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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    NGC 6814: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy from Hubble
    August 16, 2020

    In the center of this serene stellar swirl is likely a harrowing black-hole beast. The surrounding swirl sweeps around billions of stars which are highlighted by the brightest and bluest. The breadth and beauty of the display give the swirl the designation of a grand design spiral galaxy.

    The central beast shows evidence that it is a supermassive black hole about 10 million times the mass of our Sun. This ferocious creature devours stars and gas and is surrounded by a spinning moat of hot plasma that emits blasts of X-rays.

    The central violent activity gives it the designation of a Seyfert galaxy. Together, this beauty and beast are cataloged as NGC 6814 and have been appearing together toward the constellation of the Eagle (Aquila) for roughly the past billion years.

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  • mhardy6647
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 4,001
    edited August 2020
    The fact that Hubble is still out there doings it’s job has to make it one of the greatest technical wonders of all time.
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    The fact that Hubble is still out there doings it’s job has to make it one of the greatest technical wonders of all time.

    I am sure it says TOYOTA somewhere on it....
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,878
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    The fact that Hubble is still out there doings it’s job has to make it one of the greatest technical wonders of all time.

    Right up there with the toaster oven.
    Sal Palooza
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,747
    ....and the George Foreman Grill....
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    The fact that Hubble is still out there doings it’s job has to make it one of the greatest technical wonders of all time.

    Right up there with the toaster oven.

    And the Thermos.... Keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.... How does it know?

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,921
    Mikey081057 wrote: »
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    The fact that Hubble is still out there doings it’s job has to make it one of the greatest technical wonders of all time.

    Right up there with the toaster oven.

    And the Thermos.... Keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.... How does it know?

    Maxwell's Daemon (which I just mentioned in another thread) :|
    https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/comment/2605055#Comment_2605055

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,921
    oh, oh, oh!
    and...
    and...

    the corner horn! B)

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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,674
    Amazing! Especially the corner horn, er, or the thermos.
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    Yes, the corner horns and the Albanian sausage skin interconnects. Amazing!

    "The Far Corners: The Skin Effect and Albania’s Organike Cables | Part-Time Audiophile" https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2016/09/20/the-far-corners-the-skin-effect-and-albanias-organike-cables/amp/
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,499
    Great
    Cables that my dogs would want to chew on
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    NotaSuv Posts: 3,871
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    long haul to the curb for the garbage man
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  • mrbigbluelight
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    "I can always hear the voice of my father the engineer who subscribed to the idea that wire is wire is wire. I remember as a child when he would use anything available to hook speakers up to an amplifier: lamp cord, coat hangers, bits of Christmas tinsel that had unfortunately passed through the entrails of our cat Mishka intact. "

    😂

    That is what is known as well written . I am a better man for having read that . 😇
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,217
    Hey, the ones from the cat are insulated.
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,353
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    Inner Inner Groove Distortion :)

    Looks like a kiddo was playing with a pencil instead of dancing.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,937
    Closest he came to that spirograph he wanted for Christmas.
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,353
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    I had to stop and take this yesterday. A very nice1964 Pontiac GTO hardtop. The first year for the GTO. I had a '66.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,570
    aprazer402 wrote: »
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    I had to stop and take this yesterday. A very nice1964 Pontiac GTO hardtop. The first year for the GTO. I had a '66.

    You can tell the A/C doesn't work or their is none in that GTO.

    I drove a couple cars and a truck with my driver's vent positioned just like that...so I wouldn't pass out from the heat. :s
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,937
    Those vent were the cats meow.... I wish they still had them at times
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,499
    I think the only reason they got rid of them was due to theft :'(
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Those vent were the cats meow.... I wish they still had them at times

    Unfortunately my 69 LeMans did not have them as they stopped in 68 for the LeMans. Id imagine the GTO and Tempest also.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    The fact that Hubble needed glasses has to make it one of the greatest technical wonders of all time.
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 4,001
    edited August 2020
    Yeah my 68 has those vents (the last year) for the A body cars anyway. Especially handy if you were a smoker.
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  • Milito
    Milito Posts: 2,002
    My 68 Z/28 didn't have them either.
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  • Moose68Bash
    Moose68Bash Posts: 3,843
    aprazer402 wrote: »
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    I had to stop and take this yesterday. A very nice1964 Pontiac GTO hardtop. The first year for the GTO. I had a '66.

    My parents gave me a red '64 GTO hardtop for my high school graduation present. Loved that car, and I wish I still had it. But I can't say I would trade my current vehicle for it.

    Technology and creature comforts have come too far over the past almost 60 years for me to look back. My GTO had a reverberator to give the radio an interesting sound that differed from the ordinary (especially when I sped over a bump in the road, and there were plenty of those in southern Indiana), but now I have a Mark Levinson sound system that gives me a really enjoyable musical experience while rolling down the highway in air-conditioned comfort and infinitely adjustable leather seats.

    It's easy to get sentimental about "the rusty old days," as my son used to say, but there's no denying reality. :(
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,509
    Milito wrote: »
    My 68 Z/28 didn't have them either.

    You know, I have been able to tell the difference between a 1967 Camaro and a 1968 Camaro (by the side marker lights) since I was a teenager, but I have never noticed that the '67 had those vents. :p
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 4,001
    edited August 2020
    GM’s pony cars which were the Camaro and Firebird dropped the vents in 68. While muscle cars 68 was the last year.
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