Comments on: Bang!

By: mike

mike — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:37:39 +0000

Everywhere we look in the sky we see galaxies.

The number of places possible for life simply boggles the mind.

At least it boggles my mind.

By: Shoeshine Boy

Shoeshine Boy — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:29:10 +0000

@34 Thespis: Thanks for the info. Now, where is the interrobang key on my keyboard?

By: Thespis

Thespis — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:55:30 +0000

#29 ShoeShine Boy: And people who used a typewriter or know Printer’s Slang (or worked with typesetting in the murky past…)

For even MORE fun, look up interrobang. That’s a *good* Scrabble word.
Or go here for the transcript of the TIME magazine article from 1967.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941558,00.html

By: Galactic Exclamation Point

Galactic Exclamation Point — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:19:49 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:27:39 +0000

A few million years? That sounds suspicious to me. Assuming these galaxies are about 100,000 light years apart (which is roughly the diameter of the milky way’s main disk), moving that far in a few million years would require the galaxies to be falling towards each other at several percent of the speed of light.

Did you mean a few billion years?

By: Enlaces de Astronomía: Semana 08-08-2011 « Campos de Estrellas

Enlaces de Astronomía: Semana 08-08-2011 « Campos de Estrellas — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:57:30 +0000

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By: Beige Abc Blog

Beige Abc Blog — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:50:01 +0000

Galaxy Black X 30…

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By: ShoeShine Boy

ShoeShine Boy — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:20:27 +0000

I thought only Linux nerds called the exclamation point “bang”.

Not that I would know anything about that….

By: fastpathguru

fastpathguru — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:45:31 +0000

Clive,

On a fast-enough spaceship, flying towards the pair of galaxies would A) close the time-gap between you and it, fast-forwarding the merger process from your perspective, and B) time-dilation from moving near-light-speed would also have you “aging” more slowly, further fast-forwarding the process…

That would make for one really cool youtube video.

By: Aubri

Aubri — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:27:36 +0000

That’s a really…
*puts on dark glasses*
big bang.
*YEEEEEEAAAAAH!*