
The Random Image Thread (keeping it PG-13 at the worst)
That's the speed of light shown to scale. Kind of surprising, isn't it?
I downloaded the image, opened it in GraphicConverter, and went one frame back from the beginning.Kirk wrote: Yeah, and there was nothing interesting about the gif animations even near the planets. We'll get you back eventually, RM.![]()
obvs wrote:I downloaded the image, opened it in GraphicConverter, and went one frame back from the beginning.Kirk wrote: Yeah, and there was nothing interesting about the gif animations even near the planets. We'll get you back eventually, RM.![]()
Doesn't that violate causality?

radarman wrote:![]()
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Funny though.
Worse is that it could actually happen anyway.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Science is Truth for Life. In FORTRAN tongue the Answer.
...so I'm supposed to find the Shadow King from inside a daiquiri?
Science is Truth for Life. In FORTRAN tongue the Answer.
...so I'm supposed to find the Shadow King from inside a daiquiri?
radarman wrote:![]()

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Remember this star's weird brightness chart obtained by Kepler?
Well, the Bad Astronomer has gotten a preliminary report from SETI and...no detectable radio signals from this star system.
So what does that say about the presence of possible alien mega-structures? Unfortunately, not very much. As I wrote before there is no guarantee that space-faring civilizations would use the radio band. Perhaps they are telepathic and had no need to develop radio communication of any sort.
The Bad Astronomer pointed out that we do know that some stars rotate rapidly and thus are rather oblate, and that this could alter the expected symmetry that a planet would have as it passed in between us and its star. Such oblateness can be paired with considerable alterations in brightness such that a star can have brighter and dimmer patches. We do have good evidence that this star is rotating about once every 0.88 Earth days (as opposed to our Sun's 26-day rotation) so this could partially explain both the asymmetrical light curve AND some of the variability in the other light curve, but this does not explain the intensity in those dips in brightness.
Well, the Bad Astronomer has gotten a preliminary report from SETI and...no detectable radio signals from this star system.
So what does that say about the presence of possible alien mega-structures? Unfortunately, not very much. As I wrote before there is no guarantee that space-faring civilizations would use the radio band. Perhaps they are telepathic and had no need to develop radio communication of any sort.
The Bad Astronomer pointed out that we do know that some stars rotate rapidly and thus are rather oblate, and that this could alter the expected symmetry that a planet would have as it passed in between us and its star. Such oblateness can be paired with considerable alterations in brightness such that a star can have brighter and dimmer patches. We do have good evidence that this star is rotating about once every 0.88 Earth days (as opposed to our Sun's 26-day rotation) so this could partially explain both the asymmetrical light curve AND some of the variability in the other light curve, but this does not explain the intensity in those dips in brightness.
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