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Astronomers Discover Kolob
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:59 am
by _moksha
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/In the Northern hemisphere’s sky, hovering above the Milky Way, there are two constellations—Cygnus the swan, her wings outstretched in full flight, and Lyra, the harp that accompanied poetry in ancient Greece, from which we take our word “lyric.”
Between these constellations sits an unusual star, invisible to the naked eye, but visible to the Kepler Space Telescope, which stared at it for more than four years, beginning in 2009.
“We’d never seen anything like this star,” says Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale. “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”
... this light pattern doesn’t show up anywhere else, across 150,000 stars. We know that something strange is going on out there.
If not Kolob, we could at least consider Enish-go-on-Dosh or Obliblish.
Re: Astronomers Discover Kolob
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:03 am
by _ludwigm
Are You in mak --- (c) DCP --- mode?
Re: Astronomers Discover Kolob
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:26 am
by _Kishkumen
We have found Azazoth and the Outer Gods!
All hail!
Prepare for the great revelation of Nyarlathotep!
Beware!
Re: Astronomers Discover Kolob
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:52 am
by _SteelHead
The other gods! The other gods! The gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth!... Look away... Go back... Do not see! Do not see! The vengeance of the infinite abysses... That cursed, that damnable pit... Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!
Re: Astronomers Discover Kolob
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:27 pm
by _Molok
Have any scientists mentioned the phrase "Non-Euclidean geometry"?
Re: Astronomers Discover Kolob
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:57 pm
by _ludwigm
Molok wrote:Have any scientists mentioned the phrase "Non-Euclidean geometry"?
Farkas Bolyai. Learn his name, please... He was Hungarian.
He learned Latin, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew and later also French, Italian and English. As other members of small countries. Like me.
See:
In mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry consists of two geometries based on axioms closely related to those specifying Euclidean geometry. As Euclidean geometry lies at the intersection of metric geometry and affine geometry, non-Euclidean geometry arises when either the metric requirement is relaxed, or the parallel postulate is replaced with an alternative one. In the latter case one obtains hyperbolic geometry and elliptic geometry, the traditional non-Euclidean geometries. When the metric requirement is relaxed, then there are affine planes associated with the planar algebras which give rise to kinematic geometries that have also been called non-Euclidean geometry.
The essential difference between the metric geometries is the nature of parallel lines. Euclid's fifth postulate, the parallel postulate, is equivalent to Playfair's postulate, which states that, within a two-dimensional plane, for any given line ℓ and a point A, which is not on ℓ, there is exactly one line through A that does not intersect ℓ. In hyperbolic geometry, by contrast, there are infinitely many lines through A not intersecting ℓ, while in elliptic geometry, any line through A intersects ℓ.Euclid is Euclides. Stupid English.
Re: Astronomers Discover Kolob
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 2:44 pm
by _Maksutov
Kishkumen wrote:We have found Azazoth and the Outer Gods!
All hail!
Prepare for the great revelation of Nyarlathotep!
Beware!
Sigh. I'm still mourning the aborting of the Mountains of Madness movie.
Re: Astronomers Discover Kolob
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 4:03 pm
by _Res Ipsa
Kishkumen wrote:We have found Azazoth and the Outer Gods!
All hail!
Prepare for the great revelation of Nyarlathotep!
Beware!
It's my fault. We played Eldritch Horror last night and lost. Sorry about that whole earth being destroyed thing.