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Giant star Betelgeuse mysteriously shrinking: study
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| 6/9/09
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Posted on 06/09/2009 9:46:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Betelgeuse, a massive bright reddish star in the Orion constellation, seen here by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, has mysteriously shrunk by over 15 percent in the last 15 years and astronomers have not yet determined why, according to a study released Tuesday. (AFP/NASA/File)
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:47:53 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: NormsRevenge
Algore would say cow farts and “global warming” is causing it. He’s weird.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:50:00 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Barack Hussein Obama. Keeping the Communist dream alive.)
To: NormsRevenge
SUVs on planets orbiting Betelgeuse are causing this.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:56:06 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
To: NormsRevenge
supernova - should be a good show
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:56:11 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:57:35 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 141 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: NormsRevenge
Signs in the heavens . . .
in the same era Israel returned to the Holy Land and became a nation again in a day as predicted . . .
Who’d a thunk.
/s
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:58:05 PM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:58:34 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: NormsRevenge
Old age comes to all of us. Maybe Betelgeuse needs Viagra....
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:58:42 PM PDT
by
freebilly
To: FlingWingFlyer
I see a grant for $ 6 trillion dollars to educate the rest of the species in the constellation that it’s our fault.
To: smokingfrog
Just hope none of the poles are pointed at us when it blows. Gamma rays are only good for David Banner.
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posted on
06/09/2009 10:03:51 PM PDT
by
dragonblustar
("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
To: NormsRevenge
It’s running out of geuse.
To: NormsRevenge
"I hate it when that happens"
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posted on
06/09/2009 10:04:44 PM PDT
by
montyspython
(Love that chicken from Popeye's)
To: null and void
10 posts and no pics of a shrinking Michael Keaton. :-}
I need rest (Hey, wait! I am on vacation!)
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posted on
06/09/2009 10:05:17 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: NormsRevenge
Old News... This happened 600 years ago...
However, we all may be dead tomorrow...
Film at 11
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posted on
06/09/2009 10:05:43 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: NormsRevenge
We need a tax increase because this is happening!
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posted on
06/09/2009 10:05:59 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: smokingfrog
As long as it doesn't gamma-ray us, yes. It would be quite a show. Brighter than the Moon, visible in the daytime, for months, then gone forever.
And at 640 light years away, it could have already done it, or it could be a couple of thousand years off yet.
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posted on
06/09/2009 10:08:55 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
06/09/2009 10:11:10 PM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: NormsRevenge
That star better get back in shape or Obama will unleash a strongly worded letter.
Then apologize to the star for America looking at it in the first place....
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posted on
06/09/2009 10:14:28 PM PDT
by
NorCoGOP
(Recession: friend loses his job. Depression: You lose your job. Recovery: Obama loses his job.)
To: NormsRevenge
Betelgeuse could use some slimming down.
Compared to our Sun, Betelgeuse is the size of a basketball while our Sol is the size of a poppy seed.
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