About 3.8 billion years ago, things in the constellation Draco (the Dragon) got a little bit interesting.
Although research is ongoing, astronomers say that the unusual explosion likely arose when a star wandered too close to its galaxy’s central black hole. Intense tidal forces probably tore the star apart, and the infalling gas continues to stream toward the black hole.
According to this model, the spinning black hole formed an outflowing jet, which is blasting powerful X-rays and gamma rays in our direction, researchers said.
The astronomers believe that the X-rays we are seeing “may be coming from matter moving near the speed of light in a particle jet that forms as the star’s gas falls toward the black hole.” Apparently, we are watching this astronomical event head on.
For those of you unfamiliar with intergalactic distance, 3.8 billion light-years is 22,338,776,418,097,710,000,000 miles. More or less.
Are those streaming x-rays focused on southern California or maybe Washington DC? I’m doing a term paper on mass insanity, and this sounds as good a place to start as any. By the time I finish, I should get my PhD from OnLine U.
Now you have to explain what the scale on the photo represents. “1 arcmin”
arcmin is minute of arc, or 1/60th of one degree. Referred to commonly as “MOA” by marksmen.
Fasten your safety belts folks. On second thought, never mind. Who can afford to drive at these prices anyway?
I does seem that the Democrats claim of victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice race was a case of premature electulation.
Millions of dollars and busloads of Union thugs and they still couldn’t pull it off. A victory for the Tea Party and its Social media campaign and kitchen table organization.
An arc minute basically describes how wide it appears to us.
#5 Sarge
Although it looks good for Prosser now, it’s probably better to wait for the dust to settle before popping open the champagne.
I got mine from Wattsamatta U.
I’m doubtful that even the Democrats will be able to “find” the 8,000 votes it will take to win this one. Its also above the number required for an automatic state financed recount. If a recount is done, Doppleganger (or probably the Union) will have to pay for it. I’m actually loving the amount of money the Unions are having to spend all over the country on thier protest organizing. Less money on hand for the election, and perhaps some of them will start condidering the efficacy of throwing good money after bad.
Its important to note the that 7K+ votes in Waukesha County were not “found” votes—they just weren’t reported to the media. They had already been received and recorded but were not saved to the file that went to the AP.
Ace brings us our morning cup of schadenfrued by linking to a post good folks don’t normally link to (D Kos). Pasted here in its entirety so as not to add to the hit count.
Frivolous, but funny.
22.338 SEXtillion miles away.
/heh heh
A quick calculation on the arc minute…
Our friends at Wikipedia tell us that Pluto resolves to about 0.1 arc second and say this is roughly equivalent to a ping pong ball at 80 km. This gives:
1pppb (pluto ping pong ball) = 0.1 arcsec @ 80km -or-
1ppb / 80,000m = 0.1 arcsec
by definition:
60 arcsec = 1 arcmin
this gives:
600 arcsec = 600ppb / 80,000m =>
1 arcmin = 1ppb / 133m -or-
if you set a ping pong ball on a standard 400m track (like they have around a football field) in the middle of the track at the apex of one of the curves, the width of the ping pong ball when viewed from the opposite goal line is about an arc minute (very approximate).
It appears that we have a bar owner who is vindicitive and is wasting the court’s precious time.
If God did cause a lightning bolt to demolish the bar, even if prompted to through the prayers of the faithful, then its legally an Act of God.
Would be ironic, though, for a court to rule that not only can we petition the Lord with Prayer, but that he answers them.
#12 Pyro: I believe you dropped a digit.
And Gov. Walker wastes no time in making sure the will of the voters of Wisconsin gets implemented as quickly as possible.
#14 bone
I think you’re right.
This means 1arcmin would be like looking at our ping pong ball from about 1,333m or a little more than 3/4 of a mile.
#16 Pyro:
SHAZZAAM! ALERT THE MEDIA AND BE DARNED SURE THAT YOU TELL MRS. BONECRUSHER Who’d a thunk it??
don’t get a big head
#18 Pyro
Too late
Even a stopped clock can get the big head twice a day!
. . . . . . .unless it is one of those digital jobbies that does not work at all and you can’t see the numbers. . . . . . .
I’m actually gonna miss Glenn Beck. But I’m sure Jon Stewart will miss him more.
A more detailed report on the murdering scum-bag Gazan attack on a wissin school bus and the restrained Israeli response can be found here.
Even a blind hog can find an acorn every now and then.
The Lutherans are at it in Rio de Janeiro.
More Jon Stewart doing Beck better than Beck does Beck.
