Light, like anything else, must travel through space, and it can only go so fast. That said, at this very instant, that is the state of the universe as it is now, Betelgeuse may be no more and we humans may be unaware of that simply because the light depicting the star's demise has not reached us yet and is still journeying through space. Light moves so fast that here on earth we consider things happening at the instant we see them, but that simply isn't true. There is ALWAYS an infinitesimal amount of time between the instant an event occurred and the instant the light (or whichever stimulus it may be) reaches your sensory organs. With the vast distances involved when speaking of interstellar space, the amount of time between the instant an event occurs and the instant the light depicting said event reaches your eyes can be hundreds, thousands, even millions of years. IN FACT, if we could travel FASTER than light, we could outrun it and, in essence, look into our own past. But that's a whole 'nother bowl of noodles.
We've known for some time now that Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, and we have also known that the red supergiant phase of a star's life only lasts roughly one million years, tops. Being that Betelgeuse is a few million years old, we can deduce that it may be well into it's red supergiant phase, and given that it is 600 light-years away, it is possible that the star has already gone super-nova (type II) and the resulting light from the blast has not yet reached us. Now I understand that the article is saying the star appears to be shrinking, however the star (like any red supergiant) has a history of expanding and contracting. Per the article, it could be any number of things. I really don't think it is anything to get worked up about. Not that sensationalism isn't fun.
Indeed. I work in downtown Minneapolis and with MSP international airport a hop skip and jump away there are low flying planes zooming over head all the time. Shit I work in a high rise office building and regularly hear and see low flying planes blazing overhead, and I'm not shitting my pants over it. I know 9-11 was a big tragedy and I'm sure it scarred thousands of people for life but... sheesh... we're pushing a decade on this one, I think it's time to start getting over it and putting our big boy pants back on.
Can't resist another chance to further display the sad state of your mental faculties, huh? It's hardly my problem if you can't wrap your brain around the relevancy.
Sad but true. I also think the fact that CD players already had a mind-bogglingly huge install base didn't help. You couldn't take DVD-A discs with you and be relatively certain you'd find a player to play them on (say at a friend's house, whatever) and you certainly couldn't stick them in your car stereo. The format really pigeonholed itself to the "audiophile" market (as much as I hate that term).
I really don't see a physical format usurping CDs, I get the feeling the CD will be digital distribution's first victim.
And you're a self-righteous dickhead. See, I can name-call too! I never said I didn't enjoy the portability and convenience of MP3 players and the like. I simply appreciate what DVD-Audio technology can deliver (that being, high audio fidelity and immersion). I never claimed to be better than anyone else because of it. The equipment I use doesn't even approach the $500 mark in total, and consumers at large seem to have no problem doling out that kind of cash for a fancy iPod. My statement seems pretty valid that the majority of consumers don't care about audio fidelity. I guess you just can't be bothered to use your brain, you'd rather swing your internet cock around in an attempt to feel good about yourself.
As a huge fan of DVD-Audio, it saddens me to see plain old CD still cleaning house. I guess the public at large just does not care about audio fidelity, or an immersive music experience.
They did seem to float around a bit... also, if only her face is computer animated, then I am not impressed. "Uncanny Valley" is not all about facial animation.
Best estimates put us at 30 billion planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy alone. If only 0.0001% of those planetary systems holds an Earth-like planet capable of sustaining life, that's 3 million Earths, just in the Milky Way.
Now consider that figure holds for all galaxies. A conservative estimate from Nasa's scientists puts the universe at 125 billion galaxies. That's 3 trillion 750 billion planetary systems. If only 0.0001% of those systems are host to life-sustaining Earth-like worlds, that's 375 billion Earths in the universe.
Perhaps that is rare, considering how stupidly big our universe is... but that is still a hell of a lot of Earths.
And the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory passes all of them with flying colors as well. All Dark Matter theories boil down to "Something must be causing this, lets say Dark Matter is!" when Dark Matter has never, ever been observed and there's no more validity to its existence than the FSM (which also has never been observed but in theory fill all the same roles as Dark Matter). It's silly science to be saying "Dark Matter does it!" when there is literally no evidence that this nebulous "Dark Matter" even exists. These "very specific predictions" are manufactured by scientists trying to explain the unexplainable, it's an extremely long way from being fact and I'm tired of seeing it touted as such.
Research like this makes a number of assumptions about "Dark Matter," for instance that it exists at all (at least in the conventional sense), and I think the biggest assumption is that "Dark Matter" is actually some kind of particle. The fact of the matter is we know Jack and Shit about "Dark Matter," and Jack just left town. All we have seen is gravitational effects on observable materials in our universe with no obvious cause... to assume that there's some magical particle out there doing this is just as valid as assuming God farted on a galaxy and made it move that way.
Is the correct title to this story. See here. "The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business."
"Mercury Research has reported that the Nvidia market share of AMD platforms in Q2'08 was 60%," Del Rizzo said. "We have been steady in this range for over two years."
"We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms," Del Rizzo added.
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Light, like anything else, must travel through space, and it can only go so fast. That said, at this very instant, that is the state of the universe as it is now, Betelgeuse may be no more and we humans may be unaware of that simply because the light depicting the star's demise has not reached us yet and is still journeying through space. Light moves so fast that here on earth we consider things happening at the instant we see them, but that simply isn't true. There is ALWAYS an infinitesimal amount of time between the instant an event occurred and the instant the light (or whichever stimulus it may be) reaches your sensory organs. With the vast distances involved when speaking of interstellar space, the amount of time between the instant an event occurs and the instant the light depicting said event reaches your eyes can be hundreds, thousands, even millions of years. IN FACT, if we could travel FASTER than light, we could outrun it and, in essence, look into our own past. But that's a whole 'nother bowl of noodles.
