Posted on 10/01/2004 12:59:05 PM PDT by cogitator
The EPA may me junk my 69 Super Nova for excessive X and Gamma ray emissions.... how come these guy get by?
G-g-gamma ray PING!
Ping!
Only believers need apply.
I deliberately didn't put it as a hyperlink so mockers have to work a little harder to get there.
Thanks!
How many special people change
How many lives are living strange
Where were you when we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky
Wake up the dawn and ask her why
A dreamer dreams she never dies
Wipe that tear away now from your eye
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
Where were you when we were getting high?
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky
Cos people believe that they're
Gonna get away for the summer
But you and I, we live and die
The world's still spinning round
We don't know why
Why, why, why, why
How many special people change
How many lives are living strange
Where were you when we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky
Cos people believe that they're
Gonna get away for the summer
But you and I, we live and die
The world's still spinning round
We don't know why
Why, why, why, why
How many special people change
How many lives are living strange
Where were you when we were getting high?
We were getting high
We were getting high
We were getting high
We were getting high
... Unless there's a Galactic Test which should be applied.
Might a gamma ray burst from a billion LY out be redshifted into the X-ray spectrum? If so, the X-rays could be nothing more than redshifted cosmic rays from a very distant receding supernova or collapsing black hole.
i think we're both wrong. the moon reflects only 7% of the sunlight that hits it, but it sends out approximately 400,000 times less light (14 magnitudes dimmer). I had to get someone smart to explain it to me.
You forgot the giant fireball burning in the middle of our solar system.
Don't forget the Babel fish.
hmmmm..dint these supernova happen like 1000s of years ago and we are only now detecting it?
Where's Marvin the Martian and his Earth-shattering "KA-BOOM" when you need him?
(sigh)
To put it another way, only 7% of the sunlight that hits the moon gets reflected. But of that 7%, only a tiny portion gets reflected such that it intersects with the earth since it is radiated in all directions, so we only capture a very tiny percent of that 7%.
By analogy, it would be the difference in light between staring into a flashlight at night and seeing the light of that same flashlight reflected off a not-particularly-reflective distant object.
And yet, on a clear enough night, one can see the filled-in outline of the circle on the dark side of a crescent moon. The area beyond the terminator is shining by ... reflected Earthshine. This is VERY dim, but often noticeable.
Which is to say you have an object (Earth) shining by reflected sunlight. We know from photographs taken on the moon thirty years ago that it is glowing as a big blue ball in the Lunar sky. Some little bit of that light finds its way back to Earth.
The distances involved and the inverse square law dictate that the losses should be incredible. They are. Nevertheless, the original source, the sun, is bright enough that you can still see SOMETHING brighter than the background on the dark side of a crescent moon if you look closely on a very clear night.
Bush could have opted to keep Earth safe. Instead, he gave us this lousy tax cut!
LOL!
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