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Take a +5.
Out of curiosity, how did you do it? Or did you already know?
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harold aptroot wrote: how did you do it?
I updated my message to add some explanation.
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ProgramFOX wrote: That's not always the case, but if you try this with other numbers, you'll see that x and y are always substracted with the same number.
Ok, now it works (I caught your post just between edits).
Fun fact: that number is exactly x & y, and the general proof is
(x & ~y) > (~x & y)
// rewrite the & to a subtraction
(x - (x & y)) > (y - (y & x))
// subtracting the same thing on both sides doesn't change the order
x > y
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harold aptroot wrote: Fun fact: that number is exactly x & y, and the general proof is
(x & ~y) > (~x & y)
// rewrite the & to a subtraction
(x - (x & y)) > (y - (y & x))
// subtracting the same thing on both sides doesn't change the order
x > y
+5! Nice general proof!
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Imagine, if you will, a small, very dense star of a type known as a white dwarf. Imagine this star orbiting a much larger companion star, syphoning off its companion's gas and claiming it as its own. Imagine the dwarf gaining so much new mass that it reignites its thermonuclear furnace[^], blowing up in an explosion so bright that it will, briefly, outshine the whole galaxy. Imagine this light traveling for millions of years, until it reaches a tiny speck orbiting an ordinary star in the backwaters of another galaxy.
Or, you can just see it[^].
(Edit: renamed, so as not to be confused with an earlier post on a different topic.)
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Yeah, its good picture but that little bright star is already gone, and you start thinking would it be someone to see when our "little" star explodes and photograph it.
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Yeah, our little star isn't going to explode. Not enough mass.
It'll just become a red giant for a bit before it puffs off layer after layer of material. All fusion will eventually stop and it'll become a white dwarf....in about 4 billion years.
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All that what we know about the stars are from watching the death and life of others. There is not one evidence that tomorrow our star wont become a black hole.
My point is maybe there is one cycle of the life/ death of a star which we didn't see yet and we just cant be sure what will happen and when, after all our lives are just a moment in a star's life. The only thing we know is it wont happen soon enough for us to see it :/ Too bad.
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Argonia wrote: All that what we know about the stars are from watching the death and life of others.
I know that.
Argonia wrote: There is not one evidence that tomorrow our star wont become a black hole.
True. But it's impossible to prove a negative. The opposite of that would be that we haven't once seen a case where a star of ours mass has turned into a black hole.
The math, as we know astrophysics today, says that it's impossible for it to happen as our star only has about 60%(?) of the mass required to kick off a supernova. This minimum is known as the Chandrasekhar Limit[^].
...according to the math anyway.
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I for one won't care either way what happens.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: The math, as we know astrophysics today, says that it's impossible for it to happen as our star only has about 60%(?) of the mass required to kick off a supernova. This minimum is known as the Chandrasekhar Limit[^].
The Chandrasekhar limit is the cutoff point for a stellar remnant being able to remain a white dwarf instead of collapsing farther to a neutron star or black hole. As a solo star (there are processes that can detonate a white dwarf in a binary system - SN type Ia) the sun is at least 4 and almost certainly 8 times too small to supernova due to heavy mass loss during the red giant stage. Stellar evolution models require a minimum initial size of ~ 8 solar masses to trigger a conventional supernova. There's a theoretical, but never observed, supernova mode that could occur for stars of 4-8 solar masses in size; but the evolutionary models predict, and the lack of observations appear to confirm that any star in that initial mass range will shed enough mass via stellar wind during the red giant/super giant stages to end as a white dwarf.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Awesome,I've followed a couple other posts and this is an extraordinary event.
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what a disapointment I thought is was a new brew from stella artois
just kidding, wouldn't touch the stuff
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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AKA 'punch up in a glass' would have though a man of breading would stay clear of that
Quote:
just kidding, wouldn't touch the stuff
Well that's a relief... back to video card heck!
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Great. Fantastic event !
And things like "so the supernova explosion did happen 12 million years ago, that light just now reaching Earth" make it even more special...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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What is interesting is the galaxy the star is in has purple "ejecta" cones on top and bottom, and from what I have gleaned on documentaries on the subject, it indicates the galaxy is relatively "young". The cones are created because the super massive black hole at the center of the galaxy is eating so much material it can't consume it all and some is being ejected at "the poles" of the galaxy.
Must be a turbulent place to live anywhere there.
2 cents.
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M82 is about 40,000 light years across. The jets are even longer than that.
A few hundred million years ago, M82[^] had a close encounter with the nearby M81[^], triggering a mass of new star formation in both galaxies. Most likely, the gravitational jostling in M82 sent stars in previously stable orbits around the central black hole into death spirals.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: jets
Quasar[^], that's what it's called, just remembered, I guess quasars are the brightest objects in the sky and that galaxy has a quasar at it's center so that makes the brightness of the nova even more interesting since it has to compete with the quasar.
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By definition, quasars are extremely distant, and the nearest one we know of is about 600 million light years away; they seem to have been very common in the youth of the universe when galaxies were first forming and far less common in recent epochs. M82 is only 12 million light years away, and has no known quasar.
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Is it just me or someone else too does feel small looking at astronomical events? It was beautiful, BTW.
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Just arrived home from 'out there'. Didn't think was going to get home today because of the wind. Also had to get a fixed wing out of Sumburgh as well, so that was another first for me in my offshore career!
Anyway, arrived home to find a nice cardboard box. In this cardbox was an even nicer plastic box. On this plastic box was the words 'Oculus Development Kit'. 
For a Dev Kit, this must be one of the best presented I have seen.
Need to go plug it in now and see what it is like, the roller coaster demos I've seen on youtube should be good......... 
http://www.oculusvr.com/[^]
I feel an article may be on the horizon.
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Congats for escaping that platform.
Oh... if i had something like that i will be playing at work and noone will ever know about it
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modified 24-Jan-14 8:36am.
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Ooo keep us posted, looking forward to an article!
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