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  • Dark energy is basically a placeholder name. We have no direct evidence of it, but we indirectly know it has to exist due to other gravitational effects. As soon as we understand what it is the term “dark energy” will probably be replaced with whatever we discover to cause the observables currently attributed to dark energy, as dark energy is basically scientist for “no fucking idea why we observe these effects, but we do observe them”. I’m not currently an astrophysicist but I spent time during undergrad as a research assistant on a LIGO project














  • Gustephan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThat crisp spring air (at 150mph)
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    > be me. Business trip to Texas fml

    > get some shitty subcompact rental car

    > try to drive to some state park on weekend

    > the location? About 3 hours driving away

    > the cell tower reception? KEKW

    > the road? On a 20 foot raised ridge for some texan fucking reason

    > the wind? 42069 mph, perpendicular to the road

    > literally turning the steering wheel against the wind to maintain driving straight

    > literally feel like I’m going to get blown off the road and die

    > in Texas so actually do want to die

    > wish I was in a big truck for the first time in my life

    > after hours of white knuckle driving finally get there

    > Amarillo texas, the biggest pile of shit I’ve ever seen in my life

    > literally. Active mountain of cow shit being farmed and sold as fertilizer right next to the town

    Texas. Not even once.