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Drafell
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From: United Kingdom
|  Posted: 2007-08-24 10:02
Who would have thought that scientists would get so excited about finding absolutely nothing?
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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.
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Crusnik
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From: coffin
| Posted: 2007-08-24 14:40
ow...i would call it nothing and nowhere  imagine all that space...now imagine that big pizza )))) and some paprica chips and with more cheese...and...and...chick with the big butt...and...em....i dunno..
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Joined: March 18, 2004
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From: Maryland, U.S.A
| Posted: 2007-08-24 15:09
It's where all the cool kids go to smoke during classes.
That, or a really supermassive backhole wich has nothing to feed on, giving it no xray emmision or something like that..
Maybe it's just a big void in between stars, even though it is statisticaly improbable, it's still possible..
It could also be the way out of the box that god has us in!
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Rhiawhyn Zerinth
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From: I.C.C Deep space refueling station
| Posted: 2007-08-24 15:25
or it could be the spot were yo moma imploded sence she was so fat >_>.
ANYWAY i had to say it...
so i just think its one of those spots were theres antimater >_> absence of normal mater? its antimatter 
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Light-of-Aurora
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| Posted: 2007-08-24 15:53
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That, or a really supermassive backhole wich has nothing to feed on, giving it no xray emmision or something like that..
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I think they'd still be able to find a 'starved' black hole, because of its gravity effects.
I say their equipment is broken
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| Posted: 2007-08-24 15:56
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On 2007-08-24 15:53, [AÐ]Light-of-Aurora wrote:
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That, or a really supermassive backhole wich has nothing to feed on, giving it no xray emmision or something like that..
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I think they'd still be able to find a 'starved' black hole, because of its gravity effects.
I say their equipment is broken
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Not always. It could be so far away from things, that it'd basicaly have no effect on things that we could see.
Then again, I'm not a real big Physics person..
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From: Philly
| Posted: 2007-08-24 17:52
Its where my farts go once they've left the atmosphere since they would pretty much eat away at everything & anything they encounter.
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Kanman
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| Posted: 2007-08-24 18:21
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On 2007-08-24 15:09, Crim Spear wrote:
Maybe it's just a big void in between stars, even though it is statisticaly improbable, it's still possible..
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Actually, based on current maps of the universe, galaxies occur in clusters and the clusters form strands like a 3D web, leaving many many vast voids in between. Think of those microscope images of bones or mattress fibers you see on TV. It looks like that.
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| Posted: 2007-08-24 18:33
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On 2007-08-24 18:21, Kanman *FC* wrote:
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On 2007-08-24 15:09, Crim Spear wrote:
Maybe it's just a big void in between stars, even though it is statisticaly improbable, it's still possible..
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Actually, based on current maps of the universe, galaxies occur in clusters and the clusters form strands like a 3D web, leaving many many vast voids in between. Think of those microscope images of bones or mattress fibers you see on TV. It looks like that.
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"This is 1,000 times the volume of what we sort of expected to see in terms of a typical void," said Minnesota astronomy professor Lawrence Rudnick, author of the paper that will be published in Astrophysical Journal. "It's not clear that we have the right word yet ... This is too much of a surprise."
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Kanman
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| Posted: 2007-08-24 18:46
Ok. you have me there. THIS void is statistically improbable. I thought you meant voids in general.
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Tbone
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From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2007-08-24 21:37
Given the vastness of space, everything is statically improbable, but nothing is impossible.
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Panduh
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| Posted: 2007-08-26 00:15
Cool...Very cool.
I get this feeling that God is messing with humanity's collective mind...so to speak, lol.
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Banshee
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From: Philadelphia, PA
| Posted: 2007-08-26 06:23
Sounds alot like the space between Jacks ears if you ask me.
Seriously though.. the sheer scale of that just sounds staggering.
All that of just... nothing.. frightening really.
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Coeus
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From: Philly
| Posted: 2007-08-26 10:19
Wait, this is a re-run, I've seen this one before... Star Trek Voyager wasn't it?
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