Picture of the day

I know we here at These Bastards are accused of spending too much time talking about NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope. But, I'll be damned if it isn't the most interesting thing on the planet. For instance, take the above photo. What is it you, say? Oh nothing, JUST A MOTHERFUCKING PICTURE OF FUCKING SPACE-TIME! Yeah, it's a map of the extreme universe made from collecting gamma ray burst data for over a year.

Now while that is cool, there were several unfortunate side effects. First, was all the talk and study of gamma rays led a group of unfunny scientists to make one too many Hulk jokes and "don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" references. The data also provided that uppity son of a bitch Einstein with more reasons for his dead ass to think he's so great.

Einstein also got a shot in the arm by confirming the scientist's theories of space-time.

Gamma rays represent the highest-energy form of light in the universe, and often emerge from sources such as massive black holes that spew out fast jets of matter. One particular event known as a short gamma ray burst confirmed Einstein's view that radio waves, infrared, visible light, X-rays and gamma rays all travel at the same speed through space.

Well la-di-daa Mr. Einstein, looks like you'll finally start to get some respect in the astrophysics field. Also: we might be one step closer to creating gamma irradiated scientists that change into giant green monsters when you make them angry. Sounds like a double win for science.