“According to So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, God’s Final Message To His Creation is written in fire in letters thirty feet high on the far side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeupstry on the planet of Preliumtarn, which orbits the star Zarss, which is located in the Grey Binding Fiefdoms of Saxaquine. The long path to the message is lined with souvenir stands at spaced-out intervals.
When Marvin reads the message, it says, “We apologise for the inconvenience.” However, Fenchurch’s reaction suggests that the message she saw was the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (and that presumably, therefore, the Message is personalized to each viewer).”
–Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Or perhaps this* is God’s Final Message:
(Part of the Carina Nebula (not far from the Keyhole Nebula detail). Image from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. See GRIN for some more information.)
-cvj
(*Thanks Nick Warner! - Nick presented this image in the above humourous terms to his Astronomy 100 class today, I heard.)
On this day on Asymptotia...
- Brian Cox on Colbert - 2009
- Promises, Promises - 2006
BEST. NEBULA. EVER. ^_^
or as my environmentalist evangelical preacher friend’s new bumper sticker says:
“God made my middle finger longer for a reason!”
That finger is 42 parsecs long.
Yes, that definitely makes it THE finger. The mother of all…..
-cvj
i dont believe thats GODS work.
Tiffany-
Why not? Do you not believe in God(s)?
Or do you not believe that your God is the creator?
I think God created that nebula for the sake of humoring us.
Yeah: That God, (s)he’s such a wag!
Cheers,
-cvj
HHHmmmmmmm… I would like to believe it is the four square city (New Jerusalem) the bible talks about in the book of Revaluations……….the second coming may be sooner than we think.
Amusingly enough, it seems that He did it to specially amuse me and others that can speak bosnian/croatian/serbian. Namely Carina (pronounced K) means there not exactly the finger, but a thing represented by finger, if it happens to be a big one. Don’t use actively this piece of knowledge; maybe He does not like it!
I’d like to see the message being made out of substance abled to travel through dimensions and realities so that it would not be destroyed whatever happened. So it would seem to be even a bit positive one.
If this is really something created by a god. It would kinda blow away the believe in that the universe was created 6000 years as it is a bit further than that. Kinda cool though that through the whole of a arc of space it is pointing in our direction to give this presentation of itself.
Chief, I think you also have to take into account that considering the sheer vastness of space, it is hardly that daunting to think that one nebula would sort of look like a hand making a rude gesture. I bet if we looked hard enough we could find a nebula which sort of looks like a playboy bunny.
god can be an asshole