The New York Times has published a graphic which compares the strangely-similar image of mouse neurons, only micrometers wide, to an image of our expanding universe, billions of light years across. There is an obvious noodle-and-meatballs-like pattern to each, suggesting underlying intelligent design, which comes as no surprise to Pastafarians.
Link to the NYTimes graphic.
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divine Provenance!
RAmen to that my friends. who among us or our “enemies” would dare see this as anything but FSM? what other explaination could there be :P
This is even better than that slice of sacred toast with the FSM on it. I have now lived long enough to witness His beauty as one with the universe. RAmen. I feel touched.
What is interesting is that it implies an underlying scale-indifferent order and pattern to the universe, but that is very different from intelligent design, except of course in the FSM intelligent noodle sense.
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“Can you see his noodly appendages, brothers and sisters?”
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RAmen
Damnit I told those left-wing athiests that we were right! And look, only more proof to back us up!
RAmen
@Fr. CC
I can see the Noodles, Father I can! ♪50s Gospel♪
RAmen
(End of post signature!!!)
May the FSM bring you an abundance of loot and may all your yurts stay warm in the winter(brr! they can get cold!)
Ah, everything is coming together even more clearly now! :D
Arrrr..wait could this be an example of his noodlyness intelligently designing the mouse neurons???
I’m not really surprised about the similarity of the neurons and the universe to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. After all, He did create many things in His own image, so these are just examples of His great work.
Yes, Beth many things. Including (of course) a junction…
the similarity of patterns at different scales are merely further evidence of mighty FSM’s existnce, as we can see here. you know what else is suspiciously noodly? fractals. anyone look at the Mandelbrot set and tell me it is anything other than the finger(noodle?)print of FSM.
I thought that Mandelbrot Fractals was a character from a Douglas Adams book.
I don’t want to get heretical here, but is anyoneone else thinking that our Noodly Creator might have had a little ego problem? Then again, who am I to care if He does. It just brings His image closer to our everyday lives.^_^
I just hope you don’t get struck by lightening with that comment, Dread Wench. I heard a rumor that the FSM gets mean when he is drunk on cheap gin.
@Dread Wench L’TUAE:
Over inflated egos are a necessity of Gods. Therefore it can’t be a problem.
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I take it the link between atoms and stellar (solar, etc) systems, and stellar and galactic systems isn’t lost on people either. I reckon we all orbit the center of the verse (big bang being a super, super massive black hole giving off a burst of energy), and this verse is just one of many orbiting another uber big point.
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At which point we need a name for the bigger entity. I will except Verse of Universe for the ‘as of yet - known universe’ class orbital system, as we are just one of many (uni of multi). So my proposed names are
Atom->Stellar System->Galaxy->Universe->Multiverse
Atom->Stellar System->Galaxy->Verse->Stanza
I wonder how far it goes.
@Teddy
We’ll be making poetry in no time!!!
RAmen
The FSM doesn’t have an over inflated ego.
Please refer to your “I’d really rather you didn’ts”
He just happens to like noodles - a lot. Hey who doesn’t.
To Homo narrans… you are so right about the Mandelbrots. I never thought of that before. Let’s all discuss fractals. I love ‘em. And I think the great Flying Spaghetti Monster does, too.
What about the Slartibartfasts?
I don’t think that all of you FSM loonies truely realise the depths of wisdom that the Holy Bible has to offer.
Given that your faith is somewhat centred around the divinity of a “main course†perhaps some of you can be turned from your wicked path by viewing what the “good book†has to offer with regard to culinary advice.
Now if I may quote from Deuteronomy Chapter 14 verses 3-7:
“Do not eat anything that the Lord has declared unclean. You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats, deer, wild sheep, wild goats or antelopes. You may not eat camels, RABBITS (my emphasis) or rock badgers.â€
Verses 12-18 contain some useful information regarding edible birds.
The wisdom of the “good book†is by no means limited to handy kitchen advice. I would encourage everyone to examine it’s provisions regarding the proper treatment of female prisoners of war that you have intercourse with but then decide not to marry.
Turn away from the evil FSM and embrace the truth.
@Thumper
Have you actually read the rest of Deuteronomy? It’s filled with “stone your rebellious children” and “kill the people who aren’t Christians”. As genocidal maniacs and power-hungry freaks of course you wouldn’t understand the goodness that is the FSM.
