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Scientists witness massive gamma-ray burst, don't understand it
Christian Science Monitor ^
| November 21, 2013
| By Pete Spotts, Staff writer
Posted on 11/22/2013 7:53:51 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv; KevinDavis; little jeremiah; Ezekiel
Astronomy Ping!..............
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posted on
11/22/2013 7:54:36 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger; Bender2
http://moviemusereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/star-wars-death-star-explosion.jpeg
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:00:52 AM PST
by
big'ol_freeper
("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
To: Red Badger
Some of our theories are just going down the drain, said Charles Dermer, an astrophysicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and a member of one of the teams reporting on their observations of the burst, known as GRB 130427A. Dermer concluded the interview by saying "it makes me so angry". In related news, the Los Alamos National Laboratory was destroyed in an unexplained accident shortly after the Dermer interview. His body has not been found in the rubble.
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:03:35 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:07:10 AM PST
by
Safrguns
(PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
To: Red Badger
Close proximity and 3.8 billion light years away seem like an odd combination.
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:07:20 AM PST
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: Red Badger
Scientists witness massive gamma-ray burst, don't understand itYet, they know we're all gonna die from global warming.
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:16:29 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Red Badger
Some of our theories are just going down the drain,....
And God grins and says: "Ya' think?"
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:21:41 AM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Starstruck
Close proximity and 3.8 billion light years away seem like an odd combination.If they're wrong, and it's only a few million light years away, I'm going to be really upset.
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:24:08 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
To: Starstruck
3.8 billion light years away out of a possible 15-16 or so.....................
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:27:18 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
3.8 billion light years away out of a possible 15-16 or so.....................So a quarter of the way to infinity?:)
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:36:42 AM PST
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: Alex Murphy
“Dermer concluded the interview by saying “it makes me so angry”.”
He should take a cue from his fundamentalist climate change colleagues. Just maintain that he is still correct despite evidence to the contrary and blame the oceans for observations not matching expected results.
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posted on
11/22/2013 8:53:31 AM PST
by
edh
(I need a better tagline)
To: Red Badger
So it exploded 3.8 billion plus years ago..
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posted on
11/22/2013 9:04:32 AM PST
by
tophat9000
(Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
To: Red Badger
Some of our theories are just going down the drain,
That means your theories were wrong or inadequate, idiot! You guys think you know it all. You don’t. Why not just admit that the universe is much more than you scientists can even begin to understand?
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posted on
11/22/2013 9:14:47 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
To: Starstruck
Yet underscores the vastness of space.
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posted on
11/22/2013 9:57:06 AM PST
by
Freedom_Is_Not_Free
(Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
To: Red Badger
I am curious about the orientation of the polar jets. Are there any working hypotheses about whether gamma jets orient in relation to other objects, such as galactic center supermassive black holes?
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posted on
11/22/2013 10:17:53 AM PST
by
frithguild
(The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
To: frithguild
Since there is no ‘up’ or ‘down’ in space, the alignment is purely random. The ‘axis’ is simply from whatever point of space you view it...............
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posted on
11/22/2013 10:19:42 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: I want the USA back; Psalm 73; Alex Murphy
Some of our theories are just going down the drain,..............into a really huge black hole..................
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posted on
11/22/2013 10:21:19 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Psalm 73
And God grins and says: "Ya' think?" God lets us see the way he does things and lets us figure it out. I don't know why he would have the response you think he does.
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posted on
11/22/2013 10:43:01 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: frithguild
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11/22/2013 10:49:25 AM PST
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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