Hunting for the shadows of distant solar system bodies

[veliptor]

what is it?

[hobbitmiester]

Why the fuck cant I reply directly to any fucking comments anymore youtube?!

[sphinxrising58]

ask the play babies who are running YouTube, lol

[ScHePsYsTeam]

what the fwck........is this

[theitalian123]

i dont get it

[chevydeo]

ok, but when you get the shadow,theres been like 8 years, so that distant solar body is fkng distant.

[PlanckLimit]

These are KBOs on the outer fringes of our solar system. The time delay due to the speed of light shouldn't be more than a few hours tops.

[m00ph00]

this is teh blow

[AscendentInLeo]

unpredictable

[rblwoaclu]

Get out of Gods house!!!!!your not invited!!!

[CloanLabs]

rblwoaclu: Get out of Science's House!!!!!! YOU'RE a brainless moron!!!!!

[chris7777777777777]

why is he brainless moron? because he believes in God? Get over it you donkey sphincter.

[CloanLabs]

He is a brainless moron because he denies the "God-given" right of mankind to even attempt to understand the universe around us with our mind. You "christians" are fools because you first posit the existance of a God who can never be seen felt identified or in any way confirmed, exept in the pronouncements of self-appointed "holy" evangelists who take your money. Then you deny us the ability to even study our universe with tools that our minds create, a universe we can touch and see. Imbecile.

[chris7777777777777]

You're an Idiot, can't you tell he was kidding?

[CloanLabs]

No, I don't think that he was kidding. (And "idiot" is what your mom called you last night when you came before she did.) I went to his channel and the entire thing is bible quotes and such. I've heard these religious people my entire life shit on NASA and on science and on man's need to understand the universe through logic and reason as opposed to witchhunting and worship of an idol which does not exist.

But I'll be charitable.

He's entitled to his opinion, as is everyone.

You're still a twat.

[chris7777777777777]

Go to his site again, he doesn't look like a fundamentalist.

[chris7777777777777]

I grew up in church, and I am all for the exploration of space. I beleive that one day I will travel the universe just for fun in my glorified body.

[CloanLabs]

Well, that's great. Just as long as you and your Doomsday Cult ("christianity") don't burn the rest of us on crucifixes for wishing to explore the universe in our regular, un-glorified bodies...

[chris7777777777777]

lol, of course not, I want to explore NOW! I can't wait.

[chris7777777777777]

The day of the scientifically ignorant Christian is coming to an end. Though we still have different beliefs on Origin. We have are theories, you guys have yours.

[chris7777777777777]

You clumping all Christians as having the same Ideologies, doctrines, and Convictions.  Is like me clumping all you Ashiest with the like of Marxism, Communism, Fascist, and the likes of the Columbine shooters in which "all" have Strong ties to atheistic Ideology? Or am I wrong about that?

[CloanLabs]

Your use of the debating tactic of "Reduction to absurdity" is well-founded and I appreciate it, using it all the time myself, in debate AND in my own art. Well done.

I can only quote Ben Franklin: "Jesus taught the greatest, most etical moral system that has ever been known to Man, or is ever likely to be known to Man. However, I doubt his Divinity." I, too, grew up in church and agree with everything Jesus said. But so many times I turned the cheek for "christians" so I can't join that club.

[chris7777777777777]

I respect that, I believe that his Identity shall soon be revealed. Man has created this world upon the foundations of it own Ideas and will crumble on its own weight. It's not the Christians responsibility to force people to see it their way, even we can not imagine an eternity of Ideas God has in store for us or how it will all end, that is why there are so many debates on the bible and the doctrines in it. I have strong beliefs and some crazy one I don't talk much about

[CloanLabs]

You know, personally, I'd bet that, as far as ideas go, it's the "crazy ones" that your god would really WANT you to "talk about much." You think Moses, Elijah, Jesus, and the other prophets played it safe and only discussed the mundane things that they thought weren't likely to get them locked up?

[chris7777777777777]

Im kind of an idiot, is there anyway you can reword the question, my synapse's are having a hard time relaying the message.

[chevydeo]

u r talking about it. did u know that jesus had a girlfriend?

[chris7777777777777]

really? who was she? you know him? Where you there? Did you walk in on them or something? Your definently and idiot.

[MrFireAss]

I am a Christian , i believe in God, and Jesus, but i am completely for the spending of public and private funds on space exploration, we need to get off the rock we screwed up.

[hobbitmiester]

Its our generation that's fucking it environmentally. We aren't going anywhere. We will continue to persist in a doom world we have created. If we go anywhere else without solutions here, same shit happens all over again. As long as there is man, there will be problems.

[lgarvey]

If you prey to god a giant hand will decend from the heavens and carry you to whatever planet, star or galaxy you wish to go to.

