http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_811864.html
This is crazy!
I have never taken a neutrino shower.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_811864.html
This is crazy!
I have never taken a neutrino shower.
Color me skeptical. Bad Astronomy covered this last summer. The story crops back up every once in a while.
I really, really hope it does happen in my lifetime as it's going to be absolutely amazing, but it might not happen for another 100,000 years.
You're bumming me out, Zuul.
I wanted this to happen soon.
I do, too. That's why I keep reading about it and disappointing myself. :fail:
Screw science. We're gonna have two suns and it's going to be AWESOME!
In Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two, and the movie based on it,
Spoiler (mouseover to read):
Jupiter (with a little help from the alien-made Monolith) becomes a second star right here in our own Solar System.
Damn straight! :fist:Quote:
Originally posted by Peeta Mellark
So, this second sun, is it what that one guy was talking about when he said all the electronics in the whole world were just going to stop working in 2012?
If we are really lucky it could wind up raining gold and precious metals.
In say a few million years.
Precious metals nothing, I want supernova-caused superpowers.
That would make a great book, wouldn't it? The earth is bathed in a neutrino shower and suddenly everyone on the planet gets super powers. What do you do when everyone is a superhero/villain?
The neutrinos and the precious metals have damn-all to do with each other, except that the same event causes them both. Equally, forget about superpowers; even if genetics worked that way, neutrinos will pass through your body with no effect whatsoever. Similarly, while the supernova might be brighter than anything else apart from the Sun, it would still appear star-sized, since an object 1300 light-years away would have to be ten or more light-years across to match the Sun's apparent diameter.
Personally I like Betelgeuse and hope it's good for many years yet. :)
Syndrome had a theory about that....Quote:
Originally posted by Zuul
When everyone is special, no one is.
I'm actually picturing a really bad super hero RPG.
Are you picturing the RPG that I'm picturing?Quote:
Originally posted by Marsilia
Yes. Yes, I'm sure I am.Quote:
Originally posted by ZuulAre you picturing the RPG that I'm picturing?Quote:
Originally posted by Marsilia
Are you picturing a magical dragon/Superman hybrid?Quote:
Originally posted by MarsiliaYes. Yes, I'm sure I am.Quote:
Originally posted by ZuulAre you picturing the RPG that I'm picturing?Quote:
Originally posted by Marsilia
And, a Martian Ren Fair.Quote:
Originally posted by ZuulAre you picturing a magical dragon/Superman hybrid?Quote:
Originally posted by MarsiliaYes. Yes, I'm sure I am.Quote:
Originally posted by ZuulAre you picturing the RPG that I'm picturing?Quote:
Originally posted by Marsilia
I don't know what you're complaining about. It was only natural that a bunch of Irish people would go to Mars and try to start up a high medieval society.Quote:
Originally posted by Marsilia
And then piss all over the other Irish people who, you know, let their women wear pants. You're right. Perfectly reasonable.Quote:
Originally posted by ZuulI don't know what you're complaining about. It was only natural that a bunch of Irish people would go to Mars and try to start up a high medieval society.Quote:
Originally posted by Marsilia
Um, duh. Ireland is only about 900 years in the past. :rolleyes: It's a well known fact that only Americans and the Japanese* exist in the present.Quote:
Originally posted by Marsilia
* Technically they're in the near future, but it's close enough.
I don't think my brain has been exposed to enough neutrinos to understand this conversation.
There was an RPG Marsilia and I played in that was run...very poorly. And some very nonsensical people were allowed to insert very stupid ideas (like a high medieval Ireland themed Martian society). The "everybody is special" line reminded her of it.
It was especially fun when people in the same storyline were playing two entirely different plots. It was very much a case of "too many cooks."Quote:
Originally posted by Zuul
Y'all do know that the sun puts out more neutrinos than you would receive from a nova 1300 light years away?
