Pillars of Creation Destroyed 364
anthemaniac writes with news about the Pillars of Creation, an iconic structure in the Eagle Nebula some 7,000 light-years distant. The Hubble Space Telescope's image of this structure is one of the most widely recognized astronomy images ever captured. Now a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests that the pillars probably toppled 6,000 years ago. From the article: "Astronomers think [a] supernova's shock wave knocked the pillars down about 6,000 years ago. But because light from that region of the sky takes 7,000 years to reach us, the majestic pillars will appear intact to observers on Earth for another 1,000 years or so.'"
Ah ha! (Score:5, Funny)
Astronomers think [a] supernova's shock wave knocked the pillars down about 6,000 years ago.
Just as the the Earth was being created!
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Pillars of Creation
Artifact
Casting Cost: 3
1T: Sacrifice Pillars of Creation, put one Earth Token into play. Treat Earth Token as a land which produces either W, R, B, Bk, or G
If you lived in the Eagle Nebula (Score:5, Funny)
If you lived in the Eagle Nebula, you'd be destroyed by now.
topple (Score:5, Funny)
some of these reporters need to check their gravity
Proper Time Travel Grammar (Score:5, Funny)
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DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number --just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. Following is the revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian.
'Twere too expensive to have more.
select A time when it will have effect.
But go to see the teams play ball.
That creates For life insurance lower rates.
Thou shalt not pay thy butcher's bill.
unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress
Cheat.
-- But "hear 'tis rumored so and so."
By hook or crook, or somehow, got.
Cake. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cool... hope it didn't cost too much (Score:1, Funny)
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As a guess the one your posted is childed to?
But since you neglected to quote anything and I'm not allowed to read minds while off the clock, it's only a rough estimate.
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Yes, according to Archbishop Ussher's calculations, it is 6011
Re:Bad use of "already" (Score:5, Funny)
I'm afraid the speed of fart is not a fundamental constant of our space-time continuum.
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We do?
You don't need to change it, its +6 (Score:2, Funny)