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I saw a video the other night on fb about a neighboring galaxy...it was awesome!
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Annicita
on March 16, 2015 at 9:46 AM
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posted by
WileyJohn
on March 13, 2015 at 3:35 PM
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naut
enjoyed this post, i have a copy of the cosmos series and i enjoy watching it over and over, love carl sagan.
posted by
jeansaw
on March 11, 2015 at 9:04 PM
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Oh, you've got to sit down with Neil DeGrasse Tyson some time.
This blog sounds as happy as he does when he gets going on explanations like this, most of which zoom right past my blonde roots, but I still love to think about these magical ideas. (I know it's not magic, it's physics.) On a related note, I've met people whose minds are like black holes, sucky and never releasing any light.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 10, 2015 at 5:08 AM
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It is so neat what is out there in our vast universe. And to think, we only know a tip of the iceberg if that.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 9, 2015 at 4:39 PM
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I have heard and read about these before, and their magnitude is difficult to wrap one's head around! I believe it's only a matter of time before we're sucked into one, and then . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on March 9, 2015 at 2:06 PM
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Nautikos
Black Hole Icon!!
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 9, 2015 at 1:43 PM
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Sir Nautikos
Makes one feel pretty small, don't it!!
posted by
Kabu
on March 9, 2015 at 12:42 PM
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Well Naut, I am glad that the black hole is more than a bus ride away in universe terms.
I am sure in time perhaps in a marathon run to the sun space-wise, we shall be clobbered. A good job there are men like you to source information. Most of us still believe the moon is made of cheese.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM
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Nautikos
I haven't even had my first cup of coffee yet and you're talking that talk again....the kind that makes my head hurt! Won't you please turn out the light and roll over so I can get just a few more minutes of sleep?! I don't know why you can't get it through your head that THEY are always going to be getting excited about this stuff and making a big to-do because they keep getting ahead of themselves with a bunch of guesses, er, theories, and then later....when they have the equipment to maybe actually come up with a better guess, er, theory about the old....well....anyway.... Yes, fascinating stuff, black hole....billions of years.....
When I was a very young kid someone told me to think about the concept that if there were no such thing as gravity I could take a rock and pitch it up and it would never stop going. I took that to heart and would sneak out of our house at night and lie on a blanket under the stars, staring up at that vastness.....that was all I ever needed to know. Now, back to sleep.
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Krisles
on March 9, 2015 at 8:36 AM
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