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Potentially Lethal Gamma Ray Could Hit Earth
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Posted on 05/28/2013 6:19:31 AM PDT by SargeK
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To: MustKnowHistory
As long as you go there at night.
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posted on
05/28/2013 7:39:05 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
To: BenLurkin
Regarding the orientation of the orbit of WR 104... looking at the images, it is very hard to believe the orbit is not face on. The thing really does look like it is pointed right at us.
Having said that though, there are several reasons why I am not so sure. First, I have been able to measure velocities for both the WR star and its companion. With those velocities I can calculate the orbit and by extension say something about the orbital inclination if I assume reasonable masses for the stars. Doing that implies the inclination is at least 30 or 40 degrees.
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posted on
05/28/2013 7:47:14 AM PDT
by
SubMareener
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To: SubMareener
It's all way over my head.
But in the menagerie of cosmic disasters — being micro-waved to death is one that I find considerably less appealing.
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posted on
05/28/2013 7:49:54 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: ArrogantBustard
Apply this to your frontal lobe...it's quicker and more efficient than brain bleach...:)
64
posted on
05/28/2013 7:52:04 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(The only things that last forever are memories and sorrow.)
To: CrazyIvan
A particularly unpleasant blast for one arrogant bustard, apparently...:)
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posted on
05/28/2013 7:52:58 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(The only things that last forever are memories and sorrow.)
To: BenLurkin
8000 light years away , it would be easier to hit a fly on the dark side of the moon with a spit ball
To: Salamander
No, thanks ... I'm not a self-loathing, self-destructive narcissist. Unlike the dreadful characters in that dreadful play ... which for some odd reason, certain parties (aeons ago) thought I might relate to.
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posted on
05/28/2013 8:08:31 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: SargeK
Earth may lie in the path of a dangerous gamma-ray burst that could wipe out a quarter of our atmospheric ozone. Astronomers say that WR 104, a Wolf-Rayet star about 8,000 miles away...Holy crap!
Never mind the freaking gamma rays.
We're being fried and don't realize it!
68
posted on
05/28/2013 8:20:02 AM PDT
by
publius911
(Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
To: SargeK
Potentially Lethal Gamma Ray Could Hit Earth
is there a way to increase the odds?
anyway, a “star about 8,000 miles away” is much more troubling
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posted on
05/28/2013 8:24:55 AM PDT
by
fnord
(My life is like the movie Willard, except with hummingbirds)
To: fruser1
Trillion, billion, million, what’s the diff right?No no no!
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE??!!??
70
posted on
05/28/2013 8:28:28 AM PDT
by
publius911
(Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
To: SargeK
Wolf-Rayet star about 8,000 miles away Somehow I think we'd see that.
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posted on
05/28/2013 8:30:27 AM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
(Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
To: MustKnowHistory; posterchild
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posted on
05/28/2013 8:32:14 AM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
To: SargeK
73
posted on
05/28/2013 8:44:28 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Viva Cristo Rey!)
To: Salamander
I, for one, will be happy to not have to pay those excessive fees to the tanning parlor.
I suppose this will throw the tax structure off worse than the sequester.
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posted on
05/28/2013 9:01:06 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: ArrogantBustard
The movie seemed to last forever.
I’m not sure I even got to the end.
Did the flowers die?
;]
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posted on
05/28/2013 9:03:03 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(The only things that last forever are memories and sorrow.)
To: shibumi
I’m just freaked out by the thought of a star 8000 miles away.
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posted on
05/28/2013 9:04:26 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(The only things that last forever are memories and sorrow.)
To: Salamander
You’d think someone would have noticed it by now, being only roughly 20% of the distance to the moon.
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posted on
05/28/2013 9:09:43 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: American in Israel
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posted on
05/28/2013 9:10:04 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: Salamander
Hey, at least you’ve got your dog with you, all I
got was a snot covered shirt...
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posted on
05/28/2013 9:13:07 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: shibumi
Anybody else notice the HUGE moon the other night?
I bet it’s only 2 or 3 thousand miles away.
[they’ve just been keeping it secret]
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posted on
05/28/2013 9:15:05 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(The only things that last forever are memories and sorrow.)
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