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2019-06-09 Science & Technology

Mysterious intergalactic bridge spanning 10 MILLION light-years spotted between galaxy clusters in first of its kind discovery

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-08 08:17|| 2019-06-08 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 That's I-4. Stay off of it. Always congested.
Maybe has to do with the fact that is more of an observation deck than a means of movement.

Posted by newc 2019-06-09 00:21|| 2019-06-09 00:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Something tells me that the science ain't settled after all.

Okay guys, now get back to work on figuring out how magnetic super-highways can be used to travel the cosmos and provide unlimited clean energy.

Posted by AlanC 2019-06-09 07:14|| 2019-06-09 07:14|| Front Page Top

#4 The highway is there and operating.
We just need to create a backwoods country onramp without sucking the moon into one of the poles.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-09 07:57|| 2019-06-09 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe it's not really a highway.

Maybe it's a giant tree.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-06-09 09:51|| 2019-06-09 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd like to live long enough to find that transliterated oral mythologies are fact based.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-09 12:34|| 2019-06-09 12:34|| Front Page Top

#7 looks like Scandanavian mythology had it right all along

Posted by 746 2019-06-09 15:15|| 2019-06-09 15:15|| Front Page Top

#8 "Bridge" overstates things a bit, of course. "Thin trail of gas less dense than the vacuum between stars in our galaxy" might be another way of saying it.
For more of the big picture...
https://www.vox.com/2014/9/4/6105631/map-galaxy-supercluster-laniakea-milky-way

Posted by james 2019-06-09 19:56|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2019-06-09 19:56|| Front Page Top

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