The universe has no "up"

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/09/09/the-universe-has-no-up.html

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it’s just down, all the way down.

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[Sigh…]

So, I guess that means there is also no Central Bureau we can trudge down to, to register an Official Complaint about all this, is there?..

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Where are the turtles?

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I’ve always found it interesting in that just about every space-based SF movie or TV show, when two or more ships meet, they’re all oriented in the same direction.

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It’s so they have their blasters pointed in the right direction for what comes next…

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First, the so-called “Supreme” so-called “Court” mandated so-called “Gay” so-called “marriage”, and now the universe is homogeneous? Thanks, Obama!

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This explains why I always feel like I’m going nowhere.

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It also has no chill.

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Sure there’s a direction.

The enemy’s gate is down.

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Perhaps it was actually a big implosion.
A so-called big crush theory as it were.

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held up by turtles

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You’re referring to the Big Gnab.

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No. The Gnab Gib.

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No, that was responsible for the creation of antimatter.

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Well, since there is no preferred direction and there is evidence of turtles, even turtles supporting turtles, i would suggest that the answer to your question is

EVERYWHERE

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Well, there’s always the regional branch office…

Sagittarius A - Wikipedia*

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Well that’s surprisingly good news, I think.

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