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Comment heh (Score 0) 490

by dedmunkeeboi on Sunday July 25, 2010 @10:56AM (#33021074) Attached to: Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T

We should be surprised by this? They're already using Apple products so they're used to having crap when it comes to products or service.

Astronomers Solve the Mystery of 'Hanny's Voorwerp' 123

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 25, 2010 @11:20AM from the do-not-look-directly-into-the-quasar dept.

KentuckyFC writes "In 2007, a Dutch school teacher named Hanny van Arkel discovered a huge blob of green-glowing gas while combing though images to classify galaxies. Hanny's Voorwerp (meaning Hanny's object in Dutch) is astounding because astronomers have never seen anything like it. Although galactic in scale, it is clearly not a galaxy because it does not contain any stars. That raises an obvious question: what is causing the gas to glow? Now a new survey of the region of sky seems to have solved the problem. The Voorwerp lies close to a spiral galaxy which astronomers now say hides a massive black hole at its center. The infall of matter into the black hole generates a cone of radiation emitted in a specific direction. The great cloud of gas that is Hanny's Voorwerp just happens to be in the firing line, ionizing the gas and causing it to glow green. That lays to rest an earlier theory that the cloud was reflecting an echo of light from a short galactic flare up that occurred 10,000 years ago. It also explains why Voorwerps are so rare: these radiation cones are highly directional so only occasionally do unlucky gas clouds get caught in the crossfire."

Comment small question (Score 0) 704

by dedmunkeeboi on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @11:36PM (#8039717) Attached to: Cell Phone Is The Most Hated Invention

maybe this has been asked already but i'm too lazy to go look through all the comments. would it not be cheaper for the bells to move the phone system to an all wireless solution? what sort of limitations would there be to doing this? i would imagine you could cut costs by having to hire less people for the up keep of equipment and for repairs since you'd have a small amount of towers to work with in a given area. less people also means smaller fleet of vehicles and tools need to keep on hand and office space is reduced.

am i wrong in my reasoning?

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