Buffini's Blog » Youngest supernova http://darraghbuffini.com It does exactly what it says on the tin Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:45:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Youngest Nova http://darraghbuffini.com/2008/05/15/youngest-nova/ http://darraghbuffini.com/2008/05/15/youngest-nova/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 12:25:00 +0000 admin http://darraghbuffini.com/?p=108 This is pretty cool. Youngest supernova in the galaxy was recently found to have gone boom approx 140 years ago, called G1.9+0.3 and located about 26,000 light years away. There’s a section in that article stating that “Astronomers have been puzzled, however, by a shortage of young supernova remnants in our galaxy. Only half a dozen have been found, as opposed to the more than 30—roughly two a century—predicted to exist.” To my flighty imagination that conjures up fun images of star harvesting, artificial star longevity and so on. Or even fleets of Vogon destructors farting about in the sky, quietly demolishing solar systems while no-one watches.. Imagine the fun you could have spinning wild ideas around over a drink or fifteen:

AlienDude1: “My round”

AlienDude2: “Cheers buddy”

AlienDude1: “So what should we do with that crappy little yellow beastie sitting out in the Orion arm?”

AlienDude2: “Come on man, we’ve been working all week, no more work talk!!”

AlienDude1: “No seriously, we could have some fun with this one! Remember that time you got wasted and spread those black holes around the galactic core and used them as pockets for a giant pool game?”

AlienDude2: “How was I supposed to know they’d join up!! Not my fault the whole damn core is collapsing, blame Supply, they left them lying around!!”

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AlienDude2: “(Smirks) It was a good game though, right? Did you see that last trick shot? Knocked two gas giants and three moons into that star!! It flared like a bad fart after a hot curry! The rings were still spinning on the way in…”

AlienDude1: “Let’s make this one a game of explowhumping planets!!”

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AlienDude2: “What?”

AlienDude1: “You take a planet, right, and pump it full of custard. Then you spin them round their orbits real fast, and tilt them around so they spin out, and see which ones collide first!!When they hit the explode apart, and cos they’re full of custard they just go ‘whump’!! You can bet on the winners and everything, it’ll be great!!!”

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AlienDude2: “You seriously need to get out more”
Ah the fun of aliens that are just like Dublin Corporation workers…

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