you can always fudge the figures when your side has a problem....
2 posted on
03/08/2013 5:27:15 AM PST by
raygunfan
To: Sir Napsalot
I thought the title had something to do with this.
3 posted on
03/08/2013 5:32:24 AM PST by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
To: Sir Napsalot
Reminds me of a college paper I saw back in 1970. It effectively proved black is white.
4 posted on
03/08/2013 5:32:28 AM PST by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: Sir Napsalot; Hardraade
Oh, for the love of G-d! These people drive me nuts.
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5 posted on
03/08/2013 5:33:05 AM PST by
MestaMachine
(Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
To: Sir Napsalot
6 posted on
03/08/2013 5:42:29 AM PST by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: Sir Napsalot
” ‘Put all of those ingredients together, and you get an age of 14.5 billion years, with a residual uncertainty’ . . . plus or minus 800 million years, which means the star could actually be 13.7 billion years old”
Later in the article:
“The Methuselah star, which is just now bloating into a red giant, was probably born in a dwarf galaxy that the nascent Milky Way gobbled up more than 12 billion years ago, researchers said. The star’s long, looping orbit is likely a residue of that dramatic act of cannibalism.”
— leaving the impression that something 13 to 14 billion years old was created roughly 12 billion years ago. Only on close reading will a layman come to the conclusion that the star somehow survived its galaxy being gobbled up (rather than being creatd as a result of that event), and had its orbit affected as a result.
The article also says “The star moves at about 800,000 mph (1.3 million km/h)” but doesn’t say relative to what.
7 posted on
03/08/2013 5:45:09 AM PST by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: Sir Napsalot
They’re gonna call the star “Helen Thomas”
10 posted on
03/08/2013 5:53:19 AM PST by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
To: Sir Napsalot
13 posted on
03/08/2013 6:02:29 AM PST by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Sir Napsalot
16 billion plus or minus 800 million is 16.8 or 15.2 billion, still older than the universe
18 posted on
03/08/2013 6:17:16 AM PST by
Cronos
(Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
To: Sir Napsalot
First I've heard about this, they gots some *splaining* to do.
Love these types of little anomalies, keeps science interesting.
29 posted on
03/08/2013 1:07:21 PM PST by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
To: Sir Napsalot
Maybe they have found God’s desk light......
31 posted on
03/08/2013 4:07:11 PM PST by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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