Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Science The Biggness
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Right after learning that the surface of my insides could cover a fucking tennis court, I learn this:
Our galaxy is much bigger than once thought, according to research presented at a major astronomy meeting this week.Everything is getting bigger and bigger. We are giants in a giant galaxy.The results suggest the Milky Way is roughly the same size as Andromeda, the largest galaxy in our local group.
What is more, it is moving 15% faster than earlier predictions.
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it's the universe's hard-on for Obama because the nation's journalists' collective boner is not large enough.
Hey Charles, did you know that 80% of Most Published Research Findings Are False.
Hey Charles, did you know that 80% of Most Published Research Findings Are False.
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This video by cosmologist Smoot will make you feel small again, and is really cool:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/georg…
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/georg…
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Yet for Charles, the slavery experience is getting smaller and smaller, as only the Black American slave experience counts as slavery:
"How on earth can you be the daughter of slaves and at the same time still be alive?" (Next Up to Death)
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Funny how having to look at it from the inside makes it harder to see the big picture of it, so that we arguably know less about our own galaxy than we do about others, even though we can see it up close.
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