I bet you’re really tall because you clearly aren’t being touched by His Noodly Appendages.
RAmen
May the FSM bring you an abundance of loot and may all of your yurts stay warm in the winter(brr! they can get cold!)
@Pixel Pete
“I bet you’re really tall because you clearly aren’t being touched by His Noodly Appendages”
I kinda thought it was a “flying” abomination that you guys were into…good to know that there are limits to the alleged mischief that it could inflict upon good Christian folk.
He can fly, idiot. The force known as “gravity” is actually His Noodly Appendages pushing us toward the ground. He would not want to touch you, but he must have a slight hold because otherwise you would have flown off the earth. Personaly I can’t find a downside to that.
@Thumper
I’m sorry, but I can’t quite see the correlation between your height and the amount of metaphorical “wounds” that we can deal to your morally inferior religion.
Why don’t you think about it and tell me, if you were short, would “god” exist. I think not, therefor(after performing an experiment), we can determine that your height does in fact, have absolutely nothing to do with anything that’s going on here. You should have picked a better quote to dis than that.
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Now time to pour a little proverbial salt in the wound!
“good Christian folk”
‘Again I apologize, but I don’t know of any good Christian folk, lemme see. Bush is Christian, nope he’s a moron not gonna count. The Pope’s a Christian, yeah… but he’s a Nazi too. The list can go on and my salt shaker’s running low, so how ’bout you tell me a nice Christian and I’ll go ahead and act like I give a damn about your thoughts and feelings.
I hope your yurt falls over.
RAmen
@Pixel Pete
“Again I apologize, but I don’t know of any good Christian folk”
There we go! Generalisation and bigotry…well done Church of the FSM…indeed your religion is evolving nicely!!! Hey Pixel…can we add, “the only good Christian is a dead Christian”…ha ha ha ha ha….
With regard to your “height” comments…I must say that I was confused re relevance of same and thankyou for the clarification….I don’t own a “yurt” but I sincerly hope that your yurt suffers no misfortune or other act of God.
Thumper,
you complete me.
Will you be my bitch?
I think citizen Thumper is a wind up merchant.
I have had the misfortune to work with many of his ilk.
Just ignore him and he will go away and wind up the muslims, budhists, jehovah’s witnesses, ku kux klannists and anyone else that rises to his bait.
Never forget the wise words of the chosen one. ” He who hesitates waits a bit”
Ramen yarrr.
Well, this Thumpy character is doing a hell of a job making christianism unpopular, even among christians, eventually. It will at least have achieved THAT mission!
“Thumper,
you complete me.
Will you be my bitch?”
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ROFLMAO!
what kind of non-intelligent design believe could dispute this evidence!
RAmen
Hey Thumper
Do you like Prawns? Crab? Lobster? I bet you do, you heathen. Your book also says not to eat fish that don’t have fins.
St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Crustaceans
@St John
Not a fan of crustaceans…I do have a weakness for bat…may the Lord forgive me and Mr Osbourne.
Thumper, you should try to stay one one thread.
That way, we won’t have to chase you around making fun of you.
Thanks.
P. P.
Stay on this thread thumpie, otherwise some of us may not pick on you anymore.
Hahaha - he had to have a rabies shot for that!
K’ Alchemist,
I catch ya next time around.
Night Peter.
Is it just me or does Thumper seem to have a bit of a problem with wenches?
He doesn’t seem to talk to us very much, and he has an awful lot to say about slave girls.
Maybe this is just another of his wind up tactics.
I find it rather sad really that he is getting his kicks from all these posts - he must have had one screwed up childhood.
BTW Morning Alchemist and Peter - hope you are OK this morning - go and have some water!
Thumper, you are NO CHRISTIAN. A true worshipper of God would treat others with love. You have none in your heart. You are the right hand of Satan and you will burn in hell eternally with him.
@thumper
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i think someone loves jesus a little too much
Booty, you are right. Thumpie ignores the wenches. Thumper, let me know your email address and I will send you a picture of me naked. I have some good ones. Also, I have one of Peter Popoff with his zipper down that I could share. I could send you some interesting links that your girlfriend will never know that you visited as well. Happy to oblige! Stop living a lie, it will not help you become all that you can be.
That Deuteronomy sounds like a good read - food and violence, two really fun topics!
