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First Stellar Outcast Discovered by Astronomers (Intergalactic traveller)
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| Feb 8, 2005
Posted on 02/09/2005 6:02:02 PM PST by demlosers
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To: PatrickHenry
To: demlosers
One day, that thing is gonna hit something like a bowling ball.
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posted on
02/09/2005 8:32:57 PM PST
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blam
To: demlosers
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posted on
02/10/2005 4:27:45 AM PST
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PatrickHenry
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To: eagle11
Anyone here know what constellation this thing is in? Just curious It's comin' round the bend...
The "Folsom Prison" constellation?
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:04:10 AM PST
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: Drammach
A star moving at 0.2 per cent the speed of light. 415 miles per second. Powered by the most extreme event that the gravity of a blackhole can generate.
I guess we have an upper speed limit for any conventional spaceships we might develop. Would take a few hundred thousand years to reach another star. I guess we're stuck here.
To: longshadow
Looks like a good way to do inter-galactic travel. Just take your sun with you. Even relatively nearby galaxies are millions of light years away (the Andromeda galaxy is about 3 million light years away), so their journey will require a long time. But they'll enjoy all the comforts of home.
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02/10/2005 6:43:49 AM PST
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PatrickHenry
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To: JustDoItAlways
Would take a few hundred thousand years to reach another star. I guess we're stuck here. It's not as bad as that. Our present-day rockets, which are far too primitive for inter-stellar travel, could get to the nearest star (nearest to the sun, that is) in "only" about 40,000 years.
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02/10/2005 6:48:03 AM PST
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PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
To: Great Prophet Zarquon
Orion. No, Ursa Major. No, woops. Ursa Minor.... man that thing's movin'..HA!HA!..LOL!....can't wait for the "Trekkies" comments.. :^)
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posted on
02/10/2005 8:07:56 AM PST
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skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: PatrickHenry
thanks, for the Ping...PH
Looks like a good way to do inter-galactic travel...But they'll enjoy all the comforts of home.
..like a Dyson Sphere? ..what a way to go.
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posted on
02/10/2005 8:12:11 AM PST
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skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: PatrickHenry
If you can keep the shear forces from tearing apart your relationship with the star, it has possibilities.
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posted on
02/10/2005 8:14:13 AM PST
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SlowBoat407
(Speculating idiot)
To: demlosers
It faces a lonely future as it leaves our galaxy, never to return.It won't be lonely. Stars are telepathic. See here.
To: PatrickHenry
..or for the econ.-model types; Ringworld, By Larry Niven.
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posted on
02/10/2005 8:16:58 AM PST
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skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: demlosers
Where does the extra kinetic energy come from? Or was the star extragalactic in origin?
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posted on
02/11/2005 5:08:19 AM PST
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Ragnar54
To: demlosers
The fastest star contains many elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, which astronomers collectively call metals. Like everyone else who is familiar with the periodic table.
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02/11/2005 6:47:36 AM PST
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Sloth
(I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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01/11/2007 11:35:41 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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