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I'm embarrassed for you.

Do Mods lock or remove threads?

 

It definitely shouldn't be in this forum. More of a "I'm bored and want to mess with people because I'm attention starved" kind of thread, wherever that should go.

It was just a little spur of the moment satire on some of the Rush fan boys that I have seen over the years brought on by the effects a vape pen. There was absolutely no intention "to mess with people".and I had absolutely no malice intended towards anyone, just take a look at some of the horrible stuff that is said in this forum about Neil in a totally serious manner. I was only kidding around.

I have some of the rarest Rush collectibles around:

 

- Two garbage bags full of Neil Peart: Special Fan Edition Laminated Autographed Turds that never made it to market. (Best offer)

- A leaked copy of Alex's soon to be released book entitled How to Blah Effectively. (Best offer)

- A pair of Geddy's mother's underwear. (Let's just say I took one for the team here.) $1,000,000

- A weeks worth of mail stolen directly from Neil's mail box. (Best offer)

- A molding of Alex's camel toe.(Best offer)

- Geddy's hub caps. (Best offer)

- A picture that Neil's daughter drew in kindergarten of a burning church. (Best offer)

- John Rutsey's ashes. (Best offer)

- Rush sex toys (Best offer)

- The original tape that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was originally recorded on which was subsequently erased and recorded over multiple times which now has a very nice easy listening mix on it. (Best offer)

- Pubes (Best offer)

I read all the posts in this thread and they just have me questioning my own existence.

Just thought I'd throw it out there, not posted a topic in a while.

I can totally see why.

Good to see someone who can see humor without the use of an emoji.

Just thought I'd throw it out there, not posted a topic in a while.

I can totally see why.

hmm.

 

does someone not know what the word alas means?

 

"Altas Shrugged"

 

Any Rand

I am going to go with Phillip Rand.

Did you cum?

He will SHOW you but he won't TELL you.

Great lyrics:

 

 

How many times do you hear it?

It goes on all day long

Everyone knows everything

And no one's ever wrong

Until later

Who can you believe?

It's hard to play it safe

But apart from a few good friends

We don't take anything on faith

Until later

Show Don't Tell

Now that we have the internet and those lyrics have become redundant.

:(

Now the thread is too sad.

Mods, please close this thread. The silliness is way too out of hand!

If I had a dog that could do that I'd have parties at my house all of the time just to show people that my dog could do that.

I remember him saying that he stopped riding after he had crashed his bike and it scared the shit out of him and made him realize that it wasn't right to be riding his bike when he had a young child to take care of at home.

Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember that.

 

Then I guess he just drives Carrie nuts. ;)

 

I guess he's too cool for a trike.

 

My neighbor is a vet and he has one. He had been in the Navy and slipped and fell on a ship and really messed up his neck/back area. It's the only motorcycle he can handle.

 

I think Neil ought to get one of those bikes with a side car.

 

Neil might actually start touring again with that thing, He'd shatter his old record for leaving the stage after the show in that thing.

I remember him saying that he stopped riding after he had crashed his bike and it scared the shit out of him and made him realize that it wasn't right to be riding his bike when he had a young child to take care of at home.

Speaking of Neil, does he ever update his blog anymore, or did he retire it when he retired from "active duty"?

I think he retired it when he stopped riding his motorcycle.

Monopoly? Dude, you got my hopes up..! :o

 

 

 

 

 

:P

Sorry Babycat, it took me a little while to figure out what you were talking about and then I realized that my title might lead people to believe that I meant Neil was back playing the drums. I came up with a few other titles for this thread that might be less confusing:

 

- Neil is back in the game!!!

- Neil was almost bankrupt and needed to take out a mortgage on his house.

- Neil went to jail.

I have heard from a reliable source that after taking a hiatus for a few years that Neil finally caved in and got out the old Monopoly game and started playing again.

They could have a special The Trees edition where they are all kept equall by hatchet, ax and saw.

No one has mentioned the prices of these atrocities. I think they are a bit much, don't you?

 

It's nice that there's free shipping, but that's the least you can do after charging $33.50 for a pair of swimming trunks.

But, do you have any idea how much money these things are going to save me? No more having to get bailed out of jail for me having to point it out to the ladies myself.

How about a picture of Alex in the fat suit eating sausage?

Here is the simple answer to your question.

 

42

 

 

 

Fixed. :D

 

That is Douglas Adams' answer...

