u/RancherosIndustries

Is 14 billion years since the big bang like an infant, or is it a middle ager?

I read some clickbaity articles that are all about the end or death of the universe, makes it all sound very old. Before our sun there were endless other suns already burnt out, and all that.

Our solar system formed what, 5 billion years ago? So it's like one third of the universes' lifetime. That doesn't seem much.

I wonder what astronomers would have seen five, ten billion years ago when they looked into the skies, deep into the universe. It must have been a lot denser populated with stars, a lot brighter.

Weird when you think about it.

I saw that Project Hail Mary, which is shot on exteriors, but mostly inside a confined studio that has a spaceship set, cost 200 million to make. For 200 million, you can build 300 family homes. I wonder what exactly costs so much money. If a luxury house costs 1 million to build, what does it cost to build a spaceship set from plywood and LEDs? How expensive is a day of shooting in a studio? It's just soooo much money, and I wonder where it all goes.