Showing posts with label STARGATE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label STARGATE. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 April 2019

BLACK HOLE!!!

WELL... I TOTALLY HAD A QUALITY POST READY TO GO TODAY BUT THEN THIS NEWS CAME OUT AND I JUST HAD TO WRITE ABOUT IT WHILE ITS HOT. HERES A LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT ME... I READ... SOMETIMES... ABOUT NEWS... AND RANDOM STUFF... ANYWAYS IM PRETTY SURE YOU ALL HAVE HEARD THE NEWS BY NOW, OR MAYBE I SENT YOU ALL THE LINK ALREADY... THE FIRST EVER BLACK HOLE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED AND RELEASED!!! OMG OMG OMG AHHHH!!! IM A SCI-FI GUY AND THE WHOLE NOTION OF BLACK HOLE INTRIGUES ME. IL GIVE MY VIEWS ON THIS IN A MOMENT, BUT FIRST LETS JUST GO OVER THE SPECS. THEY HAVE BEEN SAYING THEY COULDNT PHOTOGRAPH A BLACK HOLE BUT THEY HAVE NOW AND ITS A HUGE STEP FORWARD FOR SCIENCE. ANYWAYS... IT TOOK 8 CRAZY TELESCOPES, DECADES OF RESEARCH, MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, TO FIND A BLACK HOLE THATS 55 MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY, 40 BILLION KM ACROSS, 3 MILLION TIMES THE SIZE OF EARTH, AND HAS A MASS 6.5 BILLION TIMES THAT OF THE SUN. ITS A BEAST OF A BLACK HOLE! WE KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT BLACK HOLES AND WHAT WE DO KNOW IS A LOT OF THEORIES. WE KNOW ITS DENSE, WE KNOW NOTHING CAN ESCAPE IT... NOT EVEN LIGHT, GRAVITY AND SPACE TIME IS AFFECTED, BUT WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW. ITS NOT LIKE WE HAVE ACTUALLY WENT AND LOOKED AT ONE. THERES APPARENTLY A BLACK HOLE CLOSER TO OUR MILKY WAY BUT ITS NOWHERE THE SIZE OF THIS BEAST AND DOESNT HAVE AN ACCRETION DISC LIKE THIS ONE. YES I KNOW WORDS LOL. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THERE IS SO MUCH MORE THAT SCIENCE DOESNT KNOW. THEY EVEN ADMIT THAT IF LIGHT CANT ESCAPE IT, THEN HOW IS THE LIGHT PRODUCED... WHAT IS THE LIGHT THAT WE SEE... THEN THERES THE ALL IMPORTANT QUESTION OF... WHERE DOES THE BLACK HOLE GO... THERES TONS OF SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT. SOME SAY THAT IT GOES TO ANOTHER UNIVERSE, OR THAT IT ESCAPES OUR REALITY, ANOTHER DIMENSION, ANOTHER TIME AND SPACE, WHO KNOWS AND WHO WILL EVER KNOW... WHAT IS AT THE CENTER OF THE SINGULARITY... WHAT HAPPENS PAST THE EVENT HORIZON... ITS SUPPOSED TO BE DENSE, SO DENSE THAT IT JUST COLLAPSES IN ON ITSELF... BUT THEN WHERE DOES EVERYTHING GO? EVEN IF WE WANTED TO FIND OUT WE WOULDNT BE ABLE TO... SAY WE CAN MAKE IT TO THE BLACK HOLE, THE ISSUE IS THAT WE WOULD BE CRUSHED BEFORE WE EVEN GET CLOSE TO IT, AND IF SOMEHOW WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT TO THE BLACK HOLE THERES NO WAY BACK. SHOWS LIKE STARGATE AND ANDROMEDA AND MOVIES LIKE INTERSTELLAR GIVE US A GLIMPSE OF WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE ON THE OTHER SIDE, BUT THATS ALL FOR ENTERTAINMENT. THEN AGAIN WHO KNOWS. MAYBE IT REALLY IS A DOORWAY TO ANOTHER UNIVERSE. IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT CANT JUST GO NOWHERE... EVERYTHING IS EVERYWHERE AND MATTER IS EVERYWHERE... IT CANT JUST BE GONE... IT REALLY COULD BE A HIGHER PLAN OF EXISTENCE OR CONSCIOUSNESS AS WELL. MAYBE THE BLACK HOLE IS ALIVE AND IS A LIVING ENTITY... WHO KNOWS. IF I COULD, I WOULD TOTALLY VOLUNTEER TO GO AND FIND OUT WHATS ON THE OTHER SIDE. I DONT CARE IF NO ONE EVER FINDS OUT THE ANSWER, AS LONG AS I KNOW, THATS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME. I THINK I WOULD WANT TO KNOW TO SATISFY MY OWN CURIOSITY. THEN WHAT ABOUT A WHITE HOLE... I GUESS THATS A TOPIC FOR ANOTHER TIME. AND WITH THIS BLURRY PHOTO, IT HAS MADE HUMANITY QUESTION SO MUCH MORE AND REALIZE HOW LITTLE WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT SPACE AND THE UNIVERSE. IT REALLY SHOWS HOW INSIGNIFICANT AND SMALL WE ARE IN THE WHOLE SCHEME OF THINGS. WHILE WE ARE ALL WORRYING ABOUT WHAT TO EAT NEXT OR WHERE TO GO FOR VACATION, AT THE END OF IT ALL, OUR EXISTENCE WONT EVEN REGISTER AS A BLIP IN THE COSMOS. SO IN THE FRACTION OF A SECOND THAT WE ARE HERE, MAKE THE BEST OF IT, AND MAKE IT COUNT!