 

Which means it's the TRUTH! Douglas Adams (may he rest in peace) knows EVERYTHING. :notworthy:

 

Clearly not. He didn't know how to stay alive.

 

That is beyond HUMAN knowledge.

It's BANANA knowledge.

I thought it was all Treeduck's fault.

 

He's such a dud on here. :eyeroll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think that Neil is Treeduck.

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The newly-hired Chief of my city's Fire Department, who has been on the job for less than a year, is on administrative leave.

 

Speeding and drunk driving.

 

What's so wrong with that? He was probably rushing to put out a fire and was drinking beer to put the fire out with a la Bob Mackenzie in Strange Brew.

Probably because I don't know how they can be sure, but how do they know what that is? If it's that far away, it may not even exist anymore considering how long it would take that light to get here.

 

 

The video above explains some of what you're asking. And yes, we are studying images of the object's past.

 

This article explains a bit more: http://chandra.harva...u/blog/node/719

 

...the first image ever taken of a black hole (more precisely, of its shadow) truly rises up to that standard. By definition, nothing not even light, can escape the gravitational grasp of a black hole. This, however, is only true if you get too close, and the boundary between what can and cannot get away is called the event horizon.

 

While Chandra can’t see the shadow itself, its field of view is much larger than the EHT’s, so Chandra can view the full length of the jet of high-energy particles launched by the intense gravitational and magnetic fields around the black hole. This jet extends more than 1,000 light years from the center of the galaxy.

 

To use an analogy, consider a trumpeter in a concert hall: the EHT data, taken from radio telescopes around the globe, provide a close-up view of the mouthpiece (the origin of the sound, like the “central engine” of M87). The Chandra data, by contrast, reveal the sound waves as they travel down the trumpet and reverberate around the concert hall. (As with many analogies, the scale is not exact.) We need both of these pieces in order to understand the sound completely. (For a music analogy for interferometry and the EHT from the CfA’s Katie Bouman, see

).

 

As for the investigation of the black hole in M87, Chandra has been on the case for quite some time. First off, let’s start with some basics. M87 is an elliptical galaxy in the Virgo galaxy cluster, about 60 million light years away from Earth. For years, scientists have known that a supermassive black hole weighing several billion times the mass of the Sun sits at the center of M87.

 

Surrounding the elliptical galaxy is a reservoir of multimillion-degree gas, which glows brightly in X-ray light. Chandra's studies of this hot gas have given astronomers insight into the behavior and properties of the giant black hole. For example, astronomers have used Chandra data to discover ripples in the hot gas, which provide evidence for repeated outbursts from the black hole roughly every 6 million years or so. (As an aside and extension to the music analogy, these ripples represent sound waves in the hot gas. Since they are uneven, the “note” would likely be unharmonious noise rather than a melodic tone, many octaves below the threshold of human hearing.

 

Not sure if anyone here could answer this, but how to they know any of this? How do they know this black hole weighs any amount much less several billion times the mass of the Sun? How do they know a galaxy is elliptical? How do they know it's surrounded by "multi-million degree gas"?

 

Also, if I did the math correctly, and it's likely I didn't, it would take more than 59,000 years for light from M87 to reach us (please correct me if that's wrong, and I rounded down when making calculations). Secondly, the article says "Surrounding the elliptical galaxy is a reservoir of multimillion-degree gas, which glows brightly in X-ray light". To be able to see that, it would take more than 118,000 years for that light to get there and return and on this point there is no question, X-rays didn't exist 59,000 years ago. What am I missing?

Here is the simple answer to your question.

I saw a review of his album in DPRP.net

 

If this doesn't sound like Rush, I must have been in some other world in the last 40 years...

 

http://www.dprp.net/reviews/2019-025

That sounds nothing like Rush, not even close.

 

I have to agree, at least as far as that first song goes.

 

Rugen, what song of his do you think sounds like Rush?

 

It's not exactly like Rush but similar mostly in some guitar parts in the songs #3,4,5,6,8

I listened to the first 30 seconds or so of those songs and I think that it would be really stretching it to say that the guy sounds like Alex. The guy is a good guitarist but does not really sound like Alex. He has a much different style than Alex, but I will admit that some of his scales are slightly reminiscent of Alex's guitar work from the synth era, but very slightly.

I saw a review of his album in DPRP.net

 

If this doesn't sound like Rush, I must have been in some other world in the last 40 years...

 

http://www.dprp.net/reviews/2019-025

That sounds nothing like Rush, not even close.