Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space 716
Gizmodo is reporting that the Hubble space telescope has found a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. Some are even suggesting that this could be a new class of object. Of course, without actually understanding more about it, the speculation seems a bit wild. "The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn't there before. In fact, they don't even know where it is exactly located because it didn't behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can't be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion light-years away. It's not in any known galaxy either. And they have ruled out a supernova too. It's something that they have never encountered before. In other words: they don't have a single clue about where or what the heck this thing is."
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
That's no moon!
That's no moon. It's a space station. (Score:5, Funny)
FTA-
"Apparently, a scientist at the LHC declared that the object is similar to the flash that an Imperial Star Destroyer does when reaching Warp 10.
I'm betting (Score:5, Funny)
... it's a Bowl of Petunias, or a sperm whale (again).
Logical conclusion (Score:2, Funny)
All thermal sensors are jammed. (Score:5, Funny)
One shows a million degrees. The others, minus five thousand.
Aliens must own stock too. (Score:5, Funny)
It's obvious that this was the flash of an extraterrestrial civilization that just destroyed itself when it realized that all of its savings were tied up in Lehman Brothers stock.
Ominous! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's no moon. It's a space station. (Score:5, Funny)
My keys? (Score:3, Funny)
Did I leave my keys out in space again? I keep doing that. Sorry.
The 5th element (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's no moon. It's a space station. (Score:5, Funny)
fly on the lens? (Score:2, Funny)
I know what it is... (Score:5, Funny)
...that dam' kid down the block with his laser pointer again!
Re:In unrelated news... (Score:5, Funny)
Mike broke the Hubble! Mike broke the Hubble!
Obvious answer (Score:5, Funny)
It's a gigantic sphere of single socks, nonworking ball point pens, car keys, reading glasses, coffee mugs....
Well, they have to go somewhere....
His noodly appendages (Score:4, Funny)
it must be the flying spaghetti monster!
Re:Ominous! (Score:4, Funny)
Regards
GSV Steely Glint
(cc Fates amenable to change, Ethics Gradient)
Probably. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's a rock.
Re:they found God ? (Score:5, Funny)
When god is a bit more impressive than 21st magnitude, let me know.
The Borg! (Score:5, Funny)
It's the Borg! I'm selling my Lehman stock now!
Re:That's no moon. It's a space station. (Score:4, Funny)
please stop with the inane star wars jokes (Score:5, Funny)
what is wrong with you people?
we all know deep in our hearts it is the decepticons
Re:I'm betting (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, Agrajag is going to be even more touchy now.
Re:fly on the lens? (Score:4, Funny)
If there was a fly on the lens of the Hubble, then we've got bigger problems than unknown objects 11 million light years away!
(Insert "I for one..." meme.)
Scooped! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm picturing a staff meeting at Engadget where the editor is yelling, "If Gizmodo beats us to press with a previously unknown class of celestial object one more time, heads are gonna roll around here!"
Re:Ominous! (Score:3, Funny)
Loop (Score:5, Funny)
That's no Space Station, that's an LHC (Score:5, Funny)
a scientist at the LHC declared
LHC scientists then assured the public that it was not an LHC being used on a different planet by an alien civilization, then being burned in a fierce flash of particle fusion before being enveloped within a subsequent black hole. "The chances would be like winning the lottery ten times in a row" they said. "Not that we would know about any alien civilizations, their freaky purple skin and glowing eyes, or whether they were using an LHC modelled after the one we made on Earth. Speaking of which, I'm not really qualified to talk about it, because this is astronomy and has NOTHING to do with LHCs... Ha ha right? No more questions."
Next week, a new LHC song is promised from the CERN labs and should be another smash hit on Youtube. One of the scientists sung a few of the lines to us as a preview. "We didn't share our technology with a now-extinct alien race less than a few lightyears away. They were probably pretty dumb and annoying anyway. Let's turn this bugger on! Let's turn this bugger on! Smash some particles, yeah!"
Gates/Seinfeld? (Score:2, Funny)
Could be the next Gates/Seinfeld ad?
Re:Aliens must own stock too. (Score:5, Funny)
It's clear to me... I just know... I just know what it is!
*Sporadic laughter again*
This is direct evidence of Xenu's lost civilization.
Best regards,
Dr. T. Cruise
Re:Aliens must own stock too. (Score:4, Funny)
It's a pretty lousy picture. All that money for a little black dot. My 10 year old photocopier can do that.
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
This is what happens when God plays with lighters after eating mexican food.
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe it's another Alien civilization that just annihilated itself in nuclear\fusion\antimatter\something hellfire?
battlestar? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm just going to go ahead and assume it's a Cylon base ship jumping around.
Re:Modding system (Score:5, Funny)
hahahahaa!!... Oh wait, you were serious...
Uh Oh... (Score:4, Funny)
That's what happened the last time a civilization constructed a 14 TeV large hadron collider! I need some protection. Where's my tinfoil hat!
