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200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way
KentuckyFC sends us to arXiv, as is his wont, for a paper (abstract; PDF preprint) making the claim that 200,000 elliptical galaxies are aligned in the same direction; the signal for this alignment stands out at 13 standard deviations. This axis is the same as the controversial alignment found in the cosmic microwave background by the WMAP spacecraft.
...but why would God need a starship?
WMAP spacecraft.
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They are running their spacecraft off of a Windows-MySQL-Apache-PHP stack? well I'll be
Does it really matter? 200,000 elliptical galaxies can't be wrong!
I was flipping bits on an abacus, newb.
Because they are terrorists. From the article,
"The axis of the CMB alignments has been referred to as the Axis of Evil"
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They do. There's a monkey there with a bone as well.
Evil people are out to get you.
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Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
It seems you do need 200,000 elliptical galaxies to know which way the wind blows.
Just don't tell Bush that we've found a new Axis - next thing you know he'll be drawing up plans for a 13,000-galaxy invasion force.
So this might help explain in Star Trek how all ships are always keeping the same orientation / sense of "up"...
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all your axis are belong to us.
never bring a twinkie to a food fight.
nope - the turtle.
"See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
If you want to run and play,
Come along the BEAM today."
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
god doesn't play dice
he plays with magnets
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Careful now, demonstrating a firm grasp of projective geometry and sampling/statistics is a good way to get a serious ass beating in certain parts of the US...
if 200,000 eliptical galaxies jumped off of a cliff... would you?
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Now convince Christians, Muslims and Jews to fight over that point in space instead of Jerusalem.
No, I imagine I'd be pulled off the cliff whether I liked it or not by the massive gravitational field...
Nobody else has this sig.
We're all being sucked into the same black hole!
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
The Vogons set these up - It's the marker lines for the new interstellar highway. Didn't you all read the details at the interstellar planning office on Alpha Centauri?
Fortunately, in a billion years Andromeda will merge with the Milky Way so we'll be able to get genuine Andromedan cuisine right here in the newly formed Andromilkeday galaxy.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
IANAP = I am not a planet?
Pluto? is that you?
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
You translated it wrong. A more accurate rendation is "can we have some more funding please?"
I will have a sig when the market demands it.
By your reasoning: One "entity" could be the shared properties, another "entity" is the collection of galaxies, and the third "entity" is space. Or am I thinking too object oriented on this?
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
He went to a lot of trouble to make things look random and natural, but this is obviously just a bunch of copies he whipped out to fill up space. for(int i=0;i200000;i++)myEllipticalGalaxy.Clone();
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It has to do with fiber and penises...you wouldn't understand.
Good to have you back, Feynman. We missed you.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
Tuesday.
it's a long string and all of the galaxies are tied to it, like beads...
What exactly does an experimental astrophysicist do? Create galaxies to see how they behave?
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.