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.'"

Comments

hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps this is because the two-thirds of the people on Earth are fat. This could result in the part of the galaxy that Earth is located in to be weighed down which is warping the entire Milky Way.

'McDonalds: Changing the world -- literally'

How do we know our own shape?

[bronney]

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?

I'll say it for the under 30 crowd

[ackthpt]

'like a vinyl record left out in the hot Sun.'

What's a vinyl record?

;-)

Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..)

[zerocool^]

Digg is looking better all the time.

Now, hold on... I'm not suggesting that we jump ship.

All I'm asking for is Journalistic integrity.

I know digg exists. I deliberately come back to slashdot. The reason? I'm not here for the articles. I'm here for the discussion. I can get the information anywhere. I am at slashdot because I want to know what others think. There are some very smart and very connected people on Slashdot, and I value their opinion. I also find out about alternatives or other theories or random_x piece of software I didn't know existed from the comments. I consider it a great day when I see someone say "Well, if you like X, you'll love Y". That to me is slashdot's strength. And I try to contribute positively where I can.

All I am asking for is for the Admins to have a little integrity. Whatever happened to honesty? Whatever happened to shaking a man's hand, looking him in the eye, and telling the truth? I'm that kind of guy... so are many of my fellow Slashdot readers. And I have an almost irrational belief in the fundamental "goodness" of mankind.

If I had to nail down the problems of Slashdot these days, it's very simple:

1.) They don't hold their admins to the same level of integrity to which their readers hold themselves.
2.) They irrationally refuse to believe people like me exist; they refuse to believe that the strength of Slashdot is in the content provided by the readers.

But, one at a time. Let's get 1 working first, and then I think 2 will fall into place.

~Will

Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..)

[zerocool^]

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

Article summary in Limerick form

[melvin xavier]

There might a crash in the stars
Whose damage leaves oddly-shaped scars
Astronomists patter,
"It might be dark matter
That's making the warp so bizarre!"

Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..)

[Rob Bos]

*shakes his cane*

young'in.

Baloney

[quokkapox]

i suggest you look more into this matter, many things like the red shift are dependant to a degree on this, and its more voodoo than science (still.)

Boy, this thread is a trip. Parent's math is bunkum and your assertation which I directly quote above is also incorrect. Redshift has NOTHING to do with parallax measurements of distance, which can be calculated to many significant digits. Voodoo indeed. Don't believe everything you read on the internet that's modded +5, Informative...

Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..)

[dair]

young'in.

Get the hell off my lawn!