DECEMBER 27, 2004........Does anyone remember this event?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom ... _2004.html
Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
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Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
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"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
AHA! 
So!
THAT is what caused The Purple Board to crash 11 years later! 8-)
To THE DAY in fact!
So!
THAT is what caused The Purple Board to crash 11 years later! 8-)
To THE DAY in fact!
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
I do remember that! Saw it on the news with Brian Williams reporting live from an observation spaceship in a neighboring galaxy...
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
JFL Live wrote:I do remember that! Saw it on the news with Brian Williams reporting live from an observation spaceship in a neighboring galaxy...
Yer an asshole! 
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
Yeah!JFL Live wrote:I do remember that! Saw it on the news with Brian Williams reporting live from an observation spaceship in a neighboring galaxy...
And hillary said she landed under Cosmic Radiation Fire that very same day!
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
That is so immense, I could not Grok it. 
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
We need to start a board glossary or some damn thing. 
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
Actually he was reporting from the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy.....somewhere in the Milky Way candy bar section [emoji106]JFL Live wrote:I do remember that! Saw it on the news with Brian Williams reporting live from an observation spaceship in a neighboring galaxy...
duc, sequere, aut de via decede
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"
"frapper fort, frapper vite, frappée souvent-- Adm William "Bull" Halsey
“We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”--Gen George Patton
"Our Liberty is insured by four "Boxes", the Ballot box, the Jury box, the Soap box and the Cartridge box"
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
YoDude wrote:We need to start a board glossary or some damn thing.
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Define grok: to understand profoundly and intuitively
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
Hmm...Must be an old dead word or something. I've never heard that one used. 
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
Actually, a word from the early 60's that is still understood by literary people, especially those into scifi. And ya could look it up! [emoji106]YoDude wrote:Hmm...Must be an old dead word or something. I've never heard that one used.
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury…
Signifying nothing”
Signifying monkey, stay up in your tree. Always lying and signifying, but you better not monkey with me.
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
Grok was coined as a phase in the book Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok [emoji106]
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Re: Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
That magnetar was 50000 light years away, so the relevant event happened oh, 50000 years ago, and took this long to see the effects here. The article wonder whether any magnetars are closer, and I'd say if they are, their effects have already been felt once before, unless they have not sent a burst this way, in which case it will be a moot point....we won't be here for the magnificent aurora display when it finally comes. I reckon that event was a once in a lifetime thing.....and I can't say I remember it all that well.