meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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The Astronomy Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Brahma
Obi-Bro Kenobi-X
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Spooky Discovery on Mars Looks Just Like an Alien Doorway
One of the most recent snaps beamed back from the Curiosity rover on Mars has revealed a rather interesting feature in the rocks: what looks to be a perfectly carved out doorway nestling in the Martian landscape.
www.sciencealert.com
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Big Phoenix
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
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It has to be nice to be that insanely incompetent and never get fired.
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jooka
marco esquandolas
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NASA’s new powerful space telescope gets hit by larger than expected micrometeoroid
One of JWST’s 18 mirrors was struck.
www.theverge.com
great that it wasn’t a bigger thing. Wonder what kind of crazy ass odds on that happening or maybe it isn’t? I really don’t know
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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conspiracy: JWST got btfo immediately after starting its unfurling, all the data and press releases are faked by a very small number of people responsible for communication and now they are starting the rollout of a series of "black swan" events that will ultimately result in the JWST being irrevocably destroyed.
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Aldarion
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I'm sure the eaters of chicken feet and builders of collapsing buildings accomplished this goal after just fucking around for a few years with it
Imagine believing any "science" coming out of China
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China either discovered an alien civilization, lied about finding one, or announced they did before they knew for sure.yeah, the West has been searching for alien civilizations for decades with no results.BNN Bloomberg – Canada Business News, TSX Today & Interest Rates
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I'm sure the eaters of chicken feet and builders of collapsing buildings accomplished this goal after just fucking around for a few years with it
Imagine believing any "science" coming out of China
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Brad2770
Avatar of War Slayer
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Ukerric
Bearded Ape
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spronk
FPS noob
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There are more galaxies in the Universe than even Carl Sagan ever imagined
Forget billions and billions. When it comes to the number of galaxies in the Universe, both theorists' and observers' estimates are too low.
bigthink.com
But when it comes to the number of galaxies that are actually out there, we’ve learned a number of important facts that have led us to revise that number upwards, and not just by a little bit. Our most detailed observations of the distant Universe, from the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, gave us an estimate of 170 billion galaxies. A theoretical calculation from a few years ago — the first to account for galaxies too small, faint, and distant to be seen — put the estimate far higher: at 2 trillion. But even that estimate is too low. There ought to be at least 6 trillion, and perhaps more like 20 trillion, galaxies, if we’re ever able to count them all.
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The good news for Sagan is that, if the cosmological constant is positive and remains so, he'll eventually be right, if only temporarily, as galaxies drop behind the observable horizon.
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