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2005-08-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Study Details Bar at Center of Milky Way *hic*

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Posted by DanNY 2005-08-17 08:43|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Study Details Bar,

It's a bar of caramel coated chocolate nougat, covered with milk chocolate.

OK Kids, Mr. Science wants to know: Â¿Do Milky Way Bars âBuild Strong Bodies in 12 Waysâ?

Â¿Wots that *yellow patch* in our Milky Way Galaxy?

Posted by Mr. Science Snackums 2005-08-17 09:34|| 2005-08-17 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Bar at the center of the galaxy? We've known about that for a very long time!

Click Me

Posted by BigEd 2005-08-17 10:44|| 2005-08-17 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Its precise size, shape and mass are still unknown

In other words, this is all pretty much conjecture.
Still rather amazing if accurate.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-08-17 11:06|| 2005-08-17 11:06|| Front Page Top

#4 "bar is far longer than previously believed, and at a specific angle.

This pickup line worked in college but not too well afterwards.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-17 11:19|| 2005-08-17 11:19|| Front Page Top

Cumulative "mass" of objects of different sizes and shapes in the bar, no doubt, like the one above is humongous...

Posted by BigEd 2005-08-17 11:20|| 2005-08-17 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Center of the Milky Way is probably more likely to be a very ugly collection of black holes [insert snarky comment about the DNC here]. Given the amount of mass that has to be there and the length of time for things to evolve, the mechanics for black holes as currently understood, it shouldn't be too hard to figure it out.

Posted by Angart Whereling4308 2005-08-17 11:20|| 2005-08-17 11:20|| Front Page Top

#7 "Study Details Bar at Center of Milky Way"
Studies are always cheaper than sending up environmentally friendly shuttles.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-17 11:22|| 2005-08-17 11:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Tycho Magnetic Anomoly?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2005-08-17 11:37|| 2005-08-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Tycho Magnetic Anomoly = yellow spot?

Posted by Snoluter Omavigum8023 2005-08-17 12:08|| 2005-08-17 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Could it be the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
Leave Europa alone!

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-08-17 12:14|| 2005-08-17 12:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe it is this bar.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-08-17 12:36|| 2005-08-17 12:36|| Front Page Top

#12 How big a bar is it?

Posted by D Boone 3 2005-08-17 20:58|| 2005-08-17 20:58|| Front Page Top

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