The 13.2 Billion Year Old Star

[BrokenVisage]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070510_oldest_star.html

I don't know about you guys, but stuff like this amazes me. How that star could still be burning strong after 13 BILLION years is astounding!

 

[NanoStuff]

Compared to our 12 thousand year old sun, that's spectacular.

 

[sandorski]

Scientificallyishly speaking, everyone knows it's only 10 thousand years old!!!!

/Beer/Popcorn/Lawnchair

 

[slatr]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Scientificallyishly speaking, everyone knows it's only 10 thousand years old!!!!

/Beer/Popcorn/Lawnchair

4.5 billion.. and 4.5 more to go before it becomes a red giant.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Scientificallyishly speaking, everyone knows it's only 10 thousand years old!!!!

/Beer/Popcorn/Lawnchair

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
That's ridiculous. The moon is much smaller than they lead you to believe. Nobody knows exactly how big the moon is, even though apart from the sun, it's the only observeable object in the universe. It's only a few dozen kilometers wide and moves within the thin upper atmosphere of earth. They say it glows at night because the rays of the sun are bouncing off of it, what a load of bullshit, hang your head in shame in you believe such crockery, the moon is dirt, dirt is not reflective. It glows because of the air friction as it moves through the atmosphere. So many scientists on the planet yet many of them have troube figuring this out, it's so obvious it's funny. For this reason the moon landing is obviously fake, because the proportions in the video are all wrong. Did you see how small earth was? What a joke, as if humans could actually travel so many light years away from earth.

Don't take him too seriously.

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: slatr

Originally posted by: sandorski
Scientificallyishly speaking, everyone knows it's only 10 thousand years old!!!!

/Beer/Popcorn/Lawnchair

4.5 billion.. and 4.5 more to go before it becomes a red giant.

That's stupid, what are you basing that on, your "scientific evidence"?

 

[iamaelephant]

That's cool.

 

[slatr]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff

Originally posted by: slatr

Originally posted by: sandorski
Scientificallyishly speaking, everyone knows it's only 10 thousand years old!!!!

/Beer/Popcorn/Lawnchair

4.5 billion.. and 4.5 more to go before it becomes a red giant.

That's stupid, what are you basing that on, your "scientific evidence"?

My astronomy book said so.

 

[StrangerGuy]

There are very small stars that can continue shining for 1 trillion years.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff

Originally posted by: slatr

Originally posted by: sandorski
Scientificallyishly speaking, everyone knows it's only 10 thousand years old!!!!

/Beer/Popcorn/Lawnchair

4.5 billion.. and 4.5 more to go before it becomes a red giant.

That's stupid, what are you basing that on, your "scientific evidence"?

what do you base your life on? the literal and obviously flawed 'translations' of a book, done so by a few crackpots who think they solved all the answers and deny the existence of science?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff

Originally posted by: slatr

Originally posted by: sandorski
Scientificallyishly speaking, everyone knows it's only 10 thousand years old!!!!

/Beer/Popcorn/Lawnchair

4.5 billion.. and 4.5 more to go before it becomes a red giant.

That's stupid, what are you basing that on, your "scientific evidence"?

I don't know about how fast you can build a star, but it took me a long ass time. I guess if you were some sort of Prince you could just go around grabbing everythign in sight and just toss it up in the air.

 

[UNCjigga]

Wow, it looks like we may have found God's solar system! Home to the oldest known civilizations in the universe, Heaven and Hell. Over thousands and thousands of years, they mastered interstellar travel and begand seeding new galaxies and star systems with life. Approximately 10,000 years ago they came to Earth.

 

[iamaelephant]

Well congrats NanoStuff, you've ruined what could have been an interesting astronomy thread

 

[slsmnaz]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Well congrats NanoStuff, you've ruined what could have been an interesting astronomy thread

It was the people taking his bait that ruined it.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
There are very small stars that can continue shining for 1 trillion years.

and very big ones that don't even last a billion
for example, alpha Ori (Betelgeuse) will possibly go supernova in anytime from now to the next thousand years, opinions differing between different scientists. It's around 500 light years away, so it could be dead and we are just awaiting the great splash of supernova light to become visible to us. Or it hasn't even done so yet and we are awhile away. Regardless, its an incredibly large star that has lived very shortly and most scientists view it as being in the last stages of life, in its carbon burning stage of life. it's 10 million years old by the way.
also, they do have a few disputes suggesting it may live for quite a while longer than 1000 years.

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: slsmnaz

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Well congrats NanoStuff, you've ruined what could have been an interesting astronomy thread

It was the people taking his bait that ruined it.

