Posted on 01/27/2009 11:39:01 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Somebody locked me up in a time-machine and sent me back to January.
“The team conclude that the extraordinary brightness of the 19 March burst arose from a narrow jet that shot material directly toward Earth at 99,99995 percent of the speed of light.”
sounds impressive, but they are probably misinterpreting something.
“The data clearly reveal the complexity of a GRB in which a narrow, ultra-fast jet is present within a wider, slightly slower jet”
it’s SO easy to misinterpret these things. Like the quasars who’s redshift “ABSOLUTELY 100% MUST” mean they are billions of light years away, then oops! there’s one in a nearby galaxy with a billions of lightyears redshift. suddenly “clearly, definitely” becomes “maybe, perhaps”. sounds cool though.
Looks like someone, or some thing, is trying to communicate with us.
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
God was saying hello.
See #5,
bump
or maybe the universe was having a negative reaction to kobe bryant being on ET http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205730/
“the event was so intense that, despite happening halfway across the Universe, it could have been seen briefly with the unaided eye.”
And if you’ve seen the movie Day of the Triffids, you would have known not to stare into the gamma ray burst with the unaided eye.
Yep. It cracks me up how some Astronomers and Astrophysicists on shows like The Universe claim precise measurements to distant objects with only one point of reference and no way to accurately verify their measurements, or when they claim to fully understand processes within stars or planets, yet these stars are so distant it's akin to standing in New York and trying to look at a mosquito on the moon. Or, like so-called "dark matter". We can't see it, but it must be there, right?
Why it is that "experts" always seem to be "surprised?"
Could this be attributed to shutting down the solar spot activity?
For the answer see my tag line.
i wonder what the gamma radiation dose to us was? and where it was focused?
Sounds like a space fart. If it produces afterglows, it means they ate something hot, like Thai peppers.
Totally. surprised experts is an oxymoron.
dark matter (just undetectable, like a neutrino field permeating the universe) might actually explain a lot of the redshift we see. but yeah it’s all mights & ifs & buts
My wife cracks up when we're watching The Universe or some similar program and some scientist makes a bold statement about how they know unequivocally how some far distant phenomenon works, then I follow up their statement with "you think". I must have said "you think" about 100 times in last night's show alone.....
The Moties.
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