Look at the beautiful goatse...... It full of win.

[image deleted for violating conservative's prudish nature]

/not really deleted, but hey time to goat the boat, you see.

I don't see a ring, though....

Looks like a space hemorrhoid.

That reminds me. Who actually spends time in the prolapse section of a porn site?

Mugato: Hey guyz! What's "goastse"?

Nevermind, I'll just Google it. I'll just take the SafeSearch off just in case it involves "boobies" tee hee!

haha. i laughed at that

You see a rose, I see a galactic goatse

You're blind and have very little imagination.

/doesn't look like a skull, either

FTA: "While much of the material from that original star was violently thrown out into space, some of it remained in an incredibly dense object called a neutron star. This particular neutron star (too faint to be seen in this image) is moving inexplicably fast: over 3 million miles per hour!"

3000000 mi. = 5.106729e-07 ly

In a vacuum light travels 671 million miles per year.

Unless I'm failing bad in calculator use, there are 8769.6 hours in a year (or 526176 minutes, or 31570560 seconds).

So that neutron star is moving 26,308,800,000 miles per year, or over 39 light years per year? Can that be right?

By the way, I'm not just retarded but I'm also half-drunk.

Which direction is that neutron star headed?

"Galactic Goatse"

...now there's a progressive rock and/or death metal band name if I ever heard one.

david1963: FTA: "While much of the material from that original star was violently thrown out into space, some of it remained in an incredibly dense object called a neutron star. This particular neutron star (too faint to be seen in this image) is moving inexplicably fast: over 3 million miles per hour!"

3000000 mi. = 5.106729e-07 ly

In a vacuum light travels 671 million miles per year.

Unless I'm failing bad in calculator use, there are 8769.6 hours in a year (or 526176 minutes, or 31570560 seconds).

So that neutron star is moving 26,308,800,000 miles per year, or over 39 light years per year? Can that be right?

By the way, I'm not just retarded but I'm also half-drunk.

Which direction is that neutron star headed?

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.

At 3,600 seconds per hour (60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour) that's about 670 million miles per hour, making the star speed ~0.0045 LY.

Put down the calculator and pick up another beer, as you are obviously doing both wrong.

ArcadianRefugee corrected me:


Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.

At 3,600 seconds per hour (60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour) that's about 670 million miles per hour, making the star speed ~0.0045 LY.

Put down the calculator and pick up another beer, as you are obviously doing both wrong.

Cool, another excuse to drink!

I had no idea how innumerate I truly am. Math is hard. But drinking is easy.

And goatse is GROSS. Seriously.

Jam roll.

Proof that God is an asshole and a jokester

david1963: I had no idea how innumerate I truly am. Math is hard. But drinking is easy.

And goatse is GROSS. Seriously.

Isn't that a country song?

I have seen worse than goatse. No kidding. A few years ago on craigslist someone posted a link to a video of a guy poking himself with a giant toy. Then he used a vacuum to create a flower like mound and gently shaped it. As far as I know, goatse is just pics, right?

I didn't dream this, did I?

There is a local grade school here in town where a teacher has her name hanging up on a 4x5 board inside of a giant goat-c, I shiet you not. I know I took a picture of it, and I can't find it, which means that it's on my damn phone so now I have to find the adapter cable so I can upload it. Give me a few hours, like daylight tomorrow, and if this thread still exists, I will post it for all the world to see and marvel at.

/Good night until then.

Puppis A was formed when a massive star ended its life in a supernova, the most brilliant and powerful form of an explosion in the known universe.
Uh, veto?
Hypernova? Gamma ray burst? Neutron star merger?

so how long will it take to get to us?

kungfro: Puppis A was formed when a massive star ended its life in a supernova, the most brilliant and powerful form of an explosion in the known universe.
Uh, veto?
Hypernova?

A type of supernova.

Gamma ray burst?

typically released during a supernova.

Neutron star merger?

Hey, one out of three is great if you play baseball.

noit: [img818.imageshack.us image 500x268]

Wow, there really is nothing obscure on Fark.

/great flick, best of the three.

kungfro: Puppis A was formed when a massive star ended its life in a supernova, the most brilliant and powerful form of an explosion in the known universe.
Uh, veto?
Hypernova? Gamma ray burst? Neutron star merger?

Big bang?

Okay, I'm awake now and caffeinated and looking for my data cable; horrible "WTF were they thinking?" pic in a few minutes, I hope.

Yes, sadly, this is fo' rizzle. I don't know if this was deliberate, or just one of those freak nasty coincidences that can really ruin your day when someone finally has the heart to pull you aside and whisper in your ear.