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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.""
Didn't we allready see this in a couple of Star Trek episodes?
Star Trek is once again way ahead of "real" science. Why don't the so-called scientists just watch Star Trek and write their books and scientific papers based on what is portrayed in Star Trek? That way we would leap ahead HUNDREDS OF YEARS in scientific discoveries; we'd allready have faster-than-light travel and transporter technology. That'd be cool. I'd be transporting hot girls into my bedroom all day long. Gaaahhhh drewl.
Stoopid scientists. I want girls.
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
I'm replying to my own post. I went and analyzed their 'high-quality TIFF' and the medium quality image I posted above. First of all, let me say that it IS POSSIBLE that TIFFs are a very, very special file format that look differently before you start processing them for correct color control, etc. However, if that's not the case, then it appears that an artist saved either the med-quality JPG first or the high-quality TIFF first, because there are DEFINITE differences between the two pictures in the hole area. On one image, there are severe differences between the gray/black areas of the photos.
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I'm not going to proofread this, but it could be a total wack job post from me, as I'm on unfamiliar drugs right now (oxycodone aka Percocet) due to having gotten LASEK (not LASIK or PRK) eye surgery about 18 hours ago. Holy crap, holy crap. My vision without glasses is absolutely amazing. If you have the cash or live in a place with socialized health care (I'm US military, and they have a program to pay for the entire to be done), then you should DEFINITELY go for it. Unfortunately, there are no LONG, LONG term effects studies, but the original LASIK procedure has been out for 15 years, and LASEK and PRK have been out for nearly ten years. While there is no way of knowing the long-term implications for SURE until time has passed, but due to the nature of the surgery any ill long-term effects are likely to be non-existant, and since none of the world's serious practicing optometrist/opthamologists have a problem with this surgery, I am not very concerned. The entire procedure took less than 20 minutes sitting in the chair, and that's under 30sec laser time per eye. Anyway, I'm a little drowsy right now and have been having trouble writing this mess of words. Thanks for your time.
Well, just another fault of George Bush, somehow. :)
Or how about this? How about...there's a lot of unknown out there!
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How is parent insightful? Because of some nice sounding sentences?
It's not an issue of intelligence but of free will. Humans have the free will to decide if they go to heaven, or to hell. Animals can't make that decision.
How do you know this? Because some self-referential book told you? I'm sorry, this has nothing to do with religion but rather all the unsubstantiated assumptions that must be made in order to make this statement true or insightful. I count at least 5.
It's full of st... Oh, wait never mind.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
Did no one think of Battlestar Galactica's void before me?
I cried real tears when Li Mu Bai died.
Free will is not even a logical possibility.
Either your actions follow from your past experiences and the genetically determined constitution of your brain.
If they are not, they must be completely random.
In neither case you have any free will.
Huh? It's really more difficult to tell whether you have free will than whether heaven/hell exists. If you die and go to heaven or hell, you'll know they probably exist. But what evidence can there be that one has free will?