Mysterious MilkyWay Warp Finally Explained? 215
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us Space.com is reporting that scientists think that a collision between mysterious 'dark matter' and two of the Milky Way's nearby neighbors may be causing our galaxy to warp 'like a vinyl record left out in the hot Sun.' From the article: 'The warp is most clearly visible in a thin disk of hydrogen gas that extends across the entire 200,000-light-year diameter of the Milky Way. Viewed sideways, one half of the hydrogen disk appears to stick up above our galaxy's plane of stars and gas, while the other half dips below the plane for a bit and then rises upward again farther away from the galaxy's center.'"
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
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I'll say it for the under 30 crowd (Score:5, Funny)
What's a vinyl record?
Article summary in Limerick form (Score:5, Funny)
Whose damage leaves oddly-shaped scars
Astronomists patter,
"It might be dark matter
That's making the warp so bizarre!"
Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..) (Score:4, Funny)
You've gone and mentioned your UID.
Now all the old farts with the five-digit-or-less UIDs are going to come out of the woodwork.
Why the world is so screwed up (Score:3, Funny)
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Vinyl tracks (Score:3, Funny)
Now that's what I call an extended LP.
Re:I'll say it for the under 30 crowd (Score:3, Funny)
That must be an old pronunciation of compact disc. You know, kind of like you're always saying ask instead of axe?
Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..) (Score:5, Funny)
young'in.
Re:At it again... (Score:2, Funny)
Umm... as I recall, they sang 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds'... though it's still debated whether what they were singing about falls under the field of astronomy or that of chemistry.
Re:I'll say it for the under 30 crowd (Score:2, Funny)
If you were English, you'd be saying "What's a hot sun?"
Further Research Shows (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'll say it for the under 30 crowd (Score:3, Funny)
Re:specifics on my subpar meat propaganda, please. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'll say it for the under 30 crowd (Score:3, Funny)
I have a black phonographic disk with a hole in it. Is this a record?
Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..) (Score:5, Funny)
Get the hell off my lawn!
*shakes his cane* (Score:3, Funny)
Subliminal messages? (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, let me guess... That wouldn't happen to be a Beatles record, now would it?