We've known for some time now that Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, and we have also known that the red supergiant phase of a star's life only lasts roughly one million years, tops. Being that Betelgeuse is a few million years old, we can deduce that it may be well into it's red supergiant phase, and given that it is 600 light-years away, it is possible that the star has already gone super-nova (type II) and the resulting light from the blast has not yet reached us. Now I understand that the article is saying the star appears to be shrinking, however the star (like any red supergiant) has a history of expanding and contracting. Per the article, it could be any number of things. I really don't think it is anything to get worked up about. Not that sensationalism isn't fun.
bought SO hard. I haven't bought a Wii game since Mario Galaxy, I haven't turned my Wii ON since December. I wonder if it still works...
Indeed. I work in downtown Minneapolis and with MSP international airport a hop skip and jump away there are low flying planes zooming over head all the time. Shit I work in a high rise office building and regularly hear and see low flying planes blazing overhead, and I'm not shitting my pants over it. I know 9-11 was a big tragedy and I'm sure it scarred thousands of people for life but... sheesh... we're pushing a decade on this one, I think it's time to start getting over it and putting our big boy pants back on.
I seriously hope they do. E-mailing these pictures to her family? That is the dickest move of all dick moving time.
It wasn't long ago that Kyle stated 1/4 of Americans are retarded. Perhaps what Kyle meant was that 1/4 of REAL Americans are retarded.
I don't see how that's attention whoring. It's just another guy with another dangerous hobby. It's not like he's Paris Hilton or some shit.
I wasn't talking about headphones, rather audio systems in general.
Can't resist another chance to further display the sad state of your mental faculties, huh? It's hardly my problem if you can't wrap your brain around the relevancy.
I'm guessing I'm in the minority of people who like to just kick back, relax, turn off all the lights and listen to some tunes.
Seems most people don't have a problem shelling out ridiculous amounts of cash for an iPod.
Sad but true. I also think the fact that CD players already had a mind-bogglingly huge install base didn't help. You couldn't take DVD-A discs with you and be relatively certain you'd find a player to play them on (say at a friend's house, whatever) and you certainly couldn't stick them in your car stereo. The format really pigeonholed itself to the "audiophile" market (as much as I hate that term). I really don't see a physical format usurping CDs, I get the feeling the CD will be digital distribution's first victim.
And you're a self-righteous dickhead. See, I can name-call too! I never said I didn't enjoy the portability and convenience of MP3 players and the like. I simply appreciate what DVD-Audio technology can deliver (that being, high audio fidelity and immersion). I never claimed to be better than anyone else because of it. The equipment I use doesn't even approach the $500 mark in total, and consumers at large seem to have no problem doling out that kind of cash for a fancy iPod. My statement seems pretty valid that the majority of consumers don't care about audio fidelity. I guess you just can't be bothered to use your brain, you'd rather swing your internet cock around in an attempt to feel good about yourself.
As a huge fan of DVD-Audio, it saddens me to see plain old CD still cleaning house. I guess the public at large just does not care about audio fidelity, or an immersive music experience.
She still kicked all y'alls asses.
They did seem to float around a bit... also, if only her face is computer animated, then I am not impressed. "Uncanny Valley" is not all about facial animation.
A game that's not even out yet and we're already talking about a fucking MOVIE? Is this going to be the most ridiculously hyped game ever or what?
Best estimates put us at 30 billion planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy alone. If only 0.0001% of those planetary systems holds an Earth-like planet capable of sustaining life, that's 3 million Earths, just in the Milky Way. Now consider that figure holds for all galaxies. A conservative estimate from Nasa's scientists puts the universe at 125 billion galaxies. That's 3 trillion 750 billion planetary systems. If only 0.0001% of those systems are host to life-sustaining Earth-like worlds, that's 375 billion Earths in the universe. Perhaps that is rare, considering how stupidly big our universe is... but that is still a hell of a lot of Earths.
And the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory passes all of them with flying colors as well. All Dark Matter theories boil down to "Something must be causing this, lets say Dark Matter is!" when Dark Matter has never, ever been observed and there's no more validity to its existence than the FSM (which also has never been observed but in theory fill all the same roles as Dark Matter). It's silly science to be saying "Dark Matter does it!" when there is literally no evidence that this nebulous "Dark Matter" even exists. These "very specific predictions" are manufactured by scientists trying to explain the unexplainable, it's an extremely long way from being fact and I'm tired of seeing it touted as such.
Well I assume the Flying Spaghetti Monster did it all then. That explains the observations easily. I guess it must be true!
Research like this makes a number of assumptions about "Dark Matter," for instance that it exists at all (at least in the conventional sense), and I think the biggest assumption is that "Dark Matter" is actually some kind of particle. The fact of the matter is we know Jack and Shit about "Dark Matter," and Jack just left town. All we have seen is gravitational effects on observable materials in our universe with no obvious cause... to assume that there's some magical particle out there doing this is just as valid as assuming God farted on a galaxy and made it move that way.
You could try to get reincarnated as one of Shigeru Miyamoto's kids... otherwise I think you are pretty much SOL.
Am I the only one who couldn't help but notice the image of Stan Marsh jacking off in front of a computer that was on that lady's desktop?
A highly oxidizing substance on the surface of the rusty red planet? STOP THE PRESSES!
Is the correct title to this story. See here. "The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business."
"Mercury Research has reported that the Nvidia market share of AMD platforms in Q2'08 was 60%," Del Rizzo said. "We have been steady in this range for over two years."
"We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms," Del Rizzo added.