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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
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.
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.
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.
...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.
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
And the software engineer refused to do anything until a second or third fire had started arguing that if the bug's not repeatable...