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The world can be hard, cold, and negative. Post something Beautiful

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GAF, let's be honest. A lot of out daily lives can be tough, confrontational, and overall filled with negativity. No matter where you are from, or who you are, so much of our lives are filled with an onslaught of things that are troubling.

Let's get away from that for a moment. Let's just look at what makes existing worth something. I don't care if its music, art, nature, people, books, films, or what. Post something that you find BEAUTIFUL. Not cool, not something you like but that word itself. Beautiful. Gorgeous. Stunning. Something that stirs your soul so much you are in awe of it. We need to be uplifted more, and we all know this. I KNOW you are beautiful, and I want to see what inspires you GAF, because I need to be uplifted just as much as any of you.

I'll start with a few things

Two Step From Hell - Miracles

https://youtu.be/dzq6Q-43Tpc

The Breaking of the Fellowship (Truly Godly, one of the greatest compositions ever imo)

https://youtu.be/sQ9NOV3KNpY

I'll add more as they come to me. But this is what I'm starting out with.


I want so much LOVE in this thread :-)
 
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A Gaming Youtuber a long time ago had his life recked when his viewers found out he was on chatterbate, they found his wife's facebook account and messaged all his friends and family, it ended his marriage and his him thrown out of the air force, he left youtube for a while then came back with this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDtMdL0APkM

When ever i'm feeling down i watch it, its essentially just a mash-up of motivational speeches and quotes from films and public speaking events.
 
Great simulation of our universe at scale (visualized in dark matter filaments).
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Each little yellow dot is a dense area of dark matter and thus likely to be a galaxy.
 
bounchfx said:
we all die eventually so don't take life too seriously and it becomes a hell of a lot more enjoyable.
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Ah, my friend but life is so serious, and that is what makes it so beautiful. We are all fortunate enough to be this particular collection of cells and matter that can actually observe and appreciate existence. From what we know of the Universe the vast majority of matter could never understand this. And for that I am so thankful to witness it!

https://youtu.be/zqZEgoJasPQ

NASA's Juno mission approaching Jupiter and witnessing the Celestial Harmonic Motion for the first time ever. Unbelievable
 
bsp said:
Great simulation of our universe at scale (visualized in dark matter filaments).
b266989c77.jpg


Each little yellow dot is a dense area of dark matter and thus likely to be a galaxy.
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Those black patches are great voids and the filaments are where galactic chains are, correct? This is a model of the structure of the universe at large, not just the observable one, correct?
 
Had no idea Google had an online database of art - go dabble and take it all in.

And since music seems to be a theme, here are three beautiful songs all a bit different from each other.

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https://playingforchange.com/

And most especially those 2 videos/song:

Guantanamera | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
https://youtu.be/blUSVALW_Z4
"It features over 75 Cuban musicians around the world, from Havana and Santiago to Miami, Barcelona and Tokyo." And they all play that song together beautifully.

Hawai'i Aloha | Song Across Hawai'i | Playing For Change Collaboration
https://youtu.be/uDa0YmZD0Jk
"features dozens of Hawai‘i’s top artists across many genres, and over 1,000 youth from 10 Hawaiian charter schools in one epic song. Recorded live across 27 locations"

Never fails to make me smile/put me in a good mood, and also get me nostalgic of places I have never been before.
 
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Any questions?

ETA - it just makes me smile. Watched the sketch multiple times now and it's just wonderful and cheers me up.
 
Yagharek said:
Those black patches are great voids and the filaments are where galactic chains are, correct? This is a model of the structure of the universe at large, not just the observable one, correct?
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It's a computer simulation based upon generic laws so it's a little hard to say whether it's towards the whole universe or just our observable part, but I believe the most accurate would be universe at large as it is modeling fundamental processes of structure formation -- it should hold from any point you pick in existence.

The filaments and everything else colored in it is dark matter. Dark matter happens to conglomerate around "visible" matter, though, so the yellow intense spots of dark matter are also very likely to be a galaxy.

The whole picture is rather small, an area of 500 megaparsecs across, or around 1.65 billion lightyears.
 
Obliterator said:
Ah, my friend but life is so serious, and that is what makes it so beautiful. We are all fortunate enough to be this particular collection of cells and matter that can actually observe and appreciate existence. From what we know of the Universe the vast majority of matter could never understand this. And for that I am so thankful to witness it!
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I'm not sure in what capacity you find it serious, but my comment was mostly in regard to people freaking out and worrying about lots of things that only wind up causing more trouble than they are worth and things that are out of their control, rather than just enjoying the ride. Shit's definitely beautiful though, holla!
 
H.Protagonist said:
If there is a heaven, it must be a great library overflowing with adventures and drama and intrigue just waiting to be read.

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A nice library is just a great experience. The smells, the intermittent clearing of throats, the whispers; all of this encapsulated on a space filled with books.

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I lived in communist Romania until 1990 when the regime fell.

There was only one TV channel and it broadcasted a show called Telecinemateca every tuesday night. They mostly aired classic american movies and it was my favorite time of the week.

Every tuesday at 8 or 9 pm I'd sit in dear grandmother's arms and we'd watch the movie together. Sometimes she'd fall asleep and I'd wake her up telling her she gotta pay attention.

Here's the generic of that show, they'd put it on before every movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxLlEN5Dd2s&list=PLs3rsplUd3RUyUVgHhbihFfDJ67YIAjt7
 
bsp said:
It's a computer simulation based upon generic laws so it's a little hard to say whether it's towards the whole universe or just our observable part, but I believe the most accurate would be universe at large as it is modeling fundamental processes of structure formation -- it should hold from any point you pick in existence.

The filaments and everything else colored in it is dark matter. Dark matter happens to conglomerate around "visible" matter, though, so the yellow intense spots of dark matter are also very likely to be a galaxy.

The whole picture is rather small, an area of 500 megaparsecs across, or around 1.65 billion lightyears.
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Gotcha. Wasn't sure if it was an extrapolated map of the observable universe based on what we know or infer, or whether it was a simulated large scale model.

What's the large scale mapping project? Anisotropy is a term that comes to mind. It's amazing how at large scales we already see galaxy superclusters along these filamentous patterns. The sheer thought of just being embedded within a potentially infinite universe of such large scale, uniform structure would be how an ant might view a large concrete city if it had our consciousness.

Imagine how much life would be in that field of view.
 
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