GOOD NAME FOR A ROCK BAND
(Also thanks to Betsi)
(For the record, this blog had a college roommate that this blog sometimes called Cosmic Bob)
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a large gas bubble in space, huh? hope that thing doesn't blow!
Posted by: southerngirl | July 29, 2006 at 10:24 AM
hey, my first FIRST in ages! :)
Posted by: southerngirl | July 29, 2006 at 10:25 AM
How did my EX get into space??
Posted by: Punkin Poo | July 29, 2006 at 10:26 AM
Lyman? This Lyman?
Posted by: lyman blobs | July 29, 2006 at 10:51 AM
Dave,were there gas bubbles involved back in college too??
Posted by: Siouxie | July 29, 2006 at 11:05 AM
*snork* @ P
What they haven't discovered yet is that these filaments are part of an even bigger structure: The Largest Lightbulb in the Universe
Posted by: fudtheman | July 29, 2006 at 11:16 AM
Also, Alpha Blobs
Posted by: Walter | July 29, 2006 at 11:23 AM
I love these complex, technical terms that scientists use to describe stuff:
blob !!!
Posted by: Eleanor | July 29, 2006 at 11:32 AM
"Some of the gas bubbles are up to 400,000 light years across"
THat must have been one big honkin' burrito...
Posted by: AFKAT | July 29, 2006 at 12:55 PM
I'm gonna throw my hat in for "Cosmic Amoeba."
Posted by: Ann | July 29, 2006 at 01:27 PM
How many people besides me think these scientists just MAKE THIS STUFF UP?
I mean, who's gonna know? How many astrophysicists (that is hard to type, BTW) are there, really, in the world?
I think there are relatively few (that is my theory of relativity - HA!) and they amuse each other and themselves by dreaming up increasingly weirder hypotheses that NOBODY CAN DISPROVE so the grant money can keep-a-rollin-in.
Not to say I am anti-edukashun. But for Pete's sake, how about some real-life practical stuff, please?
I found this link.
On the upside, I think "Positron Annihilation" WBAGNFARB.
I am done.
Posted by: Cat R. | July 29, 2006 at 01:57 PM
Now Cosmic Blob would be an excellent sequel to Snakes on a Plane.
Cosmic Bob, on the other hand, sounds like a bad opening act for Cheech & Chong.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | July 29, 2006 at 03:17 PM
two posts in one day! I am basking.
Posted by: Betsi | July 29, 2006 at 03:24 PM
Tha Alpha Blob? Does that mean it orders the other cosmic blobs around? Or do they have to sniff its butt?
Posted by: Suzy Q | July 29, 2006 at 04:43 PM
"An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say."
Uh, they could have saved millions of research dollars & just came over to my house & took a good look at my husband after he's had a few burritos & cervesas!!!!
Posted by: catharine | July 29, 2006 at 05:59 PM
Posted by: fudtheman | July 29, 2006 at 06:06 PM
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Posted by: fudtheman | July 29, 2006 at 06:06 PM
Posted by: fudtheman | July 29, 2006 at 06:08 PM
there, that fixed it
Posted by: fudtheman | July 29, 2006 at 06:09 PM
The filaments were seen using the Subaru and Keck telescopes? How did they get to Mauna kea? And where was security?
Posted by: Fred | July 30, 2006 at 11:08 AM
The filaments were seen using the Subaru and Keck telescopes? How did they get to Mauna kea? And where was security?
Posted by: Fred | July 30, 2006 at 11:09 AM
An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say.
Yeah - Edgar is ALIVE!!!!!
Posted by: 24-aholic | July 31, 2006 at 10:51 AM