The sun has been violating our airspace for too long anyway, time to shoot it down
[QUOTE=booster;43010688][img]http://www.spaceweather.com/images2013/28nov13/rip_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=uetue2qpqrd213gosgb0o4db25[/img][/QUOTE]
dont worry, in nine months the sun will just give birth to a comet baby
I blew $50 on a telescope for this??
FFFFFuck! Astronomy sucks!
so we're not talking about this:?
[img]http://forgeretailparkglasgow.moonfruit.com/communities/9/004/008/365/549/images/4538483650.jpg[/img]
because i'd have said this died ages ago.
[QUOTE=Satane;43010792]The sun didn't eat it all, look
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/2BS3n6C.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE]
truly incredible
Ban the sun.
[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;43010475]Welp, time to wait until Halley's comet shows up in 2061, and I'll probably be dead by then.
I've never seen a comet with my own eyes (if you don't count Hale-Bopp that showed up when I was one year old). Life sucks.[/QUOTE]
Nah you won't have to wait that long. Remember that ISON was discovered just last year in 2012. There are hopefully more undiscovered comets heading our way.
Latest image from the SOHO spacecraft is showing something:
[t]http://soho.esac.esa.int/data/realtime/c2/1024/latest.jpg[/t]
I wouldn't get my hopes up too high though, it might just be the tail and no nucleus, or just a tiny fragment.
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[t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaL_e2oCAAArJJS.jpg:large[/t]
[QUOTE=SuddenImpact;43010612]Fuck you sun.
I say we take all the nukes we have on earth and send it up to the sun as a big fuck you![/QUOTE]
That would make the sun literally stronger.
[QUOTE=DrDevil;43011199]That would make the sun literally stronger.[/QUOTE]
Wait, wouldn't it be helpful to that "the sun is going to shut down in a shitload of years"?
Like, giving it a bigger 'lifespan' or something?
[QUOTE=Coment;43011263]Wait, wouldn't it be helpful to that "the sun is going to shut down in a shitload of years"?
Like, giving it a bigger 'lifespan' or something?[/QUOTE]
Perhaps in the sense that it would add about 0.0000000000001 femptoseconds onto it's multi-billion year lifespan, if anything it all.
Nuking the sun would have no real effect. If you could get the warhead close enough to the sun without it melting and evaporating, the pressure of the nuclear blastwave would be overcome by the pressure inside the sun. It'd be like setting off a firecracker on the ocean floor. Any addition to the sun's lifespan would come from the sun consuming the metal casing and other materials in the nuke as fuel. (The uranium would be too dense and just sink to the middle)
The sun is big.
[QUOTE=Coment;43011263]Wait, wouldn't it be helpful to that "the sun is going to shut down in a shitload of years"?
Like, giving it a bigger 'lifespan' or something?[/QUOTE]
Due to the mass of the sun, I doubt we have enough radioactive material available on earth to actually make a significant and lasting difference to the reactions that sustain our sun's natural processes.
That and that's based on a hypothesis at best, as we have no real way of knowing for sure what nuclear material or a bomb would actually do when added to the sun without actually doing it.
Also, it is going to be five billion years or so until the sun fails, but before that it will expand to consume the earth and the other inner planets as it enters the 'red giant' phase. It's also likely that humanity will no longer exist by the time that happens. Even if what we call humanity did still exist, it would be so vastly different due to evolutionary progression that it would be nearly impossible to compare to our species today. Society, technology, and psychology and everything we know and define would have changed so drastically by that point that dumping fissile material might seem like a primitive and barbaric solution, as we think of the most ancient health-care and science known to historical record.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;43010972]Latest image from the SOHO spacecraft is showing something:
[t]http://soho.esac.esa.int/data/realtime/c2/1024/latest.jpg[/t]
I wouldn't get my hopes up too high though, it might just be the tail and no nucleus, or just a tiny fragment.
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[t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaL_e2oCAAArJJS.jpg:large[/t][/QUOTE]
SOHO scientists are saying this is only remnants now, no comet nucleus left.
[QUOTE=Coment;43011263]Wait, wouldn't it be helpful to that "the sun is going to shut down in a shitload of years"?
Like, giving it a bigger 'lifespan' or something?[/QUOTE]
a bigger lifespan of about 0.0003 seconds
Oh darn, guess I'll use my telescope to take pictures of Jupiter instead then.
[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;43010475]Welp, time to wait until Halley's comet shows up in 2061, and I'll probably be dead by then.
I've never seen a comet with my own eyes (if you don't count Hale-Bopp that showed up when I was one year old). Life sucks.[/QUOTE]
Why would you likely be dead in 50 years.
Oh damn, I was looking forward to this so much. Poor ISON :(
A trooper to the end.
God be with you, ISON. You magnificent bastard.
Why does the title say 4,000,000,000 but the article says 5million.
I don't get it.
[QUOTE=booster;43010688][img]http://www.spaceweather.com/images2013/28nov13/rip_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=uetue2qpqrd213gosgb0o4db25[/img][/QUOTE]
This kills the comet.
I thought it would have been cooler behind the sun
To be honest, I think it knew it was going to die.
If it didn't want to fry, it would have gone at night.
It may not be completely dead..
[IMG]http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2013/c3/20131128/20131128_2330_c3_512.jpg[/IMG]
Nasa wrote this on facebook:
[quote]The fate of #Comet #ISON during its trip around the sun today is not yet established. It's likely it didn't survive: [URL]http://go.nasa.gov/1bsMHQx[/URL] [/quote]
So it's not confirmed yet?
This is like watching a really really slow episode of Star Trek, where they fly behind the sun or into a black hole or through a twin pulsar, and you have to wait an agonising few seconds to see if they ACTUALLY SURVIVED to continue the show for another 6 seasons. Only those few seconds are for us a few hours, and it's not a fat guy in Captain's colours but a rock that holds all of our hopes and dreams. I really wanted to see this one :(
I guess I got to see that total lunar eclipse one night, I cannot believe the insane amount of content there is in the sky when you eliminate ALL light pollution. Swathes of glowing colour, blankets of stars so thick you'd think the sky was full of sparkling dust, and a moon glowing an intense bright red like some kind of lava planet. I will never forget those images as I laid there on my lawnchair absolutely stunned at what was really right about my head all this time...
Space, it's pretty impressive.
what did the buffalo comet's dad say when he left for the solar system
'bISON'
Where were the police when this happened???
Garry, plz ban the sun for being a dick.
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