We here at Geek-tastic are big fans of science. Being geeks, we can't help but love science. Without science, we wouldn't have awesome things like Tang and video games and internet porn.
However, we are aware that science hasn't exactly been properly represented here at the site. This is a problem that will be addressed going forward. Along with entertaining geeky news bits from the world of movies and video games and whatnot we will also be trying to educate you a little bit with random science articles.
In that effort, I offer you this list of 20 Things You Didn't Know About Telescopes.
My personal favorite item was #18: Gamma ray telescopes can detect light from the most violent explosions in the universe, probably caused by stars collapsing into black holes. If a gamma ray burst occurred within 6,000 light-years of us, we’d all be fried.
If only life was more like comic books. If a giant gamma ray blast went off near the earth in the comics, we'd all turn into the Incredible Hulk. Imagine that, an entire planet of people turning large and green whenever they got angry. I wonder how long society would hold together with that going on.
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