April 24th, 2009 / 11:50 am
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Interlude

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Let’s take a moment away from literature for this sentence from The Guardian:

Astronomers searching for the building blocks of life in a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have concluded that it tastes vaguely of raspberries.

And without even trying, the universe has defeated almost all poetry.

(Turned on to this link by Charles Mudede at The Stranger.)

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19 Comments

  1. April 24th, 2009 / 4:26 pm Jimmy Chen—

      real life is better then the onion.
      awesome find.

  2. April 24th, 2009 / 12:26 pm Jimmy Chen—

      real life is better then the onion.
      awesome find.

  3. April 24th, 2009 / 4:27 pm Jimmy Chen—

      *better than

  4. April 24th, 2009 / 12:27 pm Jimmy Chen—

      *better than

  5. April 24th, 2009 / 4:28 pm Molly Gaudry—

      Incredible! Love this.

  6. April 24th, 2009 / 12:28 pm Molly Gaudry—

      Incredible! Love this.

  7. April 24th, 2009 / 4:37 pm Ryan Call—

      space raspberies.

  8. April 24th, 2009 / 12:37 pm Ryan Call—

      space raspberies.

  9. April 24th, 2009 / 4:56 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Indeed. This news will sustain me for the rest of the day. And possibly most of Saturday.

  10. April 24th, 2009 / 12:56 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Indeed. This news will sustain me for the rest of the day. And possibly most of Saturday.

  11. April 24th, 2009 / 6:08 pm Amelia—

      “It does happen to give raspberries their flavour, but there are many other molecules that are needed to make space raspberries,” Arnaud Belloche, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, told the Guardian.

      (“Why yes,” he added, when pressed. “I do miss Douglas Adams.”)

  12. April 24th, 2009 / 2:08 pm Amelia—

      “It does happen to give raspberries their flavour, but there are many other molecules that are needed to make space raspberries,” Arnaud Belloche, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, told the Guardian.

      (“Why yes,” he added, when pressed. “I do miss Douglas Adams.”)

  13. April 24th, 2009 / 6:10 pm KKP—
  14. April 24th, 2009 / 2:10 pm KKP—
  15. April 24th, 2009 / 10:40 pm Nathan (Nate) Tyree—

      My heart tastes vaguely of raspberries

  16. April 24th, 2009 / 6:40 pm Nathan (Nate) Tyree—

      My heart tastes vaguely of raspberries

  17. April 24th, 2009 / 7:02 pm pr—

      “the universe’ is my favorite tim and eric episode.

      “If you put the universe into a tube…”

  18. April 28th, 2009 / 7:34 pm imnotteo—

      Nature > art, always.

  19. April 28th, 2009 / 3:34 pm imnotteo—

      Nature > art, always.