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- dsully215, on 11/26/2007, -12/+240paternitytestinglabs.com...?
- Pzycho, on 11/26/2007, -4/+167Articles like these make me wish I could live forever just so I could see how this all pans out.
- sockpuppets, on 11/26/2007, -3/+133I get all my cutting edge science news from paternitytestinglabs.com.
- Dested, on 11/26/2007, -2/+99"So there's an infinite amount of these?"
"No, just the two" - FilosopherStone, on 11/26/2007, -7/+97I am so glad we have eugen here, all those stupid NASA scientists spouting off unrealistic assumptions.
- thespudmall, on 11/26/2007, -1/+84Is it in a box?
- vdgmr1213, on 11/26/2007, -3/+61Couldn't it just be a "Fry Hole"?
- gcnaddict, on 11/26/2007, -6/+51Everyone out of the universe! Quick!
- pirulo, on 11/26/2007, -2/+40all the basic reasons such as dark matter have been ruled out bu the researchers, of course they are aware of that and the information obtained by the satellite can discriminate between those options. we are talking about professional astrophysicists not aficionados
- Pssdoff, on 11/26/2007, -3/+40For all of these NASA claims, there is never any explanation. Its always just some incredible claim based on 'new findings' with two paragraphs describing it.
"NASA satellite finds evidence that the center of the galaxy is a giant seven layer burrito - based on drunken conjecture and a blurry colorful photo of... something, NASA fungineers have concluded that the center of our galaxy is indeed a burrito. Whether this burrito contains an interdimentional portal, or simply guacamole is not known at this time.
Sources - wikipedia.com | ebay.com" - banmaster, on 11/26/2007, -1/+38So do lots of breast implants, but it doesn't mean they're real.
- mdesler, on 11/26/2007, -9/+42Buried as inaccurate. This whole article is about a physics professor making wild guesses as to what a large void in space might be. Paternitytestinglabs.com should stick to letting me know who my baby's daddy is.
- neko, on 11/26/2007, -0/+32Correct! This box contains our own universe!
- Klarth, on 11/26/2007, -1/+30I'm sick of parallel Bender lording his cowboy hat over me.
- antivibe, on 11/26/2007, -23/+51woah
- stevedclarke, on 11/26/2007, -4/+31So we *are* in fact living inside a large marble?
- Thex1138, on 11/26/2007, -6/+29One universe at a time thanks...we haven't even scratched the sides of this one yet :-)
- angryredplanet, on 11/26/2007, -5/+23I'm a professional computer scientist. If, one day I told you that AMD hardware will always be better than Intel hardware and showed you a 70's style image in full flouro [ http://www.thewellnessliving.com/images/space-void ... ] you'd believe me prima facie?
While the imagination of this professor is more lively than traditional lab-coat-creativity, this is evidence of nothing, literally. I'll quote a passage here for convenience:
"However, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physics Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton made a staggering claim. She says, “Standard cosmology cannot explain such a giant cosmic hole” and goes further with the ground-breaking hypothesis that the huge void is “… the unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own“."
Hers is one "ground-breaking" theory of what this void may be. She's also so confident as to be "unmistakably" correct and if so I'll gladly eat my hat. However, it could also be just a lowly void in space one billion light years wide. There is no "evidence" of a parallel universe here, regardless of credentials. - foopirata, on 11/26/2007, -0/+18Dude, obviously they came from a parallel universe.
- sockpuppets, on 11/26/2007, -0/+18Ok I give up, where did all you one word posters suddenly come from?
- Nichiren, on 11/26/2007, -1/+18I had the same reaction but they have other reliable sources cited at the bottom.
- neko, on 11/26/2007, -1/+16I call it a Hawking Hole.
- Klarth, on 11/26/2007, -1/+13This article has the worst comments I've ever seen. Including my own.
- pirulo, on 11/26/2007, -0/+12it's about another universe, not alien race
- inactive, on 11/26/2007, -2/+13No, it's beyond the edge of the universe, as in, 'I'm sick of parallel Bender lording his cowboy hat over me!'
- Logicexe, on 11/26/2007, -0/+11Yes you're exactly right, it's an unfounded idea. This is how science works. We throw ideas at it until something sticks, and even when something does we keep it open to further study. The universe doesn't care about plausibility, reality just is what it is. That said, her idea is probably wrong, but who knows, maybe they're right.
- Haecceity, on 11/26/2007, -1/+12The point is perhaps not so much that the information is inaccurate, but that the site is trying to get an unrelated (pardon the pun) article dugg in order to drive traffic to their site. The fact that so many of the comments are lame crap like "cool" and "interesting" suggests something fishy is going on.
- jspegele, on 11/26/2007, -0/+10The void was found by NASA, but the claim was actually made by a professor at Chapel Hill. NASA actually came up with some theories based on the idea that it might simply be an area where there is less stuff floating around.
This is just a heat map that shows a very cool area. That doesn't mean there is a true void, it just means the area is less densly packed than the surrounding areas. - Steve15426, on 11/26/2007, -0/+10It's really hard to sell sarcasm over the internet.
- sockpuppets, on 11/26/2007, -1/+11Their meaningless replies are consistent with the habitants of this universe, however.
- LarianLeQuella, on 11/26/2007, -4/+13One of the great things about science is that you get an idea, then you test it and see if it works. http://larianlequella.com/images/sciencevsfaith.pn ... Cool article none the less.
- webmonk, on 11/26/2007, -0/+9In an expanding universe, everything is at ground zero. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_universe
- Supurcell, on 11/26/2007, -1/+9This void of empty space was not as empty as they made it out to be. If you look very closely, you can see that it has a goatee.
- nospinhere, on 11/26/2007, -1/+8The only thing cutting edge about this is how this blogger cut and pieced together this quote. look closely...
“Standard cosmology cannot explain such a giant cosmic hole” and goes further with the ground-breaking hypothesis that the huge void is “… the unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own“. - rarson, on 11/26/2007, -3/+10What's with all these spam comments?
- hazelnoot, on 11/26/2007, -8/+14It's where socks go when they leave the washing machine. Real problem is how to test this theory.
- pgillan, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.
- IndigoMoss, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6More than lifetimes, our solar system would be long gone by the time a probe would reach such a place, that is if we managed to even hit the speed of light. Space scares me.
- MacEnvy, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6Buried for lazy typing. Grammar is your friend, don't insult him.
- ToadLeg, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_back ...
http://www.physorg.com/news107109720.html - mrgreenjeans, on 11/26/2007, -0/+6That would make it an evil parallel universe.
- Logicexe, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5Not a theory, a hypothesis. Theories are for things that are well tested and explain a wide variety of phenomenon. Think of evolution and relativity, those are theories.
- edwartica, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5Turn off caps lock, dammit!
- DemonWasp, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5...if we could move at the speed of light.
- Haecceity, on 11/26/2007, -1/+5It's getting dugg down for the same reason that most of the comments above are pretty much one-word posts like "cool1" and "interesting" -- that is that the story is being dugg by shills who want to promote the paternity site. I don't know whether this is a case of diggers being paid or the site having set up multiple fake accounts, but the Digg mods should definitely take a look at this story. It's fishy as hell.
- unitedstatians, on 11/26/2007, -1/+5And what about that black hole near Uranus? Did everyone forgot that too?
- hollowex, on 11/26/2007, -1/+5Another Universe and Parallel Universe are two different things.
- bolognium, on 11/26/2007, -2/+6why is this comment getting dugg down - it's spot on accurate.
- captaindigger, on 11/26/2007, -1/+5That's where God is hiding.
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