Jul 9 2009NASA Discovers 11 Billion-Year-Old Supernova
Eleven billion, that's pretty old. Probably dated your mom in high school. Ba-ba-ba-burn!
Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that ripped apart around 11 billion years ago.
The ancient supernova was found after astronomers compared several years of images taken from a portion of the sky, enabling them to look for objects that changed in brightness over time.The universe is believed to be 13.7 billion years old, so the supernova marks the death of one of earliest stars in creation.
The previous supernova record was an event that happened around six billion years ago.
Ooh, I feel a song coming on. *ahem*
Someday you will find me
caught beneath the landslide
in a bourbon supernova
a gin & tonic black dwarf in the bar.
Massive supernova occurred 11 billion years ago [yahoonews]
Thanks to Torotoro from Alabanyor, who is old enough to be your father. And might be.
Reader Comments
1. Aaron Rabinowitz - July 9, 2009 2:37 PM
first
2. Second - July 9, 2009 2:41 PM
Second
3. tobyraider - July 9, 2009 2:41 PM
Third!! God I'm retarded...
4. tobyraider - July 9, 2009 2:42 PM
Did I say that out loud..... Whoops...
5. Billy Rapture - July 9, 2009 2:42 PM
No one cares if you're first.
Make your first post something people might enjoy reading.
Asshat.
6. Aaron Rabinowitz - July 9, 2009 2:43 PM
@5
maybe i enjoy reading that i am first
7. pez dispenser - July 9, 2009 2:45 PM
why isn't it in a nursing home?
8. liam - July 9, 2009 2:46 PM
I prefer my supernovas of the champaigne variety. Gotta go punch my brother in the face.
9. gold - July 9, 2009 2:48 PM
wow
http://werturtle.mybrute.com/
10. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 9, 2009 2:52 PM
@6
Maybe we enjoy you baking in an oven.
11. Aaron Rabinowitz - July 9, 2009 2:55 PM
@10
i'm no good baked, i'm much better fried.
12. STOMPY - July 9, 2009 2:55 PM
How many stupid brutefags change?
How many fakes has Daisy claimed?
Where were you while naas was getting high?
Slowly playing with my balls
While standing in the shoping malls
Where were you while naas was getting high?
13. Matty - July 9, 2009 2:56 PM
@10
Maybe i have nothing clever to say but want to keep the chain of hate gonig.... you asshole.
14. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 9, 2009 2:57 PM
@11
How about we retrofit your shower and make it a gas chamber. Firstards get the old timey death.
@12
Working.
15. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 9, 2009 2:58 PM
@13
Who the fück are you? Get off the geek pages!
16. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 9, 2009 2:59 PM
I'm outta here. I have to see a man about a horse.
17. Aaron Rabinowitz - July 9, 2009 3:00 PM
@14
Why do you feel the need to make the Holocaust/Jewish jokes? Does it makes you feel better? I'm just here at work, just trying to have some fun on this site and yet you need to bring that up, as if wishing me dead weren't enough? Wow, just "wow"!
18. blp - July 9, 2009 3:01 PM
That's older than most of your posts GW Ba-ba-ba-burn! *kidding* I luvs your posts.
19. STOMPY - July 9, 2009 3:04 PM
In GFS's abscence I'll take over.
@17
Becasuse you are a tool and if you can get that offended by random internet chat than you should just turn your cpu off...
20. Aaron Rabinowitz - July 9, 2009 3:11 PM
@19
I can deal with internet chat, and flaming and whatnot. but when you try to bring Holocaust down to the level of a punch-line then yes, I get offended. call me old fashioned, but when you make a joke out of a time in history when over 15,000,000 people worldwide died because of stupid bigotry and arrogance it causes my blood pressure to rise.
Other than that, make fun of me all you want. i will probably laugh along with you.
21. Dishy Dishyington - July 9, 2009 3:13 PM
The pic looks like the tail gasses from an 11 bazillion-year-old Chevy Nova.
