Meanderings

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is an amazing thing. Duh! A report at Physics-Astronomy.com says that the telescope made a startling discovery (independently or was some science-y type human at the controls?) of Jupiter-sized objects, not orbiting any star—just free floating in space. What the cosmological fuck?

These giants have been tagged “Jupiter Mass Binary Objects” or “JuMBOs.” Nifty, huh?

The JWST observed approximately 40 pairs of these JuMBOs in a detailed survey of the Orion Nebula, which is just 1,400 light-years away from Earth. The objects present a puzzling phenomenon for astronomers. (source)

How big is Jupiter size? Jupiter's circumference is 272,946 miles/439,264.0074 km—Earth’s is 24,901 miles/40,074 km.

So, these big-ass motherfuckers are just wandering around the Orion Nebula like bored party goers looking for the punchbowl?

One theory suggests that these JuMBOs originated from regions in the nebula where the density of material was insufficient to form stars. (star wannabes? Have they thought of moving to Hollywood or its outer space equivalent?) Another hypothesis posits that they were initially formed around stars and were later ejected into interstellar space through various interactions. (does this mean that the JuMBOs original stars told them to get lost?) “The ejection hypothesis is the favored one at the moment,” said Prof Mark McCaughrean, the European Space Agency’s senior science advisor. (source)

OR could these be ginormous, Death Star-like space stations? If so, who lives/works on them and do they have cats? OR are these big planet-sized babies, perhaps, sentient beings? Instead of living on a planet these are planets but with brains and life forces and shit.

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Coconut crabs—if I wasn’t already a vegetarian, these rather horrifying babies would put me clean over the top. Honest to fuck, do they not look like they just stepped off a District 9 set or what?!

 They eat fruits, nuts and seeds but they’re also heavy into meat.

Coconut crabs, however, are known predators of rats, others of their own species and even large migratory seabirds, such as boobies that they find nesting on their islands. They have been spotted mounting attacks in the dark of the night and grabbing unsuspecting prey that pass too close to the crabs' burrows. (source)

No, no thanks

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Are you familiar with the Olive tree of Vouves on Crete, the largest of the Greek islands? The tree is estimated to be between 2,000-4,000 years old AND it’s still producing olives! How awesome is that? (hint…very)

If only we limited humans could understand the language of trees. Think of the wild convos you could have with a 3,000 year old tree. I’d love to ask it a zillion things like—did Jesus really exist? Who built Stonehenge and the Ring of Brodgar? Was Epicurus really all that and a bag of chips?

  Mind you, being a tree and all, the Vouves olive tree probably didn’t hear much beyond the local news.

That’s a shame. I mean, I've got big questions here!