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- PATSCRU, on 11/09/2007, -18/+126meh, i'd rather watch it from here, on digg...
but seriously, to the RP supporters above me who are spamming ***** ASTRONOMY articles with ron paul *****....you wonder why everyone hates you. - Scynet, on 11/09/2007, -5/+57You're not helping.
- EuphopiaB, on 11/09/2007, -3/+40Dude. Seriously?
- DeviantDragon, on 11/09/2007, -0/+32The article didn't mention how bright it had become. As Professor Alex Filippenko at UC Berkeley said, Comet Holmes increased its brightness almost a million times unexpectedly. THAT is an amazing degree of change in this regard.
- Wacer, on 11/09/2007, -9/+34I like Ron Paul but don't spam articles that don't relate to the topic.
- sb76117, on 11/07/2007, -7/+32was bruce willis on it?
no?
damnit! - Bananashake, on 11/07/2007, -5/+25It wasn't a Comet, it was Peter Petrelli that exploded.
- IllBeBack, on 11/08/2007, -18/+30If these are the kind of nutjobs that are voting for Ron Paul, I'll be sure to scratch him off of my list of possibilities.
- sohlemac, on 11/07/2007, -0/+11"Based on orbital computations and luminosity before the 2007 outburst, the comet's nuclear diameter was estimated at 3.4 km.[7] In late October 2007 the coma's diameter increased from 3.3 arcminutes to over 13 arcminutes[8], about half the diameter that the Moon subtends in the sky. At a distance of around 2 AU, this means that the true diameter of the coma swelled to over 1 million km[9], or about 70% of the diameter of the Sun. By comparison, the Moon is 380,000 km from Earth. Therefore, during the 2007 outburst of Comet Holmes the coma was a sphere wider than the diameter of the Moon's orbit around Earth."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17P/Holmes - euro22, on 12/17/2008, -1/+12and not to mention it's size.
"The comet is exploding and its coma, a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the sun, has grown to be bigger than the planet Jupiter."
Holy *****. - fcukbush, on 11/06/2007, -0/+11yeah i had a look and couldn't find it either... But then, it is mid-day here.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 11/09/2007, -1/+12That must mean you're not voting anyway as every Presidential candidate has his fair share of nutjobs.
- KingBunny, on 11/09/2007, -0/+10You know how, in sci-fi shows, something crazy always happens near near the Earth (spaceships exploding, secret time-wormholes opening, whatever) and then they give some excuse like "oh, it was a comet"?
Well.. I hope this means we finally destroyed the Voltigort Doom-Station, probably seconds before it emitted the.. uhh.. time-death-wave.. thing.. or something. - Soave, on 11/06/2007, -10/+20Get the hell off Digg.
- mccord, on 11/06/2007, -1/+10if you have no idea where to find perseus on the night sky, check out stellarium ( http://www.stellarium.org/ )
it's a neat open source planetarium (win/linux/mac) :) - SohailKhanifar, on 11/09/2007, -1/+9Yay, I was in class while he said that. Go Filippenko!
- LeeSoong, on 11/09/2007, -2/+10Ron Paul promises to eliminate NASA - the biggest waste of tax dollars ever.
So you won't have to read about things exploding in space, or near earth objects coming to wipe out all life on Earth, nobody in the USA will know about it until 3 weeks after the fact. - t0ny, on 11/06/2007, -1/+8I just went out side and could not find it :/
Plus its really cold out there. - JPOOPOO, on 11/14/2007, -0/+7I wouldn't be surprised to find out that all the supporters of Ron Paul spamming the forum were just Giuliani supporters posing as Ron Paul supporters.
- Cyphase, on 11/07/2007, -0/+7I don't think they flew that high.
- Markpdotcom, on 11/07/2007, -1/+7Just don't spam full stop! It can only have a negative effect for you with such a tech savvy audience as Digg members.
- finalcloud33, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7The UFO behind the comet must have crashed..... That is what you get when you follow to close.
- cnot3, on 11/09/2007, -0/+6I support Ron Paul, but spamming unrelated articles only hurts his credibility. Stopit.
- Bologner, on 11/09/2007, -1/+6American components, Russian components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!
- CaptainValor, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5"Explodes" really isn't the best word. Holmes had an extremely large out-gassing event, but it's still very much intact, if the bright spot at the center of that huge reflective dust cloud is any indication. Cool to see this getting national attention finally. We astronomers have been following it for two weeks now. ;)
- cawpin, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5First, it isn't playing around; it's spamming. Second, IT IS CALLED A REPLY BUTTON.
- Pritchard, on 11/14/2007, -2/+7I'm almost positive that the first two comments were meant to be jokes, and the spam on Digg can't be from real Ron Paul supporters. We have a strict no spam rule. Oh well, I found the comments funny but still buried them, even though I support Ron Paul - they should have never made the transition from lame joke to lame typed joke posted on Digg.
