KP,
It is a well know fact that while the Cat's away the Mice will Play.
As I have mentioned before it is not polite to discuss politics nor religion in mixed company.
Here I peek in on the Sabbath, and I find you doing Both. Naughty, Naughty, Naughty.
I tried this before and was asked to take it to the My Way or the HIGH Way: Cross me and I will kick your behind thread where they debate such matters.
I was simply asking questions like:
Who's hiding in Ahmadinejad's well?
Does Mitt wear funny underwear?
Tom Cruise: What Is He Talking About?
Here I find you discussing God Almighty and debating some mighty Ponderous Propositions.
Did you know the reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue?
Well, curiosity got the Cat, so I clicked on your link, one thing led to another, and it took me Down A Rabbit Hole where I found some interesting things I thought I would share. I know you don't believe me always so I am going to try to post pictures and links so doubt will not cross your mind.
Heres what I found:
Space is the Place,
That's where it's AT,MAN.
Space is the Place,
With the Helpful Hardwar Man.
If you never tire of Life you will find Helpful Signs Like : "MIND THE GAP" , "WAY OUT" and "WHERE TIME BEGINS".
The best tool is Through the LOOKING GLASS.
This Hubble Space Telescope map shows the four clumps of dark matter in the supercluster Abell 901/902.
That's where they are but you can't see it cause you can't SEE dark matter , that's a fact, but you can SHOW it.
"Most of the universe is dark matter. Galaxies are just froth on this ocean of dark matter." Think Froth.
"Dark matter leaves a signature in distant galaxies"
"For example, a circular galaxy will become more distorted to resemble the shape of a banana if its light passes near a dense region of dark matter."
"It's a cosmic optical illusion." Remember this, it is very important, OK?
Black Holes Spin Near Speed of Light
Einstein's theory suggests spinning black holes would make space itself rotate.
One black hole ate 10 Earth masses per month and, from its surroundings, spat out 50 times the annual energy of our sun per second.
The jets produced by such high-speed spins heat the surrounding gaseous atmosphere and can help trigger the birth of stars. However, such powerful jets could also destroy the atmospheres of neighboring planets. <WATCH OUT FOR THIS, tell Al for me.>
Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'
`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting IT. It's HIM.'
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`it's always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.'
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But why did they live at the bottom of a well?'
`Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
`I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, `so I can't take more.'
`You mean you can't take LESS,' said the Hatter: `it's very easy to take MORE than nothing.'
`Nobody asked YOUR opinion,' said Alice.
`Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter asked triumphantly.
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The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. `Off with his head!' she said, without even looking round.
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Lighiting a Chillam to keep them warm
Hardwar is one among the four sites where drops of the elixir of immortality, Amrita, accidentally spilled over from the pitcher, in which it was being carried away by the celestial bird Garuda.
The spot where the nectar fell is considered to be the Brahma Kund at Har-ki-Pauri (literally, "footsteps of the Lord," and symbolically the footprints of the Amrita), the most sacred ghat of Hardwar; thousands of devotees and pilgrims flock here during festivals or snan from all over India to take a holy dip. This act is considered to be the equivalent of washing away one's sins to attain Moksha.
A real nice man, Neelkanth Mahadev, a sadhu, his name meaning "blue throat", one of Shiva's name.
boy with flower
en.wikipedia.org
Pools of Invisible Matter Mapped in Space
By Jeanna Bryner
Staff Writer
posted: 17 January 2008
06:10 am ET
A new map reveals dense pools of invisible matter tipping the scales at 10 trillion times the mass of the sun and housing a cosmic city of ancient galaxies.
The map, presented last week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, provides indirect evidence for so-called dark matter and how this mysterious substance affects galaxy formation.
Scientists theorize that dark matter, considered to make up about 85 percent of the universe's matter, acts as scaffolding on which galaxies mature. As the universe evolves, the tug from dark matter's gravitational field causes galaxies to collide and swirl into superclusters.
It's all these gravitational effects, from something that can't be seen, that indicates dark matter exists.
"The dark matter halos are what allow the galaxies to form in the first place. The dark matter is the underlying skeleton of the universe," said Meghan Gray of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, who was part of the map-making team. "Most of the universe is dark matter. Galaxies are just froth on this ocean of dark matter."
Uncovering invisible matter
Gray, Catherine Heymans of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and colleagues used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to observe a supercluster called Abell 901/902, which resides 2.6 billion light-years from Earth and spans more than 16 million light-years across.
