• Betch@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            Holy fucking shit. How have I never seen that version of your flag before? That other one is so boring why isn’t this one flying everywhere?

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              Bold of you to presume that it isn’t!? :-P

              And if you think that’s something, wait till you see our history books:

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              And our newspapers:

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              (save us from ourselves?)

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                4 months ago

                Well damn! No wonder you guys are so patriotic! I think I might be a bit jealous of your freedom and your news industry.

                (Wish I could help 😞 I’m just up here in this other little North American country. The really cold one. Just wishing someone saves you from yourselves before that stink moves too far up and gets embedded in the carpet. Unfortunately we’ve been getting more and more whiffs of it in the past couple years. We may need help too.)

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                  4 months ago

                  Yeah, it’s spreading all over the world. Again. Except this time we seem to be for rather than against it, for some reason? :-(

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    Why couldn’t this still be “big bang”? Look at a grenade for example. When it explodes, a shock wave expands from it in a near perfect sphere, but the fragments previous packed inside of it explode out at different speeds depending on their mass.

    If you were in the center of that explosion, measuring the speed of fragments traveling away from you, they’d travel at different speeds. Only the initial shockwave would be constant.

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      4 months ago

      Maybe because the speed of things is not the same thing as the speed of space expansion.

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    4 months ago

    Seeing the universe expanding at different rates could just mean we’re not as close to the center as we thought, and the parts further away from the center are moving faster. That’s my layman’s hypothesis though

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    4 months ago

    The cake BigBang is a lie.
    original source :
    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad1ddd

    see also :
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble’s_law
    Hubble tension
    In the 21st century, multiple methods have been used to determine the Hubble constant. “Late universe” measurements using calibrated distance ladder techniques have converged on a value of approximately 73 (km/s)/Mpc. Since 2000, “early universe” techniques based on measurements of the cosmic microwave background have become available, and these agree on a value near 67.7 (km/s)/Mpc. (…)
    (…) The most exciting possibility is new physics beyond the currently accepted cosmological model of the universe, (…)

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      Can someone give me the spark notes I started reading but I’ll never get through that or probably even understand all of it