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Offline ScaryTooth

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This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 08:28:22 AM »
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #1 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 08:54:51 AM »
Yeah, I love that picture.  An oldie but a goodie.
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #2 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 09:17:40 AM »
Hadn't seen that before, and yes that is the most awesome thing ever. Thanks for posting that.
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #3 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 10:07:25 AM »
Deja vu.  That's what I remember from a while back, and I'm not sure if it's the chicken or the egg. 
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #4 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 09:57:06 PM »
Why are there two "largest known stars"?
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #5 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 10:00:07 PM »
Quote from: gpw11 on Monday, May 31, 2010, 09:57:06 PM
Why are there two "largest known stars"?

Quantum states.

I would elaborate but I imagine Wind&Confusion is jacking of right now at the prospect of explaining this.
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #6 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 10:33:15 PM »
AHAHAHAHA
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #7 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 10:57:46 PM »
I love that picture as well.  I have a poster of the Hubble Deep Field picture shown on the bottom of that picture.
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 01:36:44 PM »
http://unixronin.livejournal.com/763082.html

Betelgeuse might go supernova...

Well, if true, it might have went supernova around 600 years ago...we are just now seeing it.

Space is fuckin cool.
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 07:41:46 PM »
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/01/is-betelgeuse-about-to-blow/

Okay, it might not go. Seems to be a rumor. Oh well. Space is still cool.
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 11:58:58 PM »
It sure is. Wish we could be born again next century. :P
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #11 on: Monday, June 21, 2010, 04:31:08 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tDO3HK20Q

I thought this was really cool. It's Carl Sagan reading from his book "Pale Blue Dot".
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Re: This is an old picture..but always humbling...
« Reply #12 on: Monday, June 21, 2010, 11:48:06 PM »
Quote from: ScaryTooth on Monday, June 21, 2010, 04:31:08 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tDO3HK20Q

I thought this was really cool. It's Carl Sagan reading from his book "Pale Blue Dot".

Yeah, that's a great book (and audiobook too!).  Probably have read through it twice now.
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