SO WHATS YOUR TAKE ON BLACK HOLES?

RT

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

PAX PRIME 2013 :)

WELL I GUESS ILL CONTINUE ON FOR A BIT JUST CAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT AND CAUSE I HAVE A BUNCH OF PICTURES TO PUT UP LOL. THIS PAST WEEKEND WAS PAX PRIME AND FOR YOU ALL THAT KNOW IT YA THATS RIGHT I WENT :P AND FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DONT KNOW IT... ITS A GAMING CONVENTION THAT SHOWCASES NEW UPCOMING GAMES, PLATFORM STUFF, HANDHELD GAMING, CARD AND BOARD GAMES. NOT TO MENTION LEAGUE OF LEGENDS CHAMPIONSHIPS AND STUFF. THIS WAS MY FIRST YEAR GOING :) I ALWAYS WANTED TO GO BUT THE TICKETS SELL OUT LIKE CRAZY... 4 DAY PASS SOLD OUT IN 25 MINS AND SINGLE DAYS SOLD OUT IN HOURS... WHILE I WAS AT WORK TOO... SO WHEN I GOT TO A COMP IT WAS ALL GONE... SO I LUCKED OUT THIS YEAR AND TURNS OUT 1 OF MY FRIENDS COULDNT MAKE IT SO I TOOK HIS FRIDAY PASS :) FREE STUFF EVERYWHERE BUT THE DONT REALLY JUST GIVE IT OUT ANYMORE... YOU HAVE TO PLAY GAMES OR BLA BLA BLA AND WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH I HATE LINEUPS SO WHY WOULD I... UNLESS IT WAS SOMETHING I REALLY WANTED TO TRY OUT HAHA. SOME OF THE GAMES I WANTED TO PLAY JUST TO GET THE TOY AFTERWARDS LOL AND THERES A PS3 DDR STYLE VOCALOID GAME BUT FOR CONTROLLER... WELL APPARENTLY YOU HAD TO PASS THE LEVEL TO GET THE LIGHT STICK... WELL I CHOSE LEVEL 6... 5... 4... AND FAILED ALL 3 AND THE DOUCHE DIDNT GIVE ME A LIGHT STICK... WHILE MY BUDDIES TRIED LEVEL 3... HAHA AND GOT IT. WHAT A PRICK!!! ANYWAYS THEN WALKED AROUND LOOKED AT MORE STUFF AND CHILLED OUT.

