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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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[a2zmom]

I wouldn't worry. We'll be nuked to kingdom come long before this is a factor.

Feel better?

[redbrickrose]

Oh, that's probably terrifyingly true. But that's more of real-world *threat,* whereas the space stuff makes me start thinking about the meaning of the life and the nature of reality and other huge brain breaking concepts that are just kind of alarmingly overwhelming.

[rahirah]

I love stuff like that...

[redbrickrose]

I'm usually equal parts interested and terrified.

[darksylvia]

Lol, I'm like your brother. I subscribe to things that update me on this stuff!

[redbrickrose]

I'm really fascinated by it, so I don't really mind when he sends it to me, but then I read it and THERE'S A VOID IN THE UNIVERSE WHAT.

[fodian]

Brb, running around in a circle, screaming my head off.

[redbrickrose]

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