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Giant star Betelgeuse mysteriously shrinking: study
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| 6/9/09
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Posted on 06/09/2009 9:46:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: tlb
Absent interstellar flight we would never get a better or cheaper view of such a rare occurrence.Z You're right - BUT NASA's too busy consulting with Al Gore about the latest crackpot theory to deal with this important wonder...
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posted on
06/10/2009 4:30:58 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Nobel Prizes & Pulitzers - monuments to left wing bias - shame recipients.)
To: Salamander
LOL - I just couldn’t resist.
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:15:15 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
To: Talisker
Is that a fabric sample from MO’s next new “Fashion Queen!!!” outfit?
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posted on
06/10/2009 9:57:34 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Cursed with Second Sight.)
To: smokingfrog
supernova - should be a good show It's only 600 or so light years away...that's awful close for a supernova.
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:04:13 AM PDT
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: SoldierDad
Then you won't mind coming over and getting this thing out of my cellar?
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:07:22 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Cursed with Second Sight.)
To: Salamander
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:41:08 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
To: SoldierDad
....;D
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:49:17 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Cursed with Second Sight.)
To: Salamander
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:51:50 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
To: SoldierDad
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:57:58 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Cursed with Second Sight.)
To: NormsRevenge
Ahh..! You hurt my eyes with that picture.
Guess I shouldn’t have stared..
To: Salamander
One the other hand, with that thing in your cellar you won’t have much of a rodent problem ;0)
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posted on
06/10/2009 11:00:28 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
To: NormsRevenge
Crap. Something else to worry about...global shrinking.
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posted on
06/10/2009 11:02:47 AM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: SoldierDad
My ancient dirt root cellar is so creepy that even rodents won’t go down there.... :-o
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posted on
06/10/2009 11:24:03 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Cursed with Second Sight.)
To: Deb
Crap. Something else to worry about...global shrinking.
—
Ouch. I’m headed for the jacuzzi. :-}
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posted on
06/10/2009 11:40:49 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: Salamander
Just damn! Okay, give me a window for when you want me to come remove the thing ;}
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posted on
06/10/2009 11:41:36 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
To: NormsRevenge; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
A massive bright reddish star in the Orion constellation has mysteriously shrunk by over 15 percent in the last 15 years and astronomers have not yet determined why, according to a study released Tuesday. Betelgeuse, considered a supergiant star, is so large that it would reach to Jupiter's orbit in our solar system. But at a radius of about five astronomical units, the star has shrunk in size since 1993 by a distance equivalent to Venus's orbit.
Thanks NormsRevenge.
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posted on
06/10/2009 2:29:07 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; garbageseeker; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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posted on
06/10/2009 2:29:42 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge
<>i>shrunk by over 15 percent in the last 15 years
It is getting ready to go nova. Isn't that how we have always been told it happens? First a contraction and then...BOOM!
To: SoldierDad
After it’s too cold for the snakes and ginormous spiders to move very fast.
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posted on
06/10/2009 3:12:15 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Cursed with Second Sight.)
To: NormsRevenge
So, am I bad for reading that as Beetlejuice?
:-)
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posted on
06/10/2009 3:14:35 PM PDT
by
RikaStrom
(Bitter? Who me? Nah, I'm just clinging to my guns!)
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