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kbin.social

that's the intro quest in the tutorial.. and it's 16 billion light years away.. thanks Universe devs..

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If that's the tutorial quest I don't think I want to see the final boss.

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lemmy.world

Lemmy just hit a new high today. As I came in to post this, I found it as the top comment. Very old-reddit! Good job.

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Old Reddit would have an expert as the top comment instead of a joke. That's something to strive for.

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lemmy.nz

I enjoy the jokes, but has anyone given an explanation of what it likely is?

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Seems like merging galaxies. It’s too far away to be a single star being eaten by a companion. (It’d have the six-sided star mirror artifact if it were closer.) And galaxies temporarily form weird shapes as they merge

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sh.itjust.works

Just speculation but it would be totally plausible for a helix shaped galaxy or star (possibly being pulled into a black hole) oriented from an odd angle, with either a gap or a cloud of some sort blocking one part of it and it just happens to look like a common glyph.

But I'm no starologist

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Capt. Wolfreply
lemmy.world

Could also be two or more systems colliding with each other. Similar to this

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I wanted to guess gravitational lensing, but couldn't see how that would make a question mark.. it's still pretty cool!

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If they look just a little further they're bound to find some galaxies smeared into the phrase "WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE"

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That message was sent specifically for us. Like, "We've been watching your civilization for the last 50 earth cycles. WTF?"

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Growing up I really enjoyed the Riddler episodes of the animated Batman series.

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You reached the end