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    Whistleblower Has Been Backed Up By Multiple Witnesses

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    3 hours ago, Tiberius said:

    "I need a favor, though."  Congressional military aide held up, corruption everywhere 

     

    Westy, you need to go to Moscow and live. Face ir, you hate democracy and free government. You love Putin 

    You need to check yourself into a mental hospital because you're delusional. Both countries have a treaty to help each other fight corruption. Nothing to see here. 

    Your people on the left have some serious problems coming there way soon. Keep throwing up the smoke screen.  Nobody believes you.

    Offensive Line penalties vs Tenn ?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    1 minute ago, Simon said:

    I didn't get to see the game today so I'm wondering how many flags that unit had tossed their way in Tennessee.

    Did they make a marked improvement from that self-flagellation ritual they performed vs NE?

    I don't remember how many flags they gsd6, but I thought they played pretty well with all the injuries they had. I was impressed with how they were able to dominate the Los at the end of the game.

    10/6/2019 Bills @Titans post game thread

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    9 minutes ago, bigduke6 said:

    ill take this win,  the last drive for the Bills,   that was winning football.   This team is in a good place, record wise.    many many facets of the Bills' game that can and needs to improve for any real shot at reaching the playoffs and even possibly winning in them.

     

    not every team has a fg kicker who will miss 4 straight.  keep that in mind.

    I agree. But every team won't be a top 5 defense either.

    Whistleblower Has Been Backed Up By Multiple Witnesses

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

    Didn't most of you people vote for this guy in 2012? 

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-live-updates/2019/10/04/9ff6d4a0-e627-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html

    Romney criticizes Trump’s ‘brazen and unprecedented’ appeals to Ukraine, China

    Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Friday condemned Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine and China to investigate the Bidens as “wrong and appalling,” breaking ranks with most Republicans on Capitol Hill who have largely avoided criticizing the president.

     In a pair of tweets, Romney referenced that fact that Biden is running for president.

    “When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated,” Romney said in one tweet.

    “By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling,” he added in another.

    Stop dreaming of me dressed up like your fantasy queen! It's sick and creepy. 

     

     

    Maybe after a few a few beers tonight, but not now! 

    Is that what you got from my post? No wonder you have no clue what the Ukrainian transcript says.

    NASA Satellite captures a black hole destroying a star

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    On 9/30/2019 at 8:35 PM, DC Tom said:

     

    Light curves, spectral analysis, doppler broadening.

     

    Nowadays, one platform detects something interesting, and multiple platforms focus on it.  So you get simultaneous observations across a wide spectrum of radiation (radio waves to x-rays - visible light is arguably the least useful these days.) 

     

    Then you start looking for emission and absorption lines in that spectrum - stellar hydrogen absorption lines are at 600, 480, and 435 nm, for example.  So you find those, and let's say they're shifted slightly lower - 599, 479, and 434, for the sake of discussion.  That means the wavelengths are blue-shifted, so the relative velocity of the object is towards you.  But say, instead, they're broad - instead of a sharp line at 435 nm, you've got a diffuse one spread out from 433 to 437 nm.  That indicates something is moving towards AND away from you..

     

    Then look for other emission and absorption lines.  Say you have strong emission lines for helium and nitrogen, for example, along with the above broad hydrogen absorption lines.  That would indicate a stellar core exposed (or partially exposed) by the removal of the atmosphere of the star (which is moving fast, in all directions, as shown by the broadening.)  

     

    Further observation shows you the evolving accretion disk (a significantly different spectrum from a star) and probably x-ray emissions from the black hole.  From there, do lots of math, and you can figure out the nature of the motion, and discern what's going on.  

     

    Generally, that's how you do it.  The specifics in this case...I'd have to read the paper, and to be perfectly honest, I don't want to.  As cool as "star being ripped apart by a black hole" sounds, I always found that sort of observational analysis to be rather boring.

     

     

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