I like Leviticus, I first several chapters are all about how to properly mutilate animals for the Lord. It goes in to great detail about the correct way to wave the flesh around in the air, where to splash the blood on the ground, and where on your face to smear it. Also God is very fond of blood and fat, and he REALLY likes the smell of burning flesh. Why do satanists get accused of these things when christians are told to do it, as clear as day, right in the bible! The satanists are PETA if anything.
His Saucy-ness is only surpassed by his Noodly-ness.
Leviticus, yeah the bit about not being able to touch a menstruating woman is a hoot. And how disobedient children should be publically executed, another great pillar of the old testament.
Well, at least Jesus was a nice guy. And lets not forget, he made his name by rebelling against the dogmas of organised religion, so is an example to Christians everywhere.
Anyone ever wonder what happened to the animal carcass after it was sacrificed? The old fashined way of fattening up the preacher with the sweat off the congregations’ collective backs
So, the xians come to Briton ans slaughter any Pagans who do not convert. To ensure the rest of the population also killed the Pagans they spread lies that they performed witch craft by making sacrifices etc. And, many a Pagan was burnt at the stake (Witch comes from Wiccan, a ’subset’ of Pagan).
Yet, it turns out that the Christians are the one’s that perform sacrifice, I was wondering where they got the idea from.
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Thumper, have you actually read the bible? Or do you just…
1) Glaze over and only pick up on one or two juice bits?
2) Memorise it verbatim without understanding?
3) Do a quick ‘Google’ to find a nice juicy quote?
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And why the alcohol-free beer would we have any interest in sex with PoWs. We’d do our moral duty and free them so they can live their lives as they will. Or do you have some strange belief that woman should be raped?
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Good Christian: one of my best mates is a strong believer, that strong he never questions my beliefs, understands and excepts them, and we get on great. (Never realised he was Christian for ~2yrs, put foot in mouth, he laughed).
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Fanatical Christian: Hitler. Did God’s will of killing the Jews. Sick bastard.
The Bible is a work of fiction, used by cruel men to control and kill those who don’t agree with them.
“Fanatical Christian: Hitler. Did God’s will of killing the Jews. Sick bastard”
God wants people to kill the Jews?
or
Some people thing that God wants them to kill the Jews?
“Some people thing that God wants them to kill the Jews?”
Some people like to pretend that God wants them to kill Jews so they can have a handy excuse for it, I know that much.
I think the Jewish god is way cooler!
I also think people should research hitler a little better too!
It’s my understanding, that hilter believed in hitler.
And would have used an FSM, if it would have helped his cause.
Namely: Hitler.
@Thumper Jan 21, 2007 at 5:25pm
“Generalisation and bigotry… well done Church of the FSM…”
*Prepares salt shaker*
First off, you spelled generalization wrong.
And second off, speak for yourself.
“Hey Pixel…can we add, ‘the only good Christian is a dead Christian’”
Uh… that’s not very nice, there are plenty of perfectly good people who can be saved from their morally inferior religion. (Not to mention that without Christians we’d have no trolls and no trolls=NO FUN!!!) I could name a few but I’m at a lack of words from your excessive use of insults rather than logical reasoning. I think the girl im in love with could be a christian but im not sure so im not jumping to conclusions.
*mmm… salt*
“I don’t own a ‘yurt’”
No shit sherlock, who does it’s a figure of speech(which I must have already said five or six times)
RAmen
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v(^.^)v
Ú¯Ûر
I have something I have to admit to you all, I have a purely carnal relationship with my mother.
hey Pete, how do you the little down symbols of these:^? It’s not on my keyboard. Is it one of those alt things?
Also, praise be to your mighty salt shaker!
Thumper, we did NOT need to know that. :(
@Dread Wench L’TUAE
I just use a V or a v I can’t remember which.
And yes, my mighty (proverbial)salt shaker is quite the intellectual weapon wouldn’t you agree?
RAmen
Ú¯Ûر
“I have something I have to admit to you all, I have a purely carnal relationship with my mother.”
So, your little brother is actually your son? I didn’t know that they had trailer parks in Australia. How many teeth do you have?
I bow to both your salting skillz and jour computer l337n355.
^(^_^)^ v(^_^)v
Please, that’s an unneccesary boost to my already big ego.
RAmen
hopping from thread to thread is getting annoying. where is thumper going to strike next? I want to be there to punch him in the face.
Get in the queue L’TUAE!! ;)
Is Thumper then a “troll”?
Yes, yes Thumper is a troll.
