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#2214630 10-Apr-2019 20:24

Its just a number but when you say if you started driving 1000 years Before Christ, and you still have 300 years to drive , that's crazy. With Universe stuff, a lot of things are difficult to comprehend.

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#2214636 10-Apr-2019 20:47

if it's anything more than 1 pixel wide i'd be impressed. so far things like galaxies have only been photographed about 2 pixels wide.

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#2214674 10-Apr-2019 21:34

tdgeek:

Thats a rubbish resolution. Can you re post as 4k and HDR? :-)

Why bother? If your screen is not OLED you won't see a true black.

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#2214678 10-Apr-2019 21:42

freitasm:

tdgeek:

Thats a rubbish resolution. Can you re post as 4k and HDR? :-)

Why bother? If your screen is not OLED you won't see a true black.

I have a Panny plasma, its pretty black.

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#2214680 10-Apr-2019 21:43

rb99:
Am fairly sure its not going to be square

It could be if it's one pixel by one pixel

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#2214739 11-Apr-2019 02:18

tdgeek:

OK, It's 3082 years by your calc, I'll allow that, you pass, next please.

"When Neptune and Earth line up on the same side of the sun, at their closest, they are only 2.7 billion miles (4.3 billon kilometers) apart. But when the planets are on opposite sides of the sun, they can put as many as 2.9 billion miles (4.7 billion km) between them."

Tdgeek goes when planets are furthest apart, DarthKermit goes when they are the closest. 😂

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#2214748 11-Apr-2019 06:59

The actual image they've come up with has now been made public. Kinda looks like an orange out of focus doughnut.

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#2214750 11-Apr-2019 07:11

tdgeek:
freitasm:

tdgeek:

Thats a rubbish resolution. Can you re post as 4k and HDR? :-)

Why bother? If your screen is not OLED you won't see a true black.

I have a Panny plasma, its pretty black.

I printed mine out with a laser printer. Only lasers can make true black.

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#2214751 11-Apr-2019 07:12

DarthKermit:
The actual image they've come up with has now been made public. Kinda looks like an orange out of focus doughnut.

Yes, it was pretty much always going to: but that's important in and of itself. It DOES look exactly like it was expected to look. So once again ... we fail* to find the crack in Relativity that might lead to a quantum gravity theory.

*Of course, the image has only just been released. There will be years of research poring over it to see if there is a crack to be exposed.

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#2214760 11-Apr-2019 07:49

It's not really a photo, and thus it's not really orange, and of course it's not really torus shaped - just looks that way from any direction when viewed from a distance.