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"Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe
DynaSoar writes "NASA astrophysicists have discovered what they claim is something outside the observable universe exerting an effect on the observable. The material is pulling clusters of galaxies towards a region of space known not to contain sufficient matter to create the effect. They can only speculate on what the material is and how space might differ there: 'In these regions, space-time might be very different, and likely doesn't contain stars and galaxies (which only formed because of the particular density pattern of mass in our bubble). It could include giant, massive structures much larger than anything in our own observable universe. These structures are what researchers suspect are tugging on the galaxy clusters, causing the dark flow.'"
Now I feel even smaller than I did yesterday. Good job, science!
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Yes and the editors missed the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to run it under the heading "NASA SCIENTISTS DISCOVER GOD." Damn!
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
But I'd say if lots of really big things are being affected, then there could be a bigger thing out there.
It's a theory I know. I'd like to call it Cen's Big Fucking Thing theory, it's a big ball of stuff, chairs, signs, tanks, gravel and so on, literally sucking the universe dry of interesting stuff. A universal suck, maybe even a multiversal suck mechanism. Either way, I'm pretty sure we'll not see it coming.
Task Mangler
Somebody remind Professor Farnsworth not to point the smelloscope at the dark flow. He passed out last time.
The Dark Matter in US is pulling a ball busting amount of money away from tax payers to Large Banks.
In this area of Universe known as Capitol Hill and White House, the normal laws of space-time continumm is suspended so that banks which screw up your money get your money to bail out themselves.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
" If the known universe is expanding outward, that means that it has to have someplace to go, right?
Or am I just high right now?"
I'd say it's a little of both.
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Won't be long until astronomers discover the Odelay Nebulae. A cluster of three that resemble a microphone and a pair of turntables. The only question is 'Where its at?'.
-=Bang Bang=-
It's God
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> Yes, a big bagless vacuum cleaner. In my theory I'll outline to time of the apocalypse, or as I call it, Dyson time.
So if they had instead discovered the Cosmic Forge, would you have called it Hammer Time?
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This problem is solved in what will eventually be called the "Somebody Else's Problem" or SEP field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem
The fact that anything going on 13.7 billion light years away, given light speed restrictions, will take longer than your life or mine to get here instantaneously makes it Somebody Else's Problem. Thus, we cannot observe it, and it's more than likely anyone who is close enough to view it is also Somebody Else's Problem.
Seriously guys, the place is a red-taped bureaucracy waste. They're too busy running background checks on people in non-sensitive jobs to do research.
This just screams, "I got fired from my NASA cleaning job for using meth".
by definition, expansion of space is Imperial, not metric.
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This is not new and has even been filmed before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyzIau5dBao
Fuck Off Matter
You know, I've been wondering for a long time just exactly what is the secret ingredient in a tall, cool glass of Shut the Fuck Up.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Turtles all the way down...clearly.
Gerry
Whoa ...
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If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Once I did that 3 times in a row
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