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    #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Heisenberg wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    remember when lots of people thought they had faulty data and the science team was all "NO WAY MAN WE DID IT"

    turns out einstein was still right and nerds can cry themselves to sleep again because ftl travel will never happen

    Yeah, fuck nerds. Real men post on internet message boards.

    Look they really should have known better than to assume that one of the core tenets of modern physics had been broken

    Nobody assumed anything.

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    Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
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    http://io9.com/5888354/a-stunning-image-of-four-galaxies-smashed-together-in-one-tiny-corner-of-the-universe

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Cool!

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    HallowedFaithHallowedFaith Call me Cloud. Registered User regular
    Tyson is speaking about his book this morning.


    I'm making video games. DesignBy.Cloud
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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Hey cool! I guess everyone in Syria really is supportive of the government, as "Syrian state TV says 89.4 per cent of voters said 'yes' to new constitution in Sunday's referendum". I guess all the terrorists and gangsters and foreign militias and frenzied drug addicts (?!?) didn't get to the polls.

    Hobnail on
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    Amikron DevaliaAmikron Devalia I didn't ask for this title. Registered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Hey cool! I guess everyone in Syria really is supportive of the government, as "Syrian state TV says 89.4 per cent of voters said 'yes' to new constitution in Sunday's referendum". I guess all the terrorists and gangsters and foreign militias and frenzied drug addicts (?!?) didn't get to the polls.

    Cool?

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Amikron doesn't get sarcasm.

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    Amikron DevaliaAmikron Devalia I didn't ask for this title. Registered User regular
    Nah, just don't really get what it had to do with spaaaaaaaaace.

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    It pissed me off to an unusual extent and I felt I had to share and this is the closest thing to a current events thread. Definitely off topic.

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    Amikron DevaliaAmikron Devalia I didn't ask for this title. Registered User regular
    Makes sense to me :^:

    steam
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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Amikron Devalia wrote: »
    Nah, just don't really get what it had to do with spaaaaaaaaace.

    You haven't been here long, have you?

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    its so weird to remember that every one of those tiny dots is SO MUCH STUFF

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    ,in my eloquent opinion

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    #pipe wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Heisenberg wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    remember when lots of people thought they had faulty data and the science team was all "NO WAY MAN WE DID IT"

    turns out einstein was still right and nerds can cry themselves to sleep again because ftl travel will never happen

    Yeah, fuck nerds. Real men post on internet message boards.

    Look they really should have known better than to assume that one of the core tenets of modern physics had been broken

    Nobody assumed anything.

    The crying nerds did

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Actually I don't know that!

    I don't know anything

    My head really hurts

    Bluesky|Cohost
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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    It pissed me off to an unusual extent and I felt I had to share and this is the closest thing to a current events thread. Definitely off topic.

    I mean, the overwhelming majority of the stuff we're observing up there happened hundreds of millions of years ago

    it's about as far from a current events thread as I can imagine

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    sn1987ashock_hst_304.gif

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120227.html

    Weaver on
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    HyperBalladHyperBallad A ball of vivid colour and barely contained emotions Sydney. Lost in time and space.Registered User regular
    Was sent this site this morning. Paint your own supernovas. Instant fun!

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    ACSISACSIS Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    The end of Dark Energy...
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    Too bad some of you guys wouldn't speculate on quasars... it was totally on track.

    ACSIS on
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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    Well, nothing good can last forever.

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    babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck this thread is really bumming me out that I had to leave school.

    fuck fuck fuck.

    fuck.

    I love space.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    ACSIS wrote: »
    The end of Dark Energy...
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    Too bad some of you guys wouldn't speculate on quasars... it was totally on track.

    give me your weed

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    ACSISACSIS Registered User regular
    Weaver wrote: »
    Well, nothing good can last forever.

    True that. Not even Black Holes.

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    LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
    What the hell is he on about this time?

    Nate Silver 2.0 wrote:
    Molten variables hiss and roar. On my mind-forge, I hammer them into the greatsword Epistemology. Many are my foes this night.
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    ACSISACSIS Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
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    Think about the accredition disk. Think about area to catch matter. Think about the gravity growth of the disk compared to the SMBH in the center. Think about what centrifugal force will do to it. Think about the dark clouds inside of galaxys. Dust clouds? Well it should be luminous somehow, if only indirect, iluminated by starlight. It isn't. Guess why. Its dust of course, but of a very special kind...

