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(CSMonitor) Interesting Apparently Vern Troyer has something to do with the creation of Supernovas   (csmonitor.com) divider line 11
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Walker [TotalFark]
2011-12-15 01:01:07 PM
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Fabric_Man
2011-12-15 01:11:30 PM
If one of those things actually gets in your belly, you're going to have the stomachache from hell!
 
h2oincfs
2011-12-15 01:14:43 PM
i'm not surprised. that was a horrible movie. i don't remember seeing troyer in it, though.
 
Clawhammer [TotalFark]
2011-12-15 06:46:15 PM
Hey Vern, It's Ernest...How's it going down there? You sure make cute lil tiny supernovae, youknowwhatimean?
 
baronbloodbath
2011-12-15 10:07:45 PM
And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.
 
themuze
2011-12-15 10:30:30 PM
Not to get morbid...but how the fark is Verne Troyer still alive?
 
GypsyJoker
2011-12-16 01:54:08 AM
There's a bright (mag 12) Typa Ia supernova currently showing in NGC 1404. To the Dobsonians, Batman!
 
dbirchall [TotalFark]
2011-12-16 05:09:24 AM
I heard about this NGC1404 one, but I think maybe it was too far away for my collaboration, or something.

/collaborator of Nugent's (in a different collaboration)
//observed 2011fe about ten times.
 
GypsyJoker
2011-12-16 10:01:48 AM
dbirchall: I heard about this NGC1404 one, but I think maybe it was too far away for my collaboration, or something.


It's in the Fornax I Cluster, so it's pretty far south from the middle US.
 
dbirchall [TotalFark]
2011-12-17 11:19:31 PM
GypsyJoker: dbirchall: I heard about this NGC1404 one, but I think maybe it was too far away for my collaboration, or something.

It's in the Fornax I Cluster, so it's pretty far south from the middle US.

That's not a problem; we're using a scope in Hawaii... but I checked with the PI and he said that although we did get a look at it, we got it around maximum, and we want to start 'em pre-max to build data cubes, so we didn't end up following it. :(
 
GypsyJoker
2011-12-18 01:02:22 AM
dbirchall: GypsyJoker: dbirchall: I heard about this NGC1404 one, but I think maybe it was too far away for my collaboration, or something.

It's in the Fornax I Cluster, so it's pretty far south from the middle US.

That's not a problem; we're using a scope in Hawaii... but I checked with the PI and he said that although we did get a look at it, we got it around maximum, and we want to start 'em pre-max to build data cubes, so we didn't end up following it. :(

Ah, darn.

Got a look at it myself a couple of hours ago. Kinda cool, knowing what it was while checking it out. Sky wasn't particularly good, but the SN was pretty easy.
 
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