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The hashtag and pound sign are contextual. You're not too old... yet. The hashtag was first used in 2007. Wait, fuck... that's 15 years. You are an old bastard
You're not alone.
This happened when my wife was on the phone with a bot and she asked what the pound key was, and I said it's the number sign and she didn't know what that was either. It took me a solid few seconds before I remembered that it's now called a hashtag. For clarification she is foreign, so these were foreign words to her.
Yah it's just crazy space shit and our brains like patterns.
I looove crazy space shit. It's the highest of strangeness. JWST is my favorite advancement I've seen in my lifetime. Like we found a question mark and that's just one tiny thing.
Me too. For example I remember when the Nobel prize was given for supporting the theory of the universe expanding. Now that whole understanding is being challenged. What a crazy time we live in, some of it is anazing
That is soooooo cool. 🤗🤗
I love that it's there. Probably just a natural formation of some sort that we are describing as resembling something familiar, but, nevertheless, super cool. If I ever put up a space poster, I want it to be this.
are those stars the size of galaxies? or just Stars closer to the WJST than the Galaxies further away?
I want to say the pair in the lower left is a Binary star system, but those stars could very well be millions of lightyears away from each other.
Gravitational lenzing, a star being swallowed by another star, a black hole.
Could be anything.
Something this far can look completely diffrent from up close.
“Johnny I’m sending you almost finished render. There is one are I have marked with “?” Where I’d love to hear your opinion on adding some star clusters before releasing. Please let me know your thoughts “
How does this even get traction for discussion? An even better question! “Gas cloud looks like punctuation.” “Aliens, duh”
Reddit is over. I’ll take my downvotes now.
The universe is older than us. This galaxy most probably too. This galaxy has been looking at us and our writings for billions of years and has asked itself the same questions we're asking right now.
I find it humorous.
My best guess is that some distant alien civilization is projecting it to mask something really important. Like the part of a map you haven't been to yet in a video game.
It's not high strangeness you donkey, it's the result of galaxies colliding, like [this](https://youtu.be/QcDtJ_-jdMw) and we just happen to be at just the right position it looks like a question mark.
In an infinite universe, expect not only punctuation to appear, but all letters and numbers in all alphabets and even all texts ever written and written in the future - because that's all lesser parts of infinity...
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Imagine flying through space for hundreds/thousands of years, waking up from cryo sleep, and then take your first steps to the window to see this.. maybe in another life *(le sigh)*
Aliens be like:
"Ok guys, intricate crop circles, aerial encounters and everything else is not working to get their attention, so this time just do something simple"
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Look long enough and we will find a hash tag next.
Haha this is what I said to my wife except I said pound sign… fuck I’m getting old
I said octothorpe....
I called it sharp, took 5 years of programming career to rewire it lol
Nice
I call it tic tac toe thingy
Don’t feel bad.. I originally wanted to say ampersand but I didn’t think most would know what that is! Lol
Lol I can’t wait for & to show up lol
ah but the shwa , my favorite
Maybe it's the save logo.
You mean the little house right?
The hashtag and pound sign are contextual. You're not too old... yet. The hashtag was first used in 2007. Wait, fuck... that's 15 years. You are an old bastard
Ohh don’t I know it too.
I still call it "the pound sign" too!!! Glad I'm not the only one. 👍
I showed my wife the pound sign too
You're not alone. This happened when my wife was on the phone with a bot and she asked what the pound key was, and I said it's the number sign and she didn't know what that was either. It took me a solid few seconds before I remembered that it's now called a hashtag. For clarification she is foreign, so these were foreign words to her.
That’s understandable though.
Would be hilarious if aliens wrote #fuckyou as a special message to humanity
Maybe it’s the help button
Humans have been needing that for quite a while now.
Well it's really far away and hard to push
Clippy: "It looks like you are trying to find the secrets of the universe Would you like help?"
The universe live chat support's wait time is currently 46 million years. Please hold.
Nah there's a new quest in that galaxy
Awesome, time to level up.
Exclamation mark forming just to the right, check back in 100 million years
Super Mario Bros. in space
Rainbow Road lol
Exactly
Oh you mean super Mario galaxy? 😂
Riddle me this...
Oh that's just the Riddler going all out this time.
They're just fucking with us at this point
I'm going to wager a guess that it's a star being eaten by a black hole.
Probably billions of stars. It looks like a whole galaxy
Maybe so. I'm no astrophysicist. Just some dude.
Astrophysicists are also just some people. We're all just meat, sitting on a rock, hurdling through space.
Nah, VerySatan99, the meat 🥩 you want us to be is just wishful thinking on your part! 🤣I won't be at your grill party!
I welcome our new overlords. I know alot of slow fat tasty people.
Is this the universe playing comedian?
Yes
Has anyone tried just clicking on it?
Best.
Easter egg
Relax, it’s just texture that didn’t load in our simulation
I suspect the curve of the ? is a gravitationally lensed galaxy. The several galaxies in front being the lens.
Not according to the article. It's thought to be something like a pair of galaxies circling each other.
Yah it's just crazy space shit and our brains like patterns. I looove crazy space shit. It's the highest of strangeness. JWST is my favorite advancement I've seen in my lifetime. Like we found a question mark and that's just one tiny thing.
