[wvobiwan]

I wonder what this does to gravity around the star?

[FormerACLUmember]

It is not a star they detected. It is the collective sound of Harry S. Truman, JFK, and Scoop Jackson spinning in their graves at what the democrat party has degenerated into.

[Cboldt]

Hillary spins faster than that. I'm not sure about the mass comparison, but they have to be close.

But seriously, pretty cool physics ... -bump-

[GunsareOK]

....Fast-Spinning Neutron Star Smashes Speed Limit...

Traffic cops everywhere are on the lookout.

[spinestein]

[The star rotates 716 times per second – faster than some theories predict is possible.]



Of course! Scientists ideas about so called "stellar evolution" are only THEORIES and have never been proved. No one has ever really seen a black hole or a neutron star or white dwarf in person and their existence is only inferred by atheist astronomers out to try to disprove God. All these so called "planetary nebulae" and "supernovae" and "pulsars" which are supposed to be evidence of "stellar evolution" are just bad science or outright frauds.

Our country will be better off the sooner we start exposing our children in public schools to alternative ideas, like the truth about how stars all sprang into existence a few thousand years ago at the proclamation of an intelligent stellar designer (which is not to be confused with God or the worshiped object of any religion).


/crevo thread satire

[snarks_when_bored]

Assuming this pulsar has a radius of approximately 5 miles and is rotating 700 times per second, a point on its equator is travelling at about 22,000 miles per second (about 79.2 million miles per hour).

That's boogieing, baby...

[mikrofon]

clock the newly discovered pulsar at 716 rotations per second, or 716 hertz

That's somewhere around an F5 to F5# on the tonal scale.

Now all they have to do is find the other four pulsar beacons
and triangulate on the aliens' location:

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam.

[sourcery]

A star spinning faster than ever before seen? So much spin that theories may need to be revised? Discovered during the Senate's consideration of the Alito nomination? Coincidence? You be the judge.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!