Looking for something else to worry about, consider T Pyxidis . . . it may be the end to all of us.
Astronomers at Villanova University believe T Pyxidis is really two stars with one being a white dwarf that is sucking in gas and steadily growing. It will eventually explode and possibly end life on this planet. It is simply not known when. I am personally waiting on finishing my grading of the finals in anticipation that T Pyxidis will supply the ultimate curve.
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Gyges in case you missed it and speaking of time stamps.
Bdaman
1, January 7, 2010 at 6:48 am
AY, it is like De Ja Vu, I seen it coming. Thanks Professor
Bdaman
1, January 6, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Enlighten us oh wise one on T Pyxidis.
Riddle me this batman? What are the chilliest 12 inches in the world?
Bdaman:
so your are the alpha and the omega?
Gyges:
crispy critters?
Anonymously Yours, It is me, I’m anybody you want me to be.
I’m Wayne, Jim Burns, Here’s one Buena Vista Mall you know what they say, all Malls look alike.
If you really wanted to figure it out, look at the time stamps.
Byron,
I said backhand, not fist. I choose my imagery carefully you know. I didn’t say BDAman was successful, just that he came on this topic to try and rile Buddha up.
I actually don’t mind off topic conversations as much as some here, as long as it’s not a result of a purposeful conversation jacking.
So back to the stars, What do you folks suppose the difference between the observable Nova of Betelgeuse and the arrival of the more deadly energy from the event would be?
“Never mind. I was assuming all the harmful parts of said explosion would be traveling at the speed of light”
Well the radiation is one of the chief concerns.
But if you could try to secure a seat on the last transport leaving Caprica.
Gyges:
I have learned by your example of gentleness. 🙂
Anyway I did not think I was that harsh with Tootie and I gave him/her some good websites.
I don’t think Buddha has any buttons that Bdaman can push. Buddha is in control at all times and just does his “slammin” for fun. He has raised it to an art form in my mind. Some of his turns of a phrase are pure genius (no I am not sucking up).
I probably ought to start copying some of his better work and put it in a lexicon of intellectual dismemberment.
I am a bit of a skeptic about AGW but would not discount it out of hand. So some of what Bdaman posts is interesting to read. And not all of it is bad science.
But I do agree that it would be good if he could stick to the topic at least until it is taken on a tangent as it usually is because of the thought process of many people on this site and the apparent interconnectivity of a large number of issues/ideas.
Never mind. I was assuming all the harmful parts of said explosion would be traveling at the speed of light.
“But what if it went nova 589 years ago?”
Then I’d suggest you get your affairs in order within the next 11 years.
Gyges, Bryon, etc, yadda, yadda
I think Buddha loves his pet trolls. I think its his hobby, since he doesn’t get paid for it. The debate between Buddha, Bdaman and the Strawman Duh, is hilarious. I am thinking that the last two could be one in the same, but who knows but the shadow.
Oh thanks again Byron I’ll get it right one day, silly me.
Thirty,
But what if it went nova 589 years ago? I get that there’s a time lag, but there’s also that same difference between what we’re observing now and when it actually happened.
“It’s really stupid that everyone is yelling and screaming about T Pyxidis:
Betelgeuse (the brightest star in Orion- his right shoulder, assuming he isn’t showing us his rear “New Jersey side”) is only 600 light years away and it’s expected to explode at any time. It’s five times closer and has mysteriously shrunk about 20% over the past 15 years. This one would be a more powerful Type II supernova.”
None of these are a threat to any of us anyway. With regards to Betelgeuse it would take 600 years for such an explosion to impact any of us living today. The results wouldn’t be felt until long after we’re all dead. Long after our children are dead. Long after their children are dead,etc.
As long as we don’t say its name three times.
Then it could be here right away.
Byron,
So Tootie gets a backhand for not bothering to research the chronology of Marx and Mussolini and yet when BDAman gets the industrial revolution misplaced by a half century…
I’m not saying you shouldn’t do research into the current theories of climate change, I’m just saying that you’re probably better off with sources that use accurate facts and rational arguments. It’d might also be nice if you didn’t give attention to people spewing random garbage on unrelated topics for the sole purpose of pushing Buddha’s buttons, but that’s just a request not advice.
Bdaman:
Industrial revolution probably started in earnest in the 1870’s or 1880’s.
Do you know the answers to any of the questions? I would imagine it is back to being cold up there.
Oh it’s from 1922? You mean before the industrial revolution?
Oh my Byron why didn’t Al Gore tell us about this? Thank you for pointing out that in 1922 Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
WHO KNEW!!!!!!
Bdaman:
that is from 1922, what are the temperatures up there in 2009? have they cooled off? when did they cool off if they did? any periodicity to the temperatures?
But interesting nonetheless. Although could that be the first incident of the climate starting to change? It was also interesting that the author of the article was not looking to man as the cause for the warming.
I think to just say man is the cause case closed, is rather close minded. All possible causes need to be investigated.
maverratick:
SO we will survive the blast?
I guess in case of a supernova it wont be duck and cover but put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
Hello, I got this thread started.
I’m about to shock you, your right, global warming/Climate Change is for real no doubts about it. I just ran across this from NOAA and it is a must read for everyone.
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-11-0589a.pdf
It’s really stupid that everyone is yelling and screaming about T Pyxidis:
Betelgeuse (the brightest star in Orion- his right shoulder, assuming he isn’t showing us his rear “New Jersey side”) is only 600 light years away and it’s expected to explode at any time. It’s five times closer and has mysteriously shrunk about 20% over the past 15 years. This one would be a more powerful Type II supernova.
Neither one of these has their rotational axis pointing toward us anyway, so they might be brighter than the moon but the gamma ray beam won’t hit us.