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Re: he didn't say it was a star, and...
Posted By: Ain Soph Aur	Date: 4/20/04 2:35 p.m.
In Response To: Re: he didn't say it was a star, and... (Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)) : Nope, no it ain't at least in the usage with which I am familiar. : A red dwarf is the most common type of star around... they last for tens of : billions of years. : A white dwarf is a star on its last legs, after it's puffed up into a giant : and then collapsed back. It doesn't "burn" fusion anymore, it's : just radiating leftover heat and light. : A black dwarf is a dead star (theoretical object, at least when I took : astronomy) which has cooled off. Extreme cases are neutron stars and black : holes, but they behave (and are formed) very differently. : A brown dwarf never reached star status. It's too big to be a planet, but too : small to be a star. When I was taking astronomy and physics it was a : purely theoretical critter, but apparently there's some stronger evidence : out there for their existance. I'll have to go looking again. : Planet != Brown dwarf != Star : Whether brown dwarfs have planets or moons is something I never considered... : but that would be a nomenclature point. That's still fodder for debate, : though. : -- Steve (sleep dwarfish right now... perchance to dream...) It's all a matter of nomenclature anyways. But you did contradict yourself. You called a Brown Dwarf a dead star, which is the definition I always heard, which was that a Brown Dwarf is the theoretical next stage from a White Dwarf. Then you said it never reached star status, which really doesn't make any sense from any point I've heard. And, for the record, neutron stars are actually the superdense cores of supernovae, and they're about 15 miles in diameter with a mass greater than our sun's. They also produce magnetic fields trillions of times more powerful than the Earth's. But when I did a little looking up not in the book I got the brown dwarf from, it turns out that what I was talking about is actually called a black dwarf, so technically you're right.

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Possible origin of the name "Threshold"	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	4/19/04 11:24 p.m.
Re: Possible origin of the name "Threshold"	Ain Soph Aur	4/19/04 11:57 p.m.
he didn't say it was a star, and...	Ben Roth	4/20/04 12:27 a.m.
Re: he didn't say it was a star, and...	Ain Soph Aur	4/20/04 2:18 a.m.
Re: he didn't say it was a star, and...	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	4/20/04 2:34 a.m.
Re: he didn't say it was a star, and...	Daedalus	4/20/04 3:18 a.m.
Re: he didn't say it was a star, and...	Shishka	4/20/04 4:14 a.m.
Shishka, is this your "H" on my forehead??	LietLives	4/20/04 4:26 a.m.
Re: Shishka, is this your "H" on my forehead??	Daedalus	4/20/04 5:17 a.m.
Re: Shishka, is this your "H" on my forehead??	Steve Ollett	4/20/04 7:26 a.m.
Re: Uh, Shishka...	Blackstar	4/20/04 10:33 a.m.
Re: Uh, Shishka...	Steve Ollett	4/20/04 10:56 a.m.
Re: It's all about you, isn't it...	Blackstar	4/20/04 12:36 p.m.
thats because it isn't	Brotherswing	4/20/04 6:28 a.m.
Re: thats because it isn't	jayWHY	4/20/04 5:27 p.m.
Re: he didn't say it was a star, and...	Ain Soph Aur	4/20/04 2:35 p.m.
No Contradiction 'Round Here...	Anton P. Nym	4/20/04 3:10 p.m.
Speculation about jump starting Jupiter	Gre'Thor117	4/20/04 1:05 p.m.
Re: Speculation about jump starting Jupiter	Ain Soph Aur	4/20/04 2:20 p.m.
Re: Speculation about jump starting Jupiter	Gre'Thor117	4/20/04 3:17 p.m.
Re: Speculation about jump starting Jupiter	jayWHY	4/20/04 4:56 p.m.
Re: Speculation about jump starting Jupiter	Ain Soph Aur	4/20/04 5:30 p.m.
A suggestion...	Louis Wu	4/20/04 7:46 p.m.
Re: A suggestion...	Ain Soph Aur	4/20/04 8:11 p.m.
Re: A suggestion...	Louis Wu	4/20/04 9:42 p.m.
Re: A suggestion...	Ain Soph Aur	4/20/04 10:20 p.m.
Re: Speculation about jump starting Jupiter	Anton P. Nym	4/20/04 3:33 p.m.
Theory, speculation, scientific fact &/or fiction	Gre'Thor117	4/21/04 12:53 p.m.
Re: Theory, speculation, scientific fact &/or fict	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	4/21/04 3:42 p.m.