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Scientists Find Doublehelix at Center of Milky Way
An anonymous reader writes "Astronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy, using observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The part of the nebula the astronomers observed stretches 80 light years in length."
You will see a large, light absorbing, black monolith - howling Ligeti - in the center of the nebula.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
Maybe that's why he calls himself "BadAnalogyGuy".
Scientists have discovered a restaurant at the end of the universe.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
"But as far as science is concerned whatever may be beyond our universe is irrelevant because we have no way of observing it."
That may be, but I'm confident that some day we'll successfully explore the region north of the north pole...
Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.
Jack Handey
Deep Thoughts
Haha, he makes me chuckle
or does anyone else see Cthulhu looking out at them from this picture... Come to think about it I see Cthulhu looking at me from most pictures ... oh there he is now...oh my god!! he's everywhere!!!
Siggy Sig Sig? Where is the sig?
"What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe"
I guess that's why flying fish return to the water, they fear the unknown... Call it intelligent falling.
hmmm... would corporate involvement disqualify this as "intelligent design" I wonder...
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
... and if we modulate the subspace fields around the magnetodynamic plasma conduits while simultaneously emitting bursts of tachyon particles, we can spin the double-helix around and make it do a little dance...
Hmmmm... that wasn't there before!
What makes jokes funny is the way they are told. He didn't exactly tell it right. Here's the full thing about a horse having an infinte number of legs, and when told properly makes better sense, from /usr/games/fortune:
Every Horse has an Infinite Number of Legs (proof by intimidation):
Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in
front they have fore-legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an
odd number of legs for a horse. But the only number that is both even
and odd is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of
legs. Now to show this for the general case, suppose that somewhere,
there is a horse that has a finite number of legs. But that is a horse
of another color, and by the [above] lemma ["All horses are the same
color"], that does not exist.
Oolite: Elite-like game. For Mac, Linux and Windows
who thought of 2001 (and the Simpsons) when I read that headline.
When travelling, it's ok if the airlines lose your emotional baggage.
Shape of gravity,shape of space-time,Shape of magnetic field lines.They all have one thing in common . hexagonal
So we start out with a strand of DNA, and the camera zooms out, and you see the cells, the organism, skip a few, then the earth, solar syste, galaxy, big DNA helix in space, and start over.
So if we're just in someone else's cells, how long until we're all wiped out in 'The Big Sneeze'?
If that isn't a sign of an Intelligent Creator, I don't know what is.
*removes tongue from cheek*
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
The sun is one astronomical unit away. (150 Million kilometers) 4280 years of walking. You'd have to have started walking about the time the first pyramid was built to get there by today.
Your estimate appears 50% short. You fail to take into account that in order to safely walk to the Sun, especially at closer distances, you'd have to walk only at night.