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.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
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.
Gudanov - Sep 23, 2008 9:54:46 am PDT #145 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
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.
sumi - Sep 23, 2008 10:11:11 am PDT #152 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Barb - Sep 23, 2008 10:18:41 am PDT #153 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
I love that his name is Romeo. One of my best friends has four pugs. She's threatening one more, because she doesn't have a black pug. I'm thinking of staging an intervention.
(Says the woman with the three dogs, one of which weighs more than her four pugs put together.)
Barb - Sep 23, 2008 10:21:43 am PDT #154 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH.
The Republican Party just called me. Asked if I had time for a few questions.
"Will waterboard torture be applied?"
"Uh..."
"Besides, I'm a registered Democrat, your presidential candidate is about to keel over and die and your VP candidate is a terrifyingly inept and incredibly stupid woman whom I wouldn't trust with a single-celled organism, much less the fate of the free world. Good bye."