2 posted on
03/21/2008 4:07:56 PM PDT by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
To: NormsRevenge
Sounds like 3rd or 4th magnitude, which would have been washed out by city lights here.
5 posted on
03/21/2008 4:12:24 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: NormsRevenge
I had to look it up.
A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles
Times 7,500,000,000 = Miles to event.
My calculator just died.
To: NormsRevenge
**The explosion vaporized any planet nearby, Gehrels said.**
Whoa!!
9 posted on
03/21/2008 7:12:47 PM PDT by
rahbert
To: NormsRevenge
Damn, I wait 7.5 billion years for this, and I’m in the can when it happens.
10 posted on
03/21/2008 7:18:34 PM PDT by
Larry Lucido
(Still looking for UART at FX1050)
To: NormsRevenge
So that’s what I felt. :)
11 posted on
03/21/2008 7:51:26 PM PDT by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: NormsRevenge
12 posted on
03/21/2008 9:27:57 PM PDT by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"—Ronald Reagan)
To: NormsRevenge
Not to sound like a ditz, but does this mean that this happened 7.5 billion years ago and we are just able to see it now?
To: NormsRevenge
No wonder it’s taking Voyager so long to get home.
To: NormsRevenge
With the current lack of sunspots, we could use all the GRB we can get.
It was warm Wednesday. Here, anyway.
16 posted on
03/22/2008 12:11:17 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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17 posted on
03/23/2008 10:03:19 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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One of those rarities, a triple list ping.
18 posted on
03/23/2008 10:05:32 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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19 posted on
03/23/2008 10:06:00 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: NormsRevenge
Sounds like a real monster. It probably destroyed whatever life was present in that galaxy, at least the ones in its “aim”.
20 posted on
03/23/2008 10:11:16 PM PDT by
Paradox
(Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
To: NormsRevenge
OK. I admit my ignorance. How do you see gamma rays with your naked eyes?
21 posted on
03/23/2008 10:13:05 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: NormsRevenge
Here is my question. If the universe is infinite, how can we say this happened half way across. Maybe he should have said the known universe. As another poster quoted Carl Sagen, I gotta say, I loved his anologies, rated right up there with Asimov, in perspective, we will all die one day and nothing that could possibly happen today or the next has any bearing on the rest of the universe.Somebody might just step on this little ant colony one day.
51 posted on
03/24/2008 11:56:29 AM PDT by
eastforker
(Get-R-Done and then Bring-Em- Home)
To: NormsRevenge
Wow.
Global warming is now destroying the entire universe!
65 posted on
03/24/2008 12:45:44 PM PDT by
Mr. Brightside
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