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World Biggest Star Planet - Order of Magnitude
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Posted on 03/30/2007 12:42:15 PM PDT by Doomonyou
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To: Doomonyou
Hahaha ... lol.... I am not a mathematician....
To: mikeus_maximus
I don't no about you but Myanus is white!
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posted on
03/30/2007 5:04:02 PM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(ID RATHER BE HUNTING WITH DICK THAN DRIVING WITH TED)
To: Doomonyou
So cool.... will be really cool when citizens of "heaven" in the future can start populating the rest of the Universe.. with lifeforms.. and, you know, "traveling"..
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posted on
03/30/2007 5:13:44 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
To: Prophet in the wilderness
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posted on
03/30/2007 5:13:57 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(You were given the choice between war & dishonor. You chose dishonor & you will have war. -Churchill)
To: ronnie raygun
Re:
I don't no about you but Myanus is white!
Opps...
Looks like I picked the wrong thread to go blackface!
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posted on
03/30/2007 5:17:37 PM PDT
by
Bender2
(Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. - RAH)
To: Alamo-Girl; betty boop; curiosity; Doomonyou
Folks, be forewarned: you will have to wade through a pile of infantile "humor" to get to the astronomical riches in this thread. For some reason, the name of the seventh planet triggers an orgasm of grade-school "humor" that attracts a group of "humorists" who should all be sent off to play in a sandbox for those who never passed the mental age of fourteen...
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posted on
03/30/2007 5:28:16 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: Bender2
"Thou Shall Not Spill Alcohol" the little known 11th Commandment.
107
posted on
03/30/2007 6:32:44 PM PDT
by
Millee
(Tagline free since 10/20/06)
To: sweetliberty
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posted on
03/30/2007 7:49:11 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: TXnMA
To: TXnMA
LOLOL! IMHO, it usually helps to wait a few days on threads like this before posting.
To: ronnie raygun
I don't no about you but Myanus is white! I thought they were pink ... like the color of lips?
111
posted on
03/30/2007 8:01:38 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Democrats in Republican Clothing ... DIRC ... They are the knives in the back of the GOP.)
To: Doomonyou
The juvenile comments are putting me off from reading the entire thread. May I ask:
1) if a star is so much larger than our Sun(Sol), would an earth-like planet be located proportionally further from the star?
2) could a silicon based chemistry in one of these alternate 'larger star' solar systems sustain a form of silicon based life? ... Would silicon chemistry sustain the processes we see as necessary to life sustaining chemistry which forms DNA type master molecule and the essential sustaining energy 'mitochondria'?
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posted on
03/30/2007 8:07:51 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
To: MHGinTN
1) Is Pluto a planet now, or isn't it?
2) If Uranus is blue from sitting on the ice, maybe you need a swift kick in the icehole.
113
posted on
03/30/2007 8:18:48 PM PDT
by
JusPasenThru
(Just another angry military veteran.)
To: JusPasenThru
Are you up past your bedtime?
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posted on
03/30/2007 8:24:09 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
To: Prophet in the wilderness
When are they going to do that DNA test on Anna Nicole's daughter?
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posted on
03/30/2007 9:15:46 PM PDT
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
To: TXnMA
Folks, be forewarned: you will have to wade through a pile of infantile "humor" to get to the astronomical riches in this thread. For some reason, the name of the seventh planet triggers an orgasm of grade-school "humor" that attracts a group of "humorists" who should all be sent off to play in a sandbox for those who never passed the mental age of fourteen...
There is always an idiot(s) in posts like these, who do nothing but make lame and juvenile jokes. I don't know if they're anti-science and attempting to disrupt things, or just too slow to grasp what is being discussed, so they contribute the little they're capable of: stupidity.
Regardless, it's a fascinating topic with some awesome depictions of scale. I should set up a page on my SpaceBuffs.com site dedicated to demonstrations of astronomical scale.
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posted on
03/30/2007 9:26:31 PM PDT
by
Mark-in-Kentucky
(Check out my sites, www.spacebuffs.com and www.ageofantiquity.com)
To: Doomonyou
117
posted on
03/30/2007 9:32:53 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: TXnMA
...attracts a group of "humorists" who should all be sent off to play in a sandbox for those who never passed the mental age of fourteen... I thought it was seven years old.
(like I should talk, I've been just as bad!)
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posted on
03/30/2007 9:37:22 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat lead.)
To: ronnie raygun
I don't no about you but Myanus is white!
Cheers!
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posted on
03/30/2007 9:40:11 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: MHGinTN; RadioAstronomer
My knowledge of nuclear synthesis is at the third grade level or below, but IIRC most of the heavy elements are formed during the red giant or later stages of a star's life; then being dispersed following a nova / supernova, where they reside among clouds of interstellar gas. Gravitational forces lead to the coalescence and ignition of new stars, and the cycle begins again. Apparently there are stars for which there is evidence that they are in the 3rd or 4th generation of such a cycle...one would have to have been through more than one cycle to have enough carbon or silicon to scrape together as a basis for life.
Another point which I don't know the answer to is if there is some "preferred distance" for solid planets to orbit a star, rather than gas giants...you would then have to compare the time taken for life to develop, to the age of the star and the amount of time taken for the Sun to reach Red Giant stage.
I'm pinging Radio Astronomer since he will know where to find accurate information, if indeed he does not already know off the top of his head.
Rades, would you care to come to the aid of this hairball-ridden feline? Meow in advance.
Cheers!
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posted on
03/30/2007 9:46:42 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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