"Pay no attention to that bulge in my back! I am the Great and Powerful Decider!!!"
It's not like she blew me off. She just left with another guy, that's all.
Riley ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Sep 23, 2008 9:45:28 am PDT #142 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
tommyrot - Sep 23, 2008 9:47:50 am PDT #143 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This is cool:
As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered.
Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can't be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon "dark flow."
The stuff that's pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude.
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Scientists discovered the flow by studying some of the largest structures in the cosmos: giant clusters of galaxies. These clusters are conglomerations of about a thousand galaxies, as well as very hot gas which emits X-rays. By observing the interaction of the X-rays with the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is leftover radiation from the Big Bang, scientists can study the movement of clusters.
The X-rays scatter photons in the CMB, shifting its temperature in an effect known as the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect.
I have a kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect - in my pants!
JZ - Sep 23, 2008 9:50:26 am PDT #144 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I have a kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect - in my pants!
That's what she said!
Gudanov - Sep 23, 2008 9:54:46 am PDT #145 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered.
Cool! It's awesome how much stuff we don't know about the Universe.
Connie Neil - Sep 23, 2008 9:56:09 am PDT #146 of 10001
brillig
The stuff that's pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude.
So we're all inside one of those magnetic "draw a mustache on the bald guy" games, and now we're seeing the clumps of iron filings being moved around by the magnetic wand?
Steph L. - Sep 23, 2008 9:57:05 am PDT #147 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can't be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon "dark flow."
The stuff that's pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude.
It's the Speed Force! Talk to The Flash.
tommyrot - Sep 23, 2008 9:57:59 am PDT #148 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So we're all inside one of those magnetic "draw a mustache on the bald guy" games, and now we're seeing the clumps of iron filings being moved around by the magnetic wand?
Yeah. Except it's not a mustache.
brenda m - Sep 23, 2008 10:00:48 am PDT #149 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah. Except it's not a mustache.
That's what she said!
brenda m - Sep 23, 2008 10:03:45 am PDT #150 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh, this is wrong like a wrong thing: [link]
Not actually unsafe for work, despite the designers best efforts.
Gudanov - Sep 23, 2008 10:05:27 am PDT #151 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
So we're all inside one of those magnetic "draw a mustache on the bald guy" games, and now we're seeing the clumps of iron filings being moved around by the magnetic wand?
Not really that exotic, it's just stuff responding to matter that is too far away to see. This sounds like just confirmation of what was already suspected, that there is a lot more Universe that what we can observe.