Astronomers Puzzled by Blank Spot in Universe

[Rhino]

Astronomers Puzzled by Massive Blank Spot in Universe
Friday, August 24, 2007

WASHINGTON — Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.

Astronomers have known for many years that there are patches in the universe where nobody's home. In fact, one such place is practically a neighbor, a mere 2 million light years away. But what the Minnesota team discovered, using two different types of astronomical observations, is a void that's far bigger than scientists ever imagined....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294359,00.html

a void that's far bigger than scientists ever imaginedSort of like a liberal's brain.

[DoctorDoom]

If one were a Big Bang proponent, it could be argued that the "hole" is where it happened.

[Franko]

There's nothing, and yaz kin see it

[Wolfcounsel]

Those are coordinates 0,0,0.

[buckeyepete]

Summer homes for Jackson, Sharpton, ACLU, the KKK, and Lib's? And, 'SPACE FOR RENT' for the rest of the world's assholes.

[DesertFox]

At the very center of that blank spot, as Wolfie says, is the very dead center of the universe. All the matter of same sped away, and after 13 billion light years, or 17 billion light years, or some other large number of billions of light years, there was no more matter left in that seminal hole.

I personally think that place is where cosmic poison ivory grows, and all the stars and black holes and globular clusters and Great Walls and molecular clouds and other shit like that there, got sick and tired of itching all the damn time and got outta that place. But that's just my theory.

[Suzie]

I knew I shouldn't have used dark and light kidney beans in my Chili the other night. That probably caused this. I asked before I did it if it would tear a hole in the universe and they thought I was crazy, but there you go.

[DeclinetoState]

Relax, Suzie. We know it's really all Bush's fault.

:evilgrin:

[Riverboat]

I knew I shouldn't have used dark and light kidney beans in my Chili the other night. That probably caused this. I asked before I did it if it would tear a hole in the universe and they thought I was crazy, but there you go.
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So, chances are that so-called blank spot is filled with methane gas. Silent, unseen, yet deadly.

[DesertFox]

Universe-tearing events are relatively rare at the chef's level, but there's no reason to think that Suzie's beans didn't rip the universe a great big new one.

[dPrasse]

Agreed ... I've heard Suzies chili IS Universe altering .... The Big Bang started in Virginia ...

[Neil Peart]

:icon133:

So, chances are that so-called blank spot is filled with methane gas. Silent, unseen, yet deadly.Think Al Gore's gonna make a documentary on "universal warming" soon?

[Suzie]

:evilgrin: I think Al Gore should try some of my chili.

[DeclinetoState]

There are known to be at least four blank spots in the universe. In each case, it's between someone's ears:

http://www.hollywoodtuna.com/images/paris_hilton_brit_2_small.jpghttp://us.ent2.yimg.com/musicfinder.yahoo.com/images/yahoo/jive/britneyspears/0702_britney_spears_a.jpg http://www.hollywoodtuna.com/images/lindsay_lohan_room_bikini_3_tn.jpg http://utah.indymedia.org/uploads/dennis.jpg