Only ~1.5 million years left... Run for the hills!
This reminds me of the Nemesis Hypothesis which posits that the apparent 26 Million Year periodicity in paleontological extinction events could be due to a companion star that orbits our own, chucking objects out of the Oort Cloud when it comes close.
Anyway, here is a picture of Barnard's Star I found while wikisurfing.
I never miss a Nova program, my PVR is set to record everyone of them. I just watched 9 episodes that I missed and deleted them to make room for The Pacific.
I just sent in my yearly $60.00 to PBS for support and am eagerly awaiting this years free DVD. wait! eagerly is the wrong word...the free DVD this year is on the Vancouver area!
Hope everyone had their PVRs running.. watched the first bit of the first one I think, pretty amazing.
They had this one bug that after it came out of its pupa shell or whatever and before its exoskeleton hardened it literally swallowed bubbles of air to stretch out and inflate its eye stalks, to the point where the eye stalks stretched out across a span that looked bigger than the bug was long! Balloon eye stalks! Then I guess it just waits for them to harden.
The chicks dig the long eye stalks apparently.
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By the way, I figured out whats up with Life on Discovery HD and TLC HD.
So BBC Life the series from Planet Earth is the original with Richard Attenborough as the narrator, it can be seen on Discovery. The one on TLC has been recut from that original series and uses Oprah as the narrator.
What I've noticed so far is the original is like Planet Earth, whole episode for example just on plants, where is the US version has been remixed to jump between topics to keep the viewers interested, my guess is 1hr on plants means joe public flips the channel.
Again just a guess, but it sure seems this way and I would just like to suggest you make sure to catch both channels versions because this series is excellent even with Oprah narrating
I somehow managed to catch all episodes of the Life series when they were aired in England. They were all outstanding, though the episode following a troupe of komodo dragons stalking a water buffalo was hard to watch. I particularly liked the behind-the-scenes portions following each episode.
And Oprah as in no way a substitute for Attenborough
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The universe is not only expanding -- it's being swept along in the direction of constellations Centaurus and Hydra at a steady clip of one million miles per hour, pulled, perhaps, by the gravity of another universe.
On one of the deeper science forums I frequent had a thread about this (though not with the more recent data) and a few actual cosmologists post there, and their thoughts were that the first go-round of this dark-flow wasn't an actual phenomenon but just bad statistics / analysis.
Now that they've got more data it'll be interesting to see the reaction once they read the published paper.
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Amazing to think beings from this galaxy in 100 billion years likely won't be able to see any light outside our own milky way. It'll make religion in the future a little easier to take!
By the way, I figured out whats up with Life on Discovery HD and TLC HD.
So BBC Life the series from Planet Earth is the original with Richard Attenborough as the narrator, it can be seen on Discovery. The one on TLC has been recut from that original series and uses Oprah as the narrator.
What I've noticed so far is the original is like Planet Earth, whole episode for example just on plants, where is the US version has been remixed to jump between topics to keep the viewers interested, my guess is 1hr on plants means joe public flips the channel.
Again just a guess, but it sure seems this way and I would just like to suggest you make sure to catch both channels versions because this series is excellent even with Oprah narrating
I thought you were joking about Oprah narrating life, but then I saw "TLC" (the dumbest channel on TV) and it became slightly more belieavable. However, I'm not sure that its regular viewers will be all too happy about some sciencely show cutting into airtime that could be used to show wonders like "What Not to Wear" or "Say Yes to the Dress".
