| GarrisonMiniatures | 26 May 2017 10:40 a.m. PST |
link 'It's not everyday that you get to witness the birth of a black hole, and yet that it precisely what scientists believe they've seen. Using the Hubble telescope along with others NASA's scientists were able to watch as a star 25 times more massive than our own crumpled into a black hole.' Science in action… incredible to record something like this as it happens. |
| Cacique Caribe | 26 May 2017 11:24 a.m. PST |
That happens in Hollywood all the time! :) Dan
PS. Specially when they start believing that their personal opinions on other subjects should somehow become overwhelmingly important to the rest of us. |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 26 May 2017 12:19 p.m. PST |
But perhaps slightly better than the ramblings of teenage pop stars… (include in that much older pop stars who still think of themselves as teenagers!) |
| Winston Smith | 26 May 2017 1:47 p.m. PST |
I think they missed it. They just blinked and it wasn't there any more. |
| Cacique Caribe | 26 May 2017 5:02 p.m. PST |
Or maybe it was never there. The early records had specks all over them where someone had sneezed*. Dan
* Would they ever admit to such a scenario, I wonder. :) |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 26 May 2017 5:59 p.m. PST |
Uh-oh. After reading "Pandora's Star", this has me worried. |
| zoneofcontrol | 26 May 2017 7:04 p.m. PST |
Wow, I saw the title to this thread and thought somebody wrote a biography about my ex-wife. |
| Great War Ace | 26 May 2017 8:11 p.m. PST |
incredible to record something like this as it happens. Not "as it happens", since that would have occurred millions of light years ago? |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 27 May 2017 1:50 a.m. PST |
True… but I think that comes under the heading of nit picking… |
| PaddySinclair | 27 May 2017 4:07 a.m. PST |
Nah, nit picking would have been pointing out that light years are a measurement of distance, not time ;) |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 27 May 2017 5:35 a.m. PST |
But I bet I could get there in less than 12 parsecs! (And yeah, I know, so don't bother. Revisionism-- sheesh!) |
| Cacique Caribe | 27 May 2017 1:31 p.m. PST |
You people in the Alpha Quadrant crack me up. Dan |
| Bowman | 28 May 2017 3:49 p.m. PST |
……since that would have occurred millions of light years ago? Yes, it is 20 light years away and not ago. The WIKI entry to N6946-BH1: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N6946-BH1 |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 29 May 2017 7:02 a.m. PST |
'Nah, nit picking would have been pointing out that light years are a measurement of distance, not time ;)' Yes, misread that one didn't I? |
| JSchutt | 02 Jun 2017 3:29 a.m. PST |
….or they could just keep an eye on Hollywood…. |
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