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Comment Not tsunami-like (Score 5, Insightful) 29

"Star-quakes" (more accurately, the excitation of one or more internal acoustic or gravity oscillation modes in a star) are neither tsnunami-like or cataclysmic, and TFA is pure clickbait. In most stars in which they've been detected, the brightness fluctuations they cause are well below the one-part-in-a-thousand level.

They do, however, have the potential to uncover the internal structure of stars, via the technique of asteroseismology. So, the Gaia DR3 release is pretty exciting stuff -- just no need to overhype it with Michael Bay adjectives.

Full disclosure: I am a computational asteroseismologist.

Comment Re:This is a serious suggestion (Score 1) 183

Always interesting to note when haters post drug war lies and get automatic top moderation.

Gee, did you read on Slashdot that the racist War on Drugs is actually all true and that marijuanas are killing the children because them dirty Mexicans can't stop puffing that nasty stuff. No really, it's true! I read it on Slashdot and it had a top moderation and was written by a real highly paid medical establishment person who gives people prescriptions for opiates every day so it's really really the truth.

Don't touch those marijuanas chillin's, it will kill you for certain.

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