Content Advisory: Coffee spew warning.
#25 Pyro
I had no idea there were Muslims in Brazil. Since there’s less PC BS in Latin America, I wonder how that happened.
Wagon and Boney, trolling for the elusive Big Jolly.
Yo bob, Do you know anything about the old Clear Lake Country Club building burning down yesterday? There musta’ been about 8 fire trucks around 4:30-5:00 yesterday. Since it’s been vacant for several years I’m guessing it was arson or maybe one of our three resident derelicts’ accidentally burned it down.
#29 SD
Is Bob a resident derelict? Who else?
Super Dave, I had not heard about it.
#30 I have an iron clad alibi. I was
knocking up Sarah Palin’s daughterwasting time on the internet.Here is your life lesson of the day:
Since you cannot or really should not try on underwear at the store to see if they are too large or too small, do not throw your old underwear out till you put on the new ones and confirm the fit.
DANG THESE THINGS ARE TIGHT.
Question of the day:
Why izzit that a new package of socks are in a hermetically sealed bag that can be resealed. like a zip lock bag?
#31 bob
I thought you had a hot “date”.
So you are in dire need of new underwear. You go to the store and the only package in your size has been resealed with clear packaging tape. Would you buy that package?
So people in the store can check to see the size by ripping through the side of the bag.
Yeah, but remember, he was dating himself.
Nope. There are plenty of WalMarts in this fair city.
You’re awfully fixated on manties this morning. Trying to seduce BSue for your semi-annual romp?
I’m fine with them thinking they were.
I forget – does that make you go blind or give you hairy palms?
Heh, which hand got jealous?
So that is why it is said don’t let your right hand know what your left hand is doing.
/Resisting really nasty suggestion about foreplay in the Bunsonburner house.
#33 WB
I did. But it didn’t start until 8PM, so I still had plenty of time to
knock up Palin’s daughtertorch the country clubwaste time on the internet.It friggin figures. Bought socks whose size matched the size of my shoes…… they are too small. Now i gotta dig out a pair of old socks out of the trash. Is today Monday or what?
How in the world can these socks say they are 12/14s and feel like 9s on my feet? And yes they are MEN socks.
/EXPLETIVES DELETED.
Forget it. I am not doing today. Today is canceled period end of story. I am going to sit around the house all day……….butt nekkid
/Freakin speedos and fruit of the loom socks made a perfectly rotten day worse.
Have you ever bought socks before in your life? It’s always been like that. That’s why I always just buy tube socks. They form to your feet no matter the size.
Unless you have pixie feet or flippers, the medium/”regular” socks should fit.
He gets them for Christmas.
squack – get BSue to pick up some for you. I’d bet she would get everything that would fit your hunky bod just right.
This is pretty cool. Apparently the additional cost of the seal at the bottom of the glass is offset by reduced labor costs because of the increased efficiency.
#49 Bob: That is very cool; a perfect beer (if you can call stadium swill beer) poored everytime with 0 waste. The gizmo is placed too high for the beer slinger and it is not as ergonomically efficient as it could be, but other than that it is BITCHIN
#49 #50 Dang I wish I could see that, ‘Scribe please.
#51 It a gizmo that fills glasses up with beer by piercing the self sealing bottoms of the glasses, not too much head, and no waste. And amazingly fast. A single operator is able to deliver 17 glasses of beer per minute, by my count.
Those respectful law abiding D’s.
How bad is it really getting for D’s when effin CNN is doing a story on D activists conspiring to commit the crime of litter?
Taking one’s trash and leaving it at someone else’s house is littering, which is a crime in all 50 states, INCLUDING THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. What Boehner should do is post video cameras all over his property and prosecute the offenders to the fullest extent of the law. I would be willing to bet that some of the garbage in question could be considered “toxic waste” therefore, the EPA could get involved and turn the whole thing into a giant cluster-wiss.
Much to the surprise of absolutely no one, D activists are behind this:
Why not get the RICO pukes involved as these people are conspiring to commit a crime. Go after the entire organizations.
#51 SoooperDave: It appears that there is a disk at the bottom of the plastic cup, perhaps a spring-loaded check valve.
watch before it is censored .
http://www.youtube.com/embed/A3YQANdvvbY
I’ve seen him on Sesame Streeet.
Guess he must have gotten laid off mdue to gummint cutbacks.
Just more proof that the folks who complain the most about “tone” are the ones most likely to adopt a nasty one.
