...only 10,000 light years away.
How do we get there?
phys.org/news/2006-04-astronomers-alcohol-cloud-spanning-billion.html
Select to expand quotetheDoctor said...
What they fail to tell you is. .....
its all emu export
Best beer ever
Select to expand quotetheDoctor said..
What they fail to tell you is. .....
its all emu export
then it's not far away enough...
Select to expand quotemyusernam said..theDoctor said...
What they fail to tell you is. .....
its all emu export
Best beer ever
i'm pretty sure it's made by fermenting roadkill emus- that's where the name comes from
Select to expand quotemyusernam said..theDoctor said...
What they fail to tell you is. .....
its all emu export
Best beer ever
Just wonderng if light bends (diffraction) and also has a spectrum change (red shift) over that massive distance, and also they reckon gravity does too, maybe even time!!! -- how the **** do they know a blob of something is methanol?
I challenge them to tell the difference between ethanol and methanol over 100km.
Ten to one it's just a really big beer fart from some giant intergalactic space trash being, making his way back home after a drunken binge in a nearby galaxy. I guess he dumped it out a porthole or something. No point in being cooped up in a spaceship with something like that. 
Either that or his mates threw him out of the ship while he was still dumping it.
Select to expand quotestamp said..myusernam said..theDoctor said...
What they fail to tell you is. .....
its all emu export
Best beer ever
i'm pretty sure it's made by fermenting roadkill emus- that's where the name comes from
There is a reason it's called EXPORT....
Aussies don't want it !!
growning up with emu export was awsome but emu black was the best fracking beer ever! or was it swan black I remember swan gold do they still have it ??
Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..
Just wonderng if light bends (diffraction) and also has a spectrum change (red shift) over that massive distance, and also they reckon gravity does too, maybe even time!!! -- how the **** do they know a blob of something is methanol?
I challenge them to tell the difference between ethanol and methanol over 100km.
Nobel prize challenger right here folks.
^^ Yes indeed they are.
So let's think about anything that analyses a spectrum, say a GC mass spectrometer in a lab. The tiniest bit of crap in there will ruin the results.
Or the level of cleanliness required of all kinds of measuring equipment with vacuums or dry gas purged environments blah blah cos even water vapour will skew results.
If you believe that in 10K light years - an unimaginable distance full of dust n gasses etc - that there is no interference then you have a lot of faith.
You can't extrapolate or calculate for such errors as you can only do that if somebody has been to the site (ie so we know what is there and then the readings from here so we KNOW what the error is.
Bit like if I say an object at about 1km away is 20m high and we have no frame of reference. You would not believe me and rightly so.
Faith.
^^^ I've no idea what you are talking about but surely with all their observations they would have a baseline level of interference they can factor in?
The Police are already making plans for an RBT out there.
... this is as far as they've got...
Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..
^^ Yes indeed they are.
So let's think about anything that analyses a spectrum, say a GC mass spectrometer in a lab. The tiniest bit of crap in there will ruin the results.
Or the level of cleanliness required of all kinds of measuring equipment with vacuums or dry gas purged environments blah blah cos even water vapour will skew results.
If you believe that in 10K light years - an unimaginable distance full of dust n gasses etc - that there is no interference then you have a lot of faith.
You can't extrapolate or calculate for such errors as you can only do that if somebody has been to the site (ie so we know what is there and then the readings from here so we KNOW what the error is.
Bit like if I say an object at about 1km away is 20m high and we have no frame of reference. You would not believe me and rightly so.
Faith.
Well yes. I'm no expert but the scientific community displays utter confidence in spectrum analysis. They've been doing it for yonks. They know the problems etc and science is self correcting so I believe they know what they are doing and the probability that they are wrong when they make a strong assertion based on well established techniques is vanishingly small. It's not just alcohol that they have discovered. There are many organic molecules out there.
You can call it "faith". It would be churlish of me to assume you are attempting to disparage reasonable confidence by conflating it with religious "faith" so I will just assume you're not :)