I remember a few previous poignant posts by him that showed wit and forethought. Maybe I am mistaken.
Hi Thumper. You’re up early!
Alchemist,
Thats not Thumpie. I know Thumpie!
Thats not it.
Ramen
You are right, Alchemist, that would have been mighty early for Thumpie. Hmmmm.
@ whoever is playing silly bastards. Stop it please. Seriously! The joke was funny but it’s worn thin. Have the intelligence to know when to stop!
That’s not thumper, it’s not pompous enough
Beastly Rich Jan 22nd, 2007 at 3:36 pm
That’s not thumper, it’s not pompous enough
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I agree.
Didn’t smell the same.
Indeed that’s not me. Saw another one on a different thread to…I’m wounded that Beastly thinks I’m pompous.
Pompous is as pompous does. You may quote me.
Thumper is as Thupmer does.
Thanks for the quote Marc.
I’m still waiting for neekid pics of a display dummy.
You?
Yes I am. And I am quite ticked that I am still sitting here, member in hand, without any pics. Quite ticked.
Oh, and I do think that Thupmer is fitting. Fred Thupmer, CPA. Round, slightly balding, hairy back.
Well I am glad to see the dialog has taken a turn for the worse.
I use V or v, can’t remember which.
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Laughed ’til I cried. Only ‘cos I’ve been pondering the same question for a couple of days.
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Thank you.
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We are star stuff. We are the universe made manifest trying to figure itself out.
:Delenn, B5
Johnny Corvette Jan 22nd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Well I am glad to see the dialog has taken a turn for the worse.
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I’m glad you can see that Johnny, I’m happy for you.
Ramen
@PP
what the hell is your problem.
Johnny Corvette Jan 22nd, 2007 at 6:53 pm
@PP
what the hell is your problem.
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Huh?
@Johnny C.
Don’t sweat it Johnny. PP and Marc are self medicating again which leads to interesting posts given that neither of them are the sharpest tools in the shed to start with. If you wind PP up enough he’ll lose the plot and threaten to “kick your ass”…is terribly amusing…if you’ve nothing better to do I throughly recommend it…but then again I’m a Troll and that’s what Trolls do.
@Teddy Jan 22 at 5:56 pm
You quoted me without saying that that was a quote from me! Gasp how dare you.
@Thumper
Peter’s never threatened to bludgeon my anus, if that’s what you’re trying to get at. And the only thing that you’ve said that I completely agree with is this: “I’m a troll”, that’s it that quote is beautiful!
@Peter and Alchemist
Evenin’ gents, care to fill me in on what’s goin’ on, had homework to do :(
RAmen
@Pixel Pete
The complete quote is…”I’m a Troll and proud of it”-Thumper.
Ah, never mind folks, I’m retiring to my room for the night. May the FSM guide all your dreams to Noodly goodness where you always get the chick at the end!
RAmen
@Thumper
Yes yes I know and I’m thanking you!
RAmen
i am an english pastafarien from stafford woot his noodley grace!!
bless’ed be the master of the pasta
converting the masses in stafford area
love you guys! xx
pirates are sexy x
You quoted me without saying that that was a quote from me! Gasp how dare you.
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So? Sue me!
;)
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Okay, I confess I was just too lazy.
@Teddy
I’ll see you in court!
Haha
RAmen
Hi Christie Yar - welcome aboard! They certainly are sexy! Snuggle up and make yourself comfy!
@Teddy-”We are star stuff. We are the universe made manifest trying to figure itself out.
:Delenn, B5″
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Great quote! Great show! Awesomeness abounds!
@Christie Yar
Pirates aargh sexy!
RAmen
Dread Wench L’TUAE Jan 23rd, 2007 at 4:26 pm and Teddy.
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One of the best series out! As soon as Commander Wooden aka Valen took a back seat and John Sherridan took over that is. I’ve got the box set. I thought Marcus was hilarious. Even the meaning behind it! Have you ever read any Michael Moorcock? The Eternal Champion? Chaos, Law and the Balance. It reminded me of that!
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Some seriously good taste here!
Dread Wench L’TUAE Jan 23rd, 2007 at 4:26 pm
@Teddy-â€We are star stuff. We are the universe made manifest trying to figure itself out.
:Delenn, B5″
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Great quote! Great show! Awesomeness abounds!
How lame does it get…Fucking Losers.
