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  "thread": {
    "id": 434,
    "subject": "re>Jonas and Hethor",
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    "first": "1998-03-20T14:09:23+00:00",
    "last": "1998-03-20T14:09:23+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0008-0652@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-20T14:09:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: re>Jonas and Hethor",
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          "text": "                                                                      \n18/03/98\n                                                                      14:13\n RE>re>Jonas and Hethor"
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          "text": "Rostrum wrote:\nBeen a while since I was familiar with theories of how stars form, but\nisn't a star (and thus a quasar) a gas cloud that is \"fortunate\" enough to\ncondense into a star?"
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          "text": "Interesting use of the word \"fortunate\"! \n\nSurely Political Correctness, if nothing else, dictates that uncondensed\ngas clouds are just as fortunate as stars? That might make Jonas's\nship the Gravitationally Disadvantaged Cloud, of course...\n\nI think the theory is that quasars are made out of compacted chunks\nof galaxy: stars, gas, everything. Although super-compact, they're\nhuge - as big as our solar system."
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