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1 posted on 03/13/2020 10:43:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

How does that not sound like “The Death Star?”


2 posted on 03/13/2020 10:46:33 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: BenLurkin

This star sounds very unstable. Is it running on a Dem ticket?


3 posted on 03/13/2020 10:48:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


5 posted on 03/13/2020 10:54:47 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: BenLurkin

must have a shy side


6 posted on 03/13/2020 10:55:22 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: BenLurkin
Astronomers have finally found something they have spent decades searching for: a teardrop-shaped star that pulsates on only one side.

Everyone needs a hobby.

7 posted on 03/13/2020 11:02:21 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: BenLurkin

In before Uranus!


8 posted on 03/13/2020 11:04:03 PM PDT by webheart (L)
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To: BenLurkin

Klingons around Uranus in 3.. 2.. 1..


9 posted on 03/13/2020 11:04:59 PM PDT by webheart (L)
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To: BenLurkin

All kidding aside, this is clickbait. A star cannot be teardrop shaped. They said oh it is weird and shaped like a teardrop all you stupid people who don’t know crap about astrophysics. Then they say oh it really is a binary star system with one of the two stars being a pulsar. The pulsar pulsates in all directions on its equatorial plane while the companion star eclipses it regularly as they orbit each other. The smaller star is probably a neutron star and is probably more massive because neutron stars are the pulsars and are smaller and more dense because they have more mass. That explains why the larger star can eclipse the smaller pulsar and the fuzzy image in the telescope looks like a teardrop because you can not focus at that distance.

Why it took 40 years to find one? Because they don’t last very long. That neutron star is going to consume the larger companion star probably in less than 10,000 years.


11 posted on 03/13/2020 11:15:21 PM PDT by webheart (L)
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To: BenLurkin

“Often, fluctuations in a star’s light can be traced to a planet crossing across the face of that star — this is the entire premise of the TESS mission. Such fluctuations, however, may also stem from stellar activity, as in the case of HD74423.”

I was telling an Asian lady this just the other day. “Why that star pulse on one side so much” she asked?

“Fluctuations,” I said.

“Fluc you too!” she replied.


16 posted on 03/14/2020 2:15:23 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like the Christmas lights my wife puts up every winter, on the coldest and windiest day of the fall. If only she would expect to test each string herself and not bother normal people!!


17 posted on 03/14/2020 2:43:59 AM PDT by Bernard ("I don't know if that's true:" Schiff said.)
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To: BenLurkin
I've been looking for a squirrel whose left side legs are twice as long as the right side legs. No luck. I envy these guys who finally got their wish.


18 posted on 03/14/2020 3:44:24 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: BenLurkin

Won Hung Lo Stars.


20 posted on 03/14/2020 4:18:31 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: BenLurkin

More evidence supporting the Electric Universe theory of cosmology (see YouTube channel ThunderboltsProject)


22 posted on 03/14/2020 5:53:18 AM PDT by captain_dave
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To: BenLurkin

after 40 years looking and fearing his own death, he found what he was looking for. /s


23 posted on 03/14/2020 6:01:08 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: BenLurkin
My wife had a similar problem with her heart a few years ago... It got cured by the cardiologist putting/hanging a small device inside her chest... With everything cured, the device comes out next August...

Also, I stopped watch so many reruns of Red Dwarf as well... So, no more pull from the Firestick on the TV... I'll have to discus this with her cardiologists...

25 posted on 03/14/2020 11:08:12 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: BenLurkin

The Grinch can fix lights that don’t light on one side...


27 posted on 03/14/2020 12:14:59 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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