They make it so easy, hehehe

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
There are very small stars that can continue shining for 1 trillion years.

and very big ones that don't even last a billion
for example, alpha Ori (Betelgeuse) will possibly go supernova in anytime from now to the next thousand years, opinions differing between different scientists. It's around 500 light years away, so it could be dead and we are just awaiting the great splash of supernova light to become visible to us. Or it hasn't even done so yet and we are awhile away. Regardless, its an incredibly large star that has lived very shortly and most scientists view it as being in the last stages of life, in its carbon burning stage of life. it's 10 million years old by the way.
also, they do have a few disputes suggesting it may live for quite a while longer than 1000 years.

The cool thing about alpha Ori is that there is a possibility (albeit slim) that it will go off in our lifetime, and if that happens it will be so bright that even a moonless night will be bright enough to read by. This will last several weeks, even months.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: slsmnaz

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Well congrats NanoStuff, you've ruined what could have been an interesting astronomy thread

It was the people taking his bait that ruined it.

I wasn't aware of his post when I made mine, but must admit Guilt for derailing thread.

Just thought I'd get in on the ground floor of the inevitable!

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
There are very small stars that can continue shining for 1 trillion years.

and very big ones that don't even last a billion
for example, alpha Ori (Betelgeuse) will possibly go supernova in anytime from now to the next thousand years, opinions differing between different scientists. It's around 500 light years away, so it could be dead and we are just awaiting the great splash of supernova light to become visible to us. Or it hasn't even done so yet and we are awhile away. Regardless, its an incredibly large star that has lived very shortly and most scientists view it as being in the last stages of life, in its carbon burning stage of life. it's 10 million years old by the way.
also, they do have a few disputes suggesting it may live for quite a while longer than 1000 years.

The cool thing about alpha Ori is that there is a possibility (albeit slim) that it will go off in our lifetime, and if that happens it will be so bright that even a moonless night will be bright enough to read by. This will last several weeks, even months.

That would be so cool. Would bring out the nutcases though, not as badly as say a thousand years ago, but I think a few Mass Suicide Cults would, well, Mass Suicide as a result.

 

[Nyati13]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
There are very small stars that can continue shining for 1 trillion years.

and very big ones that don't even last a billion
for example, alpha Ori (Betelgeuse) will possibly go supernova in anytime from now to the next thousand years, opinions differing between different scientists. It's around 500 light years away, so it could be dead and we are just awaiting the great splash of supernova light to become visible to us. Or it hasn't even done so yet and we are awhile away. Regardless, its an incredibly large star that has lived very shortly and most scientists view it as being in the last stages of life, in its carbon burning stage of life. it's 10 million years old by the way.
also, they do have a few disputes suggesting it may live for quite a while longer than 1000 years.

The cool thing about alpha Ori is that there is a possibility (albeit slim) that it will go off in our lifetime, and if that happens it will be so bright that even a moonless night will be bright enough to read by. This will last several weeks, even months.

That would be so cool. Would bring out the nutcases though, not as badly as say a thousand years ago, but I think a few Mass Suicide Cults would, well, Mass Suicide as a result.

And that's a bad thing, how? exactly?.....

I see no downside to losing a few screwball nutcases.....

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
There are very small stars that can continue shining for 1 trillion years.

and very big ones that don't even last a billion
for example, alpha Ori (Betelgeuse) will possibly go supernova in anytime from now to the next thousand years, opinions differing between different scientists. It's around 500 light years away, so it could be dead and we are just awaiting the great splash of supernova light to become visible to us. Or it hasn't even done so yet and we are awhile away. Regardless, its an incredibly large star that has lived very shortly and most scientists view it as being in the last stages of life, in its carbon burning stage of life. it's 10 million years old by the way.
also, they do have a few disputes suggesting it may live for quite a while longer than 1000 years.

The cool thing about alpha Ori is that there is a possibility (albeit slim) that it will go off in our lifetime, and if that happens it will be so bright that even a moonless night will be bright enough to read by. This will last several weeks, even months.

That would be so cool. Would bring out the nutcases though, not as badly as say a thousand years ago, but I think a few Mass Suicide Cults would, well, Mass Suicide as a result.

And thereby help purge the gene pool. Win/win situation.

 

[Darthvoy]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070510_oldest_star.html

I don't know about you guys, but stuff like this amazes me. How that star could still be burning strong after 13 BILLION years is astounding!

yeah...I'm also amazed that the light we see from the stars is light that was emitted millions of years ago.

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070510_oldest_star.html

I don't know about you guys, but stuff like this amazes me. How that star could still be burning strong after 13 BILLION years is astounding!

the LIGHT is reaching us now...doesn't mean it's still burning

 

[dbk]

God must've been asleep back then.

 

[erikistired]

just remember, it's only an estimate.