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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Another big part of it is that if the big bang happened evenly then galaxies and other objects should be spinning in random directions. So far that's not what's been observed. There seems to be a preferred direction everything spins in.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There seems to be a preferred direction everything spins in.

    I'm sorry but i think that's just not true?

    Inside the solar system, yes, planets more or less spin around the same axis than the whole solar system does.

    But the axis of the solar system and of the whole milky way are like 63° towards each other. Source So, not the same direction at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The direction the black hole "toilet" flushes as it sucks stuff in and smashes it against each other?

    Maybe there's a parallel universe called Astraliastra where the black hole flushes the other direction!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's amazing to me that an episode of the Simpsons like 30 years ago created such a widely believed completely made up fact.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    That fact wasn't as cromulent as they made it out to be.

    ETA: also, the myth about birds exploding by eating rice. An entire generation used bubbles at their weddings instead, in part because Lisa didn't fact-check a myth. (Not complaining about the result though: bubbles are lovely floating orbs of happiness, whereas thrown rice is a messy waste of food.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The bird myth predates the Simpsons though. I did hear it was greatly spread by all the churches\wedding venues because they all didn't want to keep cleaning up all the rice.

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