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sir pball

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4. Oh, they'll do even worse than that

Reply to Takket (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 19, 2023, 04:33 PM

Aug 2023

We probably read the same Scientific American article ten or twelve years ago; get close enough and it'll literally rip the aroms in your body apart. Biology doesn't function too well when a hydrogen atom is shaped like a string instead of a sphere…

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How a special type of neutron star, a magnatar (might) form [View all] Takket Aug 2023 OP

Hard to get our little human brains around the scale of these phenomena. Permanut Aug 2023 #1

The article puts in in perspective pretty well sir pball Aug 2023 #2

i remember years ago reading about magnatars... Takket Aug 2023 #3

Oh, they'll do even worse than that sir pball Aug 2023 #4