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Huge New Galaxy Cluster Found
Anonymous Squonk writes: "The new Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea, the world's largest telescope, is starting to produce big results. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports that the latest find is a previously unknown cluster of over 1,000 galaxies over five billion light years away."
Suburu is the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades. It looks like that six-star design you see on their cars. The constellation is prominant in the winter sky. It appears as a fuzzball to the right of Orions shoulder. When you look closely you see the six stars that appear like a little dipper, plus a bunch of faint ones surounding them. Alsmost every ancient culture has a story about the Suburu constellation. I don't know the Japanese story, but the Greek one is they are the daughters of the Titan Atlas.
>I would lay the blame of much of the problems we >have in society today at the doors of science. >Einsteins Relativity theory and the >uncertainties of Quantum Mechanics have filtered >down into the Moral Relativism and uncertainty >we see around us today
Please site one example of quantum mechanics filtering down into 'moral relativism'. Please cite sources.
Where are we - back in the 16th century - going to lock Galileo in his house because suggesting that the earth went around the sun? It WAS a scary thought. But it was true. The former outweighs the latter in my book EVERYTIME.
Sorry - i don't feel ANY obligations to shelter you from reality if it shatters your illusions, or proves that a belief or truth that you have held to be wrong. Being able to cope with changes like that is what makes a person emotionally strong.
>You cannot monkey about with a society's
>certaintys and worldview without expecting
>consequences. We have seen a lot of that this >century.
what 'certainties'? If something is wrong it's wrong. FACT. The earth is not flat. The sun does not go around the world. We are decended from single celled protazoa. None of these facts make me feel any less at all. That is the world - and I LOVE learning more about it. I can't think of a single scientific discovery that has EVER made me feel less. On the contrary, i find them empowering and a statement to the genuis that is 'man'.
>t that they censor themselves.
No, you want a censor. You want the status quo. Science isn't about that. If you want consistent, dogmatic teachings there are a multititude of applicable religions, cults, socieites, or political parties (grin) suited to you.
Going out at night and staring at the stars doesn't make me want to weep because I'm so 'insignificant'. My jaw hangs open in wonder because the universe is such an incredible place to be - and i'm just happy to be here.
This is left as an exercise to the reader.
j
The scientists are preparing us for the day that they announce (for they have known for 50 years) that not only are there aliens amongst us, but they already own all the human-habitable real-estate in the galaxy. If we think we're special, that could cause a collosal mindquake. If we have accepted our lowly place in the universe, it will just be another "whatever".
Interestingly, the aliens have also patented, trademarked and coprighted all future inventions. You are no longer allowed to think of new things. Please turn the television on.
Mod this nonsense down.
>But I don't think they will any time soon, as >they seem to labour under the illusion that
>science is about demeaning our cultures status,
>not enhancing it, and have done so for the last >500 years
Oh bullshit. I hope that i'm not in the minority when i feel that the true aim of science is TRUTH.... irregardless of if it gives you a warm fuzzy, or makes you feel cosmically insignificant.
Reality is NOT a zero sum game. The 'gain' of a monkey speaking sign language is not a 'loss' for homo sapiens. If your neighbor gets a better car than you, does that mean you are somehow 'less'? If you answered yes to that, get professional counselling.
>just how important we are
Get over yourself. The purpose of the universe isn't to make you feel important.
You want science to make you feel important? I have a few papal indulgences to sell you too...