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Principia Discordia => Techmology and Scientism => Topic started by: Dimocritus on August 25, 2011, 05:26:11 PM

Title: New Class of Hipster Star is Too Cool for Fusion.
Post by: Dimocritus on August 25, 2011, 05:26:11 PM
NASA's WISE mission discovers coolest class of stars (http://www.astronomy.com/News-Observing/News/2011/08/NASAs%20WISE%20mission%20discovers%20coolest%20class%20of%20stars.aspx)

QuoteScientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like objects, with temperatures as cool as the human body.


Title: Re: New Class of Hipster Star is Too Cool for Fusion.
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 25, 2011, 05:30:06 PM
:mittens:  :lulz:
Title: Re: New Class of Hipster Star is Too Cool for Fusion.
Post by: Dimocritus on August 25, 2011, 05:32:01 PM
"The proton-proton chain is sooooo mainstream, and the CNO cycle is for sell-outs."
Title: Re: New Class of Hipster Star is Too Cool for Fusion.
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on August 25, 2011, 05:51:21 PM
 :lulz: This is awesome.
Title: Re: New Class of Hipster Star is Too Cool for Fusion.
Post by: Dimocritus on August 25, 2011, 05:59:51 PM
"You main-sequence stars are sheep and don't even realize it. Fuck the system, man. They just want you to fuse hydrogen into helium so you can fuse helium into other heavy elements until you collapse and go super-nova. But me, man, i don't play that game. I'm a minimalist."
Title: Re: New Class of Hipster Star is Too Cool for Fusion.
Post by: Dimocritus on September 01, 2011, 04:55:10 PM
Also, this y dwarf is a complete failure. Jovian planets (gas giants) are in many ways like failed stars. This y dwarf is also a failed star, but it also completely failed to become a jovian planet on top of that. Must have been all the PBR.