*Head Explodes*
Also thanks for the answer.

You wouldn't notice any space anisotropies if in relation to the black hole, the universe were positioned in a 'smooth' area which you could get if either the universe in sufficiently far away or the black hole is orders of magnitude larger than the universe. This scenario only makes directinality more subtle, to confirm I suppose you would look for the rate of expansion in different areas of the sky and see if there's a gradient, can that be done with sufficient precision?

What if the universe is actually falling in a black hole? Can that explain the accelerating expansion of space (and dark energy with it)? It would be consistent with what I read about falling in black holes: stuff gets streched in all dimensiona.

If we would have wide spread compilers, debuggers and IDEs for genetic code this would be just another software patent discussion, and Monsanto just another patent troll.

imagine building our own free open source genetic operating system... and then the posibilities....