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9/18/12 at 11:16am

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Originally Posted by BBC .co .uk
The highest-resolution camera ever built has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly three-quarters of our Universe.

The Dark Energy Survey's 570-million-pixel camera will scan some 300 million galaxies in the coming five years.

The goal is to discover the nature of dark energy, which is theorised to be responsible for the ever-faster expansion of the Universe.

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9/18/12 at 11:24am

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That pretty cool... but looking at my 14MP camera I feel my e-peen shrinking faster than ever XD

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9/18/12 at 11:29am

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+1 haha! Mines 16MP btw

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9/18/12 at 11:47am

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Is this that camera for which IBM is building that supercomputer? (there was an article about that some months ago i believe)

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9/18/12 at 12:12pm

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My 2 cents : On those 300 millions photos of galaxies, they will have a load of unknown little lights and government will tell us it's dust in the lens.

Government don't want you to notice the E.T.'s highway XD

*On a side note, I'm not kidding, there must be somewhere, somehow, an alien highway XD
I'M ON AN ALIEN HIGHHHWAYYYY TO HELLL

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9/18/12 at 4:50pm

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Now this is what the Technology and Science News is all about.

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9/18/12 at 4:54pm

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science for peeping on alien broads... I like

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at that resolution couldn't a spec of dust be mistaken for dark energy?

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Quote:

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at that resolution couldn't a spec of dust be mistaken for dark energy?

Dark energy isn't a physical tangible object.
Edited by Shimme - 9/19/12 at 3:26pm

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