22. msjessiemeghan - July 9, 2009 3:23 PM
STOMPY, brilliant. And now the song-with new improved lyrics-is stuck in my head.
23. fffffffffffff - July 9, 2009 3:49 PM
your mom is sooo fat
*how fat is she?*
we rode up on her back to get some burgers from WENDYS
and her SKATES went flat
i got stuck in her butt crack!
they thought i was lost, but i was caught by the g-strap
heaven forbid a giant fart would give way
cuz that would blow me round the world in a day
we drove into the drive in
and she didnt have to pay
becuz we dressed her up to look just like a chevrolet
24. LSDiesel - July 9, 2009 3:56 PM
@17, Welcome to Geekologie, where standing up for what you believe will only cause the pack to turn on you. Like a bleeding piranha, you will be ripped apart by your own kind.
If you're uncomfortable in these waters, then I suggest you set sail for the next geek blog.
25. STOMPY - July 9, 2009 4:49 PM
@24
nice touch...
26. Billy Rapture - July 9, 2009 4:57 PM
@12
Jesus Christ Monkey Nuts.
Thats genius.
@14
Get over your self.
Can you really not take a joke?
Asshat.
@24
Truer words have never been said.
27. Billy Rapture - July 9, 2009 4:58 PM
Shit, not 14, 17.
28. Ciao - July 9, 2009 6:07 PM
for some reason, it reminds me o' jello. :B
29. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway Posting From Home With Booze In Belly - July 9, 2009 6:12 PM
@Billy
It puts the lotion on it's skin or it gets the hose again.
30. Ginge - July 9, 2009 6:35 PM
I like the oasis piss takes, more please.
Liam Gallacher starts off "slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball." We later find our increasingly unreliable narrator "caught beneath the landslide, in a champagne supernova in the sky." So he's a slow, fast, fizzy, loud, buried exploding star. Any astronomers fancy picking the bones out of that?
31. naas had in & out burger today, fǖcking utopia I tell ya - July 9, 2009 7:05 PM
@24 ditto sir, ditto
32. Daisy - July 9, 2009 9:47 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max and Baja went to space camp, and made friends with the computer which caused a set of spectacular failures which allowed them to fly the shuttle.
33. STOMPY - July 10, 2009 12:54 AM
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/cute_stop_motion_donkey_kong_m.php#comment-123734
just click on the link you stupid homos.....
34. U R A LOSER WHO WILL DIE ALONE - July 10, 2009 1:59 AM
Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - I was going to say something about your 3rd grade mentality, but then I saw that that you are a Bengals fan, and therefore presumably from Cincinnati; so that has to be punishment enough, as well as explain, if not excuse, your angry little life.
STOMPY - you actually seem to have some comedic chops. I don't know why you would want to undercut yourself by backing up posters who think throwing out old insults is the height of hilarity (although I expect you'll let me know why).
By the way, I'm not Jewish. Go figure...
35. Bernard Fleming - July 10, 2009 7:01 AM
34 - Your not a jew your goliaths lampshade.
36. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 10, 2009 9:58 AM
@34
I was merely saying that all firstards should be marched right into the oven. I like jews. Just ask Hanukkah Montana. Oh wait. Nevermind. He's Catholic now. He converted for the jokes.
37. Matty - July 10, 2009 10:04 AM
@24..
yeah.. like that time i tried to make a joke (@10).. and he was mean to me.. i didn't cry (i did).. cause i knows he loves me (he doesn't)..
i've been rockin the Geek for years.. the comment boards have always been competitive.. gotta roll with the punches. BAM
38. menasor - July 10, 2009 10:25 AM
watchyout! 34 is a robo-jew!
nobody has to die alone, we can all join robowitz in the gas shower,
shower might not work on you tho #34, being a robot and all, ...wait, i guess that emans you'll be the one to die alone (your choice of battery running out, or getting caught by dino riding GK writter)
39. Pablo Picasso - July 13, 2009 5:42 AM
WOAW! ELEVENTY BILLION!