Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System

beadwindow writes "NASA's IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft has made the first all-sky maps of the heliosphere and the results have taken researchers by surprise. The maps are bisected by a bright, winding ribbon of unknown origin: 'This is a shocking new result,' says IBEX principal investigator Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute. 'We had no idea this ribbon existed — or what has created it. Our previous ideas about the outer heliosphere are going to have to be revised.' Another NASA scientist notes, '"This ribbon winds between the two Voyager spacecraft and was not observed by either of them.'"

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religion is about self-emergent phenonomena

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religion says what truth is in spite of reality, and as a brute act of faith, turns what it believes into reality.

all science tells you is static things: how things react. science never tells you, and can never tell you, about the consequences of the proactive forces of mankind's ambitions. mankind is a creative force, he does not adapt to the environment like other animals, he adapts the environment to him

so what do you create? religion tells you how and what to create of societies and the world. a lot of what current religions say on the subject sucks. but any answer to the question: so what do we make of this thing called life? is an act of religiosity that you are undertaking, regardless of how much you dislike traditional organized religion. in other words, you need to draw a line between your animosity between traditional religiosity and your own religious-type thinking, and realize that they all fall under the same semantic umbrella: you are a religious person. and you can be a religious person, and have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with traditional religions

what does a guy do with his life is a question science can never answer, because science is all about inert, static inanimate phenomena, only about reactions in the natural world. it says nothing, and can forever more say nothing, out of a simple consequence of what the definition of science is, about what mankind should do with his existence. that's where religion comes in: it defines self-emergent phenomena of mankind in groups that in turn eventually shapes the natural world

you're not saying anything

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you're arguing about word definitions. moving around semantics is a not a useful debate. say something conceptual, or say nothing at all, as the sum total of your comment is nothing but a bunch of grammatical legalistic posturing

i understood what he said

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he understood what i said

but he think its more important to debate the defintion of words. stupid

its the mark of small mind: posture about word definitions rather than articulate a concept

still it is a lot better than sniping pointlessly as an anonymous coward