Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: In the 1970's, it was found that spiral galaxies rotate faster than would be expected if all they contained was the stars and gas we can see in them. There must be some additional mass that we cannot see (doesn't emit light) that holds galaxies together. T ....
Comment preview: Yeah, there is something supremely psychologically dissatisfying about proposing the existence of an invisible 90% of the the universe's mass to explain the 10% you can actually see. I actually used to side with you on this. Gravity is not well-understood ....
Comment preview: I wonder if some sort of life form peered out of a telescope from that galaxy and saw the young milky way. Probably just brushed it off and went "just another ordinary galaxy. Nothing there" and scrolled right past us. Completely oblivious to the stories ....
Comment preview: [Stars are forming all the time, all over the place. Stellar evolution is well studied and is a particularly well understood topic in astrophysics.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_formation) [For example, regions of space with a lot of dense gas tend to ....
Comment preview: So new it's from the future! Sorry, I'm looking into it and will get back to you with an ELI5 edit in a few minutes. EDIT: First off, I can't find the article mentioned. Milgrom is the originator of MOND (way back in 1983), so his name popping up here ma ....
Comment preview: Thanks for this question, ill do my best to explain it, but please let me know if you have any more questions. Dark matter accounts for around about 80% of the matter content in the universe. Although it would be hard to detect such a low level of hydrogen ....
Comment preview: THE FEDERATION'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY ^^A ^^subdivision ^^of ^^the ^^Vogolsphere ^^9 ^^Publishing ^^Houses Vr 2.02: *Current fixes:* Formatting errors Sentence Rearranging ***DON'T PANIC! Your current chapter is:*** ***Earth*** On an unremarkable planet, ar ....
Comment preview: I mean... an image like this is perspective changing, I think an image as powerful as this could shatter someone's religiosity to be honest. Is a person really going to see this image, and then say that some small sandy region on a small speck of dust plan ....
Comment preview: The Universe is full of supermassive black holes, and we are not sure how they form. This is known as "The Big Black Hole Problem." Every galaxy has one at its center; for example there is a black hole weighing four million Suns at the center of our Gala ....
Comment preview: -Starlord is a goddamn intergalatic bounty hunter, not just a nobody, and definitely not ordinary. -Songs.* LEGO only has the one. It sucks. Guardians' songs are fucking killer. -He didn't discover it. He went looking for it, cos he's a goddamn bounty hunt ....
Comment preview: *"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between* **immensity** *and* **eternity** *is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species ....
Comment preview: I am, it has to be said, a big fan of Mass Effect. I like the setting and I think it's very well written as these things go. Still, it really falls a bit short in terms of being "great sci-fi". I think one of the reasons maybe because it tries to be a li ....
Comment preview: I am not better off. My life is no different than it was 4 years ago, and the quality of my existence will probably be determined by my own choices. The ups and downs of the DOW will continue to be a metric of happiness for people far wealthier than I a ....
Comment preview: Yeah. I think it would be best to make a dyson sphere around the sun then put a train on that and use the energy from the sun to power the train. And by the power of magnets and a lot of copper we could get the energy back with an advanced equally mega str ....
Comment preview: Squatting the first comment but sorry I have a hard time getting excited, there isn't really anything revolutionary in the proposed design : * The case design is ordinary, it's just a screen with a white border and the usual buttons (volume, power) and con ....
Comment preview: It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jino ....
Comment preview: This is absolutely fucking correct. There's no evidence the Millennium Falcon is actually a fast ship in the movies. None. None whatsoever. It gets outrun by a Star Destroyer under sublight power, to which Luke says "I thought you said this thing was fast. ....
Comment preview: > It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N N-T N-ix, or ....
Comment preview: That reminded me of this: >It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonn ....
Comment preview: Dude you missed out the most important bit of the story: "...And I stared at the newspaper, took a sip of coffee, tried to do a clue in the newspaper, couldn't do anything, and thought, what am I going to do? In the end I thought, Nothing for it, I ll just ....
Comment preview: If anyone wishes to read the full decision, it is [available online](http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html). I find the reasoning on the publicity order (paragraphs 64-88) rather interesting, particularly the section below. Personally, I t ....
Comment preview: So you're actually asking a two part question: - Can Dark matter collapse from its own self-gravity into planet-sized bodies? - Could a lot of planet-sized bodies produce the same gravitational effects on galactic scales for which we believe dark matter is ....
Comment preview: Context: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams "This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train ....
Comment preview: This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I'd gotten the time of the train wrong. I went to get myself a newspaper to do the ....
Comment preview: I don't you think you understand how socially awkward Brits are: This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I'd gotten the tim ....
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