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MONSTER QUASAR BLAST blows stunned astro boffins' WIGS OFF
The Register ^ | 28th November 2012 16:40 GMT | Kelly Fiveash, Networks Correspondent

Posted on 11/28/2012 2:18:51 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 11/28/2012 2:19:01 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SunkenCiv; Fred Nerks

Staggering numbers....


2 posted on 11/28/2012 2:20:09 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Don’t stand too close to that one.


3 posted on 11/28/2012 2:23:27 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It’s hard to take stories with headlines like that seriously


4 posted on 11/28/2012 2:30:03 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Talking 'bout a Giant Sucking Sound!


5 posted on 11/28/2012 2:33:43 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
MONSTER QUASAR BLAST

Meh, it's old news.

(rimshot)

6 posted on 11/28/2012 2:37:55 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ("Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the gov officials committing it." -- K. Hoffmann)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I saw MONSTER BLAST and thought oh no, not another one wonder if it was in Cairo?


7 posted on 11/28/2012 3:02:58 PM PST by Fred Nerks
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To: cripplecreek

no kidding - that beam would make my nosehair fall out.


8 posted on 11/28/2012 3:36:36 PM PST by RitchieAprile (the obsteperous gentleman..)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Will the shock wave reach us?


9 posted on 11/28/2012 3:40:28 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

For the 10th year in a row, The Register was voted the website most likely to abuse the word “Boffin”.


10 posted on 11/28/2012 3:45:13 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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11 posted on 11/28/2012 3:51:26 PM PST by djf (Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
a mass of more than 400 times that of the sun is streaming away from the quasar at a speed of 8,000 kilometers per second.

298,200 MPH, that's going to leave a mark when it hits something.

12 posted on 11/28/2012 4:06:37 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m confused. All I’ve ever heard is everything gets “sucked into” a black hole and nothing escapes. This article is about gynormous amounts of energy and basic elements being EJECTED from the black hole. Hunnh?!


13 posted on 11/28/2012 4:32:28 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Maybe creation in seconds is more believable than evolution in years after all.
14 posted on 11/28/2012 5:18:48 PM PST by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: Tucker39

Seems to me like they MIGHT be saying that the stuff from the quasar coming OUT is really the other side of a black hole.

We see black holes...someone on the other side sees a quasar, we see a quasar and the other guy sees a black hole.

Quasars are like the Universal garbage disposals!!

Kewl!!


15 posted on 11/28/2012 5:22:39 PM PST by GRRRRR (He'll NEVER be my President, FUBO! Treason is the Reason! Impeach the Kenyan)
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To: djf

That ad would be considered pornographic today.


16 posted on 11/28/2012 5:29:55 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I grew up in the days of Burma Shave signs by the road.
We left our door unlocked at night.
If you saw a woman breast feeding her child in public, no one threw a fit about it, even if they were personally a bit irked.

Norman Rockwell stuff... long gone.


17 posted on 11/28/2012 6:08:04 PM PST by djf (Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
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To: Dead Corpse

ROFL!


18 posted on 11/28/2012 6:31:44 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; ...

Thanks Ernest, an ‘extra, extra’ to APoD members.


19 posted on 11/28/2012 7:51:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Thanks Ernest.



20 posted on 11/28/2012 7:58:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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