Q and BA Episode 3: The Farthest Star

[cockroachafro]

Lollie mate, lollie....

[agustinbs]

Amazing really really well explained, i got amazed with the distances and the stars powers!

[Taraalcar]

Milky Waste not want not :D

[Shockinjay]

Excellent!

The Universe is so old, that it's likely many advanced lifeforms have evolved and perhaps passed into oblivion long before our own solar system was even created. Someday, we could possibly, stumble upon some ancient space artifact still adrift amongst the stars...a mere iconic remnant of their existance. But, for us...proof.

[Briancmwilliams]

@Shockinjay Talking about probability of life when we have no idea how life begins is ludicrous.

It's like trying to solve an equation when we don't know half the variables.

[natevmc]

very informative.. thank you

[caste2510]

haha no minties were harmed in the creation of this video haha lol funny!!!

[alienmoonbase]

Yawn. I'd like to see how many books were purchased by the NSA.

This guy is a complete ass clown.

We will see the LRO fail and Phil will be the parrot apologist for nasa as usual.

I'm talking about the alien artifact question (not the apollo landing conpiracy theories which I do NOT agree with)

Show me the 1m money shots LRO!

Check out lunomaly and tell me these sites don't deserve a closer look.

[alienmoonbase]

Put your money where your mouth is.

[RJL738]

I've heard alot of scources say that our solar syetem is near the edge of the milky way or 3/4 or even 2/3 or the way out. The Milky way is more than a thousand lightyears thick at it's thinest piont and has more than 400 billion stars. I think you meen 1,500 times wider, not larger. You meen more than 1,125,000,000 (volume) times larger and their are probibly several stars that are WAY bigger.

[Herufaia]

VY canis majoris is the largest star known.

That would go past SATURN in the solar system. Lets just say I'd rather not be in the solar system with this thing as the sun.

[caste2510]

@Herufaia but u cant see it to the naked eye. can u?

[alienmoonbase]

History will show Phil Plait to be a useful idiot type of "BAD ASTRONOMER"

Why? THE ALIEN ARTIFACT QUESTION.

Even Seth Shostack has said that we haven't really looked for alien artifacts on the moon.

So WTF PhiL? Do you really trust the government to tell you what is on the back side of the moon?

Bec

[Herufaia]

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Because most intelligent people don't listen to raving lunatics like you.

[alienmoonbase]

That's what the Catholic church said about Giordano Bruno in 1600 before they paraded him naked before the public and burned him alive.

So, if I raise a simple question and the response is "kill yourself" and "raving lunatics"

I think we need to keep asking the question.

Phil, where are the images of the areas in question?

Phil, I will bet you $1000 that we will NOT get images at 1m resolution from LRO of the sites identified by George Leonard.

I will pay SETI if i'm wrong. You pay MUFON.

[atypicalcalifornian]

Images? He's talking about stuff you can see with the naked eye if you bothered to listen to this very interesting video. U owe him 1000 bucks because you can go out in your backyard and see the stars he's talking about.

[TheLastReplicant]

Kill yourself.

[theendofconfusion]

u can see it 10 BILLION light years away with binaculars!! THE UNIVERSE IS ONLY 93 BILLION LIGHT YEARS ACROSS!!

[ExoditeTyr]

Is Mu Cephei as large as we can detect because it is close to collapsing under its own schlesinger radius and becoming a black hole?

And also to detect a Gamma ray burst, does it also have to point in the appropriate direction? or is it like a normal supernova and equally disbursed? (I think I read an article about their discovery in SciAm)

[Elajud]

go to bad astronomy and email him

[MHIoscar]

we share the same passion for astronomy!!!

but i wanna learn more... lol

[Sigrafix]

I'm glad to hear no minty's were harmed.

[redtsika]

how is it possible then that we know how the milky way looks if its so massive it takes light years to measure distances end to end?

[Fidellio13]

It doesn't. Vision is like a picture. It doesn't take time. It just sees what light is reflecting off of the retina at that time. So that is how we are able to see billions of years in the past when we look far out into the universe.

[leporidus]

Wow, yesterday the lunar eclipse, this morning the STEREO eclipse video and now this insight. I didn't now about μ Cephei and the brightness of gamma-ray bursts! Those things never cease to amaze me.

[bankeh]

You make my week phil... question coming up

[CaptainScrewdriver]

Yay!

[Billy7766]

wow!

[CheezyMastah]

pretty cool stuff, Phil. Can't wait for the next round!