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Scientists Found The Number of Photons Produced by All The Stars in The Universe... Minds... Blown
Science Alert ^ | 11/29/18 | Michelle Starr

Posted on 12/02/2018 5:13:05 AM PST by LibWhacker

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To: Getready

Well I guess you have to teach the monkey to put a button once every second. Not sure about protons - do they make things go all blooie?


81 posted on 12/02/2018 9:53:12 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: LibWhacker
In the time since the Big Bang - roughly 13.7 billion years - our Universe has produced many, many galaxies, and many more stars.

Just wondering how long these "scientists" estimate it took for the Big Bang to go BANG and why?

82 posted on 12/02/2018 10:10:59 AM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies & other DemoKKKrats: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: SkyDancer

Not sure about protons - do they make things go all blooie?

Well, they do in photon torpedoes.
I wonder if they added those in?


83 posted on 12/02/2018 10:13:47 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68
Not sure about protons - do they make things go all blooie?

Well, they do in photon torpedoes. I wonder if they added those in?

Not mine. I bought mine in the parking lot at the gun show...loopholes, you know. ;>)

84 posted on 12/02/2018 10:21:22 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Oh, I forgot about those. We used to buy them across the
line in Alabama at little roadside stands.
They were the BIG ones. It was either that or find some
railroad torpedeos but they were dangerous and you had to
set them off by dropping a sledge hammer on them.


85 posted on 12/02/2018 10:25:52 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: NYAmerican; null and void
Interesting. Haven't seen a 45 volt battery before. Won't be testing that on my tongue (I know, it's amperage, not voltage, that kills you, but still). Could create a few photons, I'd imagine.


86 posted on 12/02/2018 10:56:24 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: LibWhacker
That's a pretty cool trivia fact

Sorry, but this kind of thing is 90% guess work. Calling it a fact, is in fact, an error.

87 posted on 12/02/2018 12:07:53 PM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: Larry Lucido
Though I sometimes wonder why there are no “B” batteries.

After reading through some of the replies, another question comes to mind... We have AAA, AA, (apparently)B, C, and D batteries. It all seems logical and orderly, but then, why do we call a 9-volt battery a 9-volt rather than some other designation? I'm sure some freeper will know.

88 posted on 12/02/2018 12:13:57 PM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: zeugma
In deference to The Cat ....


89 posted on 12/02/2018 12:20:28 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Irredeemable Deplorable)
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To: Perseverando

Yes... and they have some ideas. Surprise, surprise, science takes time! Betcha didn’t know that. They’ve been working on it for thousands of years, and no doubt they’ll be working on it for thousands more. They surely have more and better ideas than the two-digit-IQ ignoramuses who belch loudly and think they’re being clever when they blow farts in the direction of a scientist. Monkeys are more clever and more interested in the world around them. Thank God our progress hasn’t depended on them else we wouldn’t have fire or the wheel or anything else, and we’d still be picking lice out of each other’s fur.


90 posted on 12/02/2018 12:25:01 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: alexander_busek

Well , I am so far ahead with my vision that I turned my front door peephole device around!! I can see people coming 469 yards away!!!!!! Now the practical application of their “guesstimate” will probably dictate how many lumens the tail and headlights of the intergalactical ships will need in order to avoid mid space collisions...anyhoo I may not have a degree in light absorption of the cosmos BUT , I did stay at a Holiday Inn fourteen years 23 days 6 hours 12 minutes and 31 seconds ago as of ......NOW! 2:24 PM exactly CST. I’m a stickler ya’ know.


91 posted on 12/02/2018 12:25:42 PM PST by mythenjoseph
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To: zeugma
According to this article it has to do with the War Industry Board that tried to standardize battery designations during WWI. They grandfathered older batteries and couldn't standardize the newer ones that didn't exist yet. Apparently you can still get B batteries in Europe, for now.

If you want some real fun try explaining firearms caliber terminology to the uninitiated sometime.

92 posted on 12/02/2018 12:29:04 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: LibWhacker
Have you ever stopped to wonder exactly how much light has been produced by all the stars in the Universe, over all the time that has passed?

Can't say that I have actually.

However, I have often wondered how many trees there are here on planet Earth and nobody seems able to come up with the answer for that.

Even the number of trees in Maine, it appears that nobody really knows. And that bothers me.

93 posted on 12/02/2018 12:29:35 PM PST by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: SkyDancer
I read once where if you put a million monkeys in a room (a large room) with typewriters (Infinite Monkey Theorum) and have them type at random, that eventually one of them, by accident, will type the exact words to the novel "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy.

This I do not buy. For to do this, the monkeys would be able to need to feed paper into a typewriter.

Has anybody ever seen a monkey feed a piece of paper into a typewriter? Not to mention change ribbon and any number of tasks related to operating and maintaining a typewriter.


94 posted on 12/02/2018 12:37:47 PM PST by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: SamAdams76

They would have liberals with baskets around their necks filled with ribbons. The paper would be on huge rolls so no feed problems there; it’d be all about cutting enough trees fast enough to satisfy the paper manufacturing.


95 posted on 12/02/2018 12:39:42 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SamAdams76

Ha, three trillion! => https://greenfuture.io/nature/how-many-trees-are-in-the-world/


96 posted on 12/02/2018 12:50:46 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: SamAdams76
I read once where if you put a million monkeys in a room (a large room) with typewriters (Infinite Monkey Theorum) and have them type at random, that eventually one of them, by accident, will type the exact words to the novel "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy.

.. and the article that you read was written and typed by those very same monkeys, entitled "How We Done It"

97 posted on 12/02/2018 1:00:31 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Irredeemable Deplorable)
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To: Paal Gulli

Lol, good point. We’d have to ask the author what she meant... Have minds been blown because the number is so large, or because scientists were able to figure it out in the first place?


98 posted on 12/02/2018 1:09:23 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Billthedrill
If you want some real fun try explaining firearms caliber terminology to the uninitiated sometime.

No thanks. I sometimes have issues with keeping stuff like that straight myself.

99 posted on 12/02/2018 1:38:54 PM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: LibWhacker

In Japanese, “photons” means ‘many farts fired off in rapid succession in a crowded elevator.’


100 posted on 12/02/2018 1:46:50 PM PST by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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