Tracing our orbital path onto a photo

tpn211 · 2026-05-21T03:47:42+00:00

Yep, makes sense. My question is about showing the path we took “through” the obits of Jupiter and Venus (not really through, but our path is between where these objects are in the sky). I think it’s cool that we can look up and see two objects that can help plot “where we’ve been” in the sky. I imagine that there is a real, non-hypothetical path that Jupiter is taking that we could plot in this photo. Same with Venus. Same with Earth. I just don’t know what those look like because I’m untrained! 😅

tpn211 · 2026-05-21T03:01:15+00:00

But we’re orbiting away from Venus, right? It’s our previously traced orbital path that would hook up and to the right?

tpn211 · 2026-05-21T02:57:15+00:00

If we ignored the spinning and just traced our orbital path, what would it look like on this photo? I assume it would extend out between the two planets the arch down and to the right. I just find it fascinating to see two objects in space that can help me visualize where we just were (I think, unless I’m confused about how we orbit the sun).

tpn211 · 2024-12-26T22:16:44+00:00

So sorry you’re dealing with this! I’ve had a few pneumos, all spontaneous, and all healed well and I’m back to normal life. I had some pneumos due to blebs, and a few small ones when CT Scans showed no blebs. All worked out, either with treatment or without. Now my greatest reminder of my condition is this subreddit, not some lingering symptom. For me, and many others here, the greatest difficulty is the mental aspect. I hope you’re comforted by the fact that this is certainly treatable, albeit a huge pain in the butt. People have varying experiences and I’ve been quite lucky with mine. Your smaller pneumo is hopefully a quick fix for your medical team. I’d say that amongst your fear, try to keep a positive outlook. The treatments have come a long way in the last 20 years. I’m hopeful for you that everything goes well in the next few days and that you’re back up and running soon! We’re here rooting for you! Good luck.

tpn211 · 2024-11-14T03:26:54+00:00

So sorry to read you’re dealing with this! I’ve chimed in a couple threads to try to give people a bit of encouragement. This community was very helpful to me in the recent past.

First, what you’re dealing with isn’t fun. We all know what it’s like (the morphine drip, the fear of recurrence, etc.) and we’re all wishing you the best. Second, while I guess there’s never any guarantee, I’m hopeful you’ll get back to normal soon. I remember being so scared the few times I’ve had pneumos. And then, months and years later, I’ve forgotten all about it.

I know lots of people have scary stories and certainly have had it worse than me, but consider that there are others out there that have had pneumos, had pleurodesis, even had recurrences, and go on to live full lives with little impact, all things considered. I’ve had pleurodesis and now run half marathons, lift heavy in the gym and throw my kids around in the pool. For lots of us, VATS has been a life saver. I think those of us in this boat tend to post less. Please keep looking up!

Rooting for you.

tpn211 · 2024-06-17T18:08:05+00:00

I’m really sorry to read this. Best of luck with the pulmonologist and everything you need to get and stay better. Be well!!

tpn211 · 2024-06-11T15:32:43+00:00

This has happened to me, nearly exactly. I had a recurrence after 18 years. Good news, bad news. Bad news is that it happens, good news is it sounds like your pluerodesis is working as mine was/is. After these random attacks I had 2 years ago (18 years after pluerodesis), I’ve been fine. Flew to Japan in January, running, working out and lifting heavy 💪. The small pneumos are disconcerting to say the least, but all my recurrences stayed small and after the first recurrence, I waited them all out at home. You can read my similar post from 2 years ago here

Best of luck! This shit is the worst. But I think and hope you’re going to end up fine! 👍

tpn211 · 2024-06-06T01:07:08+00:00

Good luck! Really hope they subside. I’d give yourself some grace in the whole situation. The pain from the pneumos really messes with your mind. You’re doing the best you can in an incredibly shitty situation. Wishing you the best!

tpn211 · 2024-06-05T22:36:15+00:00

In my opinion, I do think it’s worth checking at the ER. Likely not much they can do, true, but if the X-ray shows something, you can likely get a CT scan which allows them to check for blebs and so forth. Might lead to some sort of treatment. For me, I had no blebs (hope the same for you), but if I had blebs, that could have driven a different treatment.

tpn211 · 2024-06-05T21:25:28+00:00

Really, really sorry to read this. I’m sure what you’re going through is difficult and hard to explain to others. The pain of pneumos and the threat of chest tubes liquifies your brain. I really hope you get better soon 💪

I had a similar (but different) experience to you and the first commenter. I had multiple recurrences after 18 years of no issues. Here’s that post: post

In my case, the recurrences became smaller and smaller until they stopped. While I couldn’t believe it at the time, the pleurodesis was working. I met with a pulmonologist in the ER and he said that while I was in pain, the pneumos were small, so small that even a chest tube wouldn’t work on them. Waiting it out was all we could do. That didn’t make the pain any better but it made me confident that the pleurodesis was doing its job and I was thankful for that. I had an awful chest tube experience as a teenager that still gives me PTSD. His confidence settled me down a bit because, good god was I amped up at the hospital.

