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The Milky Way is Not a Spiral?
ETEQ writes "Space.com reports that new data from the Spitzer Space Telescope showing that the Milky Way is in fact a barred spiral! Looks like all our old astronomy textbooks will have to be thrown away..."
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Just be careful of the words "throw away", "give away" and "books" in Henico County, VA
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
a swirl of caramel and chocolate?
antipaucity
"the bar is oriented at about a 45-degree angle relative to the main plane of the galaxy"
I'm pretty sure that this means "Do not enter" according to international standards.
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Right, and the next thing you'll tell me is that the Earth isn't flat! And that the sun doesn't revolve around the earth. Blasphemers!
Is actually a candy bar. Here is proof that the candy bar came before the galaxy. A company called Mars, Inc. makes them.
Well, dammit, I guess I'm going to have to rethink my entire Star Hero Terran Empires roleplaying campaign.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
My high school chemistry textbook said that the atmosphere was 80% nitrogen and 23% oxygen, and that didn't need to be thrown away. So we'll just blame this shape-of-the-galaxy thing on sig figs.
I always knew that the milky way was a bar, and that it is filled with nougat.
You couldn't have failed it worse! Last post, more like. Why do morons like you even try?
...looks like I'm going to have to get new business cards.
The fact the milky way is a normal spiral is a fundamental tenet of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and this new evidenc is just a theory. I demand that people continue to teach my older (wrong) alternative theory.
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... the Milky Way is in fact a barred spiral!
Mmmmmm... Milky Way Bar...
I'm moving. Where's Dubya and his infinite improbability drive!!!
They'll just issue a patch for every book. They'll just give everyone a sticker and tell them wich page and paragraphs to stick it on. ;)
e.g.
public class CBarredSpiral : CSpiral
As the article said, "May." We need to send someone outside the galaxy, so they can look and make a positive determination.
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Well, I'm certainly glad they cleared that one up. I can't tell you the sleepless nights I've spent wondering if I existed in a spiral vs a barred spiral galaxy. With answers to such fundamental questions like these pouring forth, I'm sure our friends in Washington will continue to confiscate my property to fund their efforts.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Everyone's said my directions suck. I kept telling them, "It's a huge spiral, you can't miss it!", and they keep calling me a useless monkey-boy who couldn't navigate my way into a black hole.
...there are no pictures of the Milky Way from space? Whenever I've Googled for pictures of the Milky Way, I either get artist renderings or these stupid pictures of a strip of the night sky. Since we've supposedly went into space a lot of time, we should have good photos of the Milky Way from space. Even moreso since the Voyager spacecraft left the universe a year or so ago. When the voyager left our universe, it should have had a great shot of the entire galaxy and all it's planets. I mean, the universe is what... like ten million miles wide or something, right?
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you don't seem to know the terms "media spin", or "jumping to conclusions", or "may increase the risk by upto 50%" etc.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
The joys of reading too fast. I thought you said, "I don't mind going along with the notion that God (who I believe was the creator) could have used many things that scientists hold true and call "evolution" and the "Big Bong" to get us to where we are today."
Now THAT, I could believe ;)
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I always knew it was a bar.
Proverbs 21:19
Cogito Eggo Sum, I think therefore I am a waffle
No, if I'm not mistaken, it would be "I think I am a waffle." "Ergo", the word you replaced, is what means "therefore".
Of course, "Eggo" doesn't sound like a nominative noun to a Latin speaker - it could be something like "Eggus" or whatnot, for which "Eggo" would be the ablative and dative singular. If that were the case, and "Eggus" meant "waffle", I believe it could be translated as "I think I am for the waffle", "I think I am to the waffle", "I think I am by means of the waffle", or several other things (I never really fully got the ablative).
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Douglas Adams would be rolling on the floor upon hearing that there was a bar at the center of the galaxy...
Romanes eunt domus!
This isn't exactly news, either.
I knew Slashdot was always a little behind the news, but isn't 100 billion years a little ridiculous?! Come on, editors! Keep up! ;-)
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By "Meaning of Life" we should all read "Life of Brian", right?
Stuart
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Another bar... so much for the neighborhood.
--ken
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You forgot "sum". "I think waffles exist"?
...the existence of a restaurant at the end of the universe.