Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Armchair astronomer discovers unique 'cosmic ghost'




I'm not exactly sure why they call them armchair astronomers because either you have to go outside to look at the stars or you look at astronomical "stuff" on the Internet. In that case, you're probably sitting in a computer chair. Anyway, this is another article for science geeks about a new types of astronomical galaxy that was discovered by a 25-year-old teacher. Of course, she wasn't from the United States, she was from The Netherlands. It seems American teachers don't have time to look at pictures of stars to notice that there's a hole in a spiral galaxy. You know American teachers are too busy grading the papers of children that don't give a crap if they pass school or not. Yes, I just insulted most American students for their lack of enthusiasm when it comes to learning. Wait, where was I? Oh yeah, Voorwerp. I learned alot from this article actually. For the longest time I thought that you had to have no life (kinda like me) to spend time in front of a computer classifying galaxies. It turns out though that it's kind of addictive maybe I should try it. I also learned that Voorwerp is Dutch for "thing". I've always wondered what the Dutch word was for thing now I know and I can die happily. Oh yeah I forgot to add that I learned that computers are still dumber than humans when it comes to astronomy. Humans rule!!!!!!!! Let's see, what else do I have to say? Well, I didn't really know anything about Voorwerps before I read this so now I have even more random facts to bore people with... and I really don't have any questions after reading this article because the truth is that I don't really care about the subject matter. I think I know more about Voorwerps to get me through life or at least college. Thank you person with no life for providing with such a wealth of information about something as menial as holes in galaxies.

2 comments:

Brittany's Blog said...

Well, after reading I was a little confused! I'm not sure if you think astronomers are cool or boring, got a little side tracked, and didn't read anything about a ghost (which is why I read the article in the first place). I thought there might be a supernatural being in space (cause how cool would that be!!!) Anyway it was very entertaining as always![:

B_Litteral said...

You sound a little jaded Cierra. Maybe you should sleep later on the weekends and you would be happier.