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Originally posted by: Modelworks
I think the one thing that annoys me about the show and astronomers in general is their perception of time.
I'm listening to them talk about something like a supernova in a nearby galaxy and how great this will be to watch and the all things we can learn, and then they say, its going to happen really soon, probably in the next 50 million years or so.
WTF ? Someone needs to teach these people what soon is.
Don't get my hopes up by saying 'really soon' and then say its over a million years
To the rest of the Universe, our lives are like what you'd get from burning a speck of magnesium in pure oxygen - a tiny, violent pffffft! and then nothing.Originally posted by: Modelworks
I think the one thing that annoys me about the show and astronomers in general is their perception of time.
I'm listening to them talk about something like a supernova in a nearby galaxy and how great this will be to watch and the all things we can learn, and then they say, its going to happen really soon, probably in the next 50 million years or so.
WTF ? Someone needs to teach these people what soon is.
Don't get my hopes up by saying 'really soon' and then say its over a million years
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Damn, you all are making me wish I got History Channel. This sounds much better than most of what is now mindless drivel on Discovery Channel.