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[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Until we develop a better theory, it's fun to imagine there's a terrifyingly advanced intelligent species that moved or "grew" those galaxies in that configuration for some reason.

[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago

"It goes somewhere, right?"
"Of course."
"Can you tell me where?"
"Sure. All this stuff winds up in Cygnus A."
"You're making Cygnus A?"
"Oh, it's not just us. This is a...cooperative project of many galaxies. That's what we mainly do--engineering. Only a...few of us are involved with emerging civilizations."
"There are cooperative projects between galaxies? Lots of galaxies, each with a kind of Central Administration? With hundreds of billions of stars in each galaxy. And then those administrations cooperate. To pour millions of suns into Centaurus...sorry, Cygnus A? The...forgive me, I'm just staggered by the scale. Why would you do all this? Whatever for?"
"You mustn't think of the universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years. Think of it more as...cultivated."

Carl Sagan, Contact

[–] ooli@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

impossible, they were too busy building the pyramids

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

or maybe imperfect instrumentation.

[–] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

They don’t really say in the article that I can see, but I wonder if they are actually aligned together in space or just appear to be from our perspective.

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I knew it. Space is god cum, isn't it?

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wasn’t there a belief that Saturn’s rings were Jesus Christ’s ascended foreskin?

[–] LemmyTryThisOut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago