Baby star blasts jets of water into space

PhysOrg.com ^ | June 22, 2011 | By Joel N. Shurkin

[grey_whiskers]

Numbers don't "feel" right, but Mrs. Whisk is telling me to go shopping.

Heigh-ho, if anyone finds the error, let me know.

Cheers!

[Red Badger]

Was she country or rock and roll?

At this point , it doesn't matter!.................

[Eldon Tyrell]

Obviously - however - I must point out -

You are left in SERIOUS sci-fi land -

Your oceans aren’t water anymore, unless you want the oceans made of water and the life based on “molecule X” -

Flip the logic around - and you have the most fantastically complex set of circumstances, that need to happen with an entirely different chemistry. “Silicon based life forms” may sound cool on TV, but the reality is unimaginably complex.

Just an aside - the stars “just happen” to spew the one molecule that expands when it changes state from liquid to gas.

[antiRepublicrat]

“Silicon based life forms” may sound cool on TV, but the reality is unimaginably complex.

In our current universe with its current rules, such as result in water spewing out of stars, yes. In a different universe with different rules, one where silicon spews out of stars, maybe not so complex. It's just a frame of view.

[Eldon Tyrell]

You might want to re-read what you wrote, and realize what you just said.

Do you have any evidence of any other universe with any other set of physical laws? I mean - sure - if one accepts the pretense that anything is possible - then anything is possible. At which point - everything is meaningless.