That woman looked like a Martian.
A cute one I mean.
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Venus is moving across the face of the sun this evening and it will be visible from NA. This won’t happen again until Dec 2117.
I really just want to know how am I supposed to be watching this?
I thought about putting my camcorder up to a mirror, but I still don’t think that would work and I have no clue how to do that without looking directly into a bright ass mirror.
If you don’t have capability to view the transit yourself, APOD has a refreshed image of the sun every time you press F5.
Badass dude. Good lookin’ out.
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A Supermassive Black Hole Was Ejected Out Of Its Home Galaxy
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory announced that’s it has observed something unprecedented:** a supermassive black hole being ejected from its own galaxy at speeds of millions of miles per hour.** The evidence suggests that the ejection was caused when the black hole collided with the supermassive black hole of another galaxy, producing an immense recoil force.
“It’s hard to believe that a supermassive black hole weighing millions of times the mass of the sun could be moved at all, let alone kicked out of a galaxy at enormous speed,” said study leader Francesca Civano in a press release. “But these new data support the idea that gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space first predicted by Albert Einstein but never detected directly — can exert an extremely powerful force.”
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The ejection of the black hole actually took place about 4 billion years ago, as astronomers observe the radiation from galaxy CID-42, which is 4 billion light years from Earth. Astronomers reviewing data from the Hubble Telescope first noticed something interesting was going on. The visual data was then confirmed by telescopes on the ground.
“The previous data told us that there was something special going on, but we couldn’t tell if there were two black holes or just one,” said study co-author Martin Elvis. “We needed new X-ray data to separate the sources.”
That’s when they turned to the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which was directed at the center of the visual data. The X-ray sources were reviewed with the telescope’s high-resolution camera to separate the two X-ray sources – the first being the black hole, and the second being the star cluster it left behind.
(There are two other possible explanations for the visual data, involving either the collision of three supermassive black holes or two supermassive black holes spiralling towards one another. Neither seems nearly as likely, though, as it would mean that one X-ray signature was being obscured, and there’s little evidence of that.)
One of the most fascinating – and potentially terrifying – things about this discovery is that it implies that there may be supermassive black holes moving through the universe outside of galaxies. And we currently have no way of knowing that they’re there.
“These black holes would be invisible to us,” said study co-author Laura Blecha “because they have consumed all of the gas surrounding them after being thrown out of their home galaxy.”
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A supermassive point of infintesimally small and infinitely dense matter traveling at a millions of miles an hour and creating gravitational ripples across the fabric of space.
It doesn’t get more celestially arousing than this folks.
Wow, that’s pretty fucking neat. I can’t even fathom the amount of energy needed, let alone the forces to move a black hole at those speeds. Its like the entirety of space and time is pushing the black hole. I wonder if one day we can generate those types of celestial waves and use them for traveling.
Fixed that for you.
We all know that is what would really happen.
I visited the Rose Center for Earth and Space yesterday. It’s pretty sweet. The info is pretty basic, but it’s presented creatively, and they have the Willamette Meteorite on unguarded display.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what happens. Multi trillion dollar companies fighting proxy wars for total control of a planet.
Cough Dune Cough Cough
my favorite TED talker Juan Enriquez just dropped a new one. must watch.
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My brood will be a family of mercenaries fighting on the side with the most cash to spare… Clan Bladesake FTW! :tup:
You’re right, I read the post I quoted as interplanetary war.
Interesting video right here. It shows how much potential we have, yet at the same time, those basic questions he ask’s show how dangerous our world will be in the future. Specifically the simple hypothetical question he asked regarding the future of the Olympics.
Ancient Olympics. 
Before, we where Engineered by Ancient Aliens to do their bidding and work for them in any way they wanted. Today, Ancient Humans engineer homo-evolutis for the same reasons. All of this and more on Ancient Aliens 2.0
The bold fucking killed me.
Reminds me of a video Laban linked once called Homo-Genius.