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by Shadowman » Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:31 pm
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A gaping hole was found in the universe.For those too lazy to click a link:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A giant hole in the Universe is devoid of galaxies, stars and even lacks dark matter, astronomers said on Thursday.
The team at the University of Minnesota said the void is nearly a billion light-years across and they have no idea why it is there.
"Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size," said astronomy professor Lawrence Rudnick.
Writing in the Astrophysical Journal, Rudnick and colleagues Shea Brown and Liliya Williams said they were examining a cold spot using the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite, and found the giant hole.
"We already knew there was something different about this spot in the sky," Rudnick said. The region stood out as being colder in a survey of the Cosmic Microwave Background -- the faint radio buzz left over from the Big Bang that gave birth to the Universe.
"What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the Universe," Williams said in a statement.
The astronomers said the region even appeared to lack dark matter, which cannot be seen directly but is usually detected by measuring gravitational forces.
The void is in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus, southwest of Orion.
The researchers have posted images on the Internet at
http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/graphics.shtml.
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by Mkall » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:12 pm
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I always new there was something wrong with the universe
It's kinda cool actually, though I'm having trouble wrapping my head around a large gap of nothing.
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by Halo » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:32 pm
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Oh, THAT hole.
You see, the thing is, I own that section of the Universe, and I decided that I didn't want anyone peeping in on it, because that is just so rude. So I had built this GIANT device that creates the illsion of nothingness, so people can't be all snoopin' in my space.
Rodimus_Lantern wrote:You see there are three things in the universe. Rock, Paper, and Scissors. Halo beats all three.
Psycho Warrior wrote:And people say class is dead. In fact Halo reanimated it just so it could dance for her amusement.
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by DesalationReborn » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:44 pm
Halo wrote:Oh, THAT hole.
You see, the thing is, I own that section of the Universe, and I decided that I didn't want anyone peeping in on it, because that is just so rude. So I had built this GIANT device that creates the illsion of nothingness, so people can't be all snoopin' in my space.
Wrong! It is just a gaping, empty hole of no substance...
it's Burn's mouth!
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by Burn » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:03 pm
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DesalationReborn wrote:Halo wrote:Oh, THAT hole.
You see, the thing is, I own that section of the Universe, and I decided that I didn't want anyone peeping in on it, because that is just so rude. So I had built this GIANT device that creates the illsion of nothingness, so people can't be all snoopin' in my space.
Wrong! It is just a gaping, empty hole of no substance...
it's Burn's mouth!
Iz in your forumz devouringz your postz!
Okay I promise never to do that again.
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by Blitzkriegh » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:35 pm
.....dear lord....looks like Simon drilled his way through the IGG...or the Anti Spirals
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by Skowl » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:39 pm
Maybe that's where the Big Bang originated? Think about, if all the matter in the universe is getting further and further away from the point of the Big Bang, that means that the original point should be, well, pretty large and pretty empty by now...
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by SoundStang » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:57 am
Our Worlds are in Danger... To save them and the Galaxy, we must find the four cyber planet keys.... Sorry I couldn't help myself... (plus I just caught an episode of Cybertron this AM)
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by Counterpunch » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:15 am
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Behold, I will now tell a joke!
You know what Halo said recently?
Halo wrote:Oh, THAT hole.
...and we laughed and laughed.
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by Loki120 » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:43 am
Skowl wrote:Maybe that's where the Big Bang originated? Think about, if all the matter in the universe is getting further and further away from the point of the Big Bang, that means that the original point should be, well, pretty large and pretty empty by now...
That would be an interesting theory, only the most accepted theory is that the Big Bang happened everywhere all at once. It wasn't just a single point in the universe.
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by Halo » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:30 pm
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Counterpunch wrote:Behold, I will now tell a joke!
You know what Halo said recently?
Halo wrote:Oh, THAT hole.
...and we laughed and laughed.
... ... ...
F*** you.
Rodimus_Lantern wrote:You see there are three things in the universe. Rock, Paper, and Scissors. Halo beats all three.
Psycho Warrior wrote:And people say class is dead. In fact Halo reanimated it just so it could dance for her amusement.
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by Nemesis Cyberplex » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:40 pm
Atreyu: Uh-oh, Falcor. That kid's reading our damn book again.
Falcor: Now the Nothingness will consume everything.....
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by TheMuffin » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:32 pm
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Eridanus system.... That's where John, Spartan-117 AKA Master Chief was born....It was also bombarded by the covenant and glassed till there was nothing left.....Uhh....That's a mighty odd coincidence.
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by Senor Hugo » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:50 pm
TheMuffin wrote:Eridanus system.... That's where John, Spartan-117 AKA Master Chief was born....It was also bombarded by the covenant and glassed till there was nothing left.....Uhh....That's a mighty odd coincidence.
Yeah, that is a very odd coincidence.
Now, lets hope we don't start seeing an influx of green jellyfish squid bubble things.
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by Chosen » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:53 pm
And here I thought that was just another effect of one of those billion times Seibs went down, taking a whole lot of data with it.
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by Prowl86 » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:40 pm
Uhhhh...... UNICRON DID IT!
Senor Hugo wrote:Today, Michael Bay ate a turkey sandwich, to which he declared "needs more explosions" and promptly threw the chef out a window. It was caught on camera and will be seen in TF2.
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by UltraPrimal » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:14 pm
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Obvious Prime wrote:Uhhhh...... UNICRON DID IT!
And that's why we call him
Obvious Prime.
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by Halo » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:14 pm
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Senor Hugo wrote:TheMuffin wrote:Eridanus system.... That's where John, Spartan-117 AKA Master Chief was born....It was also bombarded by the covenant and glassed till there was nothing left.....Uhh....That's a mighty odd coincidence.
Yeah, that is a very odd coincidence.
Now, lets hope we don't start seeing an influx of green jellyfish squid bubble things.
*ahem*
Glassing a planet means firing something so hot (in the Covenants case, plasma) upon a planets surface that the surface basically melts and becomes glass. The nothing left part, it means that there is nothing left on the planet, and that it's not fit for habitation. The planets there, it's just a big ball of glass now.
Rodimus_Lantern wrote:You see there are three things in the universe. Rock, Paper, and Scissors. Halo beats all three.
Psycho Warrior wrote:And people say class is dead. In fact Halo reanimated it just so it could dance for her amusement.
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by TheMuffin » Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:32 pm
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Halo wrote:Senor Hugo wrote:TheMuffin wrote:Eridanus system.... That's where John, Spartan-117 AKA Master Chief was born....It was also bombarded by the covenant and glassed till there was nothing left.....Uhh....That's a mighty odd coincidence.
Yeah, that is a very odd coincidence.
Now, lets hope we don't start seeing an influx of green jellyfish squid bubble things.
*ahem*
Glassing a planet means firing something so hot (in the Covenants case, plasma) upon a planets surface that the surface basically melts and becomes glass. The nothing left part, it means that there is nothing left on the planet, and that it's not fit for habitation. The planets there, it's just a big ball of glass now.
True enough. Still an odd coincidence though.
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