this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
3 points (100.0% liked)

Space

1395 readers
59 users here now

A community to discuss space & astronomy through a STEM lens

Rules

  1. Be respectful and inclusive. This means no harassment, hate speech, or trolling.
  2. Engage in constructive discussions by discussing in good faith.
  3. Foster a continuous learning environment.

Also keep in mind, mander.xyz's rules on politics

Please keep politics to a minimum. When science is the focus, intersection with politics may be tolerated as long as the discussion is constructive and science remains the focus. As a general rule, political content posted directly to the instance’s local communities is discouraged and may be removed. You can of course engage in political discussions in non-local communities.


Related Communities

🔭 Science

🚀 Engineering

🌌 Art and Photography


Other Cool Links


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 1 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Plus, the team even found that parts of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall are actually closer to Earth than previously suspected."

Sentences like this make me hate science journalism. It's so fucking meaningless to say this. We can't reach it, talk to it, it's not a conceivably functional metric, it is a conceptual object with no continuity of note other than the shape we've observed from our vantage point... We have no idea if it's actually a cohesive thing or just coincidentally so.

"ooh, it's closer!" it's like asking, "how long is a string?"