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Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet
butterwise writes to mention that astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a super-massive black hole hitting a nearby galaxy with a "death-star-like" beam of energy. The story also has a video with simulations, pictures, and explanations. "The 'death star galaxy,' as NASA astronomers called it, could obliterate the atmospheres of planets but also trigger the birth of stars in the wake of its destructive beam. Fortunately, the cosmic violence is a safe distance from our own neck of the cosmos."
Imagine that on a Boeing, you wouldn't have to worry about collateral damage, there'd be nothing remotely collateral left :-)
If I had an Ass, I'd call it Fanny Bottom, then I could slap my Ass; Fanny Bottom, on the Arse.
Black hole denies farting; blames it on nearby neutron star.
When those pesky x-wings fly down and shoot the exhaust vent....
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that they could not nail down the exact nature of the exotic object giving off the deadly beam, but they did offer that "that's no moon"
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This is what happens when you're not willing to move your galaxy out of the path of a new intergalactic highway. Please don't complain about not knowing about it. The drawings been available in the next galaxy over for ages now.
This is old news, this did happen 1.4 billion years ago.
Besides, the ability to blast an entire neighboring galaxy with a gamma ray beam is insignificant compared to the power of the Force.
That doesn't help the poor aliens living in that neck of the cosmos, you insensitive clod!
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
Both are correct as long as you mean kwork as kw-orc. If you mean that like kw-irk, then that's the word quirk, which has a very different meaning.
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I have no idea if it's right, but I pronounce it like the name of the Ferengi in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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...which will consist of Rush Limbaugh figuring out a way to pin this on the Clintons, and Dennis Kucinich formulating a plan to deal with it...
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Dachannien. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you complete your Q2 deliverables on time, or given you clairvoyance to know when your boss won't notice that you're reading Slashdot...
I find your lack of karma disturbing...
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine...
This is what happens when a seductive mama galaxy spins in close proximity to an excited papa galaxy.
In a speech today, Bush promoted renewed investment in the space agency. "See, we've finally found the WMD and they're in another galaxy, see. It is imperative we develop the technology to impose regime change as quick as possible. 9-11."
On the contrary, the karma-bonus modifiers are strong in this one.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Dachannien. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you complete your Q2 deliverables on time, or given you clairvoyance to know when your boss won't notice that you're reading Slashdot..."
And how is that women are not turned on by statements like that, I'll obviously never know...
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Whomever tagged the story "donttasemedude", stop smoking ganja, at least while you're reading news. Idiot. The quote is "Don't tase me, bro!" Now don't fuck it up by spreading an incorrect version. This is how stupidity is created.
though I don't know how his voice box says it.
Since hackers got at it, it now pronounces it as 'penis'.
Who said physics was boring?
System 3C321 Major: Stellar Nursery, I am your father....
Stellar Nursery: NOOOOOO!!!!
System 3C321 Major: Come to the Event Horizon side, it is your density