r/spaceporn • u/feeling_impossible • Feb 07 '18

Surreal, absurd, outlandish, preposterous... But there it is. The entire earth clearly reflected off the side of a car. [1920x1080]

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u/Katayfaya Feb 07 '18 edited Feb 07 '18

You can also see a smaller reflection of earth on Starman's helmet 😍! This is so inspiring, can't wait for the future! Edit: dude's name now correct, and capitalized! Happy now?😅

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u/anper29 Feb 07 '18

His name is Starman. He will never stop.

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u/Mdumb Feb 07 '18

I love how Starman drapes his elbow on the door... chilling, listen to Bowie.

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u/anper29 Feb 07 '18

If only there could be a light breeze to blow his air..

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u/Katayfaya Feb 07 '18

Thank you, edited it!

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u/Por_QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Feb 07 '18

*Starman

With a capital “S.” He’s a person, you know? Show some respect!

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u/anper29 Feb 07 '18

We should give Starman a reddit Citizenship. The bureaucracy will be slow tho, as SpaceX interplanetary mailing system is not yet complete.

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u/Katayfaya Feb 07 '18

Oh my! So sorry! It's done! 😛

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u/Heismanziel2 Feb 07 '18

I don't mean to depress you, but the future will never arrive. We will always be in the present, waiting for the future to come.

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u/Katayfaya Feb 07 '18

Haha thanks for the heads up mate! And no you do not depress me, I like the flow of time as is 😁

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u/Dethroned_De-loused Feb 07 '18

Today’s future is tomorrow’s present. Checkmate.

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u/Heismanziel2 Feb 07 '18

The past is history, the future is a mystery, and today is a gift. That's why they call it the present.

Double Checkmate.

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u/Dethroned_De-loused Feb 07 '18

You got me.

(That’s beautiful, btw!)

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u/IanMalkaviac Feb 07 '18

I am so sorry! I Just thought it was a regular...peach tree!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18

I dunno. I'd rather skip ahead to when I can own a spaceship.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18

But the present also exists for such a small instant in time that you can't say you are in the present before it passes. Everything you have time to think about is in the past or future.

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u/tehgreatblade Feb 07 '18

In fact by the time your senses transmit information to your brain and your brain has made sense of it, several milliseconds have passed already. We naturally exist a few milliseconds in the past.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18

Sir Bobsaac Newton, you're almost rediscovering calculus. Keep going! :p

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u/imbobbathefett Feb 07 '18

hell, we aren't even in the present. we are perpetually 20 milliseconds behind the present because of how long it takes our nervous system to even recognize reality.

the closest you can get to the 'present' is when you're startled by a loud noise, because that activates the spinal collumn, bypassing the brain, in 5 thousanths of a second.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18

No... While I agree that it's never tomorrow, it's always the future.

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u/TheCatOfWar Feb 07 '18

If we were in the future then we'd have nothing to look forward to!

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u/whatthecraw Feb 07 '18

Tomorrow comes and it’s still today, tomorrow never comes. Makes Annie more depressing

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18

That's not depressing that's just dumb semantics.

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u/GetawayDriving Feb 07 '18

Two-Earths theory confirmed.

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u/iwanttoracecars Feb 07 '18

Yeah, can't wait til the elites blast off to form the next colony leaving at least 95% of the population to live like wall-e. So much to look forward too...

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