re>Jonas and Hethor

Tony Ellis · 20 Mar 1998, 14:09 · from urth-v0008.mbox · original

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From: tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk (Tony Ellis)
Subject: (urth) Re: re>Jonas and Hethor
Date: 20 Mar 1998 15:09:23 +0100
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                                                                     =20
18/03/98
                                                                      14:13
 RE>re>Jonas and Hethor

Rostrum wrote:
>Been a while since I was familiar with theories of how stars form, but
>isn't a star (and thus a quasar) a gas cloud that is "fortunate" enough to
>condense into a star?

Interesting use of the word "fortunate"!=20

Surely Political Correctness, if nothing else, dictates that uncondensed
gas clouds are just as fortunate as stars? That might make Jonas's
ship the Gravitationally Disadvantaged Cloud, of course...

I think the theory is that quasars are made out of compacted chunks
of galaxy: stars, gas, everything. Although super-compact, they're
huge - as big as our solar system.









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