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Hubble Finds a Mystery Object (something that astronomers cannot make any sense of)
Sky And Telescope ^ | 9/11/08

Posted on 09/15/2008 11:47:36 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker
Posted by Norm September 12, 2008 At 01:31 PM PDT

Perhaps it was a Glint in the Eye of the Creator.

41 posted on 09/15/2008 12:05:34 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: DCBryan1

It’s Nibiru! I knew it would show up about now


42 posted on 09/15/2008 12:06:00 PM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: LibWhacker

The Vikings offense?


43 posted on 09/15/2008 12:06:37 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: LibWhacker

Looks like my windshield after I hit a bug!


44 posted on 09/15/2008 12:06:58 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: LibWhacker

It’s either a Spatial Anomaly from Star Trek or somebody fired up a Stargate from SG1.


45 posted on 09/15/2008 12:06:58 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: LibWhacker

I thought it might have been a super massive black hole feeding.


46 posted on 09/15/2008 12:08:26 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Drop the Zero and vote for a Hero. McCain-Palin 2008)
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To: cripplecreek
Inconceivable to me what it could be. Can't think of single natural object that could possibly have such a spectrum. 'Course, I'm not a physicist either. But... Boy, oh, boy, it doesn't sound natural to me!

Inconceivable that it's artificial as well. An alien civilization would have to be unbelievably advanced to have the ability to be able to fool around with that much energy.

OTOH, there's always the Class III Dyson civilization to consider...

(funny pic!)

47 posted on 09/15/2008 12:09:01 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: swain_forkbeard

Yep, Obama’s chances, drifting away.


48 posted on 09/15/2008 12:09:05 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (don't worry, they only want to take water out of the other guy's side of the bucket.)
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To: Mr. K
It’s Nibiru! I knew it would show up about now

Wish you would have said something earlier. Can I get up off my knees now? :-)

49 posted on 09/15/2008 12:12:07 PM PDT by bigheadfred (FREE EVAN VELA, freeevanvela.com)
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To: LibWhacker
They're coming...
50 posted on 09/15/2008 12:12:19 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: LibWhacker

A Dyson sphere?


51 posted on 09/15/2008 12:13:39 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: LibWhacker

Well, the good news is that we’ve got it narrowed down to between 130 light-years and 11 billion light-years away.


52 posted on 09/15/2008 12:14:31 PM PDT by Obadiah (I remember when the climate never changed, then Bush stole the election.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
That is a favorite, the music was "light years" ahead of its time. And Anne Francis, GRRRRRRRR....
53 posted on 09/15/2008 12:16:14 PM PDT by redstateconfidential ("Go to the mattresses")
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To: LibWhacker

Doh, it’s sooooo obvious.

Something blew the heck up.

Probably from a Death Star controlled by an evil emperor who wasn’t getting his way.

And while it was just a single explosion, over the distance the light traveled, the light spread. In the same way a shotgun load will spread out - up down forward back - when leaving the barrel on the way to the target.

No. Wait. It wasn’t a planet getting the treatment from the Death Star. Nope. It was Ripley. Detonating and destroying the Nostroma. Yep. That’s what it was.

No. Hang on. It was some kid on Moonbase Alpha. He’d set up a mirrored prism to reflect light. And as the moon moved through space, the light reflected from his prism back to us. Of course, the light source could be unknown.

Oh. Now I know. I was a Solar Array. A vast area full of mirrors. Which can all be controlled from a central location and which can be focused to one place. The people on that small rock were signaling for help. Oh please, we must send out a search and rescue party. For their children.

Light reflecting of the solar panels on an Intergalactic Space Station as it orbits some dark matter?

Whatever it is, we shouldn’t go and investigate. And definitely should not fire any missiles at it when we get there. And certainly nothing bigger than 240s. Not unless the Mondoshawan are nearby carring Milla Jovovich on board with them. Has anyone notified Bruce Willis yet, just in case?

Runaway...


54 posted on 09/15/2008 12:18:59 PM PDT by Fluke Codewriter (Right is right, even if no-one is doing it. Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.)
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To: LibWhacker

It was a type Bo-I blue & tan supergiant star that exploded. Now, it’s just an O-hole sucking up intergalactic dollars.


55 posted on 09/15/2008 12:21:46 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (McCain/Palin 2008 : Palin the Paladin 2012)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

ouch - I know the reference...


56 posted on 09/15/2008 12:21:47 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: LibWhacker
"Something in Bootes truly in the middle of nowhere..."

I've been laboring under the false assumption that I understood the English language. What does this statement mean?

57 posted on 09/15/2008 12:22:17 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: Fluke Codewriter; Krankor

58 posted on 09/15/2008 12:23:53 PM PDT by redstateconfidential ("Go to the mattresses")
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To: Hacklehead

Well the latest Internet Chatter is:

The Galatic Federation is coming to earth October 14th 2008
Final Warning to Mankind (Alien thingy) and supposedly the Gov’t is going to cover up what people will see in the Sky on October 14th it is truly pretty wild!

It’s all over youtube: If that’s any consellation! ;)

Oh one more thing it will be flying over the state of Alabama..


59 posted on 09/15/2008 12:25:36 PM PDT by TaraP (A Big Black Horse and a Cherry Tree)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

No doubt, the other end of the Alderson Drive tramline ended inside a supergiant.

Good thing there are no more fissionables left in their system.


60 posted on 09/15/2008 12:27:22 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Wish it was Palin/McCain)
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