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![]() The Tarantula is a sprawling star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small companion galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Of course, "small" is a matter of perspective; the LMC is still tens of thousands of light years across and has several billion stars in it. From its distance of 180,000 light years, the LMC appears as a smudge in the sky to the unaided eyes of southern observers. [...] The Tarantula Nebula is a forbidding object. It’s well over 600 light years across, has millions of times the Sun’s mass worth of gas jammed into it, and is forming stars so furiously that astronomers think it may actually be creating a globular cluster, a spherical ball of hundreds of thousands of stars. You may have heard of the Orion Nebula, one of the largest and brightest of all nebulae in the Milky Way. Well, the Tarantula is thousands of times more luminous; if it were as far away as the Orion Nebula, the Tarantula would be bright enough to cast shadows on the ground! Click here for an amazing superhuge version of the pic: http://www.eso.org/public/archives/i...g/eso1033a.jpg You can get lost for quite a while looking at that gigantic image... just looking at how little blackness you can see in between the stars is amazing to me. So many little dots, it's unfathomable.
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Some would argue that math is a science....
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This things been jetting through space for 34 years & is just now at the edge of our solar system, the universe is big. Man.
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Your brain makes its own pot.... also, there's now a potential vaccine for cocaine addiction, which tricks the brain into counteracting the affect of coke so that it has no effect.
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Have scientists found the Higgs Boson?
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I thought this was cool: A working model steam engine made of glass.
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I've heard for years that Higgs Boson is the "God Particle" and that it would be a major breakthrough. I understand that the Standard Model predicts it, as it predicted other particles before they were discovered.
But I've never heard anyone speculate on the practical applications that might come from this discovery. If we find it tomorrow, are we that much closer to a warp drive, or anti-gravity, or more efficient energy? What could we do with that knowledge? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we shouldn't be pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake. Even if it just provides more evidence that the Standard Model is correct, I'm all for it. I've just never heard anyone discuss possible practical applications of the discovery of the Higgs Boson. |
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