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Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe
realwx writes "Astronomers are surprised by a recent discovery of a space hole that is nearly a billion light years across. "Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size," said researcher Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota. Rudnick's colleague Liliya R. Williams also had not anticipated this finding. "What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the universe," said Williams, also of the University of Minnesota.""
God is giving you the goatse.
Platform advocacy is like choosing a favorite severely developmentally disabled child.
Maybe its a civilization that managed to blow themselves out of history trought an accident somehow? If it is, I hope we can control that technology better when we advance enough to have it.
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Next time, remove the lens cap.
Sounds like a whole lot of nothing to me.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
Your theory of a donut shaped universe intrigues me, Homer. I may have to steal it. That's the first thing I thought of when I read this.
The scientists had just recently answered the bugging question "Is there a hole on Mars?" but now they too had answered a bigger question still.. "Is there a hole out there, in the expanse of the universe?"
A great day to be alive....
Well I guess the ones who used to live out there had something similar like our LHC...
...and it was overlooked all this time. How's that for a security flaw?
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is that in the middle of all of infinite space, they've now found space without anything in it? Let me know when they build something exciting there.
don't worry about it, god is patching that on tuesday.
...said God, and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
The hole is not considered serious, since it is not remotely exploitable. It will be fixed in Universe 1.1, which is to be released shortly.
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Old question to the Christians that insist we are the only intelligent life in the universe: Do you really think God gave up after just one mistake?
Newer question: Are you really sure we were the first mistake?
I blame George Bush.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
How many Albert Halls is that?
What?
They wanted to call it Uranus, but that name was given
``More info here (with pictures..)''
Pictures?! Of nothing?!
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
A photo of a hole...in the the biggest emptiness in the universe. I can see that one winning competitions.
throw new NoSignatureException();
...so that's where my socks went.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
Fry: Let me ask you something. Has anyone ever discovered a hole in nothing with monsters in it? 'Cause if I'm the first, I want them to call it a "Fry Hole".
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Fry: So what do you nerds want?
Nichelle Nichols: It's about that rip in space-time that you saw.
Stephen Hawking: I call it a Hawking Hole.
Fry: No fair! I saw it first!
Stephen Hawking: Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?
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Farnsworth: Yes, we tore the universe a new space-hole, alright. But it's clenching shut fast!
Universe needs to stop running defrag every few million years, it's leaving giant empty space holes and confusing the scientists.
Billions of years ago, the Emperor Gortron IV of the Hugalugag Empire discovered the existence of other intelligent races in neighboring solar systems. The very fact of this, the mere idea of other races so infuriated the Emperor that he decreed them all illegal and ordered his vast military machine to wipe them out.
His generals tried many different approaches but none served to eliminate the threat completely. In fact, often times, the attempt would so infuriate the enemy that they would buzz about the borderlands of the Empire for years on end, death-raying this, atomic blasting that until they could finally be stamped out by the Hugalugagians with plain old fashioned space wars. This only further enraged the Emperor, and so he held a contest open to any of his citizens that could fashion a means to end the threat once and for all without requiring the messiness of pitched combat and planetary siege. The race of Hugalugag was quite xenophobic from top to bottom, from the least peasant in the fields to the mighty Emperor on high, and so everyone turned their thoughts on how to eradicate the menace of 'otherness' that surrounded them.
One day a simple weaponsmith by the name of Nancypoo Gammatron approached the throne with his proposal. This took a great deal of courage, for when the Emperor listened to the proposals of all that had come before, he only listened far enough to find a potential weakness in the plan and immediately ordered the presenter disintegrated. Proposals had become infrequent of late, which in turn further enraged the already apoplectic Emperor when he thought on it. Nevertheless, Nancypoo felt he had a fine idea. His great innovation was all in the scale of things. The Hugalugugians would build a gun so gigantic that they could march it out to one enemy star system and use their sun as a bullet to shoot the sun of yet another enemy, and so on until all enemies even remotely able to reach them were reduced to ash before they knew what hit them.
The Emperor was pleased with this idea indeed. So impressed that he ordered ten thousand of these guns be made with all due haste. And though the Hugalugagians would need to dismantle much of their empire to construct the weapons, including many planets and stars of their own, and it would take millions of years to stage the attack, at the end, the Hugalugagians might finally have a sense of peace and security. Which is really what it is all about, in the end- assuaging the vague fears with brutal violence.
You can rest assured that the Emperor's forces cleaned out their own galaxy only to find the next galaxy over teaming with filthy others, and so the troops marched on, ever on, cleaning out one galaxy after another until any potential threat was addressed, a never ending assault on a reality that didn't jibe with their mean psychology and ancient traditions, until even today. For though we can only see a hole in the universe one billion light years across, you can bet that they've been hard at work all the time the light has taken to reach us way out here in our galaxy, so that even now there is a lonley little planet orbiting around a lonely little star in a void many times the size of the big blank spot we can make out from our hopefully remote-enough vantage point here in the Milky Way.
They finally did it! Those Maniacs! They stopped Plan Nine and now they blew up their own solarbonite bombs! Damn them! Now the unstoppable chain reaction from their part of space has started! God damn them all to hell!
I'm looking through a hole in the sky
I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
I'm getting closer to the end of the line
I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine
One of Black Sabbath's lesser known, but still excellent works.
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
you mean 'hole'...
... without pics
Gosh, this IS exciting!!! So what's coming through the hole from outside the universe???? I can't wait to find out!!
Everything I needed to know about life, I learnt from Blake's Seven
Move along.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
I have just found a large hole in my sock, which is expanding, I wonder if my socks are an analogue of the Universe. or is it only the left one?
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Karma: Chameleon
From the great people who brought you pictures of something
We don't want the Krikkit guys knowing we're out here.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
If the Hubble spots five different Enterprises by that hole, I'm outta here...
I can see it now: An alien race needs styrofoam to truly thrive. Billions of years ago, they send out little bits of organic materials precoded to end up with styrofoam. Time passes. Dinosaurs evolve and die (not due to any meteor strike, but because their DNA has an innate kill switch). Mankind evolves and learns to extract the decayed leftovers of the dinosaurs from the Earth's crust. We develop the technology to make styrofoam.
Now that we've fulfilled our evolutionary purpose, it's our time to go away like the dinosaurs.
Of course, the aliens who created us, they're thinking . . . "okay, these things we've created . . . they can be killed by viruses right? Okay, and they like sex a whole lot, right? So what we need is a deadly virus that is passed by sex."
Is it any surprise that the AIDS epidemic really took off about the same time McDonald's stopped using Styrofoam? I think not!
--AC
Breaking news, jesus was satan.
Lucifer is a Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from lux, lucis, "light", and ferre, "to bear, bring"), a Roman astrological term for the "Morning Star"http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer
I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright Morning Star. (Rev 22:16). Is he admitting it?
While divination and magic are a sin, Jesus performs "miracles" seemingly at will. Whats the difference between a Miracle and Magic?
Second Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me
Yet, most christian faiths worship Jesus before God. Jesus is the symbol of their faith, not the "True Creator" or "God." Wouldn't it just be a nice simple trick for the devil, whos primary role is to take souls away from God, to come to earth and trick millions of followers into following a false prophet.
I dunno, just an idea. Think for yourself.
crap.
The important question is, can little people use it to rob Napoleon and Sean Connery and others?
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
What?
Don't cross the streams.
Why?
It would be bad.
I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
Try to imagine the instant annihilation of all matter and energy within 500 million light years of here.
Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
That's not having the wool pulled over your eyes, that's trying to wear the sheep like a balaclava.