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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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from the well-now-i-don't-believe-in-nothin dept.'
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Further Proof of why religion is wright and Science is wrong because while religion stays the same science is always changing and proving itself wrong.
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Well the actual problem is people on both sides. First you have one group who believes that science is actual truth, and that all the problems in the world can be fixed with science. Then there is an other group who believes that their religion is the full truth and anything to prove the otherwise is evil. Science is a process of formally figuring out how the universe works, it deals with a lot of guess work and we just check to see if our guesses are feasible. Religion on the other hand is more of a combined study where you put together many different studies and look at the truth as a whole, and if science can't 100% prove it, other theories are fair game, if they fit within the philosophy better. The main difference is science is trying to constantly disprove itself while religion is trying to prove itself. They are not opposing forces just different methods of trying to find truth.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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Wow... I need a Totally-Off-Topic +1 mod...
I hear the galaxy is being sued by Russian astrologers.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Thank you negative responses for making it harder on my poor virgin fingers to read /.
I for one welcome our new linked-article-quoting overlords.
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The Milky Way a Spiral is Not
ETEQ "Space.com new data reports from the Spitzer Space Telescope showing that the Milky Way a barred spiral is in fact! All our old astronomy textbooks thrown away will have to be looks like..." writes.
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-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
They threw all those so-called "science" textbooks away many years ago in Cobb County, Georgia,... No one down there believes that cock-a-mamie bullcrap about the universe being created by some kind of, "Big Bang," and taking millions upon billions of years to create. They all believe that the heavens and earth were created in 7 days by God himself.
Football season must be coming fast. When I saw the headline the the Milky Way is "not a spiral", the first thought through my head was "oh, so it's a duck."
(Europeans who didn't get the joke: I'm referrencing jargon from American football, not soccer. Let's not get our panties in a twist about what America calls its sports, m'kay?)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I, for one, welcome our new barred spiral overlords.