Yes, but we already get those. These will be new neutrinos, known is scientific circles as newtrinos.Quote:
Originally posted by Glazer
Sorry if this is too technical. Think of it like green kryptonite and red kryptonite. (Doubly appropriate if this supernova is red-shifted enough...)
I sincerely hope it follows the post-Crisis continuity then, as transparent skin and an absence of powers is far preferable to planet-wide apathy or an utter loss of inhibitions.
Says you.Quote:
Originally posted by Zuul
Well then, you're just letting the best things in life pass you by.Quote:
Originally posted by Oliveloaf
(Allegedly, this also applies to getting a blow job from a superior officer, but I have no empirical evidence.)
:smackQuote:
Two Suns? Twin Stars Could Be Visible From Earth By 2012
As a leftist, I probably agree with a lot of pieces at the Huffington Post. But, goddamnit, why is it when it comes to science they publish either inept, ignorant articles (like the one referenced) or nonsense like the anti-vaccine crap that's actually endangering people?
Yeah, HuffPo does get stuff so wrong sometimes it makes me cringe. I'd say their science editor is fairly lax. It looks like they must have been called on it, too, because the article has been altered and updated from when I first looked at it.
It's kind of strange to me, but in my observation, media outlets that have pronounced left or right slant tend to really suck at science stuff, and feed into conspiracy-minded BS. No idea why that is, but it seems common.Quote:
Originally posted by Baldwin
Science articles in most newspapers are terrible too.
I'm bummed. I just know we'll have a second sun soon, but we'll be too busy dealing with the Yellowstone supervolcano to enjoy it.
Dude,Quote:
Originally posted by Baldwin
Every outlet is like this in some way. I know a lot about cars. The product, the business the industry, That's what I do for a living. I am appalled by how incredibly wrong the car stuff I read in general media is. Shockingly misinformed. I can only assume that the stuff I do not know that much about is just as wrong.
Yeah, when I read what the media has to say about basic legal stuff, I know that there's no way in hell I'm getting an accurate picture of what's going on in Egypt.Quote:
Originally posted by OliveloafDude,Quote:
Originally posted by Baldwin
Every outlet is like this in some way. I know a lot about cars. The product, the business the industry, That's what I do for a living. I am appalled by how incredibly wrong the car stuff I read in general media is. Shockingly misinformed. I can only assume that the stuff I do not know that much about is just as wrong.
Oh don't, someone has been watching "Supervolcano" and gone for the worst possible situation again. Given the timescale on that is measured in the thousands of years or more.Quote:
Originally posted by Hatshepsut
Yeah, there's a lot of biology 101 type of stuff they get wrong when writing about stuff along those lines. I imagine the further I get in my education, the more errors I'll recognize.Quote:
Originally posted by OliveloafDude,Quote:
Originally posted by Baldwin
Every outlet is like this in some way. I know a lot about cars. The product, the business the industry, That's what I do for a living. I am appalled by how incredibly wrong the car stuff I read in general media is. Shockingly misinformed. I can only assume that the stuff I do not know that much about is just as wrong.
And it's been thousands of years since the last eruption! That means it's soon!Quote:
Originally posted by CatInASuitOh don't, someone has been watching "Supervolcano" and gone for the worst possible situation again. Given the timescale on that is measured in the thousands of years or more.Quote:
Originally posted by Hatshepsut
I'm amazed no-one has mentioned the Canary Islands slipping into the sea to flood the East Coast of America with a MegaTsunami
If that's a disaster movie reference, I don't watch many of those. :fail:
FYI - Supervolcano - A factional account of what could occur if the Yellowstone Caldera was to go up.Quote:
Originally posted by Zuul
The La Palma megatsunami was a worst case possible situation of what could happen if the island sank into the sea. End result, no Eastern seaboard for the USA.
Of course, someone made the comment that the ideal trigger for it to occur would be a supermassive earthquake perhaps caused, for example, by the Yellowstone Caldera going up. ;)