Hey, Thumper Rampant. It’s a classic. I’ve still got my Mimbari fighting pole! Ok, so it might be sold as an asp but I know better :)
@Thumper Rampant
Are you referring to season 5 (although there are some great quotes) / crusade. Or have you never actually watched the show? If the latter is the case, your views would be more welcome in a church than here, we except that others like different things to ourselves.
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I’m off for a quick MacBari’s, “it tastes so great going down. Coming up again it’s not so terrific, but–”
I’ve no idea what you’re talking about.
Babylon 5, Sci-Fi TV series. Virtual an enormous movie split into episodes. Very well thought out.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdVucvo-kDU&mode=related&search=
(not B5 but interesting, shame the good people are nearly all actors. Their’s more to life than TV. But meh!)
@Homo narrans:
‘the similarity of patterns at different scales are merely further evidence of mighty FSM’s existnce, as we can see here. you know what else is suspiciously noodly? fractals. anyone look at the Mandelbrot set and tell me it is anything other than the finger(noodle?)print of FSM.’
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I couldn’t agree more. The first time I saw a Mandelbrot set I thought of it as a cartoon of the universe. Now I think of it as a cartoon of his noodly appendages and therefore a cartoon of the universe.
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RAmen
@Teddy:
‘I wonder how far it goes.’
Very nice post and a good synopsis of a modern view of the universe. The only answer can be that it goes to infinity in every direction, but it’s noodles in every direction held in place by invisible pasta sauce.
@Thumper Jan 21st, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Are we saying Elmer Fudd is a heretic?
I wouldn’t want to eat a rock badger. I’d break my teeth.
@Fr. Corpus Callosum
Thank you! ;)
Out of interest, they know that when an SMB (super-massive black hole) reaches a certain mass it ‘belches’ and blasts a lot of matter and energy away from itself. Do you also think that this may happen at various stages of growth of a black hole (or if maybe the hole was bigger to begin with) and produce our verse? Or maybe two Hyper-SMBs could collide and cause the same effect.
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For anyone not sure, black holes aren’t holes. One the mass of the sun would be a couple of km in diameter. Ones roaming* the galaxy are in the 10s of km (10-15x sun masses), and the ones at the galactic cores can be billions of times the mass of our sun (If I remember up to 200,000km diameters, small compared with the galaxy, just looks big). Black holes are not infinitely small in size.
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As black holes accrete (absorb, opposite of excrete) mass they emit radiation (energy/photons) from the poles. This is most commonly noticed by pulsars (okay, neutron stars but meh!, and quasars - I think - very distant AGNs/SMB emitting radiation).
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Sorry, but I figure the universe probably fascinates some of you almost ;) as much as me.
*Don’t start.
Don’t worry Teddy, I love that kind of stuff.
@ B5 fans. I know! The entire series was great, even if the last season was a little disconnected. I have all the seasons on DVD, and the movies they made. Marcus was awesome, but my two other favorites were Lenier and G’kar. It’s so sad that Andreas Katsulas died. He was a great actor. Did you know they’re making induvidual episodes now with the remaining characters? They’ve filmed some already.
@ Alchemist- you have a membari fighting staff??!!! Where can I get one?!
@Thumper Rampant- you don’t know what you’re talking about. Go to hell.
@Dread Wench L’TUAE
Andreas K. was more than a great actor. He was awesome. To keep a straight face with some of his lines…. I just loved the pairings they did. G’Kar/Londo Vir/Lenier. They played off each other like no other characters I’ve seen.
Obviously I thought Marcus’ humour was great, but his piece was a tad short. Should have had him in longer.
Pretty good that they are doing more, but I’m not sure how well it will work, never thought much of Lochley’s character, lacked depth. Still, I will watch and enjoy.
How can you talk about such insignificant things like christians in a time like this?
Amazing new proof of His Divine Grace our Almighty Pasta Moster has appeared in daylight, all according to His Plan. I feel touched when I see this new and beautiful evidence! This… christ, did he have appendages? The intelligent design is infallable, so please stop talking this christ-nonsens and join me in Praise and Worship of His Holiness the Spaghetti Monster! Say after me… RAmen!!! RAmen!!!
@Jonas
This… christ, did he have appendages?
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No, I don’t think so. However, there is an xian equivalent, the priests and bishops have appendages which they use to reach out and touch people.
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(Too low?)
there, see? absolute proof.
WWFSMD? RAmen ffs!!
This article rules!