Astronomers Explode a Virtual Star

Space.com ^ | 03/22/07 | Jeanna Bryner

[Sleeping Freeper]

All I can say is "Cool!"

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Think you'd like this

[Slings and Arrows]

MORAL: No matter what your job or educational accomplishments are, blowing stuff up is cool.

[Red Badger]

Coming soon to an IMax theater near you!...........

[ClearCase_guy]

“You don’t know the power of the Dark Side!”

“It’s only a model.”

[azhenfud]

Simply amazing!

It's astonishing to think man came from monkeys rubbing two sticks together causing fire to blowing up virtual stars.

Well, Rosie blowed herself up - but that star doesn't count.

[Red Badger]

[r9etb]

[Teacher317]

YOU, my friend, are ON today!

[NonValueAdded]

Unbeknownst to the researchers, somewhere in the universe a white dwarf exploded that day but it will take many years for the light of that explosion to reach Earth. Future scientists will calculate that a string of such explosions were not a coincidence but rather a tragic case of someone unwittingly sitting down before the cosmic control panel of the Rovian Clavier (Project X) in 2007.

[RunningWolf]

As it is a computer model, who really knows how accurate it is.

[BuffaloJack]

All things considered, it's probably as accurate as the Climate models. /s

[theDentist]

Looks like Hillary's pantsuit when she sits.

[Red Badger]

It reminds me of a Strawberry Shortcake Doll head........

[RunningWolf]

Yes, look at this, Dazzling new images reveal the 'impossible' on the Sun

How can the model be good when the scientists keep getting surprised by what they thought not possible?

[GAB-1955]

"Where's the kaboom? There ought to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"

[BlazingArizona]

Wait 'till al Qaeda gets hold of this code, and applies a sufficiently large amount of oil money to implementing it...

[RazzPutin]

GIGO.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/00current.htm

[Dahoser]

For years astronomers have tried in vain to blow up an Earth-size star using strings of computer code.

Where've they been? I used to do it all the time with these strings of computer code:

[RunningWolf]

WOW!

Notice this in the article-

The NASA report, however, adds a comforting observation: “Fortunately, our sun is now a stable star that doesn't produce such powerful flares.”