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Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2010 12:43:33 pm PDT #8601 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2010 12:48:19 pm PDT #8602 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So it turns out there's this huge storm raging... on another planet... in another solar system. Isn't it cool that we know that?
“HD 209458b is definitely not a place for the faint-hearted. By studying the poisonous carbon monoxide gas with great accuracy we found evidence for a super wind, blowing at a speed of 5,000 to 10,000 km per hour.”
The storm itself is not surprising, but the fact that we are able to detect it is something of a coup. The planet in question is about 60 percent as massive as Jupiter, orbiting a Sun-like star 150 light years from Earth in the direction of Pegasus. Orbiting at 0.047 AU, the world is tidally locked, with surface temperatures thought to reach about 1000 degrees Celsius on the star-side, while the other remains much cooler. The temperature differential is what kicks up the enormous winds, now measured using the ESO Very Large Telescope and the CRIRES spectrograph, which produced spectra sharp enough “…to determine the position of the carbon monoxide lines at a precision of 1 part in 100,000,” according to team member Remco de Kok.
JZ - Jun 23, 2010 12:51:51 pm PDT #8603 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Happy birthday, Teppy, non-abdicating Queen of Flexibility and Typesetting!
Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2010 1:06:43 pm PDT #8604 of 30001
brillig
Well it's about bloody time! Or was he going to have Caroline's kids inherit--if that's even allowed in Monaco?
Prince Albert of Monaco is engaged to marry Charlene Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer for South Africa, a union that will give this wealthy Mediterranean principality its first crown princess since American Grace Kelly died in 1982.
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2010 1:07:33 pm PDT #8605 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Crap. One less opportunity for me to become a princess....
Kathy A - Jun 23, 2010 1:08:29 pm PDT #8606 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Isn't a given that Prince Albert is gay?
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2010 1:09:57 pm PDT #8607 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
He's gay? Huh - my chances were better than I thought....
msbelle - Jun 23, 2010 1:11:40 pm PDT #8608 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
He could be bi....
runs.
Sue - Jun 23, 2010 1:11:55 pm PDT #8609 of 30001
hip deep in pie
He's also acknowledged at least one illegitimate child. ETA: Two.
msbelle - Jun 23, 2010 1:12:31 pm PDT #8610 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
well poop. it is too early for me to schedule getting internet hooked up at the new place.
Now to investigate what to do to cancel all things here.