AND HERE WE'D BEEN BLAMING THE DOG
(Thanks to CJrun)
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April 25, 2007
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Can someone put one of those carbon-filter pads in the black hole's tighty-whitey, please?
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | April 25, 2007 at 11:12 AM
wonders who will be the FIRST astronaught to try to light one.
Posted by: crossgirl | April 25, 2007 at 11:12 AM
I thought most gaseous emissions came from black holes...oh and Al Gore.
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 11:14 AM
ok, not first. but first to spell astronaut wrong. *hangs head in shame.*
Posted by: crossgirl | April 25, 2007 at 11:14 AM
crossgirl, maybe you were thinking of that naughty psychonaut??
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 11:17 AM
It was the dog, Dave. Relax.
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 11:17 AM
Mud! Please excuse yourself.
Posted by: Hammond Rye | April 25, 2007 at 11:18 AM
oh and YAY!! CJ!!
psssssst CH?? I flashed ya waaaaaay back there...did that wake you up??
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 11:19 AM
told ya so
Posted by: The Dog | April 25, 2007 at 11:20 AM
It's cosmic polution. Who will the EcoFreakos sue over this?
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | April 25, 2007 at 11:20 AM
“For example, what kind of mechanism could create a cloud of such enormous dimensions that does not coincide with any single galaxy or galaxy cluster?
Burritos.
*starts working on Nobel Prize acceptance speech*
Posted by: the world has a fivver | April 25, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Thanks, Siouxie! I needed that! Bracing, it were!
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 11:35 AM
It's near the Coma Cluster.... must be a REALLY bad one to put the cluster in that state...
Posted by: russellmc | April 25, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Ugh. Coma cluster. Worst area of the Messier List to complete. ALL of the ones I have left to do are over there; only really accessible in the springtime, which is, shall we say, not the ideal time for observing in the PNW.
/astrogeek rant
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 11:42 AM
Clean Hands, what exactly are you doing. Examining each Messier List object for fun?
Posted by: Edgar Greenberg | April 25, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Uh, yeah? And sketching them, too. trying to earn my Messier Pin.
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 11:48 AM
uh...er...yeah, CH. sure.
Here, have a gumball.
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 11:53 AM
...collective sigh of several supermassive black holes, scientists say.
Sweet! I get to use the word "supermassive" in sentences now, and it's all scientifical and stuff.
"I wish I could walk faster, but Jenny's supermassive behind is blocking the hallway."
"I'm sorry, sir, the reason I look like an antelope stampede is that I have a supermassive hangover."
"Hey baby, I may not be supermassive, but calling it a light switch with peach fuzz is just not fair."
Posted by: Federal Duck | April 25, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Cool CH! More effort than this backyard observer wants to put in. Are you following this story?
Posted by: the world has a fivver | April 25, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Uh-huh! Just read it a few minutes ago.... COOLNESS!!!!!
*is encouraged that Stephen Hawking is said to have remarked about warp drive technology, "I'm working on that..."*
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 12:03 PM
I am, fivver. I'm just glad Heather Mills has been
kicked bootedlet go from DWTStars.oh...not that story?? sorry. carry on.
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 12:04 PM
YAY, CJ!
*Supermassive snork* @ Fed Duck!
CH, I'm waiting to hear back from my daughter, the astrogeologist, on that newly found planet.
Posted by: Just Ducky | April 25, 2007 at 12:05 PM
*looks awestruck at fivver*
Wow.
*snork* @ canis major, CH.
Posted by: DeskDiva | April 25, 2007 at 12:05 PM
*supermassive SNORK* @ Federal Duck!!
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 12:05 PM
supermasssive ^5 to JD! :-D
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Can they legally describe this new planet as "Class M"? Or would that violate a copyright that Gene ('s estate) holds?
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | April 25, 2007 at 12:08 PM
It could also be from a big poker party
Posted by: pete | April 25, 2007 at 12:10 PM
TDPC - I think Gene borrowed M from the astronomers. My only question is at 5X Earth's mass what would the surface gravity be?
Posted by: the world has a fivver | April 25, 2007 at 12:13 PM
About 2 gravities, fivver. So I'd weigh.... enough to really collapse my arches.
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 12:16 PM
And the thirteen day year means I'd actually be *carry the 47* 1,452 and a half years old.
Posted by: the world has a fivver | April 25, 2007 at 12:21 PM
FeDuck *snork*! [said with the meter of 'BaDum-dum']
Posted by: CJrun | April 25, 2007 at 12:24 PM
"Mud! Please excuse yourself."
i'm excused.
the 'big bang' theory
the fabric of the cosmos
is rent, in tatters
shouldn't have had it
and washed it down with cold beer
'big bang burrito'
humble beginnings
eventually my ass
will make history
Posted by: mudstuffin | April 25, 2007 at 12:29 PM
*applauds*
BRAVO!!
Posted by: Siouxie | April 25, 2007 at 12:33 PM
CH, do you know the correct pronunciation of "Gliese?"
Posted by: Hammond Rye | April 25, 2007 at 12:44 PM
"Coma Cluster" WBAGNFA captive audience at a nursing home. Or the entertainment, for that matter.
*wishes he had the time to play with the other astrogeeks, but has to go to work now*
Posted by: WriterDude | April 25, 2007 at 01:26 PM
Cool!
*booking travel plans to Gliese 581 for our 200th anniversary*
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 03:35 PM
*snork* @ CH's arches.
Posted by: DeskDiva | April 25, 2007 at 05:00 PM
Whoa - does this new big planet make me look fat?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 26, 2007 at 01:11 AM