About 3.8 billion years ago, things in the constellation Draco (the Dragon) got a little bit interesting.
Although research is ongoing, astronomers say that the unusual explosion likely arose when a star wandered too close to its galaxy’s central black hole. Intense tidal forces probably tore the star apart, and the infalling gas continues to stream toward the black hole.
According to this model, the spinning black hole formed an outflowing jet, which is blasting powerful X-rays and gamma rays in our direction, researchers said.
The astronomers believe that the X-rays we are seeing “may be coming from matter moving near the speed of light in a particle jet that forms as the star’s gas falls toward the black hole.” Apparently, we are watching this astronomical event head on.
For those of you unfamiliar with intergalactic distance, 3.8 billion light-years is 22,338,776,418,097,710,000,000 miles. More or less.
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#134 – Au conTRAIRE!
Plennnnnnnnnnnnnty of socks de la tubus ’round heah
A short clip on the relationship between the Redumblicans and Marxicrats in Congress.
Guess which one is which.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38srxvt6qE
That had a pretty high pith to byte ratio.
WARNING RANT AHEAD:
Ahem
THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE A BUNCH OF IDIOTS.
Thank you
END RANT
I wonder if the bleach blond(e) spitter on the Many Sycophantic Nutjobs Broadcasting Company network is busy in his basement creating Barry Obumma’s long form birth certificate.
One part Photoshop
One part thigh tingle
Two parts spittle
#133 EG
Squawkbox and I may be the last sock wearers in Texas…
I didn’t know that people wore socks any more.
Bonehead, A lot of lawyers surrender their licenses voluntarily, when they are no longer active in the practice of law. Such as: 1. Politicians not needing the extra income or hassle of being an active lawyer 2. Former lawyers doing quasi-legal work that does not require a law license, such as sports agents, talent agents, Fox News Commentators,…….. I work… Read more »
Heh. Adding on to Pyro’s 68 comment.
Bonez
#122
Those kinda jokes don’t bother me. After my time in the service I pretty much heard them all.
Dad-gummit! I just purchased my tickets for Sugarland on Saturday the 16th. And docking my pay to see it. Sunday would be much better. What to do…..what to do…….See a dear friend I haven’t seen in a while or be a slacker friend? 🙁
#53 Boney: I went to FB earlier to check it out. They had 5. Fiiiiiiive. Most on that page were against it. #68 Pyro, I also pasted your link on my best friends FB page. I’m the one that got her vote in her 20’s, she moved back to Seattle and is a pro-union commie and so are most of… Read more »
I’ll check back in after the sun goes down tomorrow. Shabbat Shalom y’all.
#124 M:
My understanding is that snopes is owned by the annenberg foundation; which was a big supporter for “O”; all part of the Chicago machine.
#101 Hams
Oh noooooooooooo…
“The knit has spandex for stretch.”
They even gots spandex in tube sox now…
Wonder why Snopes.com doesn’t have this one? Is there another good debunking/investigation site?
#107 Bones
Bammy’s mother’s first husband was NOT an American but a Kenyan exchange student, I can’t see any reason why he would be listed as a hyphenated American.
#90 Squawkster:
Leave it to the girl to hit below the belt. It was a really brutal shot at that.
#108 Sarge: And it would mean that the Clintons have the most incompetent campaign staff in the history of Presidential elections. Does the phrase “mutually assured destruction” mean anything to you Sarge? Do you really think that the Clintons are beyond reproach and have nothing to hide? A simple comment like “if you bring up and push the birth status… Read more »
#117 – Cmon Hammy yer slippin – ya forgot to shoe-horn Cheney in dere somewheres!!
(although in fairness ah reckon the Halliburton remark kinda does dat eh?)