OH SO MAYBE I SHOULD MENTION THIS WAS IN SEATTLE LOL... IT WAS ALSO MY BEST BUDDIES BDAY SO PARTIED ON THURSDAY BEFORE WE WENT OUT AND ALL NIGHTER THAT THEN HEADED OUT FRIDAY MORNING. FRIDAY NIGHT WE WENT TO THIS PLACE CALLED FOUNDATION... APPARENTLY IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE TOP #50 OR TOP #100 CLUBS IN THE UNITED STATES... AND IF IT WAS THEN SERIOUSLY WHO THE HELL RANKS THIS CRAP... I REALLY DONT WANT TO SEE #1 IF THAT WAS IN THE TOP 50 OR 100... THE 1ST DJ WAS OK THEN IT TURNED INDUSTRIAL AND WAREHOUSE... THE PLACE ITSELF WAS GROSS AND NASTY BUT THE BARTENDERS ARE NICE AND THEY SEEMED GENEROUS WITH THE DRINKS... WAYYYYY WAYYYYYYYYYYYY TO MUCH LOL NOT A BAD THING BUT FELT LIKE CRAP AFTERWARDS LOL.

SO SATURDAY THE GUYS WENT BACK TO PAX AND I HAD AN ADVENTURE DAY JUST EXPLORING THE CITY... BY MYSELF :) ACTUALLY I ALSO WANTED TO CHECK OUT EMP MUSEUM. ITS A POP CULTURE MUSEUM AND ITS LIKE MODERN AND STUFF LOL. SO THEY HAD GENRE AND HORROR AND FANTASY AND A SPECIAL EXHIBIT ON JIMI HENDRIX AND WOMEN OF ROCK/POP. I SPENT QUITE A FEW HOURS THERE JUST CHECKING EVERYTHING OUT LOL. PLAYED WITH SOME DRUMS AND GUITARS TOO LOL. THEN MET BACK UP WITH THE REST OF THE GUYS HAD DINNER AND THEN GOT READY FOR MORE CLUBBING!!! WENT TO VOLUME THIS TIME AND WENT ALL VIP WITH TABLE AND BOTTLES LOL. THIS MOST DEF MADE UP FOR THE NIGHT BEFORE. OH AND A FEW OTHER FRIENDS MADE THEIR WAY DOWN TOO AND MET UP WITH US. HAD A BLAST OF A NIGHT AND EVERYONE WAS HAMMED LOL.

SUNDAY JUST CHILLED OUT AROUND TOWN AND THEN HEADED BACK HOME. WENT TO THE OUTLETS AND SOME PEOPLE BOUGHT SOME STUFF. I COULDNT FIND ANYTHING I WANTED SO MEH. THEN HEADED BACK HOME. THEN MET UP WITH SOME OTHER FRIENDS AND ATE AGAIN. THEN PLAYED CARDS FOR DRINKS WHICH WAS A BAD IDEA LOL.

MONDAY WAS A HOLIDAY SO MET UP WITH SOME FRIENDS AND CHILLED AROUND DOWNTOWN AND HAD LUNCH. THEN WENT TO THE PARK AND FED SQUIRRELS... LOL ITS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE IVE DONE THAT AND IT WAS FUN. THERE WAS THIS DIRTY BLACK SQUIRREL THAT WASNT AFRAID LIKE THE OTHERS TO COME UP CLOSE AND GRAB FOOD FROM YOU... MAYBE CAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE IT COULD PASS ANY MOMENT SO IT WAS LIKE SCREW THIS I JUST WANT TO EAT ATTITUDE LOL. SO I CALLED THAT LITTLE BUGGER LEPROSY HAHA. CHILLED SOME MORE BEFORE FRIENDS LEFT AND THEN JUST HEADED OUT.


FOOD!!! OYSTERS AND BEEF TATAKI :)

SOME KIND OF ROLL I FORGOT BUT TASTED SOOO GOOD WITH MELTED CREME CHEESE AND TOASTED

PLAYED SOME KILLING FLOOR :) ITS BEEN YEARS SINCE WE LAST PLAYED AND NOW REALIZED THAT WE SUCK... A LOT LOL

2ND OVERTURNED CAR WE SAW ON THE WAY TO SEATTLE... 

