World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online High on a Chilean mountain the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is, at last, photographing the galaxy and the first shots have found 2,104 new asteroids in the Solar System in its initial ten hours of operation. "Building the world's largest digital camera will allow scientists to explore the cosmos in new ways and at a scale that …
That’s a function of religion. American Christianism is quite different than the rest of the world. Fundamentalist Christianism is its own thing. It’s not Protestant (it was created to displace Protestantism), not Catholic (they don’t think Catholics are Christian), and not Orthodox (they’re idol worshippers). Fundamentalists have gradually subsumed the governing bodies of the mainstream sects.
It focuses on the negative aspects of Pauline scripture and the Old Testament. Women are capable, but they cannot lead and must remain silent. The New Testament verses they use refer to women’s behavior in church, but Fundamentalism doesn’t acknowledge a secular world. They live in church all the time “wherever two or three are gathered”. Therefore, women must remain silent and defer to men in all things.
It’s a big issue, even today. These beliefs permeate government at all levels and are prevalent in the finance sector as well.
"Women are capable, but they cannot lead and must remain silent."
Has anyone pointed this out to the loud Congress-critters who are, apparently, female?
Or to the majority who are, apparently, not? Just so those ones can then mention it to the female ones?
I'm not against ladies speaking, I actually like a few of them but if it's their *religion* ...
If Friedrich Nietzsche is right, we're doomed.
From 'On the genealogy of morals'
"... The predominance of mandarins is never a good sign: just as little as the advent of democracy, of international courts of peace instead of wars, of equal rights for women, of the religion of compassion, and whatever other symptoms there are of life in decline. ..."
Page 120 of the OUP English translation by Douglas Smith, ISBN 978-0-19-953708-2
I am not a fan of Nietzsche.
Where can I download the full resolution version of this pic? I'd like to cut it into zillions of ickle bity sections to print and cover my town with, so when viewed from some point between, the Trifid Nebula looks mirrored to befuddle invaders.
https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/06/24/galaxy1.jpg
I watched the live feed of the announcement and couldn't help but do so with a clenched fist:
All these NASA talking heads spruiking up "science for the future and to motivate the next generation" ad nauseam. While having been slashed into oblivion and in a country that is on a speed-run back to the dark ages.
I hope other countries are ready to take up the slack, including running the VCR.
find the elements of dark matter and dark energy that make up our universe.
That may make up our universe. There's no proof yet both exist.
My explanation for the effect of expansion acceleration is that we are in a multiverse and other universes gravity is acting on our universe and makes it expand. No dark energy, just gravity, and the more our universe expands, the closer it is from other universes, the bigger the gravity effect is, the faster is expansion occurring.
For dark matter, it's the interaction of parallel universes interacting with ours.
