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Mysterious Stars Surround Andromeda's Black Hole
UltimaGuy writes to tell us that Yahoo is running a story about a recent discovery that shows the source of strange blue light coming from the center of the Andromeda galaxy. The light is actually a cluster of stars circling the galaxy's central black hole with immense orbital velocity. From the article: "Such frenetic activity was thought to prevent star formation. Stars form when a knot of gas and dust collapses under its own gravity."
It's the resurgence of K-Mart!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Yeah yeah in soviet russia...grits...fail it...etc...
Where is the Cabal?
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
Stinking ricers have taken over a whole galaxy. If you think galactic undercarriage lighting is bad, wait till you hear them blasting that galactic bass late at night.
The thing about space, is it's really really big, huge, you know? So the distances are in light years which means whatever we're seeing happend that many years ago. If we were to launch a probe to see it we'd probably find much of the excitment has moved on, especially by the time the signals make it back to us and all the probe finds is a few empty popcorn buckets and candy wrappers left by aliens who beat us to the show and got better seats besides.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
To rule them all,
And in the Darkness bind them.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
FEMA announced plans to start working on the problem in 3.1 billion years.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
It's the terrible secret of space!
The owls are not what they seem
... the same thing about Pamela Anderson. She's had some strange stars surround her black hole. Like Tommy Lee or Kid Rock.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
> But no need to go hide in a cave just yet, we've still got about 3 billion years.
Might want to avoid buying 5 billion year treasury bonds, though.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
I think this is the first evidence of galactic NASCAR.
Yeah, and the inanimate objects don't like it either.
"Mysterious Stars Surround Andromeda's Black Hole"
Thats just rude to refer to Kevin Sorbo's career that way. Sure I know he sucks in stars that are never heard from again, but thats no cause to put the man down.
I couldn't fail to disagree with you any less.
That's nothing, I have mysterious SORES around my black hole!
At first glance, thought it said: Mysterious Porn Stars Surround Andy Dick's Black Hole
Is it Friday yet?
One night a physisist, and engineer, and a mathematician each awoke to a fire in their kitchen. The physisist calculated the precise amount of water necessary to extinguish the fire, measure out just that amount of water, poured it on the fire, and went back to bed. The engineer poour water on the fire till is went out, added some mor for good measure, then went back to bed. The mathematician proved that is was possible to extinguish fire with water, then went back to bed.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
the stars so rarely pass actually close to each other that they never meat
That's good. Seeing two meating stars is not for the faint of heart.
...in the so-called "Theory" of Gravity. (what, did you think I was going to say goatse?)
When will those fancy-pants university astrologers accept the truth of Intelligent Falling. It's in all the news, so it must be true.
It's a reality show. Each week, one star gets voted into the black hole.
You know that if we could do this, we would.
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E_NOSIG
You do realize you can't prove a negative.
Prove it.
...sometimes, in order to hurt someone very badly, you have to tell that person terrible lies. - PA
Carne diem, dude. Carne diem.
While the statistician was running around starting new fires because he needed more samples.
"I'm making perfect sense, you're just not keeping up."
So when the star impacts with Earth, the politicians will be safe in some space pod on the far side of the moon.
I hope you took some stupid pills this morning, because if you thought being on the far side of the MOON would be any help to you if a STAR hit the EARTH with your native intelligence; your going to have some serious life-issues when you move out of your mother's basement!
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
Actually, you speek of the theoretical physicist. The experimentalist died while searching for the thermometer.
And the software engineer refused to do anything until a second or third fire had started arguing that if the bug's not repeatable...
A physicist, mathematician, priest and lawyer were arguing about whose profession was older.
The physicist noted that even apes study their world, which was the fundamental practice of a physicist; thusly certainly theirs was the first profession.
The mathematician retorted that even simple animals could count, such as to check whether all their children remained, and that since counting was the basis of study, his occupation surely was older.
The priest remarked that more primal was to sort normalcy from chaos, such as to flee from fire, or to help the wounded, and that since god was the core of order, clearly his vocation was still older.
All then turned to the then silent lawyer, who simply leaned forward and said, "who do you think made that chaos?"
StoneCypher is Full of BS