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SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away” RESPONSE: “Oooh!”
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth” RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”
1. 'Scientists' are not monolithically and fungibly knowledgeable across all fields.
2. 'Scientists' are loathe to pronounce certainty in value-laden terminology like catastrophic.
3. The response to purported scientific consensus about the future of climate isn't so much about whether or not we wish it to be true as it is the complex analysis of the best response to the pronouncement for the bulk of humanity. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I sure hope that's called the Hummingbird Nebula.
Unfortunately, it's just known as Messier 87. A galaxy as opposed to a nebula. Technically a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. [Reply]
If we were able to look at a black hole from different orientations we would be able to see light even from parts of the accretion disc behind the black hole as they are lensed above and below the shadow region pic.twitter.com/uDZ0USiy4q
Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin:
Soo.... Are black holes flat like the Earth and moon?
No way to objectively know, but it's hypothesized that they could be a zero-dimensional point.
At the least they are hyper-compressed but retain 3D sphericality. Like if the entire mass of the earth was the size of a golf ball. Would probably be perfectly round and smooth as the compressive forces wouldn't allow any other shape or any features to the region.
Likely time doesn't 'exist' as a dimension within either. [Reply]
A Chinese company says its automatic sperm extractor is helping clinics collect semen from donors reluctant to masturbate in a hospital setting. pic.twitter.com/zBqf4wWVQi
