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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) will announce an "unprecedented discovery" on Monday:
ESO will hold a press conference on 16 October 2017 at 16:00 CEST, at its Headquarters in Garching, Germany, to present groundbreaking observations of an astronomical phenomenon that has never been witnessed before.
[...] By registering for the conference, journalists agree to honour an embargo, details of which will be provided after registration, and not to publish or discuss any of the material presented before the start of the conference on 16 October 2017 at 16:00 CEST.
LEAK IT!
Update: The announcement will be related to gravitational waves, and may involve a neutron star collision, which would also be visible using optical methods.
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 13 2017, @02:03PM (3 children)
I read a short story, or novelette, years ago, in which they found "God's thumbprint" on a new world. Dang it, I forget it's proper title and author. I went in search of it, and found a bunch of - relatively speaking - silly stuff. Anyway, the telescopes have probably found God's thumbprint, and all you atheists are going to have to work overtime explaining it away.
Or, maybe the found God Hisself?
Mehhhh - unprecedented might mean any thing at all, at all.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Friday October 13 2017, @05:53PM
No, not really. Unless there is some unequivocal proof that He left his thumbprint there, I will happily dismiss it like the rest of the nonsense the faithful try to push on us.
In other words, someone is going to have to work overtime convincing me that it is what they claim (burden of proof, you know).
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @06:33PM
Or, maybe they found multiple gods and all you mono-deists will have lots of "walking back" and sucking up to do.
Or maybe they've been able to observe past the edge of this universe and see into the Cowboy Universe.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:36AM
They've already got a picture of gods sign language, https://sites.google.com/site/tribesofatlantis/what-is-atlantis/Carina_Nebula_Jesus_Ascension_Riven.jpg [google.com] so that wouldn't be unprecedented.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.