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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
"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!
I always knew that the milky way was a bar, and that it is filled with nougat.
...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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e.g.
public class CBarredSpiral : CSpiral
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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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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