Based purely on the thumbnail image alone I'm going to assume it was located in the "Cocknballs Nebula".
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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Can't believe astronomers missed the shaft
"Gotta honor the cock." —D20
A bridge, you say? Then we can cross to other galaxies! Our overpopulation problems are solved!
On a more serious note, I wonder how much this would increase our ability to cross the gulfs. Assuming we could eventually build machines that can endure for hundreds of thousands of years, would the presence of a gas bridge would make ramscoops a more viable intergalactic option?
Stuff lasting that long? Capitalism will never allow it!
"This is Joe from Amazon Hyperdrives, I'm calling about your centennial warranty renewal."
The future is NOW...NOw...Now...now...~now...~^now...^
Imagine cashing in on a 100k year voyage which will only probably go wrong 10k-99.9k years after you die. Easy money for a capitalist, even if it involves making a vessel that can last that long
And then they used the word "could" which made it all meaningless blather and conjecture. Science for likes and clicks, who needs a fuckin' hypothesis, amirite?
who needs a fuckin’ hypothesis
everyone. Its how theories are formed,
but yes science journalism is shitty and intentionally fails,0 to indicate the difference between an idea, hypothesis and theory. Just to gain clicks.
Well, it's not a simple page with science journalism, it's the official page of the European Space Agency (ESA), not TikToc or YouTube. It's certainly a hypothesis, but for sure it's not something that cannot be taken seriously.
It’s like when we discovered the lymphatic system in the body, basically invisible while being critically important
Between the couch cushions again