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Rare dead star found near Earth
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| Monday, 20 August 2007, 19:57 GMT 20:57 UK
Posted on 08/20/2007 2:41:15 PM PDT by james500
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To: RepublitarianRoger
There was a sign once on an elevator:
“DO NOT USE! Out of Whack”
to which someone penciled in:
“More whack on order.”
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:23:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: Red Badger
42
posted on
08/20/2007 3:23:44 PM PDT
by
geopyg
(Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
To: frithguild
..Wait - maybe that might bend the spoon...There is no spoon.
43
posted on
08/20/2007 3:23:51 PM PDT
by
evad
To: geopyg
He was in a dead star Paris..........
44
posted on
08/20/2007 3:24:22 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: ladtx
"Thank you. Thank you very much. And may the force be with you."
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:24:56 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He is THE conservative candidate!!)
To: Natchez Hawk
You probably want to look up "parallax" in estimating astronomical distances.
They take a readings for a year, and try to get the line between two readings, six months apart, that is, the most perpendicular to the object. Then they measure the shift in "fixed" stars behind the object between those two points.
It's like holding your finger up, and alternating closing each eye. The finger "moves" relative to the background.
Obviously, it works best for "close" objects.
So, the measure is the best guess for whatever data they have.
To: Calvin Locke
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:33:14 PM PDT
by
Natchez Hawk
(What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth Amendments?)
To: OB1kNOb
We met Stormtrooper Elvis at Comic-Con a few weeks ago!
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:34:13 PM PDT
by
llmc1
To: ASA Vet
[To RadioAstronomer]
Ping for your input RadioAstronomer would indeed be a lot of help, but he has been banned.
49
posted on
08/20/2007 3:37:07 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: Drew68
Neutron stars are something to behold. Most of them are only about 10 miles across and they are so dense that one tablespoon of neutron star weighs hundreds of millions of tons. What's even more interesting is that if you had a teaspoon of neutronium and dropped it on the Earth it would flutter back and forth through the earth's core, mantle and crust like a pendulum would swing through the air. It's THAT dense.
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:39:06 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(“Jesus Saves. Moses Delivers. Cthulu Reposesses...”)
To: evad
There is no spoon. bummer
51
posted on
08/20/2007 3:40:11 PM PDT
by
frithguild
(The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
To: bajabaja
You might like the work of Dr. Michio Kaku.
http://www.mkaku.org/
I read his book ‘Hyperspace’, which-amongst other things- posits the existence of up to ten spatial dimensions. It’s pretty approachable reading, considering the subject.
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:40:34 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: GourmetDan
Question...since you can't get 2 neutrons to stick together without protons in attendance, why do you think you can get a whole 'star' composed solely of neutrons? Go look up the chandrasekhar limit regarding stellar lifecycles.
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:40:48 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(“Jesus Saves. Moses Delivers. Cthulu Reposesses...”)
To: Coyoteman; ASA Vet
RadioAstronomer would indeed be a lot of help, but he has been banned. Not banned ... he was passworded to make it look like he has a live account.
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:43:31 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(“Jesus Saves. Moses Delivers. Cthulu Reposesses...”)
To: james500
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:44:33 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Coyoteman
RadioAstronomer would indeed be a lot of help, but he has been banned Oh really? Why? too scientific?
Or maybe his flute wasn't in tune?
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:45:09 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
To: james500
The stars not dead, Es just..pining for the fjords.
To: james500
Wow...some of us “children of the 70s” might see that headline and see “Rare Earth star found dead.”
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:55:34 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(I put my faith in the dollar bill but the dollar bill blew away.)
To: philled
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:56:42 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(I put my faith in the dollar bill but the dollar bill blew away.)
To: SolidWood
Good place to bump this thread.
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:58:28 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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