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First Water Clouds Reported Outside The Solar System (scientificamerican.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: For the first time ever, astronomers have found strong evidence of water clouds on a body outside the solar system. New observations of a frigid object called WISE 0855, which lies 7.2 light-years from Earth, suggest that the "failed star" has clouds of water, or water ice, in its atmosphere, the researchers said. "We would expect an object that cold to have water clouds, and this is the best evidence that it does," study lead author Andrew Skemer, an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in a statement released by the university. Scientists discovered WISE 0855 in 2014, using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. A later paper in 2014 (co-authored by Skemer) uncovered some evidence of water clouds in the object's atmosphere, based on limited photometric data (how bright the object is in specific light wavelengths). In the new study, Skemer and his colleagues used the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii to study the brown dwarf for 13 nights. Gemini North is located on the highest Hawaiian mountain (Mauna Kea), at an altitude with little water vapor to interfere with telescopic observations. These observations allowed the astronomers to make the first spectroscopy (light fingerprint) measurements of WISE 0855. The team found water vapor and also confirmed the object's temperature, which is about minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 23 degrees Celsius, or 250 kelvins).
Does that mean the Solar system is gonna have rain soon?
They'll start getting weather forecasts right on Earth soon?
Good evening, friends. It's great that you're looking to the heavens, but let's not forget that Heaven should be our goal and our destiny. However, that choice is up to us. We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. But because God sent his only son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to die for our sins, we are redeemed. But we must accept this generous offer from our Lord and each of us must be born again. We must all repent of our sins and have a born again experience if we are to be saved. As Peter powerfully spoke shortly after Jesus ascended into Heaven, he commanded that we are to repent and be baptized. Immersion in water is a sign that we are cleansed of our sins. We should all want to spend eternity in Heaven where we shall not need nor want, rather than eternal torment in Hell. If you're ready to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you must be born again and then you should be baptized with water. I hope and pray that you will read this message and your heart and mind will be opened to our Lord, from whom all good things come.
- Pastor Mitch
It's great to see some stand up comedy on here now and then. Always good for a laugh.
You travel years all across the galaxy and, when eventually you go out of your spaceship, it rains!
So only "suggests" there may be water..
Come back when you have some proof...
My arse "suggests" there may be some pork in a bacon sandwich..
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http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/we...
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
That unequivocal proof that life exists outside of Earth and how religious nuts will invent new ways to claim "god did it".
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Now that its cover has been blown, it can go back to its regular behavior: devouring smaller clouds with its razor sharp teeth, mangling them with its claws. Normal vicious cloud behavior when deprived of the blue background they are accustomed to.
A freezing Brown Dwarf Star? How the F? But then I guess that means it must be producing some heat since it's still so far above Kelvin 0, and it is an extremely small one too.
when u talk about laura, r u talkin bout dis laura ?
We need more such candidates.
I was raised a catholic and I've read the bible a lot, especially Revelation well over 10 times. I hope people don't mind me sharing some of this because I get real tired of seeing people ram religion down other peoples throats with the threat of Hellfire. If people want to believe in God or not it's their choice, after all free will is the *point*. I'm certainly not going to tell anyone what to believe because I believe all people should be free to choose.
In all the many books of the bible I read, Revelation being the main one on this subject, the only thing going to Hell was Satan, not people. There is no such thing as Hell for people in the bible that I can find. I have had arguments with pastors about this and confronted them with the very things the bible says that which is essentially, you can choose everlasting life or to cease to exist. People are meant to be free to make that choice but there is no fire and brimstone for you if you don't. This life is the question, and you even get a second chance after you die (bible:the sea and the land will give up it's dead). Are you sure you want to cease to exist? That's it.
While we're on the subject of Hell and Satan, about the closest thing I could see as a description of what Satan is, as the deceiver, is the very corporate system that keeps people as slaves and causes human suffering (woe to you people of the earth for now satan is with you - after a massive battle in heaven). There may not be evidence of God, however there is plenty of evidence for Satan, look to the causes of the third world and the plethora of industrial accidents and pollution that causes so much suffering for humanity if you have doubts about that. Satan is expressed through works of humans, not God.
There is so much twisting of the things the bible says. Like the parable "An eye for an eye", it ends with vengeance is mine said the Lord specifically precluding people from taking revenge. Here are some more examples:
When politicians talk about "God", in the bible that is referred to as "mixing excrement with grain", you know the stuff you make into food and give people no choice but to eat it, i.e the politicians lies. And "mixing clay with iron" and "feet of clay and iron" to refer to the separation of church and state.
Other religions, "The house of my father has many rooms". No one should care what other people believe, and as long as you are looking after other people and I don't think God would care either.
Homosexuals. I read some parables about homosexuals however they were very rare and they're weren't being damned at all or even being judged, it's just more bullshit to use people's sexuality to control them. Fuck whoever you want to.
Armageddon, doesn't mean the end of the world, just a massive change to the way things are.
Intelligent Design, the whole idea of it is complete blasphemy in the bible. An insult to God by Satan, it is specifically referred to as "limiting the glory of God" and "denying God's glory", because the wonders of living nature are more amazing than anything that can be designed. The bible doesn't discount evolution either. Just because some ignorant people take the bible literally to mean a 'day' for a 'god' is 24hrs doesn't make it so, it could mean the rotation of a galaxy or something else. Unless the universe is a simulation or a hologram and then, well, then I'm even more of a monkey when it comes to being holy, which I'm far from.
The bible also speaks to those using it (God's word) as a means to control people by changing it's meaning, which has been done, and that special types of suffering are reserved for those who do. God might have the last laugh over all those slimy politicians.
Comparing the purest man to the most evil sinner is like comparing the distance between the sea and highest mountain to the distance to the moon in God's eyes.
Sin, just means no one is perfect - stop pretending that you are. Get over yourself, be humble. More people will like you.
You must be one of those people who wear symbols of execution and torture on there neck.
Get up!
Hi Pastor Mitch!
Have gnu, will travel.
And that's why it's a failed star. You know what water does to fire...
thx for ur response, have a nice day bro !
...could we see the Earth's Sun from there without a telescope?
So funny to see moral advice from a book with slavery, incest and murder by the heroes. Thanks for the update from the weirdo frontier.