Charles would have something meaningful to say about this sight; I just think it’s pretty.
- Somehow Hegel caused this.
Image, etc. via Nasa:
The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red).
The collision, which began more than 100 million years ago and is still occurring, has triggered the formation of millions of stars in clouds of dusts and gas in the galaxies. The most massive of these young stars have already sped through their evolution in a few million years and exploded as supernovas.
well yeah, Charles would say it looks like the kind of existentially dormant schlong that wants to get all viagra-d up and attack your daughter in a porn flick.
@1 I think I love you.
That is a really gorgeous picture. I love when they do composites like that.
I guess it’s probably a lot more violent than it looks.
Not really, Dee. There’s so much space between the stars that it’s rare for anything to actually collide. Looks pretty, though.
@4- They don’t “collide” but their gravitational fields interact, throwing planets all over the place and maybe ripping stars apart.
Which is totally awesome when it happens to someone else’s galaxy.
Charles never has anything meaningful to say. Just various rants about the white man keeping down the black man, and, apparently, how women are the property of men.
@6, sounds like you’ve never listened to Charles. Open your eyes and ears dude.
I think this image is pretty clearly a fetus, aka, right wing baby. We should take from this that god is going to kill all gays and that abortion is ultimately going to destroy the entire earth.
“Somehow Hegel caused this.”
Oh, Cienna!!!!
Yes, I got a laugh out of that too.
Charles would have NOTHING to say because there’s no human interaction.
@6, I disagree with 99% Charles’s opinions, but he’s not nearly as shallow as that. He really does have the soul of a poet and I suspect that I’d really like him if we ever met.
Got dayum. Beautifully amazing.
Everybody in both those galaxies is so pissed at Hegel.
I used to be amazed by the color in these pictures. “Space is beautiful,” I told myself. Then a friend informed me that those colors are added by NASA. In the case of this image, it’s to denote which telescope provided which parts of the image. If you click through past the article you can see a picture where the whole thing is just white.
I think NASA is being a little irresponsible by releasing these enhanced-color photographs into the wild without attaching prominent disclaimers, but maybe I’m just color-pedantic.
I think Charles would mainly have something pretty to say about it.
Charles’s writing is like the fable of The Emperor’s New Clothes. Its just incomprehensible bullshit pretending to be deep.
The universe is amazing! But yah, the color enhancements make it look like cotton candy sort of. I like cotton candy. 🙂
Charles is too smart for SLOG posters.
And he does not read way too much into anything. Ever.
He’s so smart he even claims as much on SLOG:
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives…
Beautiful cosmic poetry. Makes me think of this quote.
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics; You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if the stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements – the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life – weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of the stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today.”
– Lawrence Krauss
It’s cool, makes me wish we had a really serious space program that could take us someplace besides a fairly low orbit around the planet to keep our military and corporate satellites working….
@4, 6: My fingers aren’t even colliding with the keys on my laptop either. It’s just a repulsive force caused by interactions between the electron clouds in my fingers and the electron clouds in my keys. Nothing ever truly “collides”; at some scale, it’s just electromagnetic and/or gravitational interactions across emptiness. Why? The physical world is empty, and “filled” volume is really just an illusion.
True, VL, but I’ll guarantee you that there’s a whole lot less empty space in your fingers and your keyboard than there is in interstellar space.
@21: Depends on what scale. The size of a carbon-12 nucleus in contrast to the empty void between neighboring nuclei is comparable to the corresponding contrast concerning stars (or star clusters) and the empty space between them.
These are just a few good things to consider next time you find yourself in a crowded room.
does that look like a big penis or do I need therapy?
@23: Fuck you, now I see it too.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD, CHARLES!!!