#90 – GEEZ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ST, & Sha-Na-Na, & Texpat, & Me lubs ya Bubba
(as long as we kin heap on some abuse now n then o course……………)
MEGASNIKKER™
#113 Bob: Does anything exist that doesn’t make her butt look as huge as: 1) A house 2) A barn 3) The back end of an elephant 4) 2 basketballs colliding 5) 2 planets colliding 6) The back end of a jack-a$$ 7) The back end of a cow 8) Something that works better than ippycack to make one hurl… Read more »
I don’t know what else to do other than laugh. The whole thing reminds me of an op/ed by Mac Johnson a few years back: That’s what makes us so smart. We know that JFK was actually assassinated by a 17-year-old George W. Bush in order ensconce fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson in the White House, thus laying the historical background… Read more »
Me?
I’m just one Little Endian.
Couldn’t be pious if I tried.
#110 Sarge: Just a shot in the dark, but the fact that neither of them was practicing law might have something to do with it. Quite possibly the lamest friggin thing I have ever seen. Do you think any of the MD’s in Congress have let their medical licenses lapse or have surrendered them because they aren’t currently practicing medicine??… Read more »
How ’bout a flap-up contest?
Does Obama’s original birth certificate make Michelle’s butt look big?
Serge’ #95 Sarge wishes I would ignore him don’t care what anybody thinks ‘cept God and his fambly. Not too many folks around that’s as important, and even fewer moreso. Good grief. Lighten up Lucy. You wanna be all pious, setting up on the hill looking down on us peons knock your holier than thou self out. Yanno what Serge’… Read more »
Obama’s birth certificate shot JFK.
Why did BOTH HE AND MOOOCHELLE surrender their law licenses if they had nothing to hide from/be ashamed of? Just a shot in the dark, but the fact that neither of them was practicing law might have something to do with it. Why was the obviously fraudulent COLB put out as “proof of citizenship”? Because until Donald Trump added a… Read more »
Obama shot JFK.
And it would mean that the Clintons have the most incompetent campaign staff in the history of Presidential elections.
Why has the “O” spent millions blocking access to his past unless he has something to hide? I have yet to hear even a single plausible explanation to that question. Under which passport did he travel to Pakistan? Why did BOTH HE AND MOOOCHELLE surrender their law licenses if they had nothing to hide from/be ashamed of? With all the… Read more »
I demand to see the original, long form birth certificate for Donald Trump’s hair.
In a country of 300 million, how many Barry Soeteros are there?
You might be surprised.
Even if a blog post written on April Fools Day says there’s only one.
RE foul “O” There is too much there there for there not to be something there, or with all this wissin smoke there has to be a fire somewhere.
#102 I notice that it was posted April 1st.
But I do not doubt he is a fraud. All that stuff in the article would be kind of hard to hide.
Pyro: you have a valid point, however, there is enough meat on this bone here that deserves some gnawing. To phrase a little differently, I heard from mulitple sources, I can’t recall where now, that also spoke about his bogus SS number, no one remembering him from college, the obvious questions about the “cert of live birth” thing and now… Read more »
Here ya go
Bones, I found several dozen linkies to that post. My skepticism meter is pegged.
Ummm….
Bone, can you summarize and comment on these long-a$$ed articles? If you can’t post a link to the source because it came in your email, I’d tend to be pretty suspicious of its veracity.
This just came in the spit bucket about the foul “O”. Sorry for the length but I don’t have the linkiethingie. Obama may have a criminal past… · Posted by Rick Perry on April 1, 2011 at 6:30am · View Rick Perry’s blog This is an article written by an ex IRS investigator….very interesting. Trump is correct, Barry Soetoro, AKA… Read more »
squack & crazy aunt –
If you two are gonna get all weird & kinky, take it to one of those motels that rents by the hour.
Cop pepper sprays vile, killer beast.
Sarge
wishes I would ignore himdon’t care what anybody thinks ‘cept God and his fambly. Not too many folks around that’s as important, and even fewer moreso.WOOOOHOOOO don’t do that i was just beginning to like it
Till Bob pulled out Barney
Some things do work for Big Endians and Little Endians.
Not everything, though.
Aw come on Squawkie, you can always count on having a fun day when you spend it with the people you love.
#90 Squawk
Oh, poor Squawk. Are you going to apologize for-freaking ever about not understanding the divine of the female energy or some such crap, too?
I thought the unnerwears were too tight ‘cuz you had something in them. Was I mistaken?
/putting whip away