Astronomers in Chile have released images of light from deep space which demonstrate the power of their new Dark Energy Camera, the most sophisticated digital camera ever deployed.

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1. 1. CharlieinNeedham 01:50 PM 9/21/12

   How come the advertisement for this article is 30 seconds long for a science video that is only 50 seconds long?
   
   

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2. 2. Cosmoknot in reply to CharlieinNeedham 03:38 PM 9/21/12

   Thanks for the warning, Charlie. I made sure to turn the sound off and scroll the window down for the first 30 seconds.
   
   Garbage science update anyway. "Looking... for clues about the hypothetical force called Dark Energy and its influence over the expansion of the Universe."
   Of course! Yes! Answers are coming at last. All that is needed is a big enough telescope that sees far enough away.
   I wonder how much it costs to deploy the scope for a 5 year survey of 300 million galaxies? I wonder how much the advertisers paid to have people forced into watching their 30 second ad at the start of this video?
   
   If only I could dream up a hypothetical hammer to make a square peg fit into a round hole. Then I could think up some expensive way to try and detect some clues about the hammer. It would take plenty of people to back me up though and say that a hypothetical hammer is a perfectly reasonable way to get our square peg to fit in the round hole we are dealing with. Reassessing the shape of our peg must never be suggested.

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