Had to finally throw out all my favorite underwear a few weeks ago. We’d been thru a lot together, I’m gonna miss them; the oil bust, two marriages, high school graduation….. One pair still had the markings from the Oiler-Buffalo game……
We’re packing up to go to Dallas for the NASCAR race tomorrow night and to spend a couple days with the boy. Wahoo!
/hoping I-45 don’t shut down and the lights stay on if DC can’t agree on a budget.
Where was an investigation re: Norm Coleman and Al Frankenstein election?
Have a safe trip, GJT!
GJT
Someone who just confirmed all the worst fears of the liberal elites.
/facepalm
#58 GJT: Tim, are you saying that your underwear had more skid-marks than a race track?
#44 Squawk
WOMEN socks have the same problem. All socks now seem to be made stretchy and claim they fit a wide range of sizes. Unfortunately if your feet are in the upper half of the range, the socks will be — shall we say — snug.
#59 GJT have a good one at TMS. Never have brought myself to go to a Nascar race, just the Indy car races a few years ago and NHRA every year thy have been in Baytown.
NHRA, Baytown April 29, 30, May 1st. Whoohoo.
And everyone else in the room.
Note that he threw out the old. He said nothing about new. He must be going Regimental.
.
Is that the same as “Commando”?
yep.
Except it usually involves one of those Scottish man-skirts.
Pretty interesting article written by a lefty whose best friend is a conservative.
n.b. my beer-making buddy leans a bit to the left – sort of left-center with a bit of libertarian thrown in. We take it in stride and kid each other often.
#65 WB
Yep, I noticed that, too. That’s the main reason for the /facepalm.
Of course, it may cut down on the scratchin’.
/gotta appreciate class where you can find it
We’re stopping by some Maggyville garage sales on the way out.
Bye y’all, and don’t ferget, never let a good toe curlin’ oppurtunity pass you by!
#55 – P I T I F U L (in my best Andy Griffith voice)
looks quite a bit like WAY MORE than a slight percentage of radicals from this desk…………..
Another note in the biggest never-reported-by-the-MSM scandal:
#68 Pyro
Now I’d like to hear why the conservative woman Janet enjoys the company of the lefty. Incidentally, only a lefty would have a name like “Taffy Brodesser-Akner”.
#73 mh42
Sometimes people just hit it off. I don’t mind hanging out with lefties as long as they’re cheerful and we share something in common; as I said, my beer-making buddy is somewhat left of center.
#74 Pyro
Yabbut Taffy is so snotty about her conservative friend, just can’t believe it herself that she has a conservative friend…
I must be getting slow in my old age. The title of today’s thread is:
Does this black hole make my a$$ look big?
mharper42
#63
I LUV YOU
To the rest of you
pphhhhbbbbbttttttt
I want some of those tube sox Hammy mentioned.
Hey Mr. Squawk, any new pics coming to your place any time soon?
GJT
I threw mine out along with the naugahyde/kuhzorche shin couch that I left a permanent pucker in.
get a room you two
SC
Should have some new pics up later next week. I have been busy doing real work earning
OBSCENEmeager profits. Now don’t faint, I have been known to take out the trash on occasion too.From Drudge’s link to “NO APOLOGY…” story on Nato bombing of Libyan rebels in tanks:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_NATO_LIBYA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-04-08-08-25-00
What he really meant to say.
81
And discuss handbags
I only commented on socks because I too had a recent experience in which I unexpectedly discovered my new socks were too snug.
That is all.
Or should I have bought some Big Endian socks?
#87 Mharper
As long as it’s not Big Endian unnerwears.
fify
mharper42 says:
#86
Yabbut you were the ONLY person that understood my growing frustration with too snug socks. Sniff sniff no one ever shows me compassion and understanding like that. For a “brief”moment we were kindred spirits in foot covering frustration. It is the little things dun ya kno.
Bunsonburner teases me
Hamous harasses me
Bob42 bashes me
My dog ignores me….. MY OWN DOG IGNORES ME!!!!!!!!
Sarge wishes I would ignore him
I’m…… I’m so misunderstood.
#90 Squawk
Oh, poor Squawk. Are you going to apologize for-freaking ever about not understanding the divine of the female energy or some such crap, too?
I thought the unnerwears were too tight ‘cuz you had something in them. Was I mistaken?
/putting whip away
Aw come on Squawkie, you can always count on having a fun day when you spend it with the people you love.
Some things do work for Big Endians and Little Endians.
Not everything, though.
WOOOOHOOOO don’t do that i was just beginning to like it
Till Bob pulled out Barney
Sarge
wishes I would ignore himdon’t care what anybody thinks ‘cept God and his fambly. Not too many folks around that’s as important, and even fewer moreso.Cop pepper sprays vile, killer beast.
squack & crazy aunt –
If you two are gonna get all weird & kinky, take it to one of those motels that rents by the hour.
