Now you don't see it, now you do. Something in Bootes truly in the middle of nowhere — apparently not even in a galaxy — brightened by at least 120 times during more than three months and then faded away. Its spectrum was like nothing ever seen, write the discoverers, with "five broad absorption bands between 4100 and 6500 Angstroms and a mostly featureless continuum longward of 6500 Angstroms." Even the cause of the spectral features is unknown.
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To: LibWhacker
Maybe a rip in the fabric of space. Is Spock sporting a beard these days?
2 posted on
09/15/2008 11:50:35 AM PDT by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: LibWhacker
Cool! Thanks for the link.
To: LibWhacker
Cool...maybe someone on a distant world fired up one of those haldron super-collider thingies....
4 posted on
09/15/2008 11:51:01 AM PDT by
spokeshave
(Obama wants to kill babies and raise taxes, Sarah wants to raise babies and kill taxes (also moose))
To: LibWhacker
It was the Moties firing their Crazy Eddie retro rockets!
To: LibWhacker
6 posted on
09/15/2008 11:51:05 AM PDT by
advertising guy
( CHARITY BEGINS AT HUT !)
To: KevinDavis
7 posted on
09/15/2008 11:51:14 AM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: LibWhacker
Probably a new type of supernova. That would make for a very massive star that exploded and we saw its light only for a brief while before it faded. That happened 11 billion years ago and we just saw it. The earth and our solar system did not then exist.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
8 posted on
09/15/2008 11:52:09 AM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: LibWhacker
It continued brightening for about 100 days and peaked at 21st magnitude in two near-infrared colors. It then faded away over a similar timescale, until nothing was left in view down to 26th magnitude. The object brightened and faded by a factor of at least 120, maybe more. Barack's star no doubt.....
10 posted on
09/15/2008 11:52:58 AM PDT by
A.Hun
(Common sense is no longer common.)
To: LibWhacker
brightened by at least 120 times during more than three months and then faded away.
Barack Obama's star power?
To: LibWhacker
Maybe a planet with Amazon women?
13 posted on
09/15/2008 11:53:30 AM PDT by
Perdogg
(Sen Robert Byrd - Ex community organizer)
To: LibWhacker
Just an old alien cursing along with her left turn signals left on..
15 posted on
09/15/2008 11:54:08 AM PDT by
mnehring
(Maverick/Barracuda 2008)
To: LibWhacker
Its spectrum was like nothing ever seen, write the discoverers, with "five broad absorption bands between 4100 and 6500 Angstroms and a mostly featureless continuum longward of 6500 Angstroms."
16 posted on
09/15/2008 11:54:14 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
To: LibWhacker; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; Fred Nerks
Zowie....this could get to be an interesting thread.
To: LibWhacker
In celebration of George Takei’s wedding?
20 posted on
09/15/2008 11:56:31 AM PDT by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: LibWhacker
It was me when I was a kid, pointing a flashlight into the sky and turning it on and off...it just showed up now...
21 posted on
09/15/2008 11:57:11 AM PDT by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
To: LibWhacker
I suspect light is a factor, either that or someones tinfoil hat isn’t on tight enough.
23 posted on
09/15/2008 11:57:53 AM PDT by
SouthDixie
(We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
To: LibWhacker
To: LibWhacker
Now you don't see it, now you do. Something in Bootes truly in the middle of nowhere — apparently not even in a galaxy — brightened by at least 120 times during more than three months and then faded away.
26 posted on
09/15/2008 12:00:21 PM PDT by
frogjerk
(MSM: We will not question Obama bin Biden...)
To: LibWhacker
They're conducting a search because Adama ran out of water for his noodles...AGAIN!!
27 posted on
09/15/2008 12:00:35 PM PDT by
RandallFlagg
(Satisfaction was my sin)
To: All
Maybe something (a star?) revolving around a Black Hole?
29 posted on
09/15/2008 12:00:44 PM PDT by
jeffc
(They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, he-he, ho-ho!)
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