Orion's World - Part IV - Bugs Vs. Techno

Black widow nebula seen crawling through space

• 13:11 01 November 2005
• NewScientist.com news service
• Maggie McKee

A giant "black widow" is lurking in the Milky Way, spawning young and zapping its surroundings with intense radiation. Hanging just above the galactic plane, the Black Widow Nebula is a cloud of dust, gas and stars about 10,000 light years from Earth. The nebula is nearly invisible at optical wavelengths – hidden behind a web of dust spun from the galaxy's disc.

But NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope used its Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) to peer through the haze. It has captured wispy streams of dust, flowing like spider's legs from the centre of the nebula, where massive young stars are forming.

These enfants terribles are actually spewing out radiation and particles to create "two bubbles that are moving away from each other in opposite directions," says Ed Churchwell, an astronomer at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US, who led the observations. "They are basically destroying their natal material."
The image of the Black Widow Nebula was captured by the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) project.


(Black Widow Nebula)

The Bugs Versus Technology – Orion’s World Part IV

A long time ago, when dinosaurs existed, the other bugs used to tell stories about the dinosaurs. But that was a long time ago. Now in the present time, bugs and technology have been fighting. First the bugs came. Then the technology came. First, the technology started shooting bombs. Then the Black Widows started shooting spider webs at the computers. The computers were so mad they shot laser beams from their eyes. One species of spider went extinct – the Black Widow.


The Wafflemakers then sprung into action and started shooting waffles at the ants. Then the ants started calling for backup. A telephone walked in and smashed two of the ants with its mouthpiece. When the ants got inside of the phone, they blew up the microchips and made the phone die. The computers then tried one of the shocking things (a defibrillator) and it didn’t work. They then looked inside and saw two ants. They shot laser beams at them and made the two ants melt. The Juicemakers started shredding butterflies to make butterfly juice.



The mosquitoes thought they could suck blood out of the robots that joined the war, but it didn’t work. Instead, the mosquitoes and the robots exploded. One spider said “Dang-nabbit” and “bingo!” The spiders then went near a different robot and started teasing it. “Nyah, nyah, you’re just a hunk of metal!” Then the robot ran away crying. The bugs hopped on an airplane and started flying to New Mexico! They learned how to Fiesta Dance! When they went back to where the robots were, they started Fiesta dancing. Then, the robots started dancing too. That is, until a spider threw a boulder at them and made the robots heads come off. The heads then grew their own bodies and the bodies grew a head.



The spiders said “There’s only one thing to do!” “Scream and RUN!”

They were scrambling around and noticed a sign on a Tree that said “Off/On” with another sign that said “FAKE!” So, they tried flipping it to “OFF” and the robots did shut down! A fake, fake! Thus, when they got up, they were reptile robots. Until they blew up that is. When the technology robots blew up, it made a huge Time Warp and everything went back in time.

The End.


LSS Telescope - Time Warp Image