Jill Sparrow 10,267 Posted November 22, 2021 Report Share Posted November 22, 2021 Remember the Cadbury's Smash advert? Those little tin aliens... Planet Earth: Sleepy Joe Biden, President of the USA Bungling Boris, British PM, Pouting Putin, threatening to cut the gas off, President Xi, in his country the situation is always 'excerrent', Chinese automatons, Half the middle east and Africa wanting to up sticks and move somewhere else, They're rolling on the floor in hysterics. "Steer an evasive course, Mr Spong. We don't want to get mixed up with them. They're all barking!" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted February 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 They have discovered the biggest most ginormous galaxy 3 billion light years away, it is about 16.3 million light years in diameter. For reference our Milky Way galaxy is about 106,000 light years in diameter, so it's a little bit bigger init.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,267 Posted February 20, 2022 Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 Let's hope the human race never manages to reach it. They may be in a mess...but just wait til we arrive! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted March 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2022 The science magazine's & website's have been going on about 'Odd Radio Circles,' these appear to be as they say on the tin - a diffuse area of radio waves about a million light years across. They seem have a central galaxy at the centre that also have an active super massive black hole in them, they've discovered 5 so far, & speculate that more must exist out there... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,267 Posted March 23, 2022 Report Share Posted March 23, 2022 Maybe there is intelligent life life in the universe after all, Colly. It would be nice to think so. There's none on this planet. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted March 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2022 Jill... I'd love for them to find evidence of intelligent life somewhere in the universe. But I wouldn't want to send messages or advertise our presence to them as they could be unfriendly, & if they're more advanced than us it could be a disaster for us & other life forms on earth, Stephen Hawking touched on this when he said "white Europeans making contact with native Americans wasn't good news for them." Hopefully we'll learn from history - but I wouldn't bet on it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,267 Posted March 23, 2022 Report Share Posted March 23, 2022 I don't think we learn much at all, Colly. A friend of mine often compares the human race to cheese mites: so intent on devouring as much cheese as possible and leaving a trail of devastation in our wake that we're totally oblivious to who may be observing us and we're so arrogant we assume there couldn't possibly be any life form superior to ourselves. You can bet we've got that wrong. Maybe that's why I love cheese so much! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted May 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 Further to the comments up-thread about the great void in space where there's nowt there, there's a thing called the Great attractor in the Virgo & Hydra-Centaurus super-clusters that's pulling everything towards it. It lies about 150 - 250 million light years from the Milky Way, which is it's self being pulled towards it. The boffins have zero idea what the Great Attractor is, but it must have lots & lots & lots of mass. I suspect it could be a super gigantic mega massive black hole. Problem is it lies behind the central bulge of the Milky Way, so the Great Attractor can't be directly observed from earth. Something else to think about when I can't sleep... 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,267 Posted May 25, 2022 Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 You don't have to go out into space to find a great attractor, of course. Planet Earth has it's very own @benjamin1945 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,378 Posted May 25, 2022 Report Share Posted May 25, 2022 If I remember right it takes 200 million years for the milky way to rotate, so 100 million years from now we should have a clear view of it. I'll let you know what it looks like... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,218 Posted May 26, 2022 Report Share Posted May 26, 2022 I think this sums it up perfectly. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted May 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2022 Brew... I'll set a reminder on my phone to remind me to look for the GA in 100 million years time... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,712 Posted May 26, 2022 Report Share Posted May 26, 2022 Has anyone been watching Jim Al Khalili's new series. 'Secrets of Size'? It deals with some of this stuff and Jim is very easy to follow. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted May 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2022 Yes I watched both of them on BBC i-player, very interesting they were... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted February 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2023 The astronomers had been watching a very massive star that was acting very weird, they were expecting it to go supernova at any time, but, to their surprise, it vanished, leaving them scratching their heads. They're speculating that the star went straight to a black hole. Usually when a star runs out of fuel the collapsing stuff rushes into the middle of the star & rebounds causing the supernova explosion, but if the stars mass is big enough the collapsing stuff goes straight into the giant hoover bag of the newly created black hole & is gone for ever. I so love reading about these sort of things... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,267 Posted February 28, 2023 Report Share Posted February 28, 2023 Which could indicate that the experts are just stumbling around in the dark. Perhaps it's appeared in a parallel universe? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted February 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2023 Jill... They admit they don't really know what is going on, but so far it's the only explanation that seems to make any sense for the observation... There's a hypothesis going round that anything that falls into a black hole appears in a paralell universe, however so far there is zero evidence that this actually happens... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted February 28, 2023 Report Share Posted February 28, 2023 Maybe that's what happens to people who stop posting on Nottstalgia. They are actually still there, but posting in a parallel universe. I wonder who reads their stuff. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted March 14, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2023 In science news sites that they've discovered a massive black hole in intergalactic space whizzing away from a galaxy at high speed. They speculate that it was kicked out of the galaxy by one or two more massive black holes that resulted from a two or three galaxy smash up. These black holes can be bullies cant they? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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