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Cosmic doomsday delayed: Universe won't end for 24 billion years... probably
Nature Magazine ^
| 05 November 2004
| Mark Peplow
Posted on 11/07/2004 9:19:04 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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Text of footnotes in the original. I've added underlining wherever I thought it appropriate.
Observe how scientists willingly adjust their opinions whenever new data make it necessary. Observe too how the anti-science posters will spin this powerful strength of science to claim that these guys are just flip-floppers with no knowledge whatsoever.
To: VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Physicist; LogicWings; Doctor Stochastic; ..
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:20:05 AM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: PatrickHenry
Thank God for the many billion year reprieve! I was getting worried for a while there!
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:20:09 AM PST
by
putupjob
To: PatrickHenry
"Universe will last for at least the next 24 billion years..." ...But women and minorities projected to be hardest hit.
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:20:55 AM PST
by
doctora
To: PatrickHenry
That's a relief. I have travel plans this Christmas.
To: PatrickHenry
That's good news. Now, I'll have time to get my driver's license renewed.
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:22:04 AM PST
by
TomGuy
(His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
To: PatrickHenry
How long can Hitlery live???????? Just wondering!
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:22:31 AM PST
by
Doc Savage
(...because they stand on a wall, and they say nothing is going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch!)
To: PatrickHenry
And, by the way, it's Bush's fault.
The good news: Perhaps in 24 billion years, UN sanctions will have had time to work...
To: doctora
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:24:51 AM PST
by
Dutch Boy
To: All
In these first few minutes after the thread's beginning, no one has yet had a chance to read the article.
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:25:02 AM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: PatrickHenry
To: Death and Taxes
OK, technically, our sun will nova in about 5 billion years.
There's no way UN sanctions could work in such a short time-frame, could they??
To: PatrickHenry
Cosmic doomsday delayed: Universe won't end for 24 billion years... probably Damn, back to the healthy diet...
To: PatrickHenry
I lived through Nov.2, 2004, so I can take anything. Bring it on, universe!
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:28:09 AM PST
by
xJones
To: PatrickHenry
Observe too how the anti-science posters will spin this powerful strength of science to claim that these guys are just flip-floppers with no knowledge whatsoever.Your point being . . . ?
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:28:39 AM PST
by
Maceman
(It's no longer a blue world, Max!!)
To: PatrickHenry
Universe expanding... gas prices going up... all a conspiracy to make it more expensive to go places.
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:29:19 AM PST
by
TN4Liberty
(American... conservative... southern.... It doesn't get any better than this.)
To: PatrickHenry
So we have 24 billion versus 11 billion years. I had been going to make a will but I may put it off now.
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:31:38 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
(A self-reliant conservative citizenry is a better bet than the subjects of an overbearing state. -MS)
To: PatrickHenry
You can breathe a sigh of relief: the Universe will last for at least the next 24 billion years The arrogant fools haven't a clue. It could fold up and close like a bad book, or go on trillions of years, if not indefinitely.
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:32:23 AM PST
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
To: PatrickHenry
Telescope3, which has found several supernovae that are moving away from us faster than any others seen before, **implying** that the Universe is expanding faster than we thought. Hehe....
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:34:10 AM PST
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
To: putupjob
Oh yea, well what about 24 billion years of.......
ARAFAT ON THE MEND
Aides Say He is Ready to Resume Duties Soon.
PARIS 11/07/24,000,002,004 Aides to Yassir Arafat say he is resting well.....
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posted on
11/07/2004 9:36:16 AM PST
by
OSHA
(George W Bush - 59,054,087 <----- That's ME (The dumb one on the end!))
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