[Truthiness231]

Read more:

Some objects in the distant ring of icy bodies called the Kuiper Belt are too small to observe by the sunlight they reflect. So astronomers are looking for their shadows. They monitor thousands of stars simultaneously in the hopes that one will be dimmed by the passing of an intervening small Kuiper Belt Object. The KBO transit event would last less than a second, and as this animation shows, any detection would be dependent on the star, KBO, and telescopes being perfectly aligned.

[rdazzle4shazzle]

neat?

[bigDbigDbigD]

WTF?

[ndjarnag]

this really sucks.

[Virasana]

What is this vid?

No sound?

No explanation?

Was it posted by New Scientist or just someone playing randomly with graphics software?

[Divine562]

Read the descriptions you moron.

[volstar88]

Reading the description does not change the length of the video. It will still be 20 seconds and that is definately too short to be of any value.

[sean19841]

what a complete waste of time and money, just like the mars missions, the government spend all this time and money to encourage scientists to look for life elsewhere (i.e little tiny bugs/bacteria) when they have been in contact with intelligent extra-terrestrials for a very long time, shame they dont let those poor scientists know about it really,lol. We will all know very soon though!

[kurac3000]

brainless nutjob...

[ludwigious]

swamp gas.

[Divine562]

What leads you to believe that we will all know 'very soon'? Oh no, You must be one of Them. Perhaps the money would have been put to use best in providing you with an education, or some counseling. Imbecile.

[sean19841]

im studying for a degree you fucking deranged ponce! My belief leads me to to think we will know soon, am i not entitled to that at least. Instead of disrespecting ones beliefs as this world does so good and leads to wars, why not accept that fact people have their own beliefs you idiotic pillock!

[MrFireAss]

people can have their own beliefs, i dont care, thats what makes us human, and different, but the same.

its just funny seeing you media raised un-educated non thinkers going after the sensationalism of a select few members of congress's worries.... things are in place to make sure we dont screw up... god gave us free will.

[FlameSpartan]

Free will?

Free will causes conflict. As long as there is man, there is war, and war never changes.

Free will is what made us the violent creatures we are

Normally I don't get into anything religious but this stood out to me

[Shadowmov3r]

@FlameSpartan It's not religious, it's science.

[Starioshka]

@FlameSpartan It's not religious, you just Nazi!

[sphinxrising58]

Spoken from a media influenced computer junky, lol

[zgitzoid]

an explanation please?

some of us are laymen

[climbingfool2]

read the info box to the right

[Vziera]

better than not =)

[mattforce7]

ok.....i could see how this could work if u were able to detect this out in space, but the animation is just laughable...but i know its made for a lemans approach, but keep workn on it

[greatghandi]

Says the guy with multiple misspellings and a misunderstanding of the usage of ellipses.

[noinlair]

Come on newscientist ... seriously

[BLAZETANGO]

i rather read an article on the discoveries of 51PEG

Google it if you want to know :D

[username8o8]

brilliant

[ALaudun]

Too short no narration.

[wendelsergio]

that was pretty boring!!! no audio wtf!!!

[rochelimit55555]

the probability of that must be 1 to a million, but it could help with fewer narration instead of us reading the description, considering newscientist is one of the most popular channel and considering ther's a lot of babbling youtubers

[CUBuff10]

not one of the better videos i have seen from you guys.

[carbonatedmilktm]

this is pointless...

[DamienZshadow]

This isn't all that "new". Maybe new in terms of a few years, but it's been talked about for a while now. It was mostly used for spotting extrasolar planets by watching for the wobble of stars rather than the dimming of them. So I guess this is sort of new? Meh, they've had better is all I'm saying.

[massoonmann]

it does get the point across. but in a rather boring way.

[Zalo10]

Oh pah, they could've narrated it on a whim.

[Altezza07]

now this is the shit i subscribed for !! but wheres the narrator?

[nogotta9]

Oops! Someone forgot to load the narative. Haste makes waste.

[randomae]

nope they had a budget cut. no more narative.

[CCPnoob]

all they are showing is that we can spot astroids and smalller object by them passing infront of a star in the background blocking out the light!

[kgoossens]

I think it goes further. It seems they also want to determine size, shape or rotation speed.

[Sukimaye]

wait...waht is this spost to be?!?

[Izwat]

not an good idea

[Ariji86]

silent

[ThirstyonThursday]

Audio would definitely help this video - but for those who care it's "showing" the new technique astronomers are using to find asteroids, when an asteroid crosses the path of a star for a fraction of a second, by watching for that shadow at different points on earth, they can calculate the location of the asteroid.

[LetsWacthThat]

the video ended before i finished reading the info about the video xD

[Archangel3D]

please put something interesting next time

[nsane87]

Dang, those have to be some pretty sensative machines to pick up an objects shadow from space billions of miles away!

[emilyface42]

Audio?

[OpenEyeVisuals]

Giant booty chests will be opened for this space beam of darkness?

[UnholySavagery]

That was interesting!... >.>