Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Strange Space Burst Could Be New Object (Big 'Burper')
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 3/2/05 | Reuters - Washington

Posted on 03/02/2005 5:21:21 PM PST by NormsRevenge

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

1 posted on 03/02/2005 5:21:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

the source could be a brown dwarf of a magnetar -- an exotic star with an extremely powerful magnetic field.


2 posted on 03/02/2005 5:21:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

Hmmmm? "... a new heaven and a new earth" comes to mind.


3 posted on 03/02/2005 5:24:11 PM PST by CyberAnt (Pres. Bush: "Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

plasmatics


4 posted on 03/02/2005 5:24:21 PM PST by Indy Pendance
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: CyberAnt

Too much of my mom's curry comes to mind.


5 posted on 03/02/2005 5:24:46 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

May 20, 1998

"Magnetar" discovery solves 19-year-old mystery
Dead stars have afterlife active with starquakes, bursts of gamma rays

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast20may98_1.htm

magnetar, a neutron star with a super-strong magnetic field a thousand trillion times stronger than Earth's.


6 posted on 03/02/2005 5:25:09 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: cyborg

LOL!


7 posted on 03/02/2005 5:26:54 PM PST by CyberAnt (Pres. Bush: "Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: CyberAnt

There was a picture called the 'Eye of God' making the rounds on FR. Thank you science for confirming what I already believe. I don't believe for a minute we are here by 'mistake'.


8 posted on 03/02/2005 5:28:46 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

We need to deploy a new Gas-X-ray telescope to check this out...


9 posted on 03/02/2005 5:32:12 PM PST by mikrofon (Astro BUMP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

Bush's fault.

Too much Tex-Mex food?


10 posted on 03/02/2005 5:35:11 PM PST by Smartaleck
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge
Better a burper than a farter, I guess.
11 posted on 03/02/2005 5:36:14 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Juggling the Flaming Globes of Zigmund)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Major Matt Mason
"Better a burper than a farter, I guess."

It's the projectile vomiting you have to worry about.

12 posted on 03/02/2005 5:57:13 PM PST by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Indy Pendance
Eurythmics on a comeback ...
13 posted on 03/02/2005 6:00:07 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge

Looks like a meager bulge light curve to me.

14 posted on 03/02/2005 6:00:49 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cyborg

I don't believe we are here by mistake either.

I don't remember seeing the picture the "Eye of GOD" - do you know where I might be able to find it ..??


15 posted on 03/02/2005 6:17:38 PM PST by CyberAnt (Pres. Bush: "Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: CyberAnt

16 posted on 03/02/2005 6:59:21 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: AntiGuv

Thanks! Isn't it awesome??


17 posted on 03/02/2005 10:36:56 PM PST by CyberAnt (Pres. Bush: "Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

Comment #18 Removed by Moderator

To: Yehuda

I, I,...ay ay ay I KNEW that's where you were going,...didn't we see them at CB's, Baby Let's Eat Out Tonight eventual suicide in the woods of Connecticut, tsk,tsk


19 posted on 03/03/2005 12:18:36 AM PST by Dad yer funny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: AntiGuv

Great picture. What exactly is it?


20 posted on 03/03/2005 9:13:10 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson