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[redbrickrose]

My brother likes to send me articles about weird space phenomena because he knows it freaks me out. Yesterday he sent an email with the subject line, "more stuff that is horrifying" and it just had this link:

"Dark Flow" Discovered at Edge of the Universe: Hundreds of Millions of Stars Racing Towards a Cosmic Hotspot

The unexplained motion has

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[inlovewithnight]

AND SO YOU SHARE THIS HORROR WITH THE REST OF US?

where are the stars *going*?????

[redbrickrose]

IF I HAVE TO SIT AROUND THINKING ABOUT IT SO DO YOU.

No one knows. But the entire makeup of the universe as we understand it can't be right if this is happening. DDDDDDDDD:

[inathunderstorm]

I am really creeped out and yet fascinated by this!

[cidercupcakes]

This is giant on a scale where it's not just that we can't see what's doing it; it's that the entire makeup of the universe as we understand it can't be right if this is happening.

it's that the entire makeup of the universe as we understand it can't be right if this is happening

the entire makeup of the universe as we understand it can't be right if this is happening

the entire makeup of the universe as we understand it can't be right if this is happening

the entire makeup of the universe as we understand it can't be right

the entire makeup of the universe can't be right

[redbrickrose]

RIGHT? I'm really not sure I wanted to know that at all. SO WHAT IS THE MAKEUP OF THE UNIVERSE LIKE, THEN?

[rahirah]

We'll figure it out. It's not like this is the first time mankind has failed to fully comprehend the nature of the entire universe, after all.

[redbrickrose]

That's true, maybe for the first time we just finally know enough to understand how much we really don't know

[inathunderstorm]

I LOVE STUFF LIKE THIS OMG.

[redbrickrose]

I am simultaneously fascinated and terrified.

[spiderwebb]

great, now i'm making the D: face. and i think it might be stuck. D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D:

[redbrickrose]

THERE'S A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE. DDDDDDDD:

[egelantier]

idk, it seems really nice to me. like, there's a void in the middle of universe where we can't see anything, but maybe it's only because we can't see anything. maybe it's the place where alternative dimensions and unicorns and other amazing things live.

[redbrickrose]

I agree that there's something exciting about all the stuff we don't know, but you definitely went to a nicer place with it than I did. I'm kind of stuck on OH GOD THE NOTHING. Unicorns are better!