This just came in the spit bucket about the foul “O”. Sorry for the length but I don’t have the linkiethingie.
The foul “O” is a fraud, who’d a thunk it?
Ummm….
Bone, can you summarize and comment on these long-a$$ed articles? If you can’t post a link to the source because it came in your email, I’d tend to be pretty suspicious of its veracity.
Bones, I found several dozen linkies to that post. My skepticism meter is pegged.
Here ya go
Pyro: you have a valid point, however, there is enough meat on this bone here that deserves some gnawing. To phrase a little differently, I heard from mulitple sources, I can’t recall where now, that also spoke about his bogus SS number, no one remembering him from college, the obvious questions about the “cert of live birth” thing and now “The Donald” is going to start in on him and HE has the resources to get past the firewalls. The more salient constitutional questions at hand are:
*Not if but when we discover and prove that the foul “O” is in fact a fraud and constitutionally ineligible to be president, what happens to every document he signed and every appointment he has made? A reasonable approach would be to immediately invalidate every action or statement he has made in an official capacity.
*Further, those who assisted in the fraud CONSPIRACY need to be held accountable as well – and that means jail time.
*What punishment would be appropriate for the foul “O” crime of illegally occupying the the office of POTUS through fraudulent actions?
*The LSM has made a diligent effort to demonize/marginalize/malign any and all who raise the obvious questions – will they also be indicted as active participants in conspiracy to commit fraud?
*Will anyone hold the upper management of the LSM companies criminally liable for their gross incompetance in not investigating obvious pertinent questions?
We know without any question what would be the answers to these questions if it were a honkey, conservative R in office now don’t we?
#102 I notice that it was posted April 1st.
But I do not doubt he is a fraud. All that stuff in the article would be kind of hard to hide.
RE foul “O” There is too much there there for there not to be something there, or with all this wissin smoke there has to be a fire somewhere.
In a country of 300 million, how many Barry Soeteros are there?
You might be surprised.
Even if a blog post written on April Fools Day says there’s only one.
I demand to see the original, long form birth certificate for Donald Trump’s hair.
Why has the “O” spent millions blocking access to his past unless he has something to hide? I have yet to hear even a single plausible explanation to that question.
Under which passport did he travel to Pakistan?
Why did BOTH HE AND MOOOCHELLE surrender their law licenses if they had nothing to hide from/be ashamed of? With all the time and money invested in obtaining a law license, why would it be surrendered unless it was to prevent something far worse from happening?
Why was the obviously fraudulent COLB put out as “proof of citizenship”? On that document, the race of father is listed as African American, a term that was never used in 1961; how does one explain that?
I don’t give a rat poopie what day the post was written, the questions are still unanswered and darned important.
Have any of the questions surrounding “O” been plausibly answered? If yes, I want to read them.
And it would mean that the Clintons have the most incompetent campaign staff in the history of Presidential elections.
Obama shot JFK.
Just a shot in the dark, but the fact that neither of them was practicing law might have something to do with it.
Because until Donald Trump added a bit of credibility to the issue, Barry and his bunch could use it to make people look crazy.
I’m perfectly happy to let Trump carry the ball on this one. He klnows he;s not going tlo be elected President, and he’s rich enough that he doesn’t care what it does to his reputation. He’s a smart cookie. He knows that Obama was born in the US, the two birth announcements printed in the Honolulu newspapers pretty much prove that, but he also knows that a guy like him talking about it insulates him from charges of nutcase and racist.
Obama’s birth certificate shot JFK.
Serge’
#95
Good grief. Lighten up Lucy. You wanna be all pious, setting up on the hill looking down on us peons knock your holier than thou self out. Yanno what Serge’ you would be better off praying for wisdom for yourself than worrying whether I am sick or lacking in compassion.
/and i was not gonna get into a willy waggin contest today. Sigh
Does Obama’s original birth certificate make Michelle’s butt look big?
How ’bout a flap-up contest?
#110 Sarge:
Quite possibly the lamest friggin thing I have ever seen. Do you think any of the MD’s in Congress have let their medical licenses lapse or have surrendered them because they aren’t currently practicing medicine?? Do you know of any other lawyers who have surrendered their licenses because they are currently in congress and not because they were about to be taken due to criminal activity?
Birth announcements in a newspaper don’t prove anything except that someone had money to place the ad(s).
Me?
I’m just one Little Endian.
