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backscatter712

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21. Oh you're not kidding.

Reply to longship (Reply #9)

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 11:56 PM

Oct 2015

Even if you had transporter technology from the Enterprise, if you beamed a teaspoonful of neutronium onboard your ship, if it wasn't contained somehow, say inside the warp core, it would immediately explode like a few zillion nuclear bombs.

And then you've got some hazards like spaghettification, intense radiation, magnetic fields so strong they'll rip you to atoms and scramble your credit cards.

Oh, and the entire neutron star, with the mass of an entire star, crammed into a space the size of Manhattan, is spinning as fast as a kitchen blender.

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The strange star that has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructure [View all] Logical Oct 2015 OP

Maybe we finally found something besides mother nature? Rex Oct 2015 #1

I agree, a long shot but still interesting! nt Logical Oct 2015 #3

It's a Klingon battleship Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #23

That's fine, I'll take the Klingons over the Ferengi any day. Rex Oct 2015 #25

Yet all an improvement katsy Oct 2015 #26

True and no need to hide here, we all agree on that on DU. Rex Oct 2015 #29

I just hope they are not republicans Angry Dragon Oct 2015 #2

Haha! Basic LA Oct 2015 #5

Scientists are looking for signs of INTELLIGENT life!!!!! LongTomH Oct 2015 #13

It's an F3 main sequence star about three times as luminous as the Sun Fumesucker Oct 2015 #4

OBAFGKM longship Oct 2015 #6

You know you've been playing Elite:Dangerous... backscatter712 Oct 2015 #8

It had better be a fucking robust scoop. longship Oct 2015 #9

Oh you're not kidding. backscatter712 Oct 2015 #21

You can never play too much Elite:Dangerous! Rex Oct 2015 #30

There's no reason to suggest that any aliens there evolved in that solar system... Humanist_Activist Oct 2015 #7

That's what I meant by "came from somewhere else" Fumesucker Oct 2015 #22

True, its fun speculation though, I'm thinking dyson swarm. n/t Humanist_Activist Oct 2015 #27

Ring World! /nt Marr Oct 2015 #10

I think it is close to ridiculous to start speculating that the occasional ladjf Oct 2015 #11

Lighten up, the article even said it was a long shot. It was one possibility. nt Logical Oct 2015 #12

+1 n/t lumberjack_jeff Oct 2015 #17

The people talking about it and doing the speculation are physicists. Rex Oct 2015 #31

Astronomer Phil Plait has also commented on this. Of Ccourse, he's skeptical; but....... LongTomH Oct 2015 #14

Interesting, thanks for posting!! nt Logical Oct 2015 #15

facinating! thanks for posting. will be interested to see if this star gets increased scurtiny Takket Oct 2015 #16

Good question. nt Logical Oct 2015 #20

Self reply... Read last night they want to point SETI at this system. Takket Oct 2015 #33

Could it be... ZX86 Oct 2015 #18

I agree, so does the article, long shot but still cool. nt Logical Oct 2015 #19

It's not just one item and there's no evidence of a regular orbit Fumesucker Oct 2015 #24

THATS NO MOON!! yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #28

Come on, am I really the first one who's going to post this? Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2015 #32

Sorry, we dropped the ball :( Takket Oct 2015 #34

Seriously, it took 32 posts. Xyzse Oct 2015 #35

Thanks for posting Omaha Steve Oct 2015 #36

Love this stuff, long shot but still so cool! nt Logical Oct 2015 #37