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Spiral Arm Of Milky Way Looms Closer Than Thought
New Scientist ^
| 12-8-2005
| Maggie McGee
Posted on 12/08/2005 3:16:16 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
BTT
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:34:46 PM PST
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: Zuben Elgenubi
The Galactic Center consists of the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:40:05 PM PST
by
BraveMan
To: Dog; KevinDavis
Necco's Sky Bar. Take your pick, one of four different creamy centers (no spinning black holes, by the way).
I didn't realize they still make 'em.
Kevin Davis, SpacePing
To: BraveMan
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:41:53 PM PST
by
dinodino
To: BenLurkin
Bad news, you're in the wrong galaxy. ;)
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:43:41 PM PST
by
Heatseeker
(Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
To: blam
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:43:57 PM PST
by
Gone_Postal
(government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take it away)
To: BraveMan
We used to call those treats from Iraq, 'candyasses'. I'll take a dozen if you please. I enjoy the 'lightly killed' version, too. LOL
To: blam
It's a good thing I don't live on a world in the Scutum Arm of the galaxy; I'd always be getting that name wrong. ;)
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:45:52 PM PST
by
Heatseeker
(Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
To: blam
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:48:55 PM PST
by
Redcitizen
(My tagline can beat up your honor tagline)
To: BraveMan
The Galactic Center consists of the finest baby frogsBut don't they even take the bones out?
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:51:10 PM PST
by
GaltMeister
(“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
To: blam
"Spiral Arm Of Milky Way Looms Closer Than Thought"Really? how far away is thought?
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:55:30 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: blam
Looking at our suns position in your pic it appears we live in the armpit of the galaxy.
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posted on
12/08/2005 3:56:42 PM PST
by
saganite
(The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
To: blam
I don't think we are totally in the boonies. There are other arm structures and we are in one of the minor ones if not living right downtown.
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posted on
12/08/2005 4:03:00 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Not transferable -- Good only for this trip)
To: saganite; blam; RightWhale
I for one am glad that God placed us in an out of the way place in the galaxy.
If there is life out there, they is less likely to find us before we are ready to go out and find them.
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posted on
12/08/2005 4:20:40 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: BenLurkin
From where we are, technological and naturally migratory, we could populate the entire galaxy in one million years. All 100 billion stars. We needn't worry about being found, we will do the finding.
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posted on
12/08/2005 4:26:54 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Not transferable -- Good only for this trip)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
12/08/2005 4:28:59 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: blam
This is proof of intelligent design!
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posted on
12/08/2005 4:30:22 PM PST
by
Unknowing
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
To: blam
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posted on
12/08/2005 4:31:28 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Warning: Self-referential object does not reference itself.)
To: blam
Drat, see, now, this would never happen if we were living on Uranus.
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posted on
12/08/2005 4:32:29 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
What's in the Galactic Center? Perhaps if we knew the nature of the center we'd also know why the galaxy is spiral.If you want a serious answer, the center of the galaxy is a giant black hole; its massive gravitational pull helps hold the galaxy together. But I'm not sure if it's nougat flavored.
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posted on
12/08/2005 4:32:56 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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