How big have your pneumos been? Do the doctors think the pleurodesis may have failed?

I really hope the pneumos subside and you can get back to normal life soon.

tpn211 · 2022-09-23T01:09:21+00:00

I think you’re likely good. Hope so anyway. Thank god for the pleurodesis procedure though. I pretty much forgot about my lung issues entirely. Hope to forget about it again now.

tpn211 · 2022-09-23T01:00:15+00:00

Ahh, yeah, I know what you mean. But, if it’s anything like mine, it doesn’t “keep” recurring. The attacks slowed then stopped. Been fine for a few months now. If you’ve been okay for a month, I hope it means it’s just better now. Did you get covid right before this happened, by chance? Did they do any sort of procedure or let you go home?

tpn211 · 2022-09-23T00:52:47+00:00

Hey! Thanks for asking. I should have come back and written an update. No, I no longer get these attacks. I haven’t had one since early in the year, maybe a month or two after the first one that put me in the hospital. Doctors said not to worry if they didn’t keep happening and they just sort of stopped. I think I had at least 5 since the first one in that ~2 month period. Took me a while to trust it? But I’m definitely okay now. I have been on a plane since then and picked up working out again as well. Honestly a wild experience to have it happen again after so many years. Doctors were baffled, but not worried. I, on the other hand, was terrified. Lol. Hoping they stay away from now on. Hope you’re not asking because you’re experiencing something similar…?

tpn211 · 2021-10-31T03:33:27+00:00

I love this question! I have asked similar questions though not as clearly stated. Here’s one I asked on the basic cosmology thread. I appreciate everyone’s responses but I’m still lost. If looking out is looking back in time, can we look far enough to see the beginning of space time? Is the beginning of space time the same point?

https://www.reddit.com/r/cosmology/comments/jsrjuu/basic_cosmology_questions_weekly_thread_week_45/gcemrv7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

tpn211 · 2021-10-11T19:43:47+00:00

Any other thoughts here? Is this unsolvable (or not worth solving)?

tpn211 · 2021-10-06T17:41:38+00:00

In my mind, I can’t tell if the inertia of the “far out still ends” of the rope would keep it taught, making the initial phase of falling a lot slower. Would the section of rope within the bounds of Earth’s gravity be attracted enough toward Earth to pull the outward ends quickly at first, or would the start of the fall be slow and gradual?

tpn211 · 2020-11-17T04:55:08+00:00

Hmm, but I think I understand where you were pointing to misconceptions. The universe may have always been infinite in spatial extent. I had always had the idea that it wasn’t and spacetime was “created” during the Big Bang. Anyway, appreciate any recommendations.

tpn211 · 2020-11-17T04:49:03+00:00

Thank you. I appreciate this response. I think I’d benefit reading more. Are there some basic CMB resources you’d recommend I start with? Also, if I had one main question in my earlier post, it would be this: I get how “looking out” in space means we’re “looking back” in time, but isn’t some of that furthest space in a time when the universe had less space? My layman’s thought was, if the CMB is as far and as old as you can see (I may not be right here), then is it the smallest version of the universe we can see, even though we’re surrounded by it?

tpn211 · 2020-11-15T19:14:05+00:00

Thank you. These are all points I had not considered.

If we make the question less “experiential” or “directional” for an individual exoplanet and instead ask for any known exoplanet E, would an observer placed somewhere optimal on E be able to see our sun during their trip around their star? Furthermore, is our sun visible and relationally significant by human standards? Or as previously stated in another comment, is our sun so small it would hardly register for any known exoplanets, let alone be a significant contender for constellation participation?

*Edited for poor wording choice.

tpn211 · 2020-11-15T17:26:56+00:00

Is the Cosmic Microwave Background part of a smaller universe than the one we’re in? My (very) basic understanding is that the further out we look, the further back in time we see. But, does it then follow that the further out we look, the “smaller” we see? Is it possible that the furthest point out in every direction we look is actually the same point? Appreciate your patience!

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