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 15 points 5 months 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

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

or maybe imperfect instrumentation.

[–] ooli@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

impossible, they were too busy building the pyramids

[–] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] LemmyTryThisOut@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

This is a pretty good video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncXe7QCOiVo