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Rogue Jedi
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Location: On my way to the Cage Account Restricted |
yakkity yak.
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All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I **** like you wanna ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:14 PM |
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Joe K
I dee kay.
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Location: Look to your right, now your left.. |
Dont fall back
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:16 PM |
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Rogue Jedi
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Gender: Male
Location: On my way to the Cage Account Restricted |
reach back get back have a heart attack.
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All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I **** like you wanna ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:18 PM |
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Dave_97
Party Dave
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Location: This island earth |
DJ- DKX
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:20 PM |
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Rogue Jedi
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Gender: Male
Location: On my way to the Cage Account Restricted |
X gonna give it to ya.
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All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I **** like you wanna ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:21 PM |
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Dave_97
Party Dave
Gender: Male
Location: This island earth |
wrong number
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:22 PM |
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Joe K
I dee kay.
Gender: Male
Location: Look to your right, now your left.. |
Damn, im lost.
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:23 PM |
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Dave_97
Party Dave
Gender: Male
Location: This island earth |
JOKE
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:25 PM |
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Joe K
I dee kay.
Gender: Male
Location: Look to your right, now your left.. |
NOoOoOoO0OoO00oo0O0O0o0oOo
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:26 PM |
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Dave_97
Party Dave
Gender: Male
Location: This island earth |
frank!
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:30 PM |
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Joe K
I dee kay.
Gender: Male
Location: Look to your right, now your left.. |
Tom!
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:31 PM |
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Dave_97
Party Dave
Gender: Male
Location: This island earth |
"ive never even had a mum"
"neither have i"
"well you can have my mum....... everybody else did"
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:32 PM |
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Joe K
I dee kay.
Gender: Male
Location: Look to your right, now your left.. |
Im okay..
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:33 PM |
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Dave_97
Party Dave
Gender: Male
Location: This island earth |
Red Dwarf
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:35 PM |
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Joe K
I dee kay.
Gender: Male
Location: Look to your right, now your left.. |
What's Inside a White Dwarf?
To say that white dwarfs are strange is an understatement. An earth-sized white dwarf has a density of 1 x 109 kg/m3. In comparison, the earth itself has an average density of only 5.4 x 103 kg/m3. That means a white dwarf is 200,000 times as dense!
Because a white dwarf is not able to create internal pressure (e.g. from the release of energy from fusion), gravity crushes it down until even the very electrons making up a white dwarf's atoms are smashed together. In normal circumstances, identical electrons (those with the same "spin") are not allowed to occupy the same energy level. Since there are only two ways an electron can spin, only two electrons can occupy a single energy level. This is what's known in physics as the Pauli Exclusion Principle. And in a normal gas, this isn't a problem; there aren't enough electrons floating around to completely fill up all the energy levels. But in a white dwarf, all of the electrons are forced close together; soon all the energy levels in its atoms are filled up with electrons. If all the energy levels are filled, and it is impossible to put more than two electrons in each level, then our white dwarf has become degenerate. For gravity to compress the white dwarf anymore, it must force electrons where they cannot go. Once a star is degenerate, gravity cannot compress it any more because quantum mechanics tells us there is no more available space to be taken up. So our white dwarf survives, not by internal fusion, but by quantum mechanical principles that prevent its complete collapse.
Degenerate matter has other unusual properties; for example, the more massive a white dwarf is, the smaller it is! This is because the more mass a white dwarf has, the more its electrons must squeeze together to maintain enough outward pressure to support the extra mass. There is a limit on the amount of mass a white dwarf can have, however. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovered this limit to be 1.4 times the mass of our Sun. (This is appropriately known as the "Chandrasekhar limit".)
With a surface gravity of 100,000 times that of the earth, the atmosphere of a white dwarf is very strange. The heavier atoms in its atmosphere sink and the lighter ones remain at the surface. Some white dwarfs have almost pure hydrogen or helium atmospheres, the lightest of elements. Also, the very strong gravity pulls the atmosphere close around it in a very thin layer. If it were on earth, this atmosphere would be lower than the tops of skyscrapers!
Underneath the atmosphere of many white dwarfs, scientists think there is a 50 km thick crust. At the bottom of this crust is a crystalline lattice of carbon and oxygen atoms. Since a diamond is just crystallized carbon, one might make the comparison between a cool carbon/oxygen white dwarf and a diamond!
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:37 PM |
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Joe K
I dee kay.
Gender: Male
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Astronomers have stumbled onto a previously unknown star in Earth's stellar neighborhood, a red dwarf that appears to be the third-closest star system to our own.
"Our new stellar neighbor is a pleasant surprise, since we weren't looking for it," Bonnard Teegarden, an astrophysicist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a written statement.
Teegarden, the lead author of the study, and his colleagues happened upon the star while searching for nearby white dwarfs, the remains of collapsed stars that quickly traverse the night sky. Astronomers track white dwarfs like they track planets and near earth objects, by tracking their change in position over time. The study of these dead stars can then help estimate the mass and ages of galaxies.
"These and other stars make up the tapestry through which near earth asteroids travel, which is our main concern," said Steven Pravdo, who collaborated on the star search, during a telephone interview. Pravdo is the project director for NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program, which supplied a database full of sky observations - originally meant to find objects that might impact Earth - for Teegarden to sift through.
It was while going through the database that researchers discovered the dim red dwarf, which shines about 300,000 times fainter than the Sun. It's faintness has veiled it from astronomers until now, researchers said.
NASA astronomers estimate the newly discovered star to sit about 7.8 light years from Earth towards the constellation Aries. The closest star to Earth is Alpha Centauri, which is actually a set of triplets burning brightly about four light years away. Barnard's Star, the next-nearest neighbor is a slightly further hop at about six light years form Earth. One light year is about six trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers).
U.S. Naval Observatory is currently taking more observations of the star to pin down its exact distance from Earth. Teegarden's research on the red dwarf will appear in the publication Astrophysical Journal, although a final publication date has yet to be set.
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:39 PM |
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Dave_97
Party Dave
Gender: Male
Location: This island earth |
they just die
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:41 PM |
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Joe K
I dee kay.
Gender: Male
Location: Look to your right, now your left.. |
I know, just takes a tad bit longer then us to die 
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:43 PM |
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Selphie
you teasing like you do
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What the hell is up with this smilie?
I mean seriously, what the hell?
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riding high on love's true bluish light
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Feb 12th, 2008 12:52 PM |
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Dave_97
Party Dave
Gender: Male
Location: This island earth |
its better then 
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