enh, i've had a good run tbh, i'm ready
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
OL OTM hope you all enjoy the nerve toxins after cutey's radula has slowly drilled a hole into your sternum
I'll be well inland
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 10 February 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
i know octo is 8 but what's a pus
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Monday, 10 February 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Stomp.gif
― mark s, Monday, 10 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
It's very much like a foot but I believe it refers more specifically to the foot-like appendage of a species which seeks to violently supplant the human race. Hope that helps!
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
but what if a species with eight vaginas is discovered, what the hell do you call that
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Monday, 10 February 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
slipknot
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0372/6877/products/DT1851_dd555196-2995-463c-8785-f0bf04209fa1_2000x.jpg
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 February 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/fLmiz1Ogta3bbOdBXx/giphy.gif
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
cant wait for avi so-called loeb's *next* highly original book == "thread of dinosaurs gazing hapless at the oncoming meteor"
― mark s, Sunday, 14 February 2021 10:24 (three years ago) link
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/interstellar-visitor-found-to-be-unlike-a-comet-or-an-asteroid
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Saturday, 6 March 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
(old article, but I don't think it was linked before)
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Saturday, 6 March 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
close but no cigar
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/18/space-oddity-oumuamua-probably-shard-of-pluto-like-world-scientists-say
― nashwan, Thursday, 18 March 2021 09:51 (three years ago) link
poor Pluto - even less of not a planet anymore.
― calzino, Thursday, 18 March 2021 09:53 (three years ago) link
oh "Pluto-like"
― calzino, Thursday, 18 March 2021 09:55 (three years ago) link
just read that there might be an estimated 50 billion rogue planets in the milky way, some 3d billiards game is that.
― calzino, Thursday, 18 March 2021 10:00 (three years ago) link
wait so this flying object is merely cookie-shaped, as in cookie-shaped like some sort of SAUCER?
pilot (arriving in solar system): "this looks like a good spot my dear"alien (sitting in next seat, not driving but staring): "not here not here not here!"
― mark s, Thursday, 18 March 2021 10:23 (three years ago) link
Busy outer solar system out there
https://entertainment.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/02/asteroids.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 March 2021 10:29 (three years ago) link
more updates on the "exo-Pluto" theory
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/science/astronomy-oumuamua-comet.html
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Saturday, 27 March 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
god it looks delicious
― nashwan, Saturday, 27 March 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
2022 updatehttps://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/was-interstellar-object-oumuamua-a-chunk-of-exo-pluto/
Here is where we get to the new (and, as yet, unpublished) work. Our Sun isn’t the most common type of star; cooler M-type stars are much more common. M stars are more favorable environments for the creation of worlds covered in nitrogen ice. In our solar system, you have to be nearly at the orbit of Neptune, at 15 a.u., for nitrogen ice to be stable on the surface. However, stars at the lower end of the mass range (technically classified as M8) can host worlds with nitrogen ice at only 1 a.u.Taking into account the huge population of M stars and their more favorable environments for hosting nitrogen ice, Desch and Jackson found that M stars will have ejected 40 times more nitrogen ice fragments than stars like our Sun.That contrast is enough for `Oumuamua’s appearance in our backyard to be a likely accident. Its trajectory, which lies in the galactic plane and has relatively low speed for an interstellar interloper, indicates that it hasn’t been roaming the galaxy on its own for very long; it probably exited its parent solar system up to a few hundred million years ago.
Taking into account the huge population of M stars and their more favorable environments for hosting nitrogen ice, Desch and Jackson found that M stars will have ejected 40 times more nitrogen ice fragments than stars like our Sun.
That contrast is enough for `Oumuamua’s appearance in our backyard to be a likely accident. Its trajectory, which lies in the galactic plane and has relatively low speed for an interstellar interloper, indicates that it hasn’t been roaming the galaxy on its own for very long; it probably exited its parent solar system up to a few hundred million years ago.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
it hasn’t been roaming the galaxy on its own for very long... up to a few hundred million years ago.
astronomers have funny ideas about time
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 04:43 (one year ago) link
NEWS 🚨: Unidentified Oumuamua interstellar object is just now RE-ENTERING THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH A STEEL CHAIR pic.twitter.com/LQmzm0afbY— lindsay coagvla 🚫🤠 (@titwave) December 8, 2022
― jus do jus (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 December 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
the James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that SHOULD NOT EXIST
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
in conclusion the universe is so effing big it is yielding contradictory data to stupid little confused lifeforms
― calzino, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
it's too big!
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
Why does anything exist? did they answer that one yet? seems a bit improbable that anything does exist tbh.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
I assume you're looking for a better answer than "slight difference between the amounts of matter and antimatter generated by the Big Bang"?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 February 2023 00:45 (one year ago) link
:(
A team of researchers from the UC Berkeley and Cornell found a surprisingly simple explanation for ʻOumuamua's non-gravitational acceleration:https://t.co/qvMNSECL3A— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) November 8, 2023
for non-twitter-havers it reads "A team of researchers from the UC Berkeley and Cornell found a surprisingly simple explanation for ʻOumuamua's non-gravitational acceleration" and links to this: https://www.universal-sci.com/article/cause-of-oumuamuas-non-gravitational-acceleration
― mark s, Friday, 10 November 2023 09:51 (six months ago) link
that surprisingly simple explanation in full:
oumuamua was fart-propelled
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:13 (six months ago) link
as are we all
mostly you tho
― mark s, Friday, 10 November 2023 10:31 (six months ago) link
i am as god made me, sir (a small object estimated to be between 100 and 1,000 metres (300 and 3,000 ft) long, with its width and thickness both estimated between 35 and 167 metres (115 and 548 ft))
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:34 (six months ago) link
I for one welcome Amaterasu, "one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected".
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/24/amaterasu-extremely-high-energy-particle-detected-falling-to-earth
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 24 November 2023 14:28 (five months ago) link
This article was amended on 24 November 2023 to clarify some of the wording, based on agency copy, that was used in an earlier version regarding the speed of particles.
that copy:
Some charged particles in the air shower travel faster than the speed of light, producing a type of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by specialised instruments.
idk maybe it's technically correct (mutters something about group velocity or c in a vacuum)
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 24 November 2023 14:44 (five months ago) link
The Amaterasu particle has an energy exceeding 240 exa-electron volts (EeV), millions of times more than particles produced in the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful accelerator ever built, and equivalent to the energy of a golf ball travelling at 95mph.
I would not want to be in its way, but a 95mph golf ball does not seem that cosmically terrifying?
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 24 November 2023 14:55 (five months ago) link
what if that golf ball actually went through your brain?
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 24 November 2023 15:00 (five months ago) link
"In September 2011, it was reported, in a major release by CERN, that a tau neutrino had traveled faster than the speed of light; however, later updates from CERN on the OPERA experiment indicate that the faster-than-light readings were due to a faulty element of the experiment's fibre optic timing system.[12]"
it aint over till…
― mark s, Friday, 24 November 2023 15:03 (five months ago) link
there he is (avi so-called loeb)
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreiaaeozu3pprjamfowgooewxjhnhelx72rn4lrvpy2hx3n7mqezvna@jpeg
― mark s, Monday, 12 February 2024 19:37 (three months ago) link
bring back oumuamua
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 12 February 2024 19:40 (three months ago) link
weird gray space dong and name of my wifi network
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 12 February 2024 19:41 (three months ago) link
brb, changing my name to otm
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 12 February 2024 20:00 (three months ago) link