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Nixorbo
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What, a sight gag, in a comedy cartoon? NEVER.
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DrThunder88
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Technically, yes. If they had a powerful enough telescope, then they could, in theory, look into the begining of time itself (at Heliopause, of course). This 'theory' is actually the basis for the opening sequence of one of my favorite films, "Contact".
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meisterPOOP
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Look At All Of Those ZAP's...And Any One Of Them Are Lethal!!!
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Nixorbo
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Well, you gotta remember, those stars were WAY too small to be stars. Definitely not to scale. After all, you could see the PE ship and the entire star on the same screen. Not gonna happen in real life.
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Drippy_taco
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Surely that would have been hard for the writers to write themselves out of. Especially when there was only about 1 minute of airtime left. It's a cartoon guys, c'mon.
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DrThunder88
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You saw the planet(oid) that splattered on the PE Ship's forward viewport. Couldn't those stars be mini-stars in some mini-system? And couldn't technology provide energy shielding for the ship? One thousand years ago people couldn't even imagine bullet-proof Kevlar(C), they couldn't even imagine bullets. Who knows what technology will come into being by 3000-or-so A.D?
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Nixorbo
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Originally posted by DrThunder88: Who knows what technology will come into being by 3000-or-so A.D? Technology that can survive the blast of a supernova (brighter than entire galaxies, mind you), yet can't keep the ship from crumpling like a Mazda Miata in the beginning of Bendless Love?
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DrThunder88
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Originally posted by Nixorbo: Technology that can survive the blast of a supernova (brighter than entire galaxies, mind you), yet can't keep the ship from crumpling like a Mazda Miata in the beginning of Bendless Love?
[factitious sincerity]We've landed humans on the moon, but we haven't cured them of the common cold? Such gaping discontinuities surely won't exist in the future.[/factitious sincerity]
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Nixorbo
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Not only humans, but a theme park, as well!
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DrThunder88
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Originally posted by wu_konguk: Could work but because of the small size they would not have enough energy to continue nuclear fission.
Stars actually operate by nuclear fusion.
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Nixorbo
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Well, there still exists the same problem, either way. If something that small could be a star, we'd be living in a Pentary system (Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus).
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DrThunder88
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Maybe I'm not getting this, how do the micro-stars relate to our system?
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Nixorbo
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Microstars can't exist - otherwise we'd have 4 of them in our solar system alone
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DrThunder88
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Not if they we're talking abour the scale used in the show. We'd probably have more than ten. I'm merely proposing the existence of an anomaly not yet discovered.
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DrThunder88
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Then I remembered I never proposed the existence of any type of anomaly, I just corrected someone who got their nuclear reactions mixed up.
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Drippy_taco
Professor
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Good ol' innocent hearted nerdy disputes. Oh I'm feelin' it.
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transgender nerd under canada
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Originally posted by DrThunder88: Stars actually operate by nuclear fusion. The continued chain of Nuclear Fusion on a large scale is kicked off by Nuclear fission, and in larger stars, theoretically speaking there could exist a point where the forces at work internally are fissioning the atoms as well, given that the intense energy and gravity generated by a star would almost certainly provide the same force upon the atoms as an A-Bomb blast. This would only work in seriously huge-ass stars, (the kind that do a Black-Hole job on "death" but would theoretically work. It would also provide the star with more atoms to fuse, and be a self recycling star if both occured at the same rate. Fusion inside, Fission further out, Fusion inside, technically possible to have infinite-percent Fuel Efficiency. I got some of that from a crack-ass stupid weird web page, and some of it from an old textbook I never returned to my school. So feel free to point out any flaws. I make no claim that any of the above is technically valid, but it sounds good 'n right.
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