Riddle of the missing hydrogen

Budding astronomers question
I wonder if they are seeing nothing because there is nothing that far out in the universe.

Hydrogen, the raw material critical to the formation of stars, planets and life, appears to be missing from the outer reaches of the universe, says a team of Australian astronomers.

Riddle of the missing hydrogen

To me, this goes without saying but perhaps, just for the record, I'll state it here and give you something to think about when you next see articles like this out there in the wide, wide world.

We are not intelligent life. Do you understand that? We know exactly nothing about how things run be it within our own bodies, within our environment, we still kill our own kind, we're destroying our planet, we can't get off the planet to any real extent, we have no idea where we came from, where any of the rest of this came from, and on and on and on ad nauseum. You've heard it all. But you think we can figure out that there's some missing hydrogen out there and that nothing exists "that far out" and whatever else? For heaven's sake.

We are not intelligent life. Do not assume we know anything. In fact, next time, assume that this is someone who has found a flaw in someone else's calculations or that this is someone with flawed calculations themselves. Or perhaps maybe, just maybe, this is just another opportunity for us to again realize that we have it all wrong, because we do.

reply to post by CosmicEgg


Your point is taken and thanks or the input, but try not to so angry about it because thats how it come across to me.

reply to post by CosmicEgg


While I agree with your general principal, I definitely disagree with your way of communicating this principal (it really does come across very hostile)

But beyond that, the OP and the article posted by the OP makes no reference to 'intelligent' life. So I don't really know what spurred that whole outburst, but it certainly shouldn't be in this thread.

reply to post by TheStev


Now I’m no astronomer or even amateur star gazer. I was however struck with this finding that there was no hydrogen which means (I figured nothing). Reading again I understand that it’s likely there are more stars and that means more galaxies and I suppose more solar systems. Is this the correct?
So apologies I should have been a little more explicit in my OP.

Erm... I said that *we* are not intelligent life yet. *WE* cannot deign to presume sufficient knowledge of anything in any sphere, let alone to make such an absurd statement as "we can't find some hydrogen, fellas". It's just so unbelievably stupid that yes, I am increasingly annoyed when I see "scientists" make these sorts of statements. It leads people to believe that we actually have a handle on something. Please, please understand that we don't. Scientists don't. Religious leaders don't. Politicians don't. No one knows anything.

Apologies for perceived hostility. It wasn't directed at you personally. It was for those arsewipe "scientists" and their arrogance.

They are getting theirs though. It's already started and will gain momentum quite noticeably before long.

Apology accepted I thought perhaps you were having a bad day. Anyhow it appears there’s more to it than that and you are not elaborating. I would suggest you contribute or simply don't come back to this tread. In any case I think its dead by now.

We could always just assume that is where our dimension ends and a new one starts. The problem being we are unable to bend our own dimension to come into contact with the new one so until we can do that there would be other things, elements there that we have no knowledge of that may not in fact exist anywhere but there.

OK it's a pretty dumb idea but was just going off of the whole world is flat world is round shindig.

Heh. Happy to oblige from here. I strongly suggest you start reading a bit of science news in the future before posting threads of this nature. Just do some light reading (not even a trace of sarcasm there) at www.sciencedaily.com. You might, with the help of that easily digestible science reporting, eventually understand what I've tried to elucidate.

Best of luck to you, laddies. Best of luck.