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(BBC) Cool Newly found galaxy cluster named El Gordo which is Spanish for The Gordo   (bbc.co.uk) divider line 31
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BKITU [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 02:04:33 PM
www.nasa.gov

Approves.
 
usernameguy [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 02:16:58 PM
I approve of this gordo.
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 02:19:30 PM
It sounds fat
 
rikdanger [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 02:26:16 PM
media.80stees.com

I'm not sure anyone knows what it means.
 
Titanius Anglesmith [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 02:37:39 PM
BKITU: [www.nasa.gov image 320x396]

Approves.

We're done here. Someone hit the lights on the way out. Thanks.
 
Nadie_AZ [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 02:48:17 PM
No 3 Amigos references? For shame.

/do you know what for play is?
//no
///neither does el gordo
 
mekkab
2012-01-11 04:33:52 PM
Nadie_AZ: No 3 Amigos references? For shame.

/do you know what for play is?
//no
///neither does el gordo

Would you say I had a plethora of stars?
 
Pants full of macaroni!! [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 04:34:13 PM
ecx.images-amazon.com

Approves, eh?
 
macross87
2012-01-11 04:38:22 PM
Awaiting the Torgo Galaxy....

/boop boop
//beep beep
///boop boop
////beep beep
 
Uzzah
2012-01-11 04:41:40 PM
skyjude.users.btopenworld.com

"Uh, Gordo ... that's the luggage compartment."

/"you should see my shoes! Wooh!"
 
Arkanaut
2012-01-11 04:42:16 PM
Rich Garces approves.
 
Tergiversada
2012-01-11 04:47:27 PM
and "La Quinta" is Spanish for "Behind Denny's"
 
Sargun
2012-01-11 04:48:01 PM
This headline made me laugh way too hard
 
Flt209er
2012-01-11 04:55:09 PM
Nadie_AZ: No 3 Amigos references? For shame.

/do you know what for play is?
//no
///neither does el gordo

That's El Guapo to you, Buttercup.
 
chaddsfarkprefect
2012-01-11 04:59:33 PM
www.archer2000.net


Also approves
 
unyon [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 05:04:29 PM
FTFA: Seven billion light years away and with two million billion times the mass of our Sun, the cluster was nicknamed "El Gordo" - "the Fat One" in Spanish.

Why bother mentioning its mass relative to our sun? That's about as useful as saying that I weigh the equivalent of 280,000 grains of sushi rice, except using an even more ridiculous scale of comparison.

Hell, if they had used the mass of the entire Milky Way galaxy for comparison, that would barely make sense.

Let me usefully break down how gordo El Gordo is. Someone might need to check my math.

El gordo is two million billion times the mass of our sun. That's 2x1015 times the mass. For the purpose of this argument, we're going to make the wild assed assumption that El Gordo's density and surface area also correlate with the sun's.

Now, since you can fit about 1.3 million earths in the sun. That would make El Gordo about 2x1021 earths.

The surface area of the earth is roughly 5.1x108 sq km, which at 240 per square km, helpfully means that it is the size of 1.22 x1010 football fields.

That means that El Gordo is 2.44x1031 American football fields in size. Roughly. So

There. Glad I could help put it all into perspective.

/let me know if you need this translated into grapefruits or grains of rice
 
TrainingWheelsNeeded
2012-01-11 05:12:40 PM
When I lived in Dallas I listened to a sportsradio show in the morning calledThe Musers, very funny stuff. One of these guys was named Gordon Keith or The Great Gordo, he was my favorite. So, there's that.
 
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
2012-01-11 05:18:54 PM
 
Nadie_AZ [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 06:05:00 PM
Flt209er: Nadie_AZ: No 3 Amigos references? For shame.

/do you know what for play is?
//no
///neither does el gordo

That's El Guapo to you, Buttercup.

Go to Old Tucson Studios and they do a 3 Amigos skit with El Guapo's cousin- El Gordo.

/good times
//what's a plethora?
 
Impasse
2012-01-11 06:27:11 PM
El what?

images.wikia.com
 
dready zim
2012-01-11 06:36:58 PM
Nadie_AZ: /good times
//what's a plethora?

just about enough
 
PainInTheASP [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 06:45:45 PM
unyon: FTFA: Seven billion light years away and with two million billion times the mass of our Sun, the cluster was nicknamed "El Gordo" - "the Fat One" in Spanish.

