Astronomers find largest water reservoir ever,
12 billion years in the past
12 billion years in the past
Ok, call me kooky but this headline has me chuckling maniacally this morning. I mean, first our hopes are raised to this insane height:
OMG!!
Humanity is SAVED!
Texas is saved!
Las Vegas can use all the water it wants FOREVER!
I can leave the water running when I brush my teeth!!
Texas is saved!
Las Vegas can use all the water it wants FOREVER!
I can leave the water running when I brush my teeth!!
And then, our dreams are dashed so utterly and completely:
WTF!
Like, you mean we need a Time Machine?
Is this some kind of Cosmic Joke?
Like, you mean we need a Time Machine?
Is this some kind of Cosmic Joke?
It is from an article was written by Matt Ford in Ars Technica. Here's the scoop:
"Using a pair of sub-millimeter wavelength telescopes, two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest reservoir of water ever found in the Universe. The water-containing cloud was found near quasar APM 08279+5255, some 12 billion light years from Earth; this means that the radiation seen today from this quasar was emitted when the universe was a scant 1.6 billion years old."
