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Life of Thomas Bopp (discovered Comet Hale-Bopp) is simulation glitch
| Appetizing Abode | 09/18/18 |
| 180 hot library | 09/18/18 |
| Smoky becky | 09/18/18 |
| 180 hot library | 09/18/18 |
| Appetizing Abode | 12/18/18 |
| aqua native | 08/13/21 |
| aqua native | 01/11/23 |
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Date: September 18th, 2018 9:50 AM Author: Appetizing Abode He was a construction worker who didn't own a telescope. He was just borrowing a friend's and found it. He sent a telegram when he found it. In 1995. The week the comet approached its brightest point, his brother died in a car wreck. The guy who discovered the Shoemaker-Levy had named an asteroid after Bopp back in 1991 (well before this discovery)--but also died in a car wreck in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp#Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bopp#After_the_discovery |
Date: September 18th, 2018 10:16 AM Author: 180 hot library good post. i took an astronomy 101 course over a decade ago and there's a lot of wacky stories.
Tycho Brahe, one of the most important pre-Galileo astronomers, probably died from his bladder bursting because he wouldn't get up to piss:
Tycho suddenly contracted a bladder or kidney ailment after attending a banquet in Prague, and died eleven days later, on 24 October 1601, at the age of 54. According to Kepler's first-hand account, Tycho had refused to leave the banquet to relieve himself because it would have been a breach of etiquette.[45][46] After he returned home, he was no longer able to urinate, except eventually in very small quantities and with excruciating pain. The night before he died, he suffered from a delirium during which he was frequently heard to exclaim that he hoped he would not seem to have lived in vain. |
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Date: September 18th, 2018 10:18 AM Author: Smoky becky car wrecks are the most common cause of death among 18-49 yo's in the us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080283&forum_id=2#36831753) |
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Date: September 18th, 2018 10:21 AM Author: 180 hot library another good one: when researchers first detected the "cosmic background radiation" (leftover radiation from the Big Bang) they thought the constant interference they were detecting was just bird shit on the antenna. they climbed up and cleaned it off, but the interference remained, so they realized it had to be coming from outer space.
https://futurism.com/bird-poops-role-in-revolutionizing-our-understanding-of-space/ |
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Date: December 18th, 2018 5:33 PM Author: Appetizing Abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080283&forum_id=2#37429077) |
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Date: August 13th, 2021 10:15 PM Author: aqua native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080283&forum_id=2#42942916) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 11:01 PM Author: aqua native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4080283&forum_id=2#45776951) |