200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way 448
KentuckyFC sends us to arXiv, as is his wont, for a paper (abstract; PDF preprint) making the claim that 200,000 elliptical galaxies are aligned in the same direction; the signal for this alignment stands out at 13 standard deviations. This axis is the same as the controversial alignment found in the cosmic microwave background by the WMAP spacecraft.
They're pointing the way to God, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Holy Crap (Score:2, Funny)
They are running their spacecraft off of a Windows-MySQL-Apache-PHP stack? well I'll be
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"The axis of the CMB alignments has been referred to as the Axis of Evil"
Easy. They point towards the monolith (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Easy. They point towards the monolith (Score:3, Funny)
and here is why they are all alligned (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe Dylan was wrong (Score:5, Funny)
New Axis (Score:1, Funny)
this explains star trek! (Score:4, Funny)
obviously... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:which beam (Score:5, Funny)
"See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
If you want to run and play,
Come along the BEAM today."
einstein was right (Score:5, Funny)
he plays with magnets
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Re:A grain of salt (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:What "intelligent design" - just big bang (Score:1, Funny)
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It's soooooooo fucking obvious... (Score:3, Funny)
Markers! (Score:2, Funny)
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Pluto? is that you?
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God, caught red-handed! (Score:2, Funny)
Couldn't resist: (Score:3, Funny)
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It has to do with fiber and penises...you wouldn't understand.
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