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iStoner
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#516907 - 01/21/11 10:23 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Earth could be getting a second sun, at least temporarily.
Dr. Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland, outlined the scenario to news.com.au. Betelgeuse, one of the night sky's brightest stars, is losing mass, indicating it is collapsing. It could run out of fuel and go super-nova at any time.
When that happens, for at least a few weeks, we'd see a second sun, Carter says. There may also be no night during that timeframe......
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/20/two-suns-twin-stars_n_811864.html
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Re: second sun! [Re: iStoner]
#516912 - 01/21/11 10:29 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: second sun! [Re: Apollo2k]
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iStoner
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Re: second sun! [Re: Apollo2k]
#516921 - 01/21/11 10:38 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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i thought you guys would have more to say.
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Re: second sun! [Re: KaptKid]
#516922 - 01/21/11 10:38 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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So much to look forward to. Solar storm. Second sun.
-------------------- kickin-two-hundo said: you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
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Re: second sun! [Re: T-Rex]
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Re: second sun! [Re: T-Rex]
#517002 - 01/22/11 02:05 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: second sun! [Re: DRAGON]
#517004 - 01/22/11 02:36 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is the second time I've heard about having a second sun but they were both different reasons. 2012 man
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cool.
duality shines through with a second sun.
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I'm excited, but at the same time there is gonna be a shitstorm of morons like "OHHHH MYYY GODDDD IT'S THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!" that I'm not looking forward to.
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iStoner
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What was the other reason?
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Re: second sun! [Re: FRACTALife]
#517171 - 01/22/11 03:23 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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so this will be the first time in human history this has ever happened thats intense
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Cage
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That's what I was thinking, pretty awesome to witness something that's never happened before. If past generations had seen it they would have written about how crazy that shit was for thousands of years
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Re: second sun! [Re: Cage]
#517200 - 01/22/11 05:23 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, the above article is hyping it up a bit, it could go supernova soon, or within the next thousand years. I hope it's sooner than later but yeah.
At 640 light years away it most likely has already exploded.
The fact they brought up the year 2012 is laughable.
-------------------- kickin-two-hundo said: you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
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Re: second sun! [Re: THEBats]
#517203 - 01/22/11 05:28 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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THEBats
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Also a second sun is an exaggeration, it would likely be less bright than a full moon, but far brighter than venus, having enough illumination to cast a shadow.
-------------------- kickin-two-hundo said: you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
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Re: second sun! [Re: THEBats]
#517207 - 01/22/11 05:33 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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U.S. astronomer Phil Plait added, "Betelgeuse might go up tonight, or it might not be for 100,000 years. We're just not sure."
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I don't know but clearly I was too intoxicated when first reading the article to notice. No astronomer would give an estimate of, maybe next year. In fact they even credit him saying that it might happen by 2012 in the first article posted, when he never mentioned the year. News.
-------------------- kickin-two-hundo said: you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
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Re: second sun! [Re: THEBats]
#517213 - 01/22/11 05:53 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Shit like this is why I have no faith in the internet. HuffingtonPost is one of the top news sites on the internet, and they regularly post bullshit, its as bad as the media television.
At this point its hard for me to discern whether the TV news has started to imitate the internet, or the other way around.
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