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Kazak
Jan 10, 2012

Mozi posted:

first there was this really big bang. except there is no sound in space so it was really a big silence. but even bigger than the silence that came before it, if there was any. anyways, after that, then stars happend

I bet any sort of noise would be considered a big banger compared to absolute silence. Much like a watch hand ticking in a quiet bedroom

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Neutrino
Mar 8, 2006

Fallen Rib

Milo and POTUS posted:

I heard they took him into custodian so he can clean up his act

Plot twist: The janitor was not born on Earth. Alien pedos have invaded earth and they are loving our children. Hillary is in on it.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost

Kazak posted:

I bet any sort of noise would be considered a big banger compared to absolute silence. Much like a watch hand ticking in a quiet bedroom

could god make a watch so quiet he could not hear it?

jemand
Sep 19, 2018

Broose posted:

Man, you hosed up. hosed up big. I cannot tell you how large a gently caress up you've made. Monumental. Huge. Astonishing girth.

Light can take a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of years to make it out of the star where it was created, because poo poo just so tightly packed it can't make its way out without bouncing off everything randomly.

The neutrinos come right out though.

AKA Pseudonym
May 16, 2004

A dashing and sophisticated young man
Doctor Rope
This is dumb, but plausible

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sunspot-solar-observatory-new-mexico-search-warrant-reveals-child-pornography-investigation-2018-09-19/

quote:

According to KRQE, the observatory director said that once the janitor realized his computer was no longer there, he started "feverishly started looking through the facility." The director said the janitor also started making comments about "lax security at the facility," said it was "only a matter of time before the facility got hit, and he "believed there was a serial killer in the area" and that killer might enter the facility and execute someone.

The director said that's when he became concerned for his personal safety, and along with the agencies that operate the facility decided to evaluate it and shut it down.

The agency said they "recognize that the lack of communications while the facility was vacated was concerning and frustrating for some. However, our desire to provide additional information had to be balanced against the risk that, if spread at the time, the news would alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation. That was a risk we could not take."

Evil Agita
Feb 25, 2005

Lord Fool, give me another chance. I'll prove my strength to you!
Reddit is currently showing off reams of 4chan posts from a week ago saying this was going to be a coverup involving child porn. A perverted panicky dumbfuck trying to play 4D chess is totally plausible but so is a government coverup of foreign espionage so I guess its readers choice.

I choose Chinese industrial espionage myself

Sierra Nevadan
Nov 1, 2010

seems fishy

warcraft_boyfriend_99
Aug 12, 2007

by Pragmatica
im so sad this guy turned out to (allegedly) be a diddler.Just once I'd like one of these conspiracy theories to hold water.

Raldikuk
Apr 7, 2006

I'm bad with money and I want that meatball!

Fancy_Breakfast posted:

Tbh I think the sun is a flat disc. How do we know it's not?
Have we ever sent anybody to walk on the sun? No.
Has anybody ever orbited the sun? No.
You can't even look at the sun with the naked eye, so how can we trust some pedo scientists or aluminum foil telescopes?

What's it even hiding?

You're orbiting the sun right now. Assuming you're older than a year old you've also done at least one revolution around it too!

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Raldikuk posted:

You're orbiting the sun right now. Assuming you're older than a year old you've also done at least one revolution around it too!

lol look at this idiot who believes government lies of a spherical sun.

CassandraZara
Oct 21, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

warcraft_boyfriend_99 posted:

im so sad this guy turned out to (allegedly) be a diddler.Just once I'd like one of these conspiracy theories to hold water.

If you believe the cover story here then you always will and therefore none of these conspiracy theories will ever "hold water"

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
What the gently caress janitor has a pc they use at work for work? Remote piloting the mopbots? Don't add up.

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Everyone outsources custodial duties these days, the only reason to keep a janitor around is to be the fall guy.

SleepySonata
Mar 3, 2010

CassandraZara posted:

They evacuated the post office and several nearby homes, if you believe this child porn excuse then I have a pizzagate to sell you.

It's really cute when people think but there is anything greater going on out there :allears:

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

SniperWoreConverse posted:

What the gently caress janitor has a pc they use at work for work? Remote piloting the mopbots? Don't add up.

Maybe he was, heh, some sort of a computer janitor :smug:

Explains everything else to a tee.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

SniperWoreConverse posted:

What the gently caress janitor has a pc they use at work for work? Remote piloting the mopbots? Don't add up.

Even janitors have an e-mail account, yes

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QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Jose posted:

i'm sure the internet on an observatory right next to a military base isn't going to be heavily monitored or anything

This but Unironically, it's a solar observatory why would the military care about it at all? The telescope likely isn't even capable of tracking anything faster than the sun

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