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Supernova 1987A Decoded
bluevector writes "Electric Universe News is reporting that scientists claim to have proof that 'supernovae are catastrophic electrical discharges focused on a star' and not the result of giant stars undergoing gravitational collapse and subsequent explosion after having spent all of their nuclear fuel as previously thought."
Is this April 1? I'm so confused.
Welcome our new electric overlords
If anyone knows the where abouts of one Tolian Soran UFP Security is looking for him in connection with the artificial supernova 1987A. Soran is considered armed and dangerous and may be responsible for previous supernova, which can only be caused by external electrical forces directed at stars, and not their own gravity.
Poor sci-fi writers. Half of the (bad) sci-fi deals with supernovas being collapsed stars. What will they do now, use them as a power station?
...those stars are being blown up by the Death Star.
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a story without a link
a fringe crackpot theory on the front page
no monty python foot
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Fools! They fail to understand that a supernova is caused by shock waves emitted when the turtle at the bottom of the stack of turtles that make up the universe is squashed by all the turtles above it. As new turtles come into being at the top of the stack, their weight eventually crushes the bottom turtle, causing the whole stack to drop jarringly. The resulting compression wave is felt by all the turtles, and sometimes causes the familiar flash of light mistakenly interpreted as a stellar explosion. Stars can't "explode" because they are merely holes in the firmament. Whoever heard of a hole exploding! Such foolishness!
In Galactic Russia, electro-magnetically generated Supernova 1987a overlords welcome YOU!!
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I don't know if these electric universe guys are right or wrong, but it seems VERY scientific to me to come up with new theories about how things work...
I have a new theory: jim_v2000 is an ignorant fuckwit who is incapable of assessing the validity of pseudoscientic claims. There you have it, folks: science in action.
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So I guess if this is even true, that instead of waiting 5 billion years + until our sun runs out of fuel, the sun can have one of these discharges at any seocoGI'WOIQF+IHWJFW>F(&"&)"#$')"'#(%
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It's too bad god didn't give you good grammar or spelling abilties.
Who but the Flying Spaghetti Monster could possibly have a hair dryer powerful enough to destroy a star when He drops it in His Noodly Bathtub?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Well clearly this disproves Evolution, then.
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200 years ago, most of the USA was filled with people who could not read or write. Yet, they formed a country with great prosperity. And they believed in GOD.
Good thing God gave them all those slaves, eh?
200 years ago, most of the USA was filled with people who could not read or write ... And they believed in GOD.
Exactly. The uneducated, stupid people believed in god. You put it perfectly.
I'm impressed. The link to The Onion that was marked Google instead of Humour was a bit of a low point for Slashdot. But a story about a bunch of cranks that doesn't even include a link is a whole new record. Are you guys having a competition?
Tomorrow's Stupid News article: RocketRainbow writes about a staggering discovery: "Some guy in a bar told me that he made a time machine". The implications are astonishing.
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Finally, a Slashdot post (not an Ask Slashdot or a book review) where I don't have to RTFA, because there is no TFA!
Did you ever notice how science changes its anwsers so damn often. But the Bible stays the same.
That's true. No matter how long human civilization lasts, the Bible will always hold an accurate record of God's chosen disciple, Lot, fucking his daughters. Nice choice, God - you picked a winner there!
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Tinkerbell!
Who ordered that?
but i also recently learned that the earth has a harmonic simultaneous 4-day time cube!
it's amazing what you learn about astronomy from teh intarwebs
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COALITION FORCES ENTER THE MEGELLANIC
Allied forces put an end to the continued Magellanic resistance to peace keeping troops in the Middle Magellanic, a million years ago.
"Once again the significant investment in Deathstar technology is proving itself in the field." a coalition spokesperson told GNN.
Coalition commanders in the Magellanic say their troops are still meeting some resistance but it is very patchy. "We have struck a devastating blow to their terror network. The ability of their terror cells to function have been severely limited, now they have no nuclear-terror storage facility." quoted one high ranking commander.
