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Astronomers discover oldest star: Formed shortly after the Big Bang 13. 7 billion years ago
ScienceDaily ^
| February 9, 2014
Posted on 02/10/2014 7:49:57 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: SunkenCiv
To: EveningStar
[patiently waiting here for ALGORE or HANSEN or MANN or their surrogates to be out there claiming that AGW has significantly reduced the lifespan of our SUN.]
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:52:09 AM PST
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: Gaffer
that AGW has significantly reduced the lifespan of our SUN.But they deny that GW has anything to do with the Sun but everything to do with Man.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:05:17 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Not quite. They deny the sun has any affect here on earth. I maintain they are that stupid enough, that duplicitous, and that deceitful enough to claim OUR AGW here will cause the sun to live a shorter life span. There’s a big difference.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:07:51 AM PST
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: EveningStar
What if the Big Bang never happened but many little bangs?.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:10:17 AM PST
by
Vaduz
To: EveningStar
Really? I have read in the past ten years that the “big bang” theory was changed to accommodate the errors in their findings. So is this another change to try and fix the fix.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:12:32 AM PST
by
Busko
(The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:15:13 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:17:54 AM PST
by
MNDude
To: EveningStar
Oldest Star?
Probably keeps the temperature really high and watches Matlock reruns.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:26:28 AM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(The. Media. Is.The. Enemy.)
To: DJ MacWoW
LOL
That is my contention. What went BANG in the beginning?
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:33:21 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: MNDude
It's just to the left of Earth...
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:33:48 AM PST
by
rjsimmon
(1-20-2013 The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: EveningStar
I have a few concerns with this article.
The Big Bang happened precisely 13.845 billion years ago, not 13.7 billion years ago. Preciseness is important in scientific articles.
Also, define “shortly”.
Lastly, the description of how you make a star like our sun deserves a comedy award.
/s
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:34:22 AM PST
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: TomGuy
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:36:10 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Vaduz
What if the Big Bang never happened but many little bangs?.
Or cyclical. Really, really, really long cycles. Bang!..universe expands...reaches limits of expansion...contracts...grows denser and denser...explodes and expands again. Repeat forever or until it's Maker stops it. Just a thought.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:56:36 AM PST
by
762X51
To: All
The Big Bang is a big bust. It is a man’s meager attempt to explain the universe. The great hunt for the required dark matter has come up empty. Maybe time for a new theory?
To: TomGuy
Read the books by Brian Greene. He has a knack for making these things a “LITTLE” less obscure. He can certainly explain things better than me!
The theory currently is that due to quantum fluctuations, what was, became what is. Or, there was a clash of the braines that are the multiverse, or, just the primordial atom became unstable and bang.
You can’t get much better with quantum physics. :)
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posted on
02/10/2014 10:49:07 AM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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posted on
02/10/2014 9:28:47 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: EveningStar; brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; ...
Thanks EveningStar, extra to APoD.
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posted on
02/10/2014 9:29:02 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: MNDude
no picture of this star?Here's a clue.... It looks exactly like all the other stars. you've seen one, you've seen them all.
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posted on
02/10/2014 9:38:20 PM PST
by
Bullish
(America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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