Ancient Star Nearly as Old as the Universe

www.space.com ^ | 05/10/2007 | Ker Than

[Red Badger]

PLEASE! NO PICS OF HT!...........

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

When we are talking about more than a few million years, it is a bit hard to grasp don’t ya think?

Time as we perceive it almost becomes irrlevant. As, of course, do we - as mortal, corporeal individuals at least.

[econjack]

By my calculations, their numbers are off by 112 years...

[T'wit]

>> Ancient Star Nearly as Old as the Universe

Elizabeth Taylor?

[Obadiah]

There off by 112.7...to be exact.

[Andy from Beaverton]

By my calculations, their numbers are off by 112 years...

112 years, 1 month, 2 weeks, three days, four hours and five minutes.

[Right Wing Assault]

The author, Ker Than, sounds like an alien name from a science fiction story. Is he really an earthling?

[wastedyears]

Exotic antimatter engine?

Me like

[Red Badger]

The enviros I know are stupefied when I say, “In the end, our Sun will become a Red Giant and everything on this planet will be burned to nothing. Plants, animals, humans, oceans, moon, everything will be gone. So no matter what you do, eventually it will all be gone in an instant”...........

[RightWhale]

Inside the Milky Way is it? Most of those first generation stars are long gone; we’re probably generation four by now.

[CeasarsGhost]

"Employing techniques similar to those used to date archeological remains here on Earth, scientists have learned that a metal-poor star in our Milky Way called HE 1523 is 13.2 billion years old-just slightly younger than 13.7 billion year age of the universe."

LOL, I love to read the vanity of scientists along with drinking my coffee, which I have calculated to have come from a coffee bean that was picked about 1.997 months ago, from a coffee plantation that has produced rich coffee beans for about 3,000 years, or about 3,000 years after the earth was created by God.

[Red Badger]

...we’re probably generation four by now.

Is that before or after GenX or GenY?........

[RightWhale]

Long before that the oceans will boil off. Possibly the planet itself will be vaporized. Global Flash Vaporization.

[dead]

"If you know how much there was in the first place-and I'm getting these numbers from theorists-then you take your measurements and off you go,"

Sounds a little bit close to “making it up” to me, but what do I know?

[RightWhale]

Generation Why?

[Red Badger]

I don’t know what’s so exotic about it, Star Trek’s had one for decades!........

[Red Badger]

Sounds a little bit close to “making it up” to me, but what do I know?

That's what I thought, too. Just pick a number out of thin air......or in this case, space.......

[billbears]

produced rich coffee beans for about 3,000 years, or about 3,000 years after the earth was created by God

Hate to break it to you but the earth is a couple billion years old. Understanding recognizing with the abilities God has given us the actual age of the earth in no way detracts from the knowledge that it was He who created it. I don't understand how He created it as it is beyond my ken, as well as yours. However I seriously doubt God would want us to forgo all common sense just to accept an actual number that can be found nowhere in the Bible.

[Poser]

“If you know how much there was in the first place-and I’m getting these numbers from theorists-then you take your measurements and off you go,”

There is the problem. These scientists have no clue how much there was in the first place. There figures are just stone-age guesses.

[gargoyle]

...Maybe Jane Fonda??? Is there a link for the supernova that appeared this week???