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V.I. Lenin said:Is that the baby eating one or the Satanic one?
Don't knock it. They taste like chicken.
V.I. Lenin said:Is that the baby eating one or the Satanic one?
Arch Enemy said:I'm a Junior in High-School (In North Kakalacky! [Carolina])
I WAS going to work on the graphical design team, to complete certain Photoshopped Graphics for Sports Endevour's magazines, but they were full. Right-Now I'm a full-time Vocalist for a band (Ecce Strages, shortly to re-name to "Asunder") and I'm about to join another band as Lead Vocalist.
alex said:I am also currently going back to school for political science and then I am off to law school to become a constitutional lawyer. I would someday like to be a federal judge. I actually would like to orchestrate a hostile world takeover, but I could only find a school with that major in Germany. (lol)
Kelzie said::rofl That's very funny. Bet you could smoke anywhere huh?
alex said:You will be very happy to know that I am trying to quit smoking. I am 3 days without it so far! Wish me luck!
How long've you been into the whole punk rock thing (I'm assuming since the whole Op Ivy quote)? I was around your age, a little younger, when I started getting into the scene. First punk show I ever saw was back in the winter of '98, I saw Atom and his Package with Franklin and No Motiv at this club on Fullerton in Chicago called the Fireside Bowl, and that **** was awesome, especially for an 8th grader.
Best show was VGS, also at the Fireside, or the Teen Idols w/ the Role Models and Criminal Class USA (most people have never heard of them, but they ****ing rock hard!), also at the Fireside.
alex said:You will be very happy to know that I am trying to quit smoking. I am 3 days without it so far! Wish me luck!
What do you do for a living?
128shot said:hard to do, if you must do something, chew, don't smoke..
it helps I suppose, or i guess you could try the patch or gum
Just tryin to help a fellow citzen is all.
good luck man, you'll need it
Old and wise said:alex, you can do it. I quit 22 years ago after smoking most of my life. The second best thing I have ever done. The first was meeting the lady I married.
What do you do for a living?
jamesrage said:Right now I am a janitor/maintenance for a parking facility management company while I am going to school to be a PC technition and network administrator.
Tashah said:I am a Cosmologist currently engaged in High-z Universe research. In simple terms, I seek high-z (z=redshift) celestial objects known as Type 1a supernovae and determine their /kps (kiloparsec per second) cosmic rate of recession.
Type 1a supernovae are excellent standard candles, which means that their absolute magnitude is always the same. If one already knows an object's absolute magnitude (true magnitude) and then measures its apparant magnitude (the light that we recieve from that object on Earth), one can then mathematically calculate its distance. In this manner, using Type 1a supernovae enables one to reliably measure recessional velocities at varied and various distances from Earth. With enough collected data, one can then calculate the value of the Cosmological Constant which in turn implies the overall geometry of the universe (open/closed/flat). Essentially, the true value of the Cosmological Constant reveals the ultimate fate of the universe.
The degree of spectral shift of selected elements (such as hydrogen) in a celestial body or sample determine if that object is approaching (blueshift) or receding (redshift) from our vantage point. With the exception of spiral galaxies (the spiral disk revolves around a central core and the disk is thus both approaching and receding simultaneously), all objects in the cosmos are receding.gdalton said:So is looking for the redshift basically the same as looking at a Doppler effect except with light? So what have you gathered so far, is our universe open, closed, flat or other and are we expanding or collapsing?
That kind of stuff is very interesting to me, I have heard that we are close (well not that close) to mapping the known universe, so I take it your data helps in this mapping. That friggin rocks.
Tashah said:I am a Cosmologist currently engaged in High-z Universe research. In simple terms, I seek high-z (z=redshift) celestial objects known as Type 1a supernovae and determine their /kps (kiloparsec per second) cosmic rate of recession.
Type 1a supernovae are excellent standard candles, which means that their absolute magnitude is always the same. If one already knows an object's absolute magnitude (true magnitude) and then measures its apparant magnitude (the light that we recieve from that object on Earth), one can then mathematically calculate its distance. In this manner, using Type 1a supernovae enables one to reliably measure recessional velocities at varied and various distances from Earth. With enough collected data, one can then calculate the value of the Cosmological Constant which in turn implies the overall geometry of the universe (open/closed/flat). Essentially, the true value of the Cosmological Constant reveals the ultimate fate of the universe.
Tashah said:The degree of spectral shift of selected elements (such as hydrogen) in a celestial body or sample determine if that object is approaching (blueshift) or receding (redshift) from our vantage point. With the exception of spiral galaxies (the spiral disk revolves around a central core and the disk is thus both approaching and receding simultaneously), all objects in the cosmos are receding.
The data to date suggest a Cosmological Constant value of around 1.3. The default value is 1 which denotes a flat universe. Thus, our universe slightly exceeds a flat geometry. With a flat geometry, the universe continually expands albeit at a slow rate of acceleration. Thus, the data suggests that the universe will slowly expand forever.
Contrary to what was previously taken as a given, the cosmic rate of expansion has changed over time. It is accelerating faster now than it was eight billion years ago. This increase is currently attributed to a phenomena known as dark energy. Although dark energy appears to be an anti-gravitational force, no one truly understands its intrinsic properties or if it is a variable entity. Hardly anyone in the general public realizes this, but dark energy comprises around 70% of constituent cosmic stuff. Ordinary baryonic matter such as planets and stars comprise only about 7% of what our universe consists of. The remaining 23% is composed of dark matter which is another cosmic enigma. In other words, everything that you can see and touch in the entire universe is a mere 7% of what is actually there.
PS. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has mapped about half of the Southern Hemispheric view of the universe.
I teach. Yes. The socialist, russian, crazy foreigner teaches your children and eats up your tax dollars.
Apart from Andromeda & possibly other galaxies in our 'local group' by definition.Tashah said:The degree of spectral shift of selected elements (such as hydrogen) in a celestial body or sample determine if that object is approaching (blueshift) or receding (redshift) from our vantage point. With the exception of spiral galaxies (the spiral disk revolves around a central core and the disk is thus both approaching and receding simultaneously), all objects in the cosmos are receding.
Shouldn't that read 'expanding faster now than it was eight billion years ago' ?Tashah said:Contrary to what was previously taken as a given, the cosmic rate of expansion has changed over time. It is accelerating faster now than it was eight billion years ago.