OUR CLASSY HOTEL :) THE FAIRMONT. ARENT WE CLASSY HEHE

THE GARDEN AT THE FAIRMONT

BAYONETTA 2 :)

WELCOME TO NERDVANA... LINEUP FOR PAX TO OPEN LOL

LUCKED OUT WITH A DECK OF CARDS IN MY BACK PACK :) BIG 2!!! HEHE

FRIDAY PAX PASS AND MY PILLOW SHIRT LOL

ADDICTING GAME LOL. TRYING TO PLAY WHILE TAKING A PICTURE IS HARD... WAIT... I THINK I WAS DEAD BY THIS POINT LOL

I HAVENT PLAYED MAGIC IN YEARS LOL

THINGY LOL

SICK COSPLAY LOL :) WOO

FINALLY GOT MY SWORD THAT I SAW PEOPLE ALL OVER THE PLACE WITH LOL

OUR CLASSY HOTEL AT NIGHT :)

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THAT IS??? ITS HALF A CUP OF 151... AND DOUBLE JAGGER BOMB... YA... 1ST ROUND AND ONLY ROUND THAT NIGHT FOR ALL OF US... SOOOOOOO DISGUSTING LOL

AFTER CLUB GOT HUNGRY AND ENDED UP IN CHINATOWN HAHA

I TRIED THE MONORAIL :) TOO LIKE 5 MINS TO GET TO THE NEEDLE FROM DOWNTOWN LOL SUPER QUICK

ZEE NEEDLE

EMP MUSEUM :)

THE SAW FROM SAW :) 

AHHHH ITS A DALEK!!!

JACKAL GUARD :) 

YODAS CANE AND PENDENT 

ORIGINAL CAPTAIN KIRKS CHAIR ON THE ENTERPRISE :)

COLONEL JACK O'NEILL AND HIS SPECKS :)

BUAHAHAHAHA SO LEGIT LOL

A MAGIC WALL LOL AND MY CREATION 

HOW KIDS PARTIED BACK IN THE DAY LOL

JUST HAD TO CAUSE ITS THE DOCTOR :)

NOMS BEFORE CLUBBING LOL

OH YAY... MORE DRINKING... SIGH... HAHA

MMM FISH MAW AND VINEGAR :) 

SO 2 PEOPLE ORDER THE SAME THING AND I GET NO BACON... FRIENDS GET NO HAM OR FROSTING... BOTH ORDERED WITH SALAD AND DIDNT GET IT... WTF... GG 1ST IMPRESSION OF CHEESECAKE FACTORY... THEY DID GIVE MY FRIEND HAM AND ME BACON AFTER THOUGH... AND OUR SALADS TOO LOL

AFTER TELLING THEM THEY SCREWED UP... MULTIPLE TIMES... MANAGER CAME AND TOLD US SHE COMPED OUT MEALS :) WOOT WOOT

WAS HUNGRY SO GOT ME SOME ABALONE :) LOL

ROTI!!! :) 

LAMB SKEWERS

LAKSA AND CURRY CHICKEN

THIS SQUIRREL ACTUALLY STOOD UP FOR IT BUT DAM ITS A FAST LITTLE GUY...

1ST EVER BUBBLE QUEEN FINALLY LOL

LAST BUT NOT LEAST!!! I FOUND THE TARDIS TWICE IN 2 DIFFERNT PLACES!!!!!! :) CEPT ITS MORE LIKE THE OUTSIDE IS BIGGER THAN THE INSIDE LOL THE TARDIS IS SPEWING OUT HEHE

I FOUND THE TARDIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) 

IT WAS A FUN LITTLE GETAWAY BUT NOW TIME TO GET BACK TO WORK. A WEEKEND OF PARTYING OUT OF TOWN FOR BUDDIES BDAY WAS FUN BUT GOTTA SLOW DOWN NOW LOL. DID QUITE A BIT OF WORK YESTERDAY... NOW ITS THE WAITING GAME LOL

OK I HAD TO DO THIS POST CAUSE IT WAS POST WORTHY. SO I SHALL SEE IF I WILL CONTINUE THIS OR NOT NEXT WEEK :)

RT