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Comet Lulin Is Moving Closer To Earth
goran72 writes "The comet is swinging around the Sun and approaching the Earth. The photogenic Lulin has a bright tail and an 'anti-tail.' At its closest approach in February, Comet Lulin is expected to brighten to naked-eye visibility, reaching a magnitude of six."
I'm sorry, it could definitely be that my morning brain isn't functioning properly. But in the following sentence:
At its closest approach in February, Comet Lulin is expected to brighten to naked-eye visibility, reaching a magnitude of six."
Six... what?
...are always naked.
Where's this pesky eyeware shop they're talking about?
I really wish people wouldn't talk up comets. They almost never live up to the hype - partly because the commentators are either hopelessly optimistic or over-enthusiastic. Then when the "average" person sticks their head out at night - hoping to see something spectacular, they are gravely disappointed.
This kind of thing damages the scientific credibility as a whole and turns people off the idea of beleiving scientists: "remember that comet they told us about - what a bust that was, I guess name of global catastrophe is the same - waste of time".
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Reference for those too young to remember it ;)
I'll make a mental note to stay away from 18 wheelers for the next few weeks :P
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
In the War against well formed and insightful posts that are on topic, there needs to be trolls and pieces of flamebait that must fight back. I have noticed that the quality of trolls have started going down, which has resulted in the following:
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With a new type of web there needs to be a better quality of troll. I want to propose that we work in random chaos to achieve some sort of super troll. We need to not only counter-balance the well thought out comments of well adjusted members of society, but we need to go above and beyond. We need to make users of Slashdot, and especially paying subscribers, so sick of slashdot that they threaten to leave the site.
Now we have the site owners incompetence to our advantage. With the slow and nearly unusable state of their random javascript and their obnoxious flash ads, I think Commander Taco might be siding with us trolls for a change. We need to go to each and every news story and we need to piss a lot of people off. Here are some guidelines for our war against intelligence and common sense:
- A troll about African Americans (recommended to call them niggers) raping white men (Women can work too but white men rape is funnier)
- Attack a programmer by taunting and making fun of whatever language they may be using. On Slashdot it may be some variation of C or C++ so just attack and totally deconstruct their language as nothing more and dog turds in penis factory.
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From TFA "Astronomers at the Taipei Astronomical Museum said the tail of Lulin would be most visible during the time it moves closest to the Earth."
I hope this doesn't set off a lulcomets meme or somethin'
(comet pic)
OH HAI JUZ PASSIN THRU KTHXBYE
I'm lulin'
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I was in the Navy, out at sea (probably Atlantic) when Hale-Bopp was visible.
A few of the guys I worked with would venture out on deck at night, usually to sip whiskey or stargaze, or talk about how much we hated the Nav. Anyway, I've seen comets before so when a buddy said 'you should really come outside and see the comet' I was thinking 'meh...'
When I stepped outside, I initially thought the moon was out it was so bright on deck. I look up at the sky and almost fell down (seriously...had to catch myself). The comet was so bright and beautiful it damn near took my breath away. It stretched 3/4 of the way across the visible sky; looking like some kind of cosmic jewel.
I got to see a lot of interesting things while serving, but the comet was a definite highlight.
From the Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon...as a warning...
The year: 1994. From out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction! Man's civilization is cast in ruin! BE PREPARED!
Bah! Magnitude 6? We'll never be able to see the spaceship following in its tail then. Man...what am I gonna do with all this punch...
-=Bang Bang=-
"RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!!"
Is Bruce Willis on standby?
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I've got the Flavor-Aid and cyanide....You guys just bring your sneakers and death shrouds...
Also, we're making a DVD by the way, so shave your heads and get that nutty twinkle back in your eye!!! We want to look good for our ride to heaven!!
What are the chances that the "Lulin Sky Survey" would discover Comet Lulin? I think they knew it was coming.
I need to buy some new Nike's.
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The photogenic Lulin has a bright tail and an "anti-tail".
Are astrophysicists sure this isn't a fin?
[Insert "Jaws" theme here]
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
The comet will pass 0.41 Astronomical Units from earth and reach its closest distance to Earth on February 24, about 14.5 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Given that the average earth-moon distance is 384403 km, 14.5 times this is about 5.57 million km. This translates into about 0.0373 AU, which differs from .41 AU by about a factor of 11. Can anyone explain this discrepancy?
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My comet goes all the way up to eleven.
/. was the anti-tail
Except that in this context, eleven is decidedly worse than six. Unless you prefer your metaphorical comets to be less visible, that is...
I'm pretty sure I'm full of life, thank you very much.
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I'd laugh, but its not as funny knowing you'd have to black out the entire city in order to get rid of the light pollution.
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