    This is why quasars emit so much energy. It isn't the deathscream of matter sucked into the SMBH, its the deathscream of the SMBH itself, torn apart by its accredition disk, a inevitable developement over time.

    ACSIS on
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    XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    everyone just look away

    do it for Kadith

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    Quarantine the infection.

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    LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
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    New images of dunes on Mars. Very pretty.

    Nate Silver 2.0 wrote:
    Molten variables hiss and roar. On my mind-forge, I hammer them into the greatsword Epistemology. Many are my foes this night.
    STEAM | GW2: Thalys
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    XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    I think he's just imitating the previous conversation we had about neutrinos possibly not being FTL with dark energy not being real.

    So yeah, Mars bitches.

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    ACSISACSIS Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
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    investigation ship en route, ETA august 2012

    in other news:
    moon not geologically inactive
    first water world confirmed

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    may you live in interesting times, dear friends

    ACSIS on
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    hoodie13hoodie13 punch bro Registered User regular
    he's our forum's own @ehorse_books

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    KadithKadith Registered User regular
    ACSIS wrote: »
    Think about the accredition disk. Think about area to catch matter. Think about the gravity growth of the disk compared to the SMBH in the center. Think about what centrifugal force will do to it. Think about the dark clouds inside of galaxys. Dust clouds? Well it should be luminous somehow, if only indirect, iluminated by starlight. It isn't. Guess why. Its dust of course, but of a very special kind...

    This is why quasars emit so much energy. It isn't the deathscream of matter sucked into the SMBH, its the deathscream of the SMBH itself, torn apart by its accredition disk, a inevitable developement over time.

    lol~

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    KadithKadith Registered User regular
    oh and I saw some cool supernovae stuff this morning so i'll write up a gushing post about some of the highlights later tonight

    for those who are taking part of my non-accredited astrophysicist online degree program.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Kadith wrote: »
    ACSIS wrote: »
    Think about the accredition disk. Think about area to catch matter. Think about the gravity growth of the disk compared to the SMBH in the center. Think about what centrifugal force will do to it. Think about the dark clouds inside of galaxys. Dust clouds? Well it should be luminous somehow, if only indirect, iluminated by starlight. It isn't. Guess why. Its dust of course, but of a very special kind...

    This is why quasars emit so much energy. It isn't the deathscream of matter sucked into the SMBH, its the deathscream of the SMBH itself, torn apart by its accredition disk, a inevitable developement over time.

    lol~

    tachyons bro

    duh

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    LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
    Don't do it Kadith.

    Don't dooooooooooooooo ittttttttttttt.

    *splosions*

    Nate Silver 2.0 wrote:
    Molten variables hiss and roar. On my mind-forge, I hammer them into the greatsword Epistemology. Many are my foes this night.
    STEAM | GW2: Thalys
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    XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    I've always assumed since the universe is an explosion in slow-motion? (relativity?) that dark energy was just a mystical term for solar currents or whatever permeates magnetism or reverse magnetism throughout the universe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress-energy_tensor

    I also assume I'm completely wrong about all of this.

    Xehalus on
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    JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Weaver wrote: »
    sn1987ashock_hst_304.gif

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120227.html

    Speaking of supernovas this was a while ago but I wanted to be sure I understand what's going on here: So these lights are matter being ejected from a supernova that is running into the matter/gas/dust etc that was ejected earlier in the course of the supernova and igniting, right? Because that is fucking crazy.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Xehalus wrote: »
    I've always assumed since the universe is an explosion in slow-motion? (relativity?) that dark energy was just a mystical term for solar currents or whatever permeates magnetism or reverse magnetism throughout the universe.

    I also assume I'm completely wrong about all of this.
    what

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    DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Kadith wrote: »
    oh and I saw some cool supernovae stuff this morning so i'll write up a gushing post about some of the highlights later tonight

    for those who are taking part of my non-accredited astrophysicist online degree program.

    Yes, hurry up please, I want to knock out this degree in a couple of weeks and you're kind of slowing me down here.

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    LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
    That does appear to be the case JayKaos. Not sure if the outer ring was created during the supernova, or sometime earlier in the star's lifetime.

    Either way, yes it's completely mental (and completely awesome).

    Nate Silver 2.0 wrote:
    Molten variables hiss and roar. On my mind-forge, I hammer them into the greatsword Epistemology. Many are my foes this night.
    STEAM | GW2: Thalys
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