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The Rat
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Canada
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 Posted - 11/13/2010 : 18:40:00
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Big mystery? Big news? Be there or be square! 12:30 EST LINK
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
 Posted - 11/13/2010 : 18:56:46 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
Big mystery? Big news? Be there or be square! 12:30 EST LINK
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What could it be??? |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/13/2010 : 19:42:16 [Permalink]
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I've been reading about that phenomena for the last, couple of days. Thanks for the heads-up on the program!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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and Crypto-Communist! 
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
 Posted - 11/14/2010 : 10:49:12 [Permalink]
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What counts as "our cosmic neighborhood" anyway?
A Google-search suggests that would be either our planetary system, or Milkyway and the Magellan Clouds. So what would an x-ray observatory find inside our planetary system? Not much... Since there are three astrophysicists in the panel, my bet is a black hole. Possibly a small one closer than Cygnus-X.
Any bets?
What's your guess?
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 11/14/2010 : 11:07:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
What counts as "our cosmic neighborhood" anyway?
A Google-search suggests that would be either our planetary system, or Milkyway and the Magellan Clouds. So what would an x-ray observatory find inside our planetary system? Not much... Since there are three astrophysicists in the panel, my bet is a black hole. Possibly a small one closer than Cygnus-X.
Any bets?
What's your guess?
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Well, there has been news that observable evidence that dark matter has been indirectly observed. Maybe they have found a smoking gun? |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 11/14/2010 : 14:59:44 [Permalink]
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Possibly a Milky Way gamma ray burst detected and that we have two weeks left to party hardy.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/15/2010 : 06:18:18 [Permalink]
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| Sorry Randy, but a GRB would fry us the instant we discovered it, no warning on those puppies. Stupid speed of light... |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2010 : 11:15:30 [Permalink]
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2010 : 11:18:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
my bet is a black hole. Possibly a small one closer than Cygnus-X.
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Well well well...
Two out of three: Black Hole, small one*, but missed the distance by 50 million lightyears.
Not bad at all!
And considering that Chandra regularily obeserves galaxies billions of lightyears away, a few orders of magnitude still puts my guess "fairly close" on the distance. 
Edited to add:
* Initial estimations puts the black hole around 5 solar masses, which is about as small as they theoretically come (3.5-4 solar masses). |
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| Edited by - Dr. Mabuse on 11/15/2010 11:38:54 |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2010 : 11:24:58 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
my bet is a black hole. Possibly a small one closer than Cygnus-X.
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Well well well...
Two out of three: Black Hole, small one*, but missed the distance by 50 million lightyears.
Not bad at all!
And considering that Chandra regularily obeserves galaxies billions of lightyears away, a few orders of magnitude still puts my guess "fairly close" on the distance.
Edited to add:
* Initial estimations puts the black hole around 5 solar masses, which is about as small as they theoretically come (3.8-4 solar masses).
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Kudos to you, Dr. Mabuse!
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2010 : 11:41:59 [Permalink]
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I guess it's hard to hide how pleased I am with myself...
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
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NASA news conference on Monday