A Milky way journalist who has visited 1987A say resident worlds there told him they were prepared to surrender to advancing Coalition forces, rather than lose their nuclear energy reserves (the sun).
A journalist from the Earth Solar System news agency EFP said a tribal world leader near 1987A told him to convey a request to the Coalition troops to stop blowing up suns and allow local leaders time to negotiate the surrender of Magereenic fighters still loyal to Zaphod.
UGS marines are reported to be fighting Magellanic forces, including Y fighters, on the southern outskirts of SK-69, about 140 light years (822,444,234,277,022.1 miles) north of 1987A. SK-69, once the pleasure capital of the Magellanic , is believed to be a possible remaining stronghold of Zaphods's regime and there has been speculation that troops loyal to the deposed leader might be planning a last stand there.
A Milky Way journalist with the UGS forces told GNN: "It's a very, very significant attack. They've brought forward a great number of Vipra assault X wings and the Deathstar (large round peace keeping spaceship) is in orbit."
Helium 3 and Gigarod mining operations and new mining construction in nearby worlds has been unaffected by the latest fighting.
Clearly we need to start some classes in trolling. This is a perfect example of the decline in trolling quality that we've seen at slashdot in the last few years.
How, in the name of all that is holy, can you have a Bible troll like this without at least one direct reference to male homosexuality or bestiality! And there isn't even an attempt to blatantly steer the debate to make it a debate on abortion or prayer in schools.
At long last, do you have no sense of troll decency sir? Oh usenet trolls of alt.athiesm, why have you abandoned us?
Of course first Enigma machine was not captured and decoded by Amewicans...
It was famous Wussian scientist that cweated first decoder for Enigma, in same facility where they kept nuclear wessels.
- Pavel Checkov
200 years ago, most of the USA was filled with people who could not read or write. Yet, they formed a country with great prosperity. And they believed in GOD.
They also didn't shower regularly. This uncanny association really makes you wonder, doesn't it? Maybe it was poor personal hygiene after all, rather than a belief in GOD, that made them prosperous.
Hey, they *earned* those slaves! They worked hard to afford slaves. Nobody gave them anything.
That's no moon....
Get over yourself, it's just an in-joke writ large. An "All Your Base" for 2005. I mean, what would the blogosphere talk about if they didn't invent stuff like this? They've have to talk about their cute cat.
How the heck am I supposed to know which way to mod you if you don't take clear sides?
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Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Come on, give the guy some karma...
I guess today is a passable day to die.
...shows a failure to grasp even the most basic aspects of X-ray emission in astrophysical plasmas.
What idiots!
SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP! God gave us the light bulb and immunizations and antibiotics and the printing press and the Internet. What did those damed bolshevik, nazi, homosexual atheists ever do for us?
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
"And I knew you were right when I posted. Thing is, we're dealing with spin here, and it needs a simple answer. If I had remained factually correct on every point, I'd have to add caveats with every single sentence in my post."
So, not only did you lie, but you lied with full knowledge that you were lying, and then gave a pathetic excuse.
When are you running for president?
Please! Isn't far simpler to think of stars being part of some invisible array of high power lines (we'll have proof some day, don't worry) and that neutrinos and heavy elements are being generated by some sort of electrical thingy. Stars explode and discharge mass through an electrical discharge which means the vacuum of space has an electrical potential of some sort that varies from place to place, once again we can't prove it but we know you are wrong.
Now compare this to the misguided THEORIES of those scientists who try to suppress us! Instead of our wonderfully complex and gap riddled ideas they would have you believe it is as simple as gravitational compression. Arrogant fools! Common sense demands that the simpler explanation be dropped.
Stop being fooled by MAINSTREAM scientists with their experiments, controls, peer reviews, data, exhaustive studies, hard work, successful predictions, working theories, revisions, and hard evidence.
Next week, how refrigerator magnets can cure arthritis.
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SBB writes "Green Universe News is reporting that scientists claim to have proof that 'supernovae are the direct catastrophic result of Global Warming on Earth' and not the result of giant stars undergoing gravitational collapse and subsequent explosion after having spent all of their nuclear fuel as previously thought."
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am