Okay, maybe not very funny. How about ironic? I’m referring to my reply to you, ER, toward the bottom in Buck’s long-threaded “Interesting Article on Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification...” posting (May 13, 2021 | 2:32 pm).

“Been a while . . . by DanS 2021-06-16 15:26:42”

This episode involving “the biggest spinning object in the universe” is impressive. Here we have a few thousand galaxies revolving around each other and forming a kind of twisted line of rope. Those anomalies are very far away and really, really big (“hundreds of millions of lightyears long”). Could the answer be as simple as clean gravitic forces at work without interference? Generally speaking, galaxies drawn together are said to collide eventually, but what happens when gravitic polarities are realigned? Might a spinning rope of galaxies the solution? The universe is the only laboratory large enough to display such an event, but doing the research will take many generations.

These are intergalactic oddities for which we have no real answers, all of which are “self-demanding for research.” Buck’s posting, though, was of events occurring a lot closer to home. As technology improves, so does the picture of the perceived universe around us, but this by no means implies we understand what it is we’re seeing.

“Quantum entanglements with the properties of dark energy and dark matter?

Nature does strange things, often more bizarre than anything of which humanity is capable. We have no idea what any of this is, but I find it all self-demanding for research.”