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Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
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Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 12, 2012 at 7:00 pm
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy...f_the.html

Quote:An incredibly deep image taken by Hubble Space Telescope has made an amazing discovery: a group of seven galaxies that existed just after the Big Bang itself! One of them may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, a soul-crushing 13.3 billion light years away, and seen as it existed just 380 million years after the Universe itself was born.
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RE: Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 12, 2012 at 7:09 pm
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RE: Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 12, 2012 at 7:54 pm (This post was last modified: December 12, 2012 at 7:54 pm by Dee Dee Ramone.)
(December 12, 2012 at 7:09 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Still no sign of God.

It's mystery to me why God needed to create all that empty space in the first place.
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RE: Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 12, 2012 at 11:09 pm (This post was last modified: December 12, 2012 at 11:51 pm by Darkstar.)
(December 12, 2012 at 7:54 pm)Dee Dee Ramone Wrote: It's mystery to me why God needed to create all that empty space in the first place.

He's not known for being efficient. Take the plagues for example, why go through all of that trouble when he could have just unhardened the pharoah's heart? He's not even trying, really.
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RE: Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 13, 2012 at 12:10 am
(December 12, 2012 at 11:09 pm)Darkstar Wrote:
(December 12, 2012 at 7:54 pm)Dee Dee Ramone Wrote: It's mystery to me why God needed to create all that empty space in the first place.

He's not known for being efficient. Take the plagues for example, why go through all of that trouble when he could have just unhardened the pharoah's heart? He's not even trying, really.

He is known for his invisibility-skills. Highly useful by the way, since he is everywhere.
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RE: Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 13, 2012 at 1:47 am
(December 12, 2012 at 7:00 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy...f_the.html

Quote:An incredibly deep image taken by Hubble Space Telescope has made an amazing discovery: a group of seven galaxies that existed just after the Big Bang itself! One of them may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, a soul-crushing 13.3 billion light years away, and seen as it existed just 380 million years after the Universe itself was born.

How the hell do they even know what they're looking at?? I'm amazed by these astronomer/scientists. I look at it and think, "that's a lot of christmas lights." Undecided
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RE: Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 13, 2012 at 1:50 am
(December 13, 2012 at 1:47 am)Cinjin Wrote:
(December 12, 2012 at 7:00 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy...f_the.html

How the hell do they even know what they're looking at?? I'm amazed by these astronomer/scientists. I look at it and think, "that's a lot of christmas lights." Undecided

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RE: Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 13, 2012 at 1:55 am
(December 13, 2012 at 1:50 am)overlord fombax Wrote:
(December 13, 2012 at 1:47 am)Cinjin Wrote: How the hell do they even know what they're looking at?? I'm amazed by these astronomer/scientists. I look at it and think, "that's a lot of christmas lights." Undecided

SEE?! JESUS IS EVERYWHERE!

Blasphemy, I thank Yammerdud for the creation of little shiny lights. Tongue
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RE: Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 13, 2012 at 8:00 am
(December 12, 2012 at 7:09 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Still no sign of God.

Can't you see him? He's just there, second star to the right and straight on till morning.
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RE: Hubble glimpses 13.3 Byo galaxies
December 13, 2012 at 9:16 am
Trying to fathom 13.3 billion light years makes my brain seize up.
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