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To: SunkenCiv
Should be of interest tio you.
2 posted on
02/06/2014 12:12:56 AM PST by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: ApplegateRanch
3 posted on
02/06/2014 12:29:27 AM PST by
Faith65
(Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior!)
To: ApplegateRanch
It reached the end of the universe, turned around, and is coming back ....
It's all perspective
4 posted on
02/06/2014 12:51:05 AM PST by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: ApplegateRanch
So they are making this claim based on a 1100 year old observation compared to new intrumentation made just 14 years ago?
I think that explains it right there.
To: ApplegateRanch
To: ApplegateRanch
Question from the ignorant here: what does CE stand for?
To: ApplegateRanch
'If they are real,(ie the measurements) Key phrase to this article.
10 posted on
02/06/2014 1:15:18 AM PST by
Fzob
(Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
To: ApplegateRanch
IT WENT BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!
13 posted on
02/06/2014 1:16:36 AM PST by
wastedyears
(The Ender's Game movie was a stupendous, colossal, galactic failure to me.)
To: ApplegateRanch
Polaris is such a quirky north star. Thuban was much more reliable.
14 posted on
02/06/2014 1:37:34 AM PST by
RC one
To: ApplegateRanch
Must be the reason for global warming here./s
17 posted on
02/06/2014 2:10:19 AM PST by
teacherwoes
(obamacare--like you need a hole in your head)
To: ApplegateRanch
Polaris is a Cepheid variable. It’s been getting dimmer and brighter for a long time. Its various sputterings has suggested that something interestingly unstable is going on. If I recall, it’s large enough (8-12 solar masses) that it could go supernova. But if it did, we won’t know about it for 600 years. So, whatever we’re seeing now is what it was doing 600 years ago. (Yawn...old news.)
To: ApplegateRanch
The North Star Polaris Is Getting Brighter by Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor | January 28, 2014 06:41am ET Photo of Polaris, the North Star and close-up This long-exposure photo (left) shows how the North Star, Polaris, stays fixed in the night sky as other stars appear to move during the night due to Earth's rotation. At right, a close-up of the multi-star Polaris system. Credit: Left image: M. Menefee; Right: N. Carboni; Assembly: D. Majaess
24 posted on
02/06/2014 3:48:22 AM PST by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: ApplegateRanch
Maybe it's headed this way!
25 posted on
02/06/2014 3:50:09 AM PST by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: ApplegateRanch
Interesting that the comments posted at the link are decidedly right leaning.
Lots of Freeper-like jokes.
31 posted on
02/06/2014 4:30:12 AM PST by
airborne
(MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
To: ApplegateRanch
Astronomers have discovered that Polaris, the north star, is getting brighter.
My guess is that it's actually a headlight..........
Sorry but no, I am not an astrophysicist.....
32 posted on
02/06/2014 4:33:14 AM PST by
Hot Tabasco
(I think I've lost my mojo.....)
To: ApplegateRanch
Team found that Polaris is 2.5 times brighter today than in 137CE Funny number. It is the amount of one magnitude difference in modern notation. Ptolemy subdivided his stars into 15 brightness levels, so it is more precise than just by single magnitudes.
36 posted on
02/06/2014 5:04:05 AM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
To: ApplegateRanch
Astronomers have discovered that Polaris, the north star, is getting brighter. They say the star has suddenly reversed two decades of dimming. It is expanding at more than 100 times the rate they expected - and nobody is sure why.Two theories:
or
38 posted on
02/06/2014 5:38:39 AM PST by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: ApplegateRanch
What does C.E. stand for?
To: ApplegateRanch
What is 137CE?
The star’s storage unit?
45 posted on
02/06/2014 6:18:27 AM PST by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: ApplegateRanch
I expect to hear the following any time now from Jay Carney: “Not only will Obamacare improve people’s lives by incentivizing people to work less hours, or not work at all, but it makes the North Star shine brighter.”
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