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04-15-2004, 12:53 PM
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Radical Centrist
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4/15/2004: Solar prominence
 A recent Astro pic of the day. This is our Sun, and that "thingie" coming off it like some cellophane wrapper is called a solar prominence. Not to be confused with the Senior Promenade. What happens is that the Sun lets out a big fart of solar gases, you see, but somehow the Sun's magnetic field keeps it close in, nearby, where it just sort of... lingers. For up to a month. How big a fart: turns out the entire Earth could fit in that space between the Sun and the fart. What happens next is that the fart is ejected out into space. It becomes "magnetically unstable", and is spat out like a giant balloon letting off. This process takes anywhere from tens of minutes to hours to complete. but when you consider that the whole fart is 300000 km (187000 miles) long, well, lets just say it's bookin'. It's really pretty for a fart and that's why I picked it. |
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04-15-2004, 12:55 PM
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Disorderly Orderly
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Pictures of the sun are amazing. Almost looks like an artist's rendition, it's so clear.
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04-15-2004, 12:56 PM
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Romantic Necromancer
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Finally I have something else to blame my farts on.
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04-15-2004, 01:37 PM
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garbage in, refuse out
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yikes -- I hate ones that burn at both ends!
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04-15-2004, 02:13 PM
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Belt Conveyor
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SBD - Shining, but deadly
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04-15-2004, 05:03 PM
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Love my Heffalumps
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Wow, now that's the kinda technical stuff I understand. Non of those scientific names. See TB told you you'd love this site.
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04-15-2004, 06:11 PM
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Superior Inhabitant
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Props to UT
I'd like to give props to UT for the best 'scientific' explanation of anything, anywhere, ever.
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04-15-2004, 06:18 PM
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Love my Heffalumps
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Ditto
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04-15-2004, 06:39 PM
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The future is unwritten
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Undertoad = The new and improved, Mr Wizard.
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04-15-2004, 07:05 PM
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I can hear my ears
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04-15-2004, 07:15 PM
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"I may not always be perfect, but I'm always me."
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"Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken." ~Tagline from the movie "Amistad"~ "The Akan concept of Sankofa: In order to move forward we first have to take a step back. In other words, before we can be prepared for the future, we must comprehend the past." From "We Did It, They Hid It" |
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04-15-2004, 07:45 PM
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When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
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Aren't we glad that *we* don't generate gigantic magnetic fields that contain our farts for tens of minutes to hours?
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04-15-2004, 07:49 PM
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Coronation Incarnate
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That's one hot fart .. and here's me, thinking I've done some arse-burners at times ..
Next project for the good scientists, is to tell us EXACTLY, how hot that fart was .......
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04-15-2004, 09:31 PM
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The future is unwritten
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The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
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04-15-2004, 11:42 PM
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off target
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