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Black hole at center of Milky Way pictured for first time
May 12, 2022 19:07:12   #
PeterS
 
No, nothing political. I just thought this was cool because radio telescopes across the planet were linked together to make a planet-sized telescope to get the image. Cool, right!

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/black-hole-center-milky-way-pictured-first-time-rcna28508?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR0avQ8XLlQXsgB0EFZO02J06Oj_5pZEOg4jwGrZ7nOn0lozdAW3BTlnh6o

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May 12, 2022 19:26:56   #
son of witless
 
PeterS wrote:
No, nothing political. I just thought this was cool because radio telescopes across the planet were linked together to make a planet-sized telescope to get the image. Cool, right!

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/black-hole-center-milky-way-pictured-first-time-rcna28508?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR0avQ8XLlQXsgB0EFZO02J06Oj_5pZEOg4jwGrZ7nOn0lozdAW3BTlnh6o


Interesting. As long as it stays far away.

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May 12, 2022 20:07:24   #
RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit
 
son of witless wrote:
Interesting. As long as it stays far away.

Everything is expanding.

It will be a long time until things start to contract again. Cycles govern the universe.

Or we could be in trouble if it is random?

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May 12, 2022 20:25:19   #
son of witless
 
RascalRiley wrote:
Everything is expanding.

It will be a long time until things start to contract again. Cycles govern the universe.

Or we could be in trouble if it is random?


I have a friend who knows these things about space. According to him in 500 million years we won't have to worry about a Black Hole destroying us. By then the Earth's magnetic Field will fail and our atmosphere and oceans will boil off, and that will pretty much end all of our worries.

I think he's wrong. I bet we go at least a billion years before we bite the big one. I got $ 100 on it. If Global Warmers can tell us things that are sure to happen long after all of us are dead, I can make bets too.

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May 12, 2022 20:50:40   #
RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit
 
son of witless wrote:
I have a friend who knows these things about space. According to him in 500 million years we won't have to worry about a Black Hole destroying us. By then the Earth's magnetic Field will fail and our atmosphere and oceans will boil off, and that will pretty much end all of our worries.

I think he's wrong. I bet we go at least a billion years before we bite the big one. I got $ 100 on it. If Global Warmers can tell us things that are sure to happen long after all of us are dead, I can make bets too.
I have a friend who knows these things about space... (show quote)


You are an optimist. I peg humanity in its adolescence right now. Some species have gone on to exist for over a billion years but I see our tribal instincts as being detrimental.

We will continue to exist without the technology

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May 13, 2022 00:53:58   #
PeterS
 
RascalRiley wrote:
Everything is expanding.

It will be a long time until things start to contract again. Cycles govern the universe.

Or we could be in trouble if it is random?

They think that all galaxies have giant black holes in the center so it's normal and most likely necessary for a galaxy to form. I just thought it was cool that they turned the entire planet into a giant telescope to get the image.

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May 13, 2022 00:58:24   #
RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit
 
PeterS wrote:
They think that all galaxies have giant black holes in the center so it's normal and most likely necessary for a galaxy to form. I just thought it was cool that they turned the entire planet into a giant telescope to get the image.
That is a lot of black holes and maybe gateways to somewhere else.

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May 13, 2022 17:50:35   #
son of witless
 
RascalRiley wrote:
You are an optimist. I peg humanity in its adolescence right now. Some species have gone on to exist for over a billion years but I see our tribal instincts as being detrimental.

We will continue to exist without the technology


At some point technology is our only hope if either a Big Black Hole wants to eat us, or the Sun becomes a Red Giant and also wants to eat us, or the magnetic field collapses, or a Big Ole Asteroid wants to dinosaur us. We can Star Trek the heck out of here.

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