RAVE study finds Milky Way moves like a dance crowd

Is no one going to gigglesnort at the horrible pun? Just me? Okay.

Radial Velocity Experiment survey (RAVE).

I mean, really. I'd expect this sort of thing from the Onion.

Otherwise, that is some seriously cool beans.

 

Was probably intentional

Anyway, super cool, this. The way star clusters orbit in the arms, this could be an optical effect created by stars having an orbit off-center from the galactic equator and off-center relative to our own, or a result of gravitational pull from nearby stars. I Am Not An Astronomer, however, so that may either be totally inaccurate or already accounted for in the analysis. More likely that's a question to be answered using quantum mechanics. If "everything is still on the table", as they say, it'll certainly be interesting seeing an examination of every remote possibility to see whether it is plausible. At any rate, I hope it goes quickly and efficiently for them.

 

I would think this was about a candy bar. DUH. *facepalm*

 

The candy bar is what first came to my mind too.
A sure sign of a candyholic.

 

Yes! This is way cool!

You Dream about the Milky Way? What do you see? Are you doing anything in these dreams?

When I close my eyes in meditation, lately, I've been seeing a spiral floating in my mind's eye.

 

See what them RAVERS do eh, eh ...eh?

Bad joke isn't it?

On topic:

[video=youtube;H7mx0nAxkco]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7mx0nAxkco[/video]

Go sync with the Galaxy now!

 

Its funny how everything always seems to revert back to moving like a wave length. Just makes me feel like everything really is just a bunch of interconnected protons moving aimlessly around space. Aimlessly? Or are they? Hmmmm I wonder?