Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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No, Halforums is just wierd.
GasBandit alt confirmed!
There's at least a couple of us in KY & I know at least one in WV
Nope, some of us are still here.
But I would say I'm more living in Mordor than Narnia.
Narnia gets weird in a completely different direction. And believe me, I live in range of Boulder and in a county that tried to seceed to make a new state because Denver was too liberal.
I knew you didn't think I was cool.
figmentPez
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There was a half pit/Corgi at the dog park once. It had to be the meanest damn dog. It had the healer instincts of a Corgi and then could back up the attitude with the huge head and muscles.
Actually I think I'm most likely to be the farthest away overall from Halforumites.
GasBandit
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And ironically, you've met more of them in person than I have, even though I live in the same town as one and am a less than 2 hour drive from at least 3 others.
GasBandit
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Bizarro-Michigan.
Not really funny, but thought provoking...
figmentPez
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That must be some level of hyperbole. "The nearby Andromeda Galaxy, also called M31, is bright enough to be seen by the naked eye on dark, moonless nights." (source) I'm pretty damn sure the Andromeda galaxy isn't inside of that yellow circle.
It's also not a star
All actual *stars* you can see with the naked eye are pretty close by, IANAA but it looks about right.
I'm not sure about it (the yellow circle map).
Predictably, Reddit has a thread for it where people go into way too much detail on it.
At best, I believe that the MAJORITY of stars we can see are in that circle, but not all.
Predictably, Reddit has a thread for it where people go into way too much detail on it.
At best, I believe that the MAJORITY of stars we can see are in that circle, but not all.
Without attending the reddit thread, I expect what they're saying is that all the stars we can see as individual stars are within that circle. Sure, some brighter spots are visible, but they consist of many stars, often forming another galaxy.
Past that yellow circle, no single star is bright enough to pick out with the human eye from earth.
Past that yellow circle, no single star is bright enough to pick out with the human eye from earth.
To me it's a bit of a crappy definition, as we can't see the CLOSEST star to us from the other parts of it's binary star system, that being Alpha Centauri. A and B are so close that the unaided eye can't tell them apart. So the whole premise of the photo is then "iffy". Not that there aren't bigger individual stars out there, but it just "smells" like one of those internet things with little basis.
A+ to the Andromeda proof as well.
Superman, duh.
Inside this circle are all of the universe's pedants.
GasBandit
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You can't KNOW that, technically.