Outer Space Thread

[jim]

How cool would it be to be alive 4-6 billion years from now and look up in the sky and see the Andromeda galaxy colliding with the Milky Way?

[SHOW]

[Arthur Dent]

Cool. It's too bad that Earth will be rendered uninhabitable far sooner. Less than a billion years left.

[wart57]

Cool. It's too bad that Earth will be rendered uninhabitable far sooner. Less than a billion years left.

http://www.universetoday.com/25367/how- ... -on-earth/

[stlouie_lipp]

Will the Cubs have won a World Series by then?

[go birds]

heyooo

[go birds]

io9 is a big pile of dog sh*t these days so i rarely ever go, but i did pick the right day to visit because the following is an extremely fascinating article about where we could also focus on the search for alien life.

basically, they talk about dropping a black hole into the center of a brown dwarf, to which then it eventually creates enough energy to warm moons orbiting, setting off a chain of events that lead to life on said moon. thats the jist of it really.

http://gizmodo.com/want-to-find-aliens- ... 1784977276

[pioneer98]

Has a Hungarian physics lab found a fifth force of nature?

A laboratory experiment in Hungary has spotted an anomaly in radioactive decay that could be the signature of a previously unknown fifth fundamental force of nature, physicists say – if the finding holds up.

Attila Krasznahorkay at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’s Institute for Nuclear Research in Debrecen, Hungary, and his colleagues reported their surprising result in 2015 on the arXiv preprint server, and this January in the journal Physical Review Letters1. But the report – which posited the existence of a new, light boson only 34 times heavier than the electron – was largely overlooked.

Then, on 25 April, a group of US theoretical physicists brought the finding to wider attention by publishing its own analysis of the result on arXiv2. The theorists showed that the data didn’t conflict with any previous experiments – and concluded that it could be evidence for a fifth fundamental force. “We brought it out from relative obscurity,” says Jonathan Feng, at the University of California, Irvine, the lead author of the arXiv report.

[Freed Roger]

http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-29/s ... SocialFlow strong signal from outer space


Too soon-but mandatory

[Freed Roger]

about minute in, that baby blows.

[wart57]

That looks like a giant..... um.... well you decide.