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Black Hole Kills Star, Blasts Beam at Earth
Scientific Computing ^ | 7/18/11

Posted on 07/18/2011 2:25:58 PM PDT by null and void

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To: Gideon7

Makes me think of the old war protest song from the 60s...

Well it’s one two three what are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is Viet Nam.
And it’s 5, 6, 7 open up the Pearly Gates
No time to wonder why
WHOOPEE we’re all gonna die.

I know I will die someday. We are never promised tomorrow. We all die eventually. So hug your kids, and your spouse, today, and tell them you love them.

For one thing, it really freaks them out! LOL


21 posted on 07/18/2011 3:23:02 PM PDT by buffyt (Abortion is the ultimate CHILD ABUSE!)
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To: null and void

When I walk outside to my car, will this give me a sun burn on the back of my neck?


22 posted on 07/18/2011 3:29:06 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: null and void

Luke 10:18 He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. (more versions)

the direct hebrew translation (
barak = lightening
o = from
bama = from the skies, heaven
so the literal translation for barak o bamah is, ‘lightening from heaven’.


23 posted on 07/18/2011 3:32:29 PM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: TaraP
so the literal translation for barak o bamah is, ‘lightening from heaven’.

And here I thought it just meant marxist a$$hole from kenya. Who knew?
24 posted on 07/18/2011 3:37:08 PM PDT by domeika
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To: null and void

Just some Spiritual Food for Pondering...

REVELATION 11 in 2011


25 posted on 07/18/2011 3:38:46 PM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: domeika

SPirtual-Lightning from heaven

Physical-Marxist A-hole from Kenya...

2 in the same...

YIKES!


26 posted on 07/18/2011 3:40:31 PM PDT by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: TaraP

bttt


27 posted on 07/18/2011 3:41:18 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: cripplecreek

Might not have been pointed at us then, but like shooting any moving target, it was planned from the beginning. :)


28 posted on 07/18/2011 3:47:49 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: cripplecreek

actually relativity renders the use of now and then moot in this case, because now and then are essentially the same for those purposes


29 posted on 07/18/2011 3:54:28 PM PDT by NYCslicker
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To: buffyt

Even if we’re *not* about to be smited by deadly rays....LOL


30 posted on 07/18/2011 3:57:35 PM PDT by Salamander (I'm your pain.)
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To: Hodar

A gamma ray is just a very high energy form of electromagnetic ray, or what’s more commonly known as “light.” At the low end are things like radio waves, then infra-red, visible light, ultra violet, microwaves, x-rays, and finally gamma rays. The higher the energy, the more penetrating it is, and more damage it does to things like living cells.

Gamma rays can literally tear apart the long-chain chemicals in your body, like DNA, proteins, and enzymes. X-Rays can too, with a much lower chance, and that’s why we’ve found that exposure can cause cancer. The DNA is damaged, and a cancerous cell results.

If we got hit by a nearby, powerful, gamma ray burst, like a supernova or a black hole/star absorption, it could literally sterilize the entire earth in fractions of a second.

As for a “stream of neutrons”, there really isn’t such a thing, since single neutrons decay into a proton and electron (i.e. Hydrogen) with a half-life of 14 hours. Even if the nearest star to Earth (after the sun for nitpickers) Proxima Centauri, lobbed a wedge of neutrons at us at half the speed of light, by the time it reached us here (3.8 years away and after a time-dilated 3 odd years) the amount of neutrons would be nearly immeasurably low, and the protons/electrons would impact on the top of the atmosphere as either ionized particles (auroras channeled to the poles by the magnetic fields of Earth) or “cosmic rays” that would smash into other particles high in the atmosphere resulting in a slight increase in the constant rain of background particles/radiation we get every day.


31 posted on 07/18/2011 3:57:50 PM PDT by jnaujok (Charter member of the vast, right-wing conspiracy.)
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To: TaraP

Wow.


32 posted on 07/18/2011 4:56:37 PM PDT by null and void (Day 909. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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To: null and void

Wut? Thot it meant Sharpton killed Jones then tried to take over the world...


33 posted on 07/18/2011 4:59:20 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: null and void
Which superhero do you call to deal with (unspecified situation)?
34 posted on 07/18/2011 5:02:16 PM PDT by x
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To: null and void

So did they actually go out there...find a nice parking spot for the show and actually witness this?

Or is this just the usual “theorizing”, “using theories stated as fact to push another theory”, “extrapolating from a model to establish proof”, or just plain science fiction?

=8-)


35 posted on 07/18/2011 5:02:24 PM PDT by =8 mrrabbit 8=
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To: =8 mrrabbit 8=
Murrrr
36 posted on 07/18/2011 5:27:00 PM PDT by null and void (Day 909. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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To: =8 mrrabbit 8=
¿Comprende mucho?

Didn't think so...

37 posted on 07/18/2011 5:57:14 PM PDT by TXnMA (There is no Constitutional right to NOT be offended.)
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To: null and void; TaraP
Reminds me of

...on steroids...

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BTW, I'd like to hear the YEC explanation for this phenomenon -- and #16 doesn't count as an "explanation"... ;-)

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(FWIW, that has always struck me as one of the most physically improbable illustrations ever produced...)

38 posted on 07/18/2011 6:16:00 PM PDT by TXnMA (There is no Constitutional right to NOT be offended.)
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Thanks null and void. I think we've had a topic about this.




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39 posted on 07/18/2011 6:18:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: TXnMA

Loki created a pre-aged universe with everything appearing to be much older/in transit for billions of years more than their actual 6016 years...


40 posted on 07/18/2011 6:19:46 PM PDT by null and void (Day 909. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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