Why bother mentioning its mass relative to our sun? That's about as useful as saying that I weigh the equivalent of 280,000 grains of sushi rice, except using an even more ridiculous scale of comparison.

THIS. Everyone knows that you're only supposed to use Rhode Islands (new window) for measurements like that...though I don't know the Rhode Island mass. Google keeps giving me maps when I type it in to the search box. I wonder why...
 
LOGINGOESHERE
2012-01-11 06:50:31 PM
unyon: FTFA: Seven billion light years away and with two million billion times the mass of our Sun, the cluster was nicknamed "El Gordo" - "the Fat One" in Spanish.

Why bother mentioning its mass relative to our sun? That's about as useful as saying that I weigh the equivalent of 280,000 grains of sushi rice, except using an even more ridiculous scale of comparison.

Hell, if they had used the mass of the entire Milky Way galaxy for comparison, that would barely make sense.

Let me usefully break down how gordo El Gordo is. Someone might need to check my math.

El gordo is two million billion times the mass of our sun. That's 2x1015 times the mass. For the purpose of this argument, we're going to make the wild assed assumption that El Gordo's density and surface area also correlate with the sun's.

Now, since you can fit about 1.3 million earths in the sun. That would make El Gordo about 2x1021 earths.

The surface area of the earth is roughly 5.1x108 sq km, which at 240 per square km, helpfully means that it is the size of 1.22 x1010 football fields.

That means that El Gordo is 2.44x1031 American football fields in size. Roughly. So

There. Glad I could help put it all into perspective.

/let me know if you need this translated into grapefruits or grains of rice


tvmedia.ign.com
How many gills is that?
 
Chevello
2012-01-11 07:10:24 PM
As someone with the former gang name of Flaco, I am giving a kick out of this.
 
JorgiX
2012-01-11 07:22:20 PM
3.bp.blogspot.com
 
Twilight Snarkle
2012-01-11 07:26:08 PM
While we're on a roll...

upload.wikimedia.org
Approves.
 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 11:07:25 PM
Astronomers reporting at the 219th American Astronomical Society meeting said El Gordo was currently undergoing a merger and growing even larger.

www.vaultoflol.com
 
Qaiwolf
2012-01-12 02:38:20 AM
I'm glad someone put that into football fields for us. NOW I get it.
 
Quantumbunny
2012-01-12 07:22:29 AM
Qaiwolf: I'm glad someone put that into football fields for us. NOW I get it.

Yea, but how many Rhode Islands is it?
 
machoprogrammer
2012-01-12 09:58:07 AM
unyon: FTFA: Seven billion light years away and with two million billion times the mass of our Sun, the cluster was nicknamed "El Gordo" - "the Fat One" in Spanish.

Why bother mentioning its mass relative to our sun? That's about as useful as saying that I weigh the equivalent of 280,000 grains of sushi rice, except using an even more ridiculous scale of comparison.

Hell, if they had used the mass of the entire Milky Way galaxy for comparison, that would barely make sense.

Let me usefully break down how gordo El Gordo is. Someone might need to check my math.

El gordo is two million billion times the mass of our sun. That's 2x1015 times the mass. For the purpose of this argument, we're going to make the wild assed assumption that El Gordo's density and surface area also correlate with the sun's.

Now, since you can fit about 1.3 million earths in the sun. That would make El Gordo about 2x1021 earths.

The surface area of the earth is roughly 5.1x108 sq km, which at 240 per square km, helpfully means that it is the size of 1.22 x1010 football fields.

That means that El Gordo is 2.44x1031 American football fields in size. Roughly. So

There. Glad I could help put it all into perspective.

/let me know if you need this translated into grapefruits or grains of rice

Well a galaxy cluster would have a far different density than the sun, so to compare its diameter to the sun is pointless.

Comparing its mass to the sun is kind of strange, but since theres a lot of empty space between each galaxy, the volume comparison isn't accurate at all.
 
unyon [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 10:03:51 PM
machoprogrammer: Well a galaxy cluster would have a far different density than the sun, so to compare its diameter to the sun is pointless.

But other than that, my reasoning was flawless. Right? RIGHT?!
 
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