Couldn’t be pious if I tried.
I don’t know what else to do other than laugh. The whole thing reminds me of an op/ed by Mac Johnson a few years back:
#113 Bob: Does anything exist that doesn’t make her butt look as huge as:
1) A house
2) A barn
3) The back end of an elephant
4) 2 basketballs colliding
5) 2 planets colliding
6) The back end of a jack-a$$
7) The back end of a cow
8) Something that works better than ippycack to make one hurl
y’all can add to the list at your leisure.
#90 – GEEZ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ST, & Sha-Na-Na, & Texpat, & Me lubs ya Bubba
(as long as we kin heap on some abuse now n then o course……………)
MEGASNIKKER™
#117 – Cmon Hammy yer slippin – ya forgot to shoe-horn Cheney in dere somewheres!!
(although in fairness ah reckon the Halliburton remark kinda does dat eh?)
#108 Sarge:
Does the phrase “mutually assured destruction” mean anything to you Sarge? Do you really think that the Clintons are beyond reproach and have nothing to hide? A simple comment like “if you bring up and push the birth status issue, we will bring up Whitewater, cattle futures, Vince Foster or( whatever else they may have that we do not yet know about) and provide the evidence to put you in jail” would quickly stop the offense of the Clintons.
If the “O” staff, with the endless supply of money from Soros, couldn’t pull that off they would be the most incompetent election staff in history.
#90 Squawkster:
Leave it to the girl to hit below the belt. It was a really brutal shot at that.
#107 Bones
Bammy’s mother’s first husband was NOT an American but a Kenyan exchange student, I can’t see any reason why he would be listed as a hyphenated American.
Wonder why Snopes.com doesn’t have this one? Is there another good debunking/investigation site?
#101 Hams
Oh noooooooooooo…
“The knit has spandex for stretch.”
They even gots spandex in tube sox now…
#124 M:
My understanding is that snopes is owned by the annenberg foundation; which was a big supporter for “O”; all part of the Chicago machine.
I’ll check back in after the sun goes down tomorrow. Shabbat Shalom y’all.
#53 Boney: I went to FB earlier to check it out. They had 5. Fiiiiiiive. Most on that page were against it.
#68 Pyro, I also pasted your link on my best friends FB page. I’m the one that got her vote in her 20′s, she moved back to Seattle and is a pro-union commie and so are most of her FB friends. Thanks for that link.
#97 Pyro: I was 26 when once again, was driving by the Jewel Ho on 59 near Aldine Bender? I happened to comment to my friend how kewel it was to rent rooms by the hour, yanno, especially after a big meal. Northside girl looked at me and s’plained it to me……
And yes, Squawkie, we lubs ya. I’m sorry you had a “sock issue”. I don’t ever recall you wearing shoes. Just those sandel thingies. Afterall, your dog has gots ta lubs you. She licks your toes. Ewwwwwwww………
Dad-gummit! I just purchased my tickets for Sugarland on Saturday the 16th. And docking my pay to see it. Sunday would be much better. What to do…..what to do…….See a dear friend I haven’t seen in a while or be a slacker friend?
Bonez
#122
Those kinda jokes don’t bother me. After my time in the service I pretty much heard them all.
Heh. Adding on to Pyro’s 68 comment.
Bonehead,
A lot of lawyers surrender their licenses voluntarily, when they are no longer active in the practice of law. Such as:
1. Politicians not needing the extra income or hassle of being an active lawyer
2. Former lawyers doing quasi-legal work that does not require a law license, such as
sports agents, talent agents, Fox News Commentators,……..
I work with an engineer was a practicing attorney for our Company. He got fed up with the job and returned to his roots as an engineer. He was a patent attorney for us in the mahogany corridors and now he supervises complex startups of rotating equipment. He let his license go inactive with glee.
Simple
I didn’t know that people wore socks any more.
#133 EG
Squawkbox and I may be the last sock wearers in Texas…
I wonder if the bleach blond(e) spitter on the Many Sycophantic Nutjobs Broadcasting Company network is busy in his basement creating Barry Obumma’s long form birth certificate.
One part Photoshop
One part thigh tingle
Two parts spittle
WARNING RANT AHEAD:
Ahem
THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE A BUNCH OF IDIOTS.
Thank you
END RANT
That had a pretty high pith to byte ratio.
A short clip on the relationship between the Redumblicans and Marxicrats in Congress.
Guess which one is which.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38srxvt6qE
#134 – Au conTRAIRE!
Plennnnnnnnnnnnnty of socks de la tubus ’round heah
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