Baby star blasts jets of water into space

PhysOrg.com ^ | June 22, 2011 | By Joel N. Shurkin

[Red Badger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

[Vroomfondel]

...each jet of water is the equivalent of a hundred million times the water flowing through the Amazon River every second and the speed of the jet is the equivalent of 80 times the muzzle velocity of an AK-47 assault rifle.

I wonder how much energy it takes, expressed in jelly doughnuts, to push the water like that.

[hosepipe]

[ they don’t have a clue about things 750 million light years away, not a clue. ]

Nice yarn tho...
These people love yarns... like marxism.. or even democracy..

[dila813]

http://www.universetoday.com/23870/the-milky-ways-rotation/

[ZX12R]

I wonder how much energy it takes, expressed in jelly doughnuts, to push the water like that.

I'm not sure, but if you could release the energy bound up in the jelly donut's mass in it's entirety, I'd guess around 522.

[ZX12R]

So it’s attracted to osmium?

Me thinks I don't know what osmium is.

[TigersEye]

The densest known element.

[ZX12R]

The densest known element.

Thanks for teaching me something today. I didn't know that.

[dragonblustar]

The densest known element.

I thought that was Keith-Olbermmanium.

[Maceman]

Baby star blasts jets of water into space

Wow, this kid can do anything!

[TexasAg]

they don’t have a clue about things 750 million light years away, not a clue.

Don't worry, you're only 6 orders of magnitude off the actual distance. Or is it 7? Not sure.

[TigersEye]

Keith-Olbermmanium

He is the densest known enema not element.

[Calusa]

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. --Psalm 19:1

Hayden did an outstanding job putting that verse to music in his "Creation" oratorio.

[Red Badger]

Me thinks I don't know what osmium is.

You must not be old enough to remember Donny & Marie Osmium....and the Osmium Family..................

[Red Badger]

So it’s attracted to osmium?

I was attracted to Marie Osmium...........

[ZX12R]

I was attracted to Marie Osmium...........

Even today, she is seriously HOT! I stare at her commercials with promiscuous thought. Was she country or rock and roll? I forget in my old age.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Bockscar, definitely, very interesting!

• In The Beginning: Hydrogen and Oxygen by Immanuel Velikovsky

  The hydrogen of the planet combined with the oxygen of the terrestrial atmosphere in electrical discharges and turned into water. There are definite indications of a drastic drop in the atmospheric oxygen at the time of the Deluge -- for instance, the survivors of the catastrophe are said in many sources to have been unable to light fires.

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[BenKenobi]

Where’s the AK-47 tag? Gratuitous quote here.

[grey_whiskers]

In a process that almost defies adjectives and analogies, each jet of water is the equivalent of a hundred million times the water flowing through the Amazon River every second and the speed of the jet is the equivalent of 80 times the muzzle velocity of an AK-47 assault rifle.

The blast creates huge shockwaves around the star and the process may be responsible for sprinkling the universe with water.

And it could go on for a thousand years in each star.

Let's run the math on this one.

Flow of water through the Amazon = 219,000 m³ / second.

Source.

219,000 m³/sec * (100 cm / 1 m)^{3 =}

219,000,000,000 cubic centimeters/sec

=219,000,000,000 ml /second * 1g/ml = 219,000,000,000 g /second

For 1000 years is

1000 year *(365 days /year) * (24 hr / day) * (3600 s /hr)

=31,536,000,000 seconds.

Multiply the two together 2.19 x 10¹¹ * (3.15 x 10¹⁰) =~ 6.9 x 10²¹ grams.

Convert to tons: 1 gram * (1 lb/454 g) * (1 ton / 2000 lb). 6.9 x 10²⁰ / 9.08 x 10⁵ --> 7.6 x 10¹⁵ tons of water.

7,600,000,000,000,000 = 7.6 quadrillion tons.

By comparison Lake Superior is 12,100 km³

1 km³ * (1000 m /1 km)³ * (100 cm / 1 m)³* (1 ml / 1 cm³) * (1g /ml) * (1 lb/454 g) * (1 ton / 2000 lb) =

13,325,991,189,427

So I guess 500 x the water in Lake Superior?

Bueller?

Done while planning the grocery list in another window, blame the coupon site for any distraction-caused errors.

Cheers!

[mlo]

"Probably. That means that it's only a theory."

Everything is "only a theory".