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Hubble Snaps Pix Of Dying Supernova

Posted by Hemos on from the explosion-of-a-thousand-suns dept.

The Hubble has taken some great pictures of a supernova according to CNN. You can get a more indepth article, and more pictures from Space.com story on the same subject. Purty explosions!

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  1. Re:Hubble wins again! by Andrewkov · · Score: 1, Troll
    We obviously can't afford to make enough for everyone, so the only solution is to let no one have it. Decommission the Hubble

    The beurocracy also leaves in it's wake bitter would-be scientists who have nothing better to do than post on Slashdot.

  2. FAKE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That picture is faked! you can easily tell they used fotoshop or gimp!
    damn, when will slashdot learn that nasa is just a coverup company spawned by the US to lie to their citizens?

  3. Re:dying supernova? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is official; Netcraft confirms: *nova is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *nova community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *nova has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *nova is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *nova's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *nova faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *nova because *nova is dying. Things are looking very bad for *nova. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    Supernova is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Supernova developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Supernova is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Casanova leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Casanova. How many users of PBS Nova are there? Let's see. The number of Casanova versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 PBS Nova users. Nova/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of PBS Nova posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Nova/OS. A recent article put Supernova at about 80 percent of the *nova market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Supernova users. This is consistent with the number of Supernova Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Supernova went out of business and was taken over by NovaI who sell another troubled OS. Now NovaI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *nova has steadily declined in market share. *nova is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *nova is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *nova continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *nova is dead.

    Fact: *nova is dying

  4. Uh oh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think I saw a Klingon warship on full impluse toward it...

  5. too much pr0n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    For a minute there I thought the title said "Hubble Snaps Pix Of Anna Kournikova"