Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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Says a lot about 80s and 90s politics that people are naming bands after a bunch of hardline Puritans. Cromwell was obviously a big deal but the hero worship is just weird.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I would suspect they were naming themselves in admiration of their attempts to make a more equal society.
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Mmm. Think there's some rose tinted views of the Parliamentarians.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Are you referring to members of the New model army who were executed for their views and John Lilburne leader of the levellers who spent years in prison for crossing Cromwell.
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To be current and trendy we could have a band called the Levelling Uppers.
Well not trendy….
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Shitify would be a more current name, with the debut album shitification
(he says as he waits for the second delayed train of the day, looks like two meetings scuppered today by the trains)
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The quasar that was the subject of the latest study, known as J0529-4351, has a mass equivalent to 17 billion suns and is incredibly large. There is a spiraling disk of matter spanning a width of seven light years at the center of the galaxy and the black hole is growing by accreting (accumulating) this matter. The disk's width is comparable to the distance between Earth and the next nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.
Hiding in plain sight
The black hole is growing rapidly by consuming a record-breaking amount of mass, equivalent to one sun each day. This intense accretion of matter releases an amount of radiative energy that's equivalent to a quadrillion (thousand trillion) suns.
Just thinking it's a shame our sun isn't a quasar star with 17 billion times the the power, alright we might get a little bit more sweaty but the solar power generation would be well lush.
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Love that something with the mass of 17 billion suns has made it into the trivial thread.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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We'd be inside the event horizon of a black hole that large, so not sure power generation would be top of the agenda...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
We could have a lively The Spaghettification thread though.
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Interested that it is "record breaking".
What was the previous record?
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A few years ago, NASA and the European Space Agency reported that the Hubble Space Telescope had discovered a quasar, J043947.08+163415.7, as bright as 600 trillion Suns.
Brighter than 600 trillion suns. It does my little noggin in. How significant our realities are to us but just how embarrassingly insignificant we are relative to the universe. How on earth did it all start?
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What created the creator?
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And what created it?
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Oh me bloody noggin.
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Musk?
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If it's all a simulation, who created that?
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I'm quite happy to ignore gert big black 'oles. My tiny brain is still working hard to make sense of the bit of the universe that my body takes my brain to, and to adjust its model of that tiny bit of the universe. It's so beyond "Wow!" and my comprehension of bigness that I'm happy just to try to blow better raspberries.
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Musk is clearly a gifted Human but relative to the Universe?
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Some think being insignificant is problematic. I see it as liberating. Embrace your insignificance.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
He ain't like 600 trillion sun's worth of brightness.
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Yep, the Universe is well big and fantastical.
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It looks a bit $h1t in this shot. Sure it's well in the distance of vastness.
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Though I'm not religious in the slightest, I still like the first of the funeral sentences Purcell set to music :
Pfft, we all come and go, like a puff of smoke. I might just substitute "Riding bikes and playing music" for "misery", at least for the time being.
The universe will carry on universing without me worrying about it.
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Sure, I get what you mean. I just find it fascinating, also that life is a great evolved gift we are lucky to be experiencing. It seems strange sometimes to go through the mediocrity of life sometimes when you consider the gift.
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We might be living in a block universe, so you might carry on forever. Somewhere in the universe, you might be blowing your first note.
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And your last.
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"Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet."
I wish I'd been paid £100 for each time I've heard that line.
Oh, I have been 🎺😃
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