On a deep, dark evening last June in the spectacularly celestial deserts of northern Chile, scientists made a phenomenal discovery.
It was a supernova… one that they named ASASSN-15lh.
This wasn’t just any supernova. It was the BIGGEST and BRIGHTEST supernova ever recorded.
Supernovas are exploding stars whose ejected mass and energy can create a light show so brilliant that they can sometimes be seen with the naked eye in our own night sky.
At its most luminous, ASASSN-15lh was over 500 BILLION times brighter than our own sun, and FAR greater than the previous record holder.
This is so bright that, according to one of the lead researchers, if it had been located within our own galaxy there would have been no darkness on earth for weeks.
Fortunately for us, ASASSN-15lh was from a galaxy far, far away– 3.8 BILLION light years away. So its intensity didn’t have much of an effect on Planet Earth.
Of course, such a prodigious distance also means that ASASSN-15lh actually went supernova 3.8 billion years ago.
The star was so far away from our planet that it took billions of years for the light from the supernova to reach us.
It’s mind boggling to think about. But in a way, the same can be said of many of the financial risks that we face.
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Quit giving it to illegals and immigrants that has never contributed also quit using SSI money for welfare payments. People better find out what SSI money is being used for. You also need to remember Bill Clinton eliminated the SSI fund and put that account into the general fund, also tax SSI checks Seniors receives , so Politians had more money to waste and not be accused of taking money from the SSI account. Same as Maryland Politians are doing with MD State Employment Retirement Fund
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ReplyDeleteYou are on the right track.
Ask yourself (I did) WHY do "they" allow the illegals to flow into our Country?
That is the question we should all be asking.
What is the agenda?