Star Goes Rogue in Untimely Collision

Discovery ^ | 11/18/09 | Ray Villard

[La Lydia]

That is an old Twilight Zone episode.

[ravingnutter]

They should rename the rogue star Sarah Palin ; )

[naturalborn]

I thought this was a Sarah Palin thread

[allmendream]

This star is 20,000 light years away.

It exploded 20,000 or so years ago.

How could it live and die and leave behind a record of its existence that never was, if the Earth and Universe are only six thousand years old?

Assuming that God doesn't lie, it couldn't.

[Mmogamer]

Any reason you are trying to start crap here about that? Let it rest.

[Jaxter]

I think I’m gonna hold off full panic mode until they find an example of this happening to a main sequence, G type star.

[Darksheare]

This is in chat, not reliogion.
Take that to the religion forum.

[Darksheare]

Anyone else notice the swirl to the debris?
One or both stars in the collision tossed off their outer shells as they collided.

[ROTB]

“The universe was instantly made fully mature, like Adam and Eve.” is the answer.

Have not looked too deeply into young/old earth stuff.

[dainbramaged]

Does anyone remember that 1956 film shown in schools called “Our Mister Sun”?

[joethedrummer]

Oh my gosh! We’re all gunna die! We’re ALL gunna DIE!!!

[Allegra]

DOOM!!

[allmendream]

Being created “fully mature” includes being fully dead some 14,000 years before existence supposedly started?

Dead for 14,000 years seems pretty “fully mature” to me. ;)

[Dr. Sivana]

Does anyone remember that 1956 film shown in schools called “Our Mister Sun”?

Yup, we saw that in school in the early '70's. Another great Bell Labs pic.

[Leo Farnsworth]

A Newsweek cover article in the future:

With the Copenhagen accords signed, Al Gore assured all earthlings: “A scenario like this will never happen to our sun; we can control it (the sun) easily with our new tax revenue a carbon offsets. The earth will never warm or cool again...”

Later in the year a small article in the same Newsweek magazine will mention that Al Gore was taken away in a straight jacket to ‘Happydale’ when the sun refused to respond to his ‘Earthly’ thoughts.

[Big Giant Head]

Now, eight years later astronomers remain puzzled as to what happened to the star, called V838 Monocerotis, and are still doing interstellar forensic detective work.

Yack. Is there a shot for that? Is it contagious? It sounds fatal, and apparently, is.

[dog breath]

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun?

or fester like a sore -

and then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over-

Like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

Like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Our planet would be like that poem, A Raisin in the Sun, by Langston Hughes

[Joan Kerrey]

can anyone recommend the appropriate sun block product for this event?

[ROTB]

And if made fully mature, why not have remnants of things long dead?

Seriously.