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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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
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@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.