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Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy
starannihilator writes "Astronomers use gravitational lensing, a magnifying effect caused by the gravity / mass of galaxies, to capture images of the farthest / oldest galaxy known - from when the universe was just 750 million years old. Stories from the BBC,
Sign On San Diego, West Hawaii Today, or
Mercury News."
It takes light a whole lot of years to make it this far. It sounds like this story should have started with: "A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away..."
Not just that... it's because Bush wants to put a man on Mars, and NASA only has so much money, so something has to get cut.
Now I'm wishing I hadn't sent that e-mail about there being oil on Mars...
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
...there's no mention of this at Dr. Dino, clearly this is a clever hoax... It's impossible anyhow since we all know the earth (and therefore the universe) is only 6000 years old!
(humor folks, humor)
In fact over 13 bilion years old...
Wondering why we haven't called home? :(
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Convince all the young talentless people that everyone on Earth is going to die from a nasty virus and pack Brittney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Busted and all the Pop Idols on the first colonization ship...
Then the rest of us can enjoy proper music in the mainstream again!
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
There is a restaurant next door.
Ping times for that galaxy must be terrible!
May the source be with you!
Maybe that's why we don't see any aliens that look like giant ants.
Wishing I was a millionaire since 1969.
You have a fourth shuttle called Enterprise btw.
Jonathanjk.com
"Astronomers use gravitational lensing, a magnifying effect caused by the gravity / mass of galaxies, to capture images of the farthest / oldest galaxy known - from when the universe was just 750 million years old. Stories from the BBC, Sign On San Diego, West Hawaii Today, or Mercury News."
So in other words, these astronomers are a bunch of voyeurs peeking at young starlets through big lenses. This is appaling! Young galaxies shouldn't be exploited in this manner, especially at such a fragile time in their existence, when they are just beginning to discover themselves. The galaxies scientists are viewing keep getting younger and younger as they attempt to reach the elusive "Big Bang". To make things worse, they shameless post pictures of their exploits on the Internet.
Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy
I guess NASA is going to have to send a probe to glue that galaxy back together now, huh?
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
"Telephone sanitisers" - presumably another "R&B" band...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
NASA: Now Afraid of Space Agency
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credit to whoever came up with this joke somewhere else in
NASA shows off galaxy for free.
SCO claims it made helium which are present in galaxies and thus galaxies belong to them and sure NASA for showing copyrighted picture of their galaxies.
Why don't they auction it on ebay ?
Do you have a link to the torrent you mentioned?