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Astronomers surprised by star with comet-like tail
Reuters ^ | August 15, 2007 | Will Dunham

Posted on 08/16/2007 6:36:23 AM PDT by NYer

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To: NYer
"There's a star with a tail in the tail of the whale..."

There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.

21 posted on 08/16/2007 7:31:19 AM PDT by Squeako (Free Republic: As addictive as living in your car, yelling at neighbors and burning your own poo.)
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To: NYer
Scientists think Mira in time will eject all its gas, leaving a colorful shell known as a planetary nebula that also gradually will fade leaving behind a white dwarf.

That's nothing compared to Mr. M after a bowl of chili.

22 posted on 08/16/2007 7:33:31 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: GulfBreeze

Industrial Light and Magic, Marin, Ca can do all that and more in a warehouse using CGI.


23 posted on 08/16/2007 7:39:28 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("I shall need the clankers.")
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To: NYer

You have to watch that Berthold Radiation coming from Omicron Ceti 3.

(Star Trek Reference...Mira is Omicron Ceti)


24 posted on 08/16/2007 7:40:46 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Dick Vomer

“The further along in college and post graduate education the more I became convinced of the fact that we are unique....because it makes no sense for us to exist by randomness.”

Really?

So far it appears as if life on Earth is “unique”....but considering the % of the universe we have explored, I’d prefer to think that the jury is still out on that point.

I always thought that it was odd that some people believe that we (humans on earth) are at the top of the galactic food chain......that we’re the pinnacle.

If nothing else... that a waste of real estate (the rest of the universe).


25 posted on 08/16/2007 7:49:53 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: CholeraJoe

Whatever that means, I beleive you.


26 posted on 08/16/2007 7:52:57 AM PDT by GulfBreeze (Support America, Support Duncan Hunter for President.)
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To: CholeraJoe
Whatever that means, I believe you.
27 posted on 08/16/2007 7:53:17 AM PDT by GulfBreeze (Support America, Support Duncan Hunter for President.)
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To: taxed2death

“If nothing else... that a waste of real estate (the rest of the universe).”

For it to be a waste of course would have to recognize “purpose” which, of course would mean at the very minimum someone directing everything and probably creating everything.


28 posted on 08/16/2007 7:55:22 AM PDT by GulfBreeze (Support America, Support Duncan Hunter for President.)
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To: NYer
Astronomers believe our sun will become a similar red giant in 4 to 5 billion years,

Damned SUVs!!!

29 posted on 08/16/2007 8:01:56 AM PDT by shekkian
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To: taxed2death
It's why I always loved:

"A long time ago
in a galaxy far, far away"

At the time when it came out, it helped me realize how young our part of the universe is.

Cosmically, we live somewhere up in Northern Canada....it's no wonder we never see anybody else!

30 posted on 08/16/2007 8:03:31 AM PDT by KeepUSfree (WOSD = fascism pure and simple.)
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To: taxed2death
If nothing else... that a waste of real estate (the rest of the universe).

Location. Location. Location.

Cordially,

31 posted on 08/16/2007 8:08:43 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: VeritatisSplendor

And why is the trail curved like some Disney concept of a shooting star?


32 posted on 08/16/2007 8:10:22 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: NYer

Wow, possible planting of new stars. I will fire up the cosmic John Deere cultivator as soon as I get the flux capacitor fixed!


33 posted on 08/16/2007 8:15:30 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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They are wrong!

It's the necromonger armada!

34 posted on 08/16/2007 8:21:49 AM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: NYer

Thanks for posting this. B4L8r


35 posted on 08/16/2007 8:38:57 AM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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350 light-years from Earth ... means we are looking back in time to see it. It already happened, so is it really "breaking news"? I'm just sayin' ...
36 posted on 08/16/2007 9:06:42 AM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: NYer

DAMN BUSH TAX CUTS!! Even stars light years away are falling apart!


37 posted on 08/16/2007 9:53:13 AM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: VaBthang4

lofl


38 posted on 08/16/2007 10:00:46 AM PDT by txhurl
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leaving a huge, turbulent tail of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in its wake

Galactic Warming! Calling Algore.....

39 posted on 08/16/2007 10:02:54 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Choose life!)
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To: taxed2death
So far it appears as if life on Earth is “unique”....but considering the % of the universe we have explored, I’d prefer to think that the jury is still out on that point.

I always thought that it was odd that some people believe that we (humans on earth) are at the top of the galactic food chain......that we’re the pinnacle.

If nothing else... that a waste of real estate (the rest of the universe).

I don't think of myself as the top of any "food" chain.....just a very,very, teeny, tiny, speck...

That's what amazes me. If you've got some science background think about the enormity of space...or even the size of our sun with the reactions going on to send heat and light out into the cosmos... then think of the inner workings of the inner ear. The way small hair follicles help to transmit the movement of fluids in 3 dimensions to you child's brain while she does a somersault...

Or the randomness of immense collections of empty space going on for distances that can't even be imagined, while our little planet has a temperature range that at it's coldest and hottest is very very moderate in galactic terms while allowing water to exist in ice, vapor and liquid form....

That the liquid is found in most living organisms, is a great polar solvent and with the help of a chain of events allows light to be converted from carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen to glucose and proteins......That those combinations of proteins can realign themselves to replicate and carry on the production of hormones, hair, eyes, ears, brain.....and on top of that to have self realization....

I'm amazed by it all.

Don't you think it's just "odd" that we even exist? That's why I started my path towards being a Christian.

I'm all the way to being a really crappy one now.... but I'm trying....and from what I can gather, that's a start.

40 posted on 08/16/2007 11:20:18 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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