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I for one welcome our new fuzzy blur overlords.
Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled
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Look at the crosshair...
looks like they need to clean the lense on the camera to me
You could be right, best let them know.
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Didn't realise the web design team had so much responsibility
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Very interesting, if this really turns out to be a new type of celestial object then astronomers and physicists should have fun for a while 
I'm not sure where all the tinfoil hat stuff is coming from, it's a legitimate new discovery in space that we weren't aware of before, they aren't saying it's ET phoning home or the like.
I'm not sure where all the tinfoil hat stuff is coming from, it's a legitimate new discovery in space that we weren't aware of before, they aren't saying it's ET phoning home or the like.
Very interesting, if this really turns out to be a new type of celestial object then astronomers and physicists should have fun for a while
I'm not sure where all the tinfoil hat stuff is coming from, it's a legitimate new discovery in space that we weren't aware of before, they aren't saying it's ET phoning home or the like.
exactly
not once has the OP mentioned or hinted at this being a space craft.
just something new that scients havent encountered before.
Yep...Maybe whatever it was, has that life span? Ad it's infact dissapeared because its moving that fast towards us!!!?!
....Ahaha, it's a dot, because its THAT far away, christ almighty. Plus, Elvis would be more round.
I suggest you go check said OP's created threads history. It will reveal the true intended nature of this thread
And...maybe the Op's interested in space and everything involving it? So am I, omgz label me...LABEL MEE!!!!
wow that gave me a vague insight into your intelligence
Not everyones as amazing as you obviously.
Once again, his interest goes beyond cosmological phenomenon - go check his history, his threads of "omg alienz r realz" "ex-unamed-fighter-type-pilot-man says he saw alienz, proving they r realz" etc etc... I'm not attacking the information presented (which is extremely ropey anyway, so should probably be attacked), i'm attacking the motives of why it was presented. One day in one of his many "real; alienz; they r" threads to come, he will link this as part of a mentaloid's dossier of proof to back himself up, having it shot down now before it can be turned to such evil is the only way to save the children of next tuesday
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how is there a crosshair in space?
It's not very realistic at the moment, but its okay, the next version will implement iron sights.
Didn't realise the web design team had so much responsibility
Well if you visited the Hubble project website yourself you'd see that that's the contact e-mail address for the project
...? He gives links normally, to websites that have published news storys...So?
Much better reads than "omgz look I can buy this girl for million euros" or some other random pointless thread.
You don't have to read the posts you know? That is an un written rule in the forums by the way.
This is exactly why we send astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble: in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. I don't know about you, but when a research paper conclusion says "We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class" I get a chill of oooh-aaahness down my spine. Especially when after a hundred days of observation, it disappeared from the sky with no explanation. Get your tinfoil hats out, because it gets even weirder. The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn't there before. In fact, they don't even know where it is exactly located because it didn't behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can't be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion light-years away. It's not in any known galaxy either. And they have ruled out a supernova too. It's something that they have never encountered before. In other words: they don't have a single clue about where or what the heck this thing is.The shape of the light curve is inconsistent with microlensing. In addition to being inconsistent with all known supernova types, is not matched to any spectrum in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database.The only thing the astronomers—working on the Supernova Cosmology Project—can tell is that it appeared all of the sudden in the direction of a cluster with the catchy name of CL 1432.5+3332.8, about 8.2 billion light-years away. Hubble caught a spark that continued to brighten during a 100-day period, peaking at the 21st magnitude, only to fade away in the same period of time.
Source - http://gizmodo.com/5049896/hubble-finds-unidentified-object-in-space
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/28244844.html?pageSize=0
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0809/0809.1648v1.pdf
Spooky!
this is the problem with the unknown...its unknown therefore past experience doesnt help much when encountering truly new phenomena
p.s. edit beaten by a country mile
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CAT: So, what is it?
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe a white hole returns it.
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe a white hole returns it.
p.s. prolly a smudge on hubble's lens...need to send a window cleaner up.
Apparently an SQL scripter will suffice.
It's a scientific paper with data to back it up from a group of scientists at Berkeley University, what's the slightest bit ropey about it?