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« Reply #72930 on: February 22, 2026, 09:55:11 am »
Quote from: MarkJ on February 21, 2026, 10:57:08 am
"...Scientists sifting through archival data captured by NASA's former NEOWISE mission found an unusual star that quickly disappeared, fading to nothing more than a wispy shell. Their conclusion: The star, a dying supergiant named M31-2014-DS1 located in the Andromeda Galaxy, imploded into a black hole instead of undergoing the more common scenario in which a star dramatically explodes in a supernova before forming a neutron star or a black hole. While astronomers had previously predicted that some massive stars might quietly implode in this manner, observational evidence has been limited.

"This star used to be one of the most luminous stars in the Andromeda Galaxy, and now it was nowhere to be seen," says Caltech alumnus Kishalay De (PhD '21), a professor at Columbia University and an associate research scientist at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute. "Imagine if the star Betelgeuse suddenly disappeared. Everybody would lose their minds! The same kind of thing [was] happening with this star in the Andromeda Galaxy."

The findings were reported today in the journal Science..."

Great article about a High School Sr that came us with the AI algorithm to make this possible.

High School Student Discovers 1.5 Million Potential New Astronomical Objects by Developing an A.I. Algorithm
The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope
Smithsonian Magazine · smithsonianmag.com
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« Reply #72931 on: February 22, 2026, 10:38:21 am »
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« Reply #72932 on: February 23, 2026, 12:52:21 am »
"..The Sun is officially spotless today! The sunspot number today, February 22nd, 2026 is 0. This is the first spotless day on the Sun since 2022.."


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« Reply #72933 on: February 23, 2026, 11:25:16 am »
Only 68%?



"...68 percent say Trump focused on the wrong problems..."
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« Reply #72934 on: February 23, 2026, 03:26:15 pm »
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« Reply #72936 on: February 24, 2026, 06:12:43 pm »
Waco, where are you hiding at?
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« Reply #72938 on: February 25, 2026, 05:15:24 pm »
I've been very sick a very long time. This time I almost did not make it. I'm not exactly out of the woods yet. I was in enough pain that I begged them to kill me. I'm not really sure what's going on in the world I'm not really sure how long I've been out. This is my first day back. I'm beginning to wish I had just gone ahead and died.
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« Reply #72939 on: February 25, 2026, 07:48:58 pm »
Quote from: Waco 1954 on February 25, 2026, 05:15:24 pm
I've been very sick a very long time. This time I almost did not make it. I'm not exactly out of the woods yet. I was in enough pain that I begged them to kill me. I'm not really sure what's going on in the world I'm not really sure how long I've been out. This is my first day back. I'm beginning to wish I had just gone ahead and died.

Well, that wouldn't be any fun.   What got ya this time?
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« Reply #72940 on: February 25, 2026, 08:18:10 pm »
Quote from: MarkJ on February 25, 2026, 07:48:58 pm
Well, that wouldn't be any fun.   What got ya this time?
A shattered hip that morphed into septic shock. I fell off the back dock into the creek . When I went into the creek I punctured my hip as well as shattering it on a sharp rock. I've had two surgeries since then. I do remember quite a bit of pain though. Funny nobody ever told me how bad septic shock can hurt let alone the shattered hip I guess I'm just more used to bones being shattered instead of my stomach being punctured.
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« Reply #72941 on: February 26, 2026, 02:36:45 am »
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A shattered hip that morphed into septic shock. I fell off the back dock into the creek . When I went into the creek I punctured my hip as well as shattering it on a sharp rock. I've had two surgeries since then. I do remember quite a bit of pain though. Funny nobody ever told me how bad septic shock can hurt let alone the shattered hip I guess I'm just more used to bones being shattered instead of my stomach being punctured.

Crazy!  You need some wheels, this walking thing is not working out for you.
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« Reply #72942 on: February 26, 2026, 06:47:10 am »
Quote from: MarkJ on February 26, 2026, 02:36:45 am
Crazy!  You need some wheels, this walking thing is not working out for you.
I need a year's supply of morphine.
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