I have an idea for a new thread...

[porqui]

https://youtu.be/WdhQ5mM_Giw

 

I could only manage 1 1/2 minutes and that's it - too painful.

Edited April 11, 2019 by porqui

[stefmeister]

Here it is...

 

 

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-image-makes-history

 

A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).

A black hole is an extremely dense object from which no light can escape. Anything that comes within a black hole’s “event horizon,” its point of no return, will be consumed, never to re-emerge, because of the black hole’s unimaginably strong gravity. By its very nature, a black hole cannot be seen, but the hot disk of material that encircles it shines bright. Against a bright backdrop, such as this disk, a black hole appears to cast a shadow.  

The stunning new image shows the shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87), an elliptical galaxy some 55 million light-years from Earth. This black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun. Catching its shadow involved eight ground-based radio telescopes around the globe, operating together as if they were one telescope the size of our entire planet. 

Looks more like they used an old blackberry to take the shot.

[Piston ZA]

Looks more like they used an old blackberry to take the shot.

It's an image from 55 million light years away (the equivalent of photographing an orange on the face of the moon), of something that by definition cannot be seen.... 

[RocknRolla]

[RocknRolla]

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

It's an image from 55 million light years away (the equivalent of photographing an orange on the face of the moon), of something that by definition cannot be seen.... 

Well, it's not the hole itself we're seeing... It's all the **** and light around the black hole. 

 

Plus, here's the full pic. We've only been seeing a small portion of it in the media. Which is also why it's so grainy. 

 

Edited April 11, 2019 by Captain Fatbastard Mayhem

[stefmeister]

It's an image from 55 million light years away (the equivalent of photographing an orange on the face of the moon), of something that by definition cannot be seen....

Yes, i know that. It was a joke.

[fanievb]

meanwhile, back here on earth people are dying of hunger, disasters etc.


but NOOOOOO


lets spend billions on taking photos of a thing that won't help anyone with anything

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

meanwhile, back here on earth people are dying of hunger, disasters etc.

 

 

but NOOOOOO

 

 

lets spend billions on taking photos of a thing that won't help anyone with anything

why must everything be so binary? We can, and do, do both. And yes, it will help. Scientific models can now be confirmed or thrown out, or more data on gravitational constants and space / time etc etc. 

 

Lenses / sensors being used to catch this data can be used in myriad other areas in the future, and people can now have a more thorough understanding of what things like this look like instead of watching Interstellar and thinking oooooh, pretty

Edited April 11, 2019 by Captain Fatbastard Mayhem

[Shebeen]

I just had a good laugh at this. Thanks Hairy.

and some dubious MZanzi representation too!

 

this guy trying to drink the beer with the compactor.

 

https://youtu.be/WdhQ5mM_Giw?t=455

too funny

[Hairy]

[forkie]

why must everything be so binary? We can, and do, do both. 

exactly. as a nation and a people we need to get a way from " iether / or " and move towards "and / and"

Edited April 11, 2019 by forkie

[Shebeen]

meanwhile, back here on earth people are dying of hunger, disasters etc.

 

 

but NOOOOOO

 

 

lets spend billions on taking photos of a thing that won't help anyone with anything

 

EXACTLY!

 

Why are these so called smart people sciencing? Because sciencing will never help us with world hunger and disasters.

 

They should take their Ph.Ds, research grants and fancy algorithms and rather do something useful, like grow mielies!

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

exactly. as a nation and a people we need to get a way from " iether / or " and move towards "and"

As a world, unfortunately. Too many people don't know how to compartmentalise things or concentrate on multiple "causes" 

[Piston ZA]

meanwhile, back here on earth people are dying of hunger, disasters etc.

 

 

but NOOOOOO

 

 

lets spend billions on taking photos of a thing that won't help anyone with anything

I really hope you are joking, like Stefmeister was above

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

EXACTLY!

 

Why are these so called smart people sciencing? Because sciencing will never help us with world hunger and disasters.

 

They should take their Ph.Ds, research grants and fancy algorithms and rather do something useful, like grow mielies!

LOL. Exactly. 

 

Hello, Yellow Rice. Hello GMO. Hello disease resistant crops that anti-GMO zealots are refusing to learn how they work and saying they're baaaad for everything.