The astrophysicists measured light from a backdrop of more than 60,000 galaxies after it passed through the supercluster and its dark matter. According to Einstein's general relativity theory, the presence of matter can bend spacetime, deflecting the path of a light ray passing through the mass.
"Dark matter leaves a signature in distant galaxies" explained study co-author Ludovic Van Waerbeke of the University of British Columbia. "For example, a circular galaxy will become more distorted to resemble the shape of a banana if its light passes near a dense region of dark matter."
By averaging the shape-distortions from the thousands of galaxies, the researchers found four pools of dark matter. And the invisible clumps matched up with the location of hundreds of ancient galaxies, which have experienced a violent history in their passage from the outskirts of the supercluster into the central hubs.
"If the supercluster wasn't there, you'd still see all of these galaxies in the background," Gray told SPACE.com. "But you put this massive object [in front of them] and your view gets distorted. It's a cosmic optical illusion."
Aging galaxies
The survey's broader goal is to understand how galaxies are influenced by the environment in which they live.
"The new map of the underlying dark matter in the supercluster is one key piece of this puzzle," Gray said. "At the same time, we're looking in detail at the galaxies themselves."
The galaxies in the central hubs, they are finding, show signs of aging, as they are elliptical, red in color and are no longer forming stars. Disk galaxies reside on the outskirts of the supercluster. These youthful galaxies are blue-hued and buzzing with star birth.
It's these young galaxies that constantly fall into the supercluster, adding to its galactic girth.
"As they come in, either they're interacting with each other more or they're interacting with the dark matter," Gray explained. "Something is happening to change their properties."
The team plans to study individual galaxies in an effort to understand how this supercluster environment shapes and changes galaxies.
space.com
Black Holes Spin Near Speed of Light
By Jeremy Hsu
Staff Writer
posted: 15 January 2008
06:38 am ET
Supermassive black holes spin at speeds approaching the speed of light, new research suggests.
Nine huge galaxies were found to contain furiously whirling black holes that pump out energetic jets of gas into the surrounding environment, according to a study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
"We think these monster black holes are spinning close to the limit set by Einstein's theory of relativity, which means that they can drag material around them at close to the speed of light," said Rodrigo Nemmen, the study's lead author and a visiting graduate student at Penn State University.
Einstein's theory suggests spinning black holes would make space itself rotate. The overall effect makes gas spiral in toward the black hole, and also creates a magnetic field that shoots inflowing gas back out as a jet.
Researchers previously found that the greater the amount of gas falling into supermassive black holes — known as the accretion rate — the greater the energy of the jets shooting out. Leading theories suggest that the same jets drive the rotation of the central black holes in galaxies.
"By comparing observations of massive elliptical galaxies with current theories of jet formation, we are able to get the spin of supermassive black holes," Nemmen told SPACE.com, explaining how his group ran computer simulations and compared the results with Chandra's observations of the nine objects.
Black holes can't be seen, but their existence and mass are inferred by their gravitational effects on material around them and by the energy released from all the activity.
The observed jet power and accretion rates were huge — one black hole ate 10 Earth masses per month and, from its surroundings, spat out 50 times the annual energy of our sun per second. That allowed Nemmen and his colleagues to estimate that the spin of the black holes approaches Einstein's speed-of-light limit.
"Extremely fast spin might be very common for large black holes," said co-investigator Richard Bower of Durham University. "This might help us explain the source of these incredible jets that we see stretching for enormous distances across space."
The jets produced by such high-speed spins heat the surrounding gaseous atmosphere and can help trigger the birth of stars. However, such powerful jets could also destroy the atmospheres of neighboring planets.
The new research was detailed in a paper presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, last week.
space.com
Proof That Aliens Exist:
Message 24187802
livescience.com
The notion that penis size varies according to race, for example, is false.
The doctors point out some ancient tried and true methods for penis enlargement, but these aren’t any more comfortable. Indian Sadhus men, for example, use weights to increase their penis length, while the Topamina of Brazil encourage poisonous snakes to bite their penises to get a size boost that lasts six months.
livescience.com
Up in Smoke: Marijuana Toasts Memory
By Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience Managing Editor
If you can't remember the headline of this article or are already struggling to recall some of the words at the beginning of the story, try hard to recall how much pot you smoked in your youth. |