- calebeaton, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5It's interesting to note how often phrases like "caught scientists by surprise" and "can't be explained" and "back to the drawing board" are used by so-called "experts" who continue to prop-up the conventional "flat earth" view that gravity is the primary force dictating the behavior of the universe. To progressive scientists who see electricity as the driving force, these "unexplainable" events are completely natural and often predictable.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2007/arch07/0710 ... - jsg7, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Clearly a terrorist attack! Probably sponsored by Iran...
- shesquint, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5The comet *is* visible from light-polluted areas. I live in a heavily populated area, and I can see the comet with my naked eye from my parking lot, which is really well lit. I could even see it when the moon, which was almost full, was only 26 degrees away and washing out everything in the vicinity. It's well worth taking a look.
'Scuse me for not being more eloquent. Coffee hasn't kicked in yet. - jmbillings, on 11/06/2007, -1/+6It is indeed pretty neat - easy to find in binoculars, I was looking at it last week through my telescope and took a couple of crap pictures (http://www.puffle.co.uk/pics.php) but there are better ones showing the comets tail at the handy http://www.spaceweather.com.
- SohailKhanifar, on 11/07/2007, -0/+4Dude, Filippenko is such an awesome Professor. I feel bad for all those who aren't able to be in class with him. At least there are webcasts. (http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?ser ... if anyone cares)
- RapidEye, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4This has been a FUN comet to watch with the telescope over the last week and a half - every night it gets bigger and bigger!!! Last night (and for the next few) the best view will be with binoculars because the comet is getting so big AND it will be passing in front of a HUGE open cluster near Alpha Perseus - quite the astronomical pairing! Just take any crappy old binoculars you have laying around and just after dark, sweep just to the left of Perseus, you can't miss it!
- jamdogg, on 11/07/2007, -0/+3That number of negative diggs always gets attention!
- shiv68, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3I have been viewing comet Holmes for the last three nights. This thing is incredible, just keep getting larger and larger! If you or a friend has a telescope or binoculars drag yourselves out to some dark skies, weather permitting.
- NeilVickers, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3We don't need to rethink this at all. When the cometary nucleus was not active it was a tiny ball of ice and rock 3.5KM across. That means that it didn't reflect much sunlight towards us, placing it at about magnitude 18 (visible only with a large aperture telescope.)
Now the nucleus has become active. It's spewed out a giant cloud of steam and ice around itself, possibly extending out to a diameter of 1,000,000KM. This is reflecting a lot more sunlight towards us, hence the massive increase in visibility (estimated at about magnitude 2.5 to magnitude 3.0 currently.) As the cloud of gas and ice slowly disperses the comet will become less and less visible until it drops back to its native 18 magnitude again (assuming that the nucleus has survived this recent outburst.) - etruscan, on 11/07/2007, -0/+3I can't wait for this election to be over.
- bullhead2007, on 11/07/2007, -2/+5I'm an avid Ron Paul supporter, but please for the love of Paul, STOP SPAMMING EVERYTHING ONLINE. You're only hurting the cause, not helping it. Hell even I'm getting sick of seeing Ron Paul everywhere online where it's not even related.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -4/+7Oh...burn. You really got me with that zinger.
- simpleid, on 11/09/2007, -7/+10you don't quit on a candidate because some other people happen to be very excited, you're both idiots, jesus.
screw his fans, ron really is the only educated and rational person running for that office, so ignore the few people that burst out,
it's not that big of a deal for people to do that.
digg me down fine. i hope you are as well for the lack of logic and sanity. - twotimesthru, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3This could just be NASA testing a nuclear device as a means to destroying an Earth killing asteroid.
- inactive, on 11/09/2007, -7/+10I already have specifically because of these nutjobs.
- Cyphase, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2I definitely started slower than season 1, but I'm enjoying it so far.
- derkmerkin, on 11/08/2007, -2/+4stfu already about rp
- shagg187, on 11/09/2007, -0/+2This is how the world ends...
- endlessraining, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2The comet has the same last name as me. Woohoo!
- asauterChicago, on 11/09/2007, -0/+2I was the electrical contractor on the Voltigort Doom-Station, let's just say I'm really, really pissed about all this... and does anyone need some re-wiring? I'm in the process of transitioning careers...
- Liembo, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Its pretty obvious and visible in wherever you can see the Big dipper (similar magnitude stars).
I snapped this the other might: http://photos.bahneman.com//Expeditions/2007/Comet ...
I stacked 8 exposures from a 80mm telescope, but you can get similar results with a 200mm lens at f/4, ISO400 for 10-20 seconds exposure. (You'll get a little star trailing, but the comet will be revealed clearly) - JPOOPOO, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2I went out last night to view this with some friends but it was too cloudy and there is way too much light pollution. There I made a contribution to the discussion.
- christoast, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2so where are the pics?
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