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To: SunkenCiv

Wasting time wondering about things that cannot be changed and do not matter.

Who cares how much iron is in the Universe, and why?


33 posted on 10/27/2013 7:36:07 PM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Venturer

My daughter was just lamenting on her science project due tomorrow on the various stages of the sun. “What does it matter - it’s not like anyone around now is going to SEE any of it!!??”

I didn’t have a good answer, except for the “knowledge for knowledge’s sake”. That, and learning about the sun and it’s energy to debunk the AGW crowd!


37 posted on 10/27/2013 7:39:31 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: Venturer

Posting in a science topic despite not caring about science is the quintessential waste of time.


38 posted on 10/27/2013 7:39:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Venturer

Imagine a star 30 times thr mass of the sun made of iron. Explode that star into an expanding sphere of iron atoms and by the time it reaches a radius of 1 light year, I bet you would not have any two iron atoms within an AU of each other. Not to mention that thc atoms would be going .99 times the speed of light and the escape velocity of a single atom of iron aint that much.


41 posted on 10/27/2013 8:05:49 PM PDT by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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