Pariah Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 9 hours ago, tkdguy said: Betelgeuse is acting erratically As a person with some scientific curiosity, it would be the event of a lifetime for me to see a supernova in our stellar neighborhood. And my space-obsessed six-year-old son? He would completely lose his mind. Of course, to see the Betelgeuse supernova, it would have to have happened already, six-hundred-some-odd years ago. In short, nothing I can do but wait. Still, pretty exciting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 11 hours ago, tkdguy said: Betelgeuse is acting erratically Of course he is. Someone summoned him and forgot to put him back, and now he's wreaking havoc on unfortunate homeowners. tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 Is the Hrung-collapse imminent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 On 12/26/2019 at 6:28 AM, Bazza said: What if “the stars are right” mean Hollywood stars cast in a film? Right cast, right director, right music artists with the right soundtrack? You have 4 rights necessary, and we are talking about modern Hollywood tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 Plane crashes, many survivors. That is a welcome change https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50922219 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 9 hours ago, Pariah said: As a person with some scientific curiosity, it would be the event of a lifetime for me to see a supernova in our stellar neighborhood. And my space-obsessed six-year-old son? He would completely lose his mind. Of course, to see the Betelgeuse supernova, it would have to have happened already, six-hundred-some-odd years ago. In short, nothing I can do but wait. Still, pretty exciting stuff. If it does explode, it'll be an unresolved point source (to the unaided eye) comparable in brightness to the full moon, though there's a lot of slop in that estimate. At a distance of about 220 parsecs, it'll be spectacular for a while. Though it will ruin Orion once the remnant fades away. OTOH, the surface layers have a really long lag time in terms of response to what goes on in the core, except when the explosion shock propagates through the star's outer envelope. I would be surprised if this variation had anything to do with what the core is doing. tkdguy, Netzilla and Pariah 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 7 hours ago, death tribble said: Plane crashes, many survivors. That is a welcome change https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50922219 Well, that is one thing, I have mentioned when people talk about plane travel being safer. That while true, far fewer accidents, but if you do have an accident, it always seems you will definitely not be surviving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 This is the BBC's list of notable deaths for 2019 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/xmE66MrmQT/2019-notable-deaths Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 Thousands told to evacuate vast east Gippsland fire threat zone Visitors and residents told to ‘get out of’ an area half the size of Belgium immediately, in the face of historic fire threat day on Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 Russia's new weapon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 Two shot dead in Texas church https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50942664 I don't know what is more disturbing. That the church had a security guard or a number of the congregation came to church armed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishFox Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 1 hour ago, death tribble said: Two shot dead in Texas church https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50942664 I don't know what is more disturbing. That the church had a security guard or a number of the congregation came to church armed. I live in Texas and it hasn't always been this way. It feels like a reaction to the fact that people have decided that shooting up churches is a good way to commit suicide-by-cop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 2 hours ago, death tribble said: I don't know what is more disturbing. That the church had a security guard or a number of the congregation came to church armed. They stopped the shooting within six seconds of it starting, so a good result that I don't find disturbing. It is disheartening that people continue to shoot up our public places with such regularity. pinecone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 Video of the shooting is trending on social media. Looks like the shooter is getting his fifteen minutes, not that it's doing him any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 On 12/27/2019 at 9:39 PM, Cancer said: If it does explode, it'll be an unresolved point source (to the unaided eye) comparable in brightness to the full moon, though there's a lot of slop in that estimate. At a distance of about 220 parsecs, it'll be spectacular for a while. Though it will ruin Orion once the remnant fades away. OTOH, the surface layers have a really long lag time in terms of response to what goes on in the core, except when the explosion shock propagates through the star's outer envelope. I would be surprised if this variation had anything to do with what the core is doing. A shame, Orion is the only constellation, I've ever been able to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 On December 28, 2019 at 12:08 AM, Badger said: Well, that is one thing, I have mentioned when people talk about plane travel being safer. That while true, far fewer accidents, but if you do have an accident, it always seems you will definitely not be surviving. I couldn't help but notice that this is precisely the conversation I have with people who denigrate motorcycles as not being "real vehicles." (for the european audience: there is a damned _baffling_ tendency in the United States to view motorcycles as some sort of adult toy (no: not that kind!!). Worse, it seems to permeate even to a majority of the owners of motorcycles in the United States, to the point that you will see them load up a motorcycle onto a trailer or in a truck, _tow it across half the country_ to the place they want to ride it, unload it, ride it around for a few hours, then load it back up and carry it home again. The idea that motorcycles and scooters (the larger, highway-capable ones) are actual vehicles that sip gas, insure cheaply, and lack roughly 9/10 of the maintenance-requiring systems on four-wheeled vehicles is completely lost on most Americans. There are thousands of us who will say "I rode around Michigan, touring the Great Lakes coastline," but damned few of us who will not preface that with "I hauled the bike to Michigan, unloaded it then." It drives me nuts! Anyway, the conversation is similar: the spectacular results of motorcycles accidents seems to completely hide the fact that they are, comparatively, incredibly rare. (note that I am not including "Dropping" as an accident: that's straight-up incompetence, not traffic-related) 5 hours ago, death tribble said: I don't know what is more disturbing. That the church had a security guard or a number of the congregation came to church armed. 4 hours ago, ScottishFox said: I live in Texas and it hasn't always been this way. It feels like a reaction to the fact that people have decided that shooting up churches is a good way to commit suicide-by-cop. Yep. Didn't used to be that way around here, either. It is now (sans the security guard). In fact, it wasn't until that stupid kid shot up that Carolina church a couple of years ago that people began to attend church services armed around here. What I find disturbing about it is the number of people who believe the fish can talk their way out of that barrel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 I do tend to hate mopeds though. Tend to be more road hazards in my area. Going 30 MPH in a 45 clogging up work traffic, or riding the 4-lane roads at night, with their dull flashlight light (in contrast to those halogen "is that you grandma" lights that most other vehicles.). (almost ran over one one night because he was nearly invisible, and completely was when the truck with 8 lights was coming from the other direction) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Duke Bushido said: Anyway, the conversation is similar: the spectacular results of motorcycles accidents seems to completely hide the fact that they are, comparatively, incredibly rare. pinecone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 course, another thing I thought of in car vs plane. If you are driving the car at least, you at least still "feel" like you control your destiny. And I would never use a self-driving car, because my contentious relationship with all things electronic suggest, the thing will eventually go kamikaze in an all-out bid to end me. Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Old Man said: Yep. That's it right there: look at how many people get killed, etc. But never the actual number of accidents. Just the spectacular difference in the results of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 One might argue that the number of accidents is far less important than the per-mile fatality rate. In fact I'm not sure what the raw accident rate of motorcycles vs. cars would really tell us other than that there are far fewer motorcycles on the road than passenger cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 Killing Cancer with the flu pinecone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 5 minutes ago, Old Man said: Killing Cancer with the flu Well thats neat. [EDIT: Damned shame about the number of kids that might not get this treatment because it relies on a vaccine. ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 Ahem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 20 minutes ago, Cancer said: Ahem. Sorry, Man. "Part of the ship? Part of the crew." You know how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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