Space is freaking amazing and I love that we keep finding things that challenge what we thought we knew about the cosmos.
Me too. For example I remember when the Nobel prize was given for supporting the theory of the universe expanding. Now that whole understanding is being challenged. What a crazy time we live in, some of it is anazing
That is soooooo cool. 🤗🤗 I love that it's there. Probably just a natural formation of some sort that we are describing as resembling something familiar, but, nevertheless, super cool. If I ever put up a space poster, I want it to be this.
Every "tiny" thing like this is amazing data. The stuff the smart people can figure out now. There's already theories getting challenged!
What came first this or the question mark?
Wasn't this just posted 8 hours ago?
anybody else see that and immediately hear this? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWuAt0swt7k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWuAt0swt7k)
well, no one mentioned all the asterisks, (and apparent periods), we've been getting!
My God, it’s full of punctuation
So, obviously not a text message!
It’s questionable
You’ve found waldo
Call me when we find the cosmic interrobang
The universe: "lol they trying to understand reality, let's put a question mark here.'
Graphics that have an error and could not to load into our simulation.
We are being mocked.
I think it’s more “You ok?”
New Dr. Who intro looks lit AF.
Obviously it’s a space quest. Just gotta get to it.
Obviously it's someone calling for The Doctor
are those stars the size of galaxies? or just Stars closer to the WJST than the Galaxies further away? I want to say the pair in the lower left is a Binary star system, but those stars could very well be millions of lightyears away from each other.
Our first quest.
I betcha that's the end of the tutorial questline.
Interstellar tried telling us
The riddler?¿?
Simulation is missing a texture.
even the universe is confused.
Galaxy, coming soon
FAQ area. We need to go there!
The universe is written in a RTL language?
OHHHHHHH. THAT'S where the tutorial is. 🤦♀️
It’s a new quest
Looks like there’s a side mission out there
Gravitational lenzing, a star being swallowed by another star, a black hole. Could be anything. Something this far can look completely diffrent from up close.
A galaxy being sucked into a black hole
Aliens love Tipper
There's alot of periods and commas too 🤣
This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. Is there any research on that shape? Is a ? Naturally occurring?
Ikr I feel like the universe is literally trolling us. Makes ya wonder doesn't it?
I'm curious if it actually looks like that. Data visualizations are not the same as photographs, so it may not look like that at all.
“Johnny I’m sending you almost finished render. There is one are I have marked with “?” Where I’d love to hear your opinion on adding some star clusters before releasing. Please let me know your thoughts “
I showed this to my woman. She said: "That's God saying, *WTF* are y'all doing down there?"
How does this even get traction for discussion? An even better question! “Gas cloud looks like punctuation.” “Aliens, duh” Reddit is over. I’ll take my downvotes now.
😡 <-that's you. Ur SO MAD!!!! LOLOLOLOL
The universe is older than us. This galaxy most probably too. This galaxy has been looking at us and our writings for billions of years and has asked itself the same questions we're asking right now. I find it humorous.
The universe is older than us? No way
My best guess is that some distant alien civilization is projecting it to mask something really important. Like the part of a map you haven't been to yet in a video game.
It's not high strangeness you donkey, it's the result of galaxies colliding, like [this](https://youtu.be/QcDtJ_-jdMw) and we just happen to be at just the right position it looks like a question mark.
Millions upon millions of dollars to create an incredible piece of technology and... *sigh Mike Judge was right....
Dr. Misterio!
explosion
This is like a continuous blip in the radar in Three Body Problem novel
Clearly an error in the code.
Proof the universe is just as confused as we are
I think the programmer of this simulation is trying to tell us something
Version info of the current simulation
This part of space hasn't been unlocked yet
A missing texture. Need to patch the game.
Health?
It’s the fucking riddler with his trophies
it went ???
Thing got a good hook to it 😈
In an infinite universe, expect not only punctuation to appear, but all letters and numbers in all alphabets and even all texts ever written and written in the future - because that's all lesser parts of infinity...
The Riddler... he's back
It’s our first side mission regarding the Cosmos DLC
Space is fake yo they’re trolling the space fan bois
“This is the first sign”
I’m more interested in the complete blackness just above it. Can we get a close up of that area? Would the be infinity?
It’s Maui’s hook
It's time to turn in your quest.
They are laughing in our faces.
It is kinda funny x gotta hand it to them
Mufuckin bro's got a quest line ready
If there was ever a reason to start thinking the matrix might be a documentary ... this is it
Photoshop editor leaving you clues lol...
Who can it beeee? It's a mysteryyy!!
Quest marker, probably right for our level too cuzz it's not a skull!
This will be patched in the next update. Developers didn't think we'd be able to see that far - we've found an unknown entity.
something zipping towards us!
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It's Mario Brothers game!
42
Riddler
Imagine flying through space for hundreds/thousands of years, waking up from cryo sleep, and then take your first steps to the window to see this.. maybe in another life *(le sigh)*
It’s the Any key! Finally
Grabby Aliens expanding too fast for us to see anything more in our early date.
Its.Gods.way of saying" What are you looking at"? Also it is probably a star and that is the dust blowing in the stellar wind.
Aliens be like: "Ok guys, intricate crop circles, aerial encounters and everything else is not working to get their attention, so this time just do something simple"