Re:That's no moon. It's a space station. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Modding system (Score:1, Funny)
Or perhaps find a link to the actual paper in question. I agree that funny all to often dominates what would otherwise be an interesting discussion forum.
Here we go (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:1, Funny)
No, I looked at the photos and it is clearly a Death Star being constructed out there.
Makes sense. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm betting (Score:1, Funny)
It's actually a Constructor Fleet enroute. We really should have reviewed the plans at Alpha Centauri while we had the chance...
Re:Aliens must own stock too. (Score:4, Funny)
That's it! Scientology is wrong! Xemu didn't land here, he landed on that bright light.
The light was the 1000's of nuclear warheads killing off the people on that planet, not this one!
No wonder Scientologists are crackpots. They're looking for theatans that aren't there!
Re:Modding system (Score:2, Funny)
I bet... (Score:5, Funny)
... its dimensions are 1 by 4 by 9
Re:The 5th element (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Modding system (Score:3, Funny)
it starts to get a bit old
Impatient much? Nobody has even chimed in yet with any Soviet Russia memes or Uranus jokes.
It was Sam. (Score:3, Funny)
It was Major Carter, exploding another star.
Once you blow up one star, they expect everything from you.
Re:Ominous! (Score:2, Funny)
It's Evil! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:fly on the lens? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ominous! (Score:3, Funny)
X ROU Killing Time
O Steely Glint
On my way ...
I think we should dispatch the nearest LSU
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:4, Funny)
I have to wonder if this wasn't a large matter/antimatter event.
That's optimistic. I have to wonder if they found the Higgs boson.
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:5, Funny)
Correction, its an alien civilization that just did their first experiment on the LHC.
OMG GUYS ITS THE... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's no moon. It's a space station. (Score:1, Funny)
Looks like a Steakhouse, but she handles like a Bistro!
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:5, Funny)
my money would be on a Vogon Construction crew
Re:That's no moon. It's a space station. (Score:3, Funny)
Then what *do* they have in that thing? A Cuisinart?!
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:3, Funny)
Obviously... (Score:1, Funny)
...it's a dyson sphere.
Re:Modding system (Score:5, Funny)
No kidding. I read the summary on the /. front page and thought to myself, "Wow, how boring. Don't think I'll be hitting that article." Then shortly thereafter, "Wait, did they say wild speculation?!" Here I am...
Re:Aliens must own stock too. (Score:5, Funny)
> My 10 year old photocopier can do that.
Your 10 year old photocopier can reproduce, so you don't have to.
Re:Uh Oh... (Score:2, Funny)
I think we are witnessing our own selves blowing up. Literally. Due to the nature of the universe, we are looking at an extremely long hall of mirrors, which wraps back upon itself. What we see is either our past, or our future, depending on our frame of reference (which direction you are looking in the hall of mirrors).
In this case, it is (obviously) not our past. The event that was witnessed was 31 light-days away. The same amount of time until the LHC creates the first 5Tev collision...
Re:Modding system (Score:5, Funny)
Please tell me more about these space crickets when you get a chance.
Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
Where did CERN go???
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly! NASA obviously needs to do a better job of keeping the lense clean. :-P
Those darn Water Bears [slashdot.org] are already causing havoc.
Re:Won't be too long before we are all (Score:4, Funny)
you mean the ones that blew themselves up?
God! You come here right this instant! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:1, Funny)
Correction number 2:
It's the anti-earth where some anti-men did a LHC experiment at anti-switzerland.
Quasi-space portal (Score:5, Funny)
It happens pretty regularly, go through and we should be able to ask the Arilou what the hell they have been doing to Earth all this time.
Re:Modding system (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:3, Funny)
lots of.. lots of, baby...
Re:Modding system (Score:1, Funny)
Think of Slashdot as a bar you go to at work.
Re:That's no moon. It's a space station. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Modding system (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot is no place for manual-reading freaks like you!
IT'S DUKE NUKEM FOREVER! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Modding system (Score:2, Funny)
I know what it is... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:4, Funny)
The shadowy figure waves back at you!
Re:That's no Space Station, that's an LHC (Score:4, Funny)
Large Hadrosaur Collider?
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:5, Funny)
Liar. Antiswitzerland couldn't have a budget for fundamental research - all their money would be spent supporting their enormous military in aggressive wars.
Re:BADsciencejokes.org (Score:2, Funny)
Why don't we just rename slashdot.org to BADsciencejokes.org???
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:5, Funny)
Especially their enormous fleet.
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:LHC nope...Cylon's....nope...Borg...nope...it's (Score:4, Funny)
That was Alan Shepard's golf ball. Apollo 14 [wikipedia.org].
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:3, Funny)
Dictator: "Just what I was looking for, I'll take two!"
Appologies to Billy Connelly.
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:5, Funny)
I foresee a slight problem with developing a hand-grenade that has a 2km blast radius...
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hubble Windex: For that Deep [Space] Shine! (Score:3, Funny)
Well, yeah. After all, Antiswitzerland would be a low-lying island.