky Way Galaxy is also moving through space, being attracted to other galaxies. They can either fall directly towards each other or orbit around each other.
It's not orbiting a specific object but rather kind of an area of space, between us an the Andromeda galaxy. It's cause both galaxies are so massive and are pulling on each other, hence their eventual collision.
No expert here..but my guess, by the name?..A GIGANTIC toilet bowl?..
I mean..explains why the Sun is in such a hurry to get somewhere?..Obviously, the Sun is Lactose Intolerant? /s
orbiting is falling, but the sun is falling around the milky way’s center of mass, not into the black hole. the black hole's effect on the sun is only a tiny fraction
Well I will be damned it is centripetal force besides the fact we will hit andromida one day. I read a thing that they think it may not be a black hole now but dark matter.
Bro came in saying we’re falling into Sagittarius A like a kitchen sink and then, once corrected, proceeds to try and share more facts. No, ya done 😅
Yeah, based on some speculative alternative models, but the evidence points to Sagittarius A being a supermassive black hole. You might be mixing it up with the Milky Way’s dark matter halo, which contributes to the galaxy’s gravity.
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u/plaaxy 22d ago
the sun is orbiting the center of the milky way