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Mysterious 'supervoid' in space is largest object ever discovered, scientists claim
www.telegraph.co.u ^
| 7:09PM BST 20 Apr 2015
| By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
Posted on 04/20/2015 1:25:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Perhaps it was a civilization that detonated a matter disintegrator that was .65 billion LY radius, and this was the result.
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04/20/2015 1:36:28 PM PDT
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Lazamataz
(The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly becoI me a means to censorship of dissent.)
To: RightGeek
OMG...I hope they were able to roll that beached whale back into the ocean...poor critter.
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:37:29 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: Lazamataz
Their calculations for the destruction radius was slightly off by a parsec or two............
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:37:53 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:38:15 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: rjsimmon
More importantly, it implies matter.
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04/20/2015 1:38:21 PM PDT
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SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: RightGeek
I thought their dog was dead?..............
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:38:43 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Red Badger
Calling a void, a big chunk of nothing a structure or an object? Interesting manner of thinking!
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:39:38 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Red Badger
So... it’s NOT the largest OBJECT...
more like the largest ABSENCE of an object.
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:39:49 PM PDT
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MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:40:27 PM PDT
by
woofie
To: rjsimmon
Not really. “Structure” implies some sort of organization different than its surroundings. Leave some salt water to evaporate, and you’ll see plenty of “structure” that wasn’t “built” (unless you want to move your explanation seriously into the supernatural realm).
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04/20/2015 1:40:57 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Hillary:polarizing/calculating/disingenuous/insincere/ambitious/inevitable/entitled/overconfident/se)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:41:20 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Red Badger
This was a plot device in one of the later “Star Trek” series episodes. TNG? Voyager?
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04/20/2015 1:42:43 PM PDT
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Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Lazamataz
There is a theory that intelligent beings develop their scientific knowledge thru roughly the same process, eventually reaching a point where a “scientist” does the equivalent of “I wonder what happens if I try _this_...” and the entire planet/system/galaxy ceases to exist. Maybe someone tried it on a remarkably large scale in the center of that region...
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04/20/2015 1:43:00 PM PDT
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ctdonath2
(Hillary:polarizing/calculating/disingenuous/insincere/ambitious/inevitable/entitled/overconfident/se)
To: tet68
Universal cooling!
We are in for it now
It will become universe warming caused by earth SUVs.
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:44:15 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Red Badger
Change the data to fit the model. Always protect the model
To: Red Badger
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04/20/2015 1:45:46 PM PDT
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TexasFreeper2009
(You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
To: Red Badger
It sits in a region of space which is much colder than other parts of the universe and although it is not a vacuum, it seems to have around 20 per cent less matter than other regions.
...
So it’s really not a void, a vacuum, or empty. But let’s call it a supervoid to get attention.
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04/20/2015 1:46:23 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Red Badger
The ‘supervoid’, which is 1.8 billion light-years across, is the largest known structure Is a lack of material actually a structure? Like a hole in your heart or a forgotten song?
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posted on
04/20/2015 1:46:41 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: rjsimmon
I was curious how they came to determine a “void” is an “object” (or even worse - a “structure”).
The author doesn’t own a dictionary, it would seem.
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04/20/2015 1:49:03 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
To: illiac
ROFL My thought was the same when I read the heading LOL
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