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Mysterious MilkyWay Warp Finally Explained?
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us Space.com is reporting that scientists think that a collision between mysterious 'dark matter' and two of the Milky Way's nearby neighbors may be causing our galaxy to warp 'like a vinyl record left out in the hot Sun.' From the article: 'The warp is most clearly visible in a thin disk of hydrogen gas that extends across the entire 200,000-light-year diameter of the Milky Way. Viewed sideways, one half of the hydrogen disk appears to stick up above our galaxy's plane of stars and gas, while the other half dips below the plane for a bit and then rises upward again farther away from the galaxy's center.'"
There was a related article in November-- with evidence pointing towards a massive black hole at the center of the LMC. (The Milky Way's closest neighbor)
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I've always wondered, how do we know our own galaxy's shape? From our point of view. do we just look 360, more stars there, less stars here, therefore we're on the rim side of the galaxy?
Other than that, I agree with everything you said.
This reminds me of another flare-up on
Basically, he's been submitting since 2002 and has had similar complaints dog him ever since.
I'll pull two comments from the thread and then go my merry way:
comment #1 Monday January 02, 2005 a reply to comment #1 I hope we don't get hit by one of the infinite mod-point-squad
[Fuck Beta]
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Yeah, I've seen those about Roland.
The fact is, shameless as he is, Roland is actually a real journalist, who writes for "real" journalistic sources (quotation marks denote wired). And he's been a slashdot member for a long time.
So I let him slide. Plus all his greenlights aren't from the same ModMin.
**Beatles has accomplished in THREE MONTHS what Roland accomplished in THREE YEARS. And without ever once pretending like he gave a fuck about technology.
~Will
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Right. And I am not even whining about my submissions. They were rejected, someone submitted them with a better headline, so-and-so wants to give a UFIA to submitter's mom, whatever, I don't care.
All I was pointing out was that the fact that 800,000 people have signed up since me, and that I've been here 5 years; the fact that I've been contributing positively (I had 50 karma long long long before karma went to the bill-and-ted system), the fact that enough people respect my opinion that I have over 130 fans (of which I'm very proud and greatful; see my journal on making fans friends), the fact that I still have my complete A-Z archive of Geeks in Space, and that I listened to it from the very first one - I think all these things entitle me to at least ask these questions.
Blowing me off doesn't really make me feel like I mean anything to this community, that my contributions don't matter, and I'll be honest, Jamie... it stings a little.
~Will
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Click on the link to his userpage (the ~/* * Beatles-Beatles link), and click on the links he's submitted.
For starters, they all start with "Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us [insert real news source here] has found a new [treatment for cancer | robot arm | galaxy | fad diet].
They're all posted by ScuttleMonkey.
And they all prominantly link to his webpage, which has nothing to do with him-as-a-person (there's no bio) or technology-in-general.
~W
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That is mighty suspicious. I noticed some of the stories now say " An anonymous reader writes"
"he drew his sword Ringil that glittered like ice... and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds..."
I guess one *could* call it "explained", although involving this "mysterious dark matter" is much like explaning how the Sun can shine as "we now know the Sun get fueled by some mysterious nuclear process".
This explanation only highlights our problems with dark matter even more, and things get especially funny if it's later discovered if it didn't exist. Then watch a number of theories fall apart during a night.
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