Our universe is so rad!

[BurtReynolds]

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pix ... ystem.html

[BurtReynolds]

bodysnatcher is gonna be so depressed when he sees that.

[bodysnatcher]

I love this stuff!

http://www.distancetomars.com/

[bodysnatcher]

bodysnatcher is gonna be so depressed when he sees that.

neh, it's actually quite comforting. knowing that none of this stuff matters... I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT

[dimejinky99]

Spiral galaxies such as our own milky way, are among the most common in the universe, but does anyone know if they all flow the same way? or is it like that toilet flush thing down in the southern hemisphere where some go the other way?


the things that keep me awake at night

[dimejinky99]

and this..i cant wrap my head around it, at all..

[Alex]

and this..i cant wrap my head around it, at all..

all of the planets could fit between the earth and the moon

[dimejinky99]

apparently so..

[Alex]

think of all the things we could cram in there to fill the extra 4,990 miles

[dimejinky99]

A manmade planet, made entirely of waste material from earth. All recycled to make a planetoid devoted to recycling materials.

We'll eventually be mining on the moon..lotta possibilities and consequences of that

[Alex]

i was thinking we could fill it with the reels of film shot for the hobbit movies

[dimejinky99]

One of the British newspapers came up with this the other day..Time it takes to read The Hobbit all the way through, about 5 hours. Time it takes to watch the Hobbit trilogy, about 8.5 hours

and they didn't include the extended editions


(they were all shot on digital cameras by the way...most cinemas dont use film anymore)

[Alex]

well if movies are all digital now it makes it hard to make that joke about how long a movie is by comparing it to the distance from the earth to the moon

[dimejinky99]

They were too long and apparently this new one could be longer(except the battle at the end which goes on too long apparently)


they can make rocket fuel outta poop.
http://disinfo.com/2014/12/rocket-fuel-human-waste/

[E.H. Ruddock]

Researchers in China have spotted a supermassive black hole, 12 billion times the size of the sun and around 900 million years old.

The black hole is larger than any of its age previously seen, the journal "Nature" reports.

A black hole is a dense region of space that has collapsed in on itself in a way that means nothing can escape it, not even light.

Releasing their findings in "Nature," researchers led by teams from China's Peking University and the University of Arizona said the black hole -- named SDSS J010013.02 -- was six times larger than its biggest known contemporaries.


"The existence of such black holes when the Universe was less than one billion years old presents substantial challenges to theories of the formation and growth of black holes and the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies," they said.

"Nature" reported that lead researcher Xue-Bing Wu of Peking University and his colleagues first sighted the black hole using a telescope in Yunnan, China, and used additional telescopes around the world to examine it.

In a media release, the University of Arizona said that the black hole powered "the brightest quasar of the early universe." NASA describes quasars as "the brilliant beacons of light that are powered by black holes feasting on captured material, and in the process, heating some of the matter to millions of degrees."

Team member Fuyun Bian, from the Australian National University, said that the light from a quasar was thought to push back material behind it and limit the growth of black holes.

"However this black hole at the center of the quasar gained enormous mass in a short period of time," Bian said.

Another researcher, Chris Willott, told "Nature" that a possible explanation could be that some black holes were formed by the collapse of a very large gas cloud -- rather than that of a single star.

"We are still very uncertain as to the modes of black-hole formation and growth in the early Universe," he told the journal.

Writing in "Nature," astronomer Bram Venemans explains: "Theoretically, it is not implausible to find a black hole of more than 10 billion solar masses within 1 billion years after the Big Bang. But it is still surprising to uncover such a massive black hole in the early Universe."

"This quasar is very unique," the University of Arizona quoted lead researcher Wu as saying. "Just like the brightest lighthouse in the distant universe, its glowing light will help us to probe more about the early Universe."

[nyquillyn]

That's crazy. That means that the universe probably would have had to expand faster than we thought. As the article and others point out, there shouldn't have been enough matter for it to get that big. It's a huge discovery.

[Fuck You Jobu]

That's crazy. That means that the universe probably would have had to expand faster than we thought. As the article and others point out, there shouldn't have been enough matter for it to get that big. It's a huge discovery.

I see what you did there.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I'm still blown away by this.

[Norah]

But more importantly, is it blue and black or white and gold?

[Alex]

i wonder what the supermassive jackhole broken iris would have thought about this