19 years old?
This is, in principle, fascinating. And if we've only just discovered it, then it can only be 19 light-years away from us. We could learn a lot from this.

Edit: And whilst we're on the subject of sexy alien females, has it not occurred to anybody that trying to shag one of them would be tantamount to bestiality?
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:02, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I clearly do not understand the importance of this.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

I relish this.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:05, Reply)

it is well documented that you are intellectually sub-par

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:05, Reply)

It is even more well documented that you are pre-op.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

better than being post-op like you

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

I could be mistaken
But I believe most of the black holes we know about are hundreds or thousands of light-years away, and therefore hundreds or thousands of years old by the time we see them. A black hole this young might still have enough crap drifting round it to tell us more about the way it formed and/or their behaviour in the earlier stages of their existence.


/boring reply is informative but boring. And somewhat dodgy of science.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:05, Reply)

What about that one in 'The Black Hole'?
You know, that documentary?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

Erm...don't think I saw that.

(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:08, Reply)

It was a shit 70s Disney film.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:10, Reply)

Ah, that would be why.
(I tend to give up on Disney in their post-Jungle Book era)
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:14, Reply)

I saw it in the cinema
when I was a child. It came out around the same time as Star Wars - the difference between them could not be more marked. It sucks massive balls.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:16, Reply)

It was on the same bill as Condor-Man.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:18, Reply)

Fuck me that was equally appalling.
I forget we're of a similar age. Hence you get all the Jimmy Hill/Deacon references.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:19, Reply)

was Condorman that terrible film with Gene Wilder?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:20, Reply)

I think it was with Frank Spencer
What's his name... Crawford?

I'll have a Google and see if Wilder was in it too.

EDIT: It was Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed!

And it was shit.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:22, Reply)

you are right
not sure why I thought it was Gene Wilder. No wonder that film is so shit if Michael Crawford is in it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:24, Reply)

Did you have a day in school Monts, which was the days after
'John's Not Mad' was first shown on the telly when EVERY KID claimed to have tourettes?

Fuckin' Nescafe.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:23, Reply)

Yes.
That documentary was a BIG EVENT.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:27, Reply)

not necessarily
could be that they've only just detected it and it was 19 years old when the light was emitted however many years ago it was
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:04, Reply)

This thread is giving me Paul Hardcastle lolz.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:07, Reply)

at least it is good for something

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:08, Reply)

Oh yes.
Sorry, having a bit of a slow one this afternoon. Either way, we could learn a lot from it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 18:08, Reply)