Comments on: The Runaway Star That's Racing Full-Throttle Out of Our Galaxy

By: Amit

Amit — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:07:54 +0000

well serves it right for eating its companion.

By: Lew

Lew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:13:01 +0000

How did they figure out there was a 3rd star involved?

By: KC

KC — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:18:02 +0000

What would be the effect on the planets (assuming they were not affected by the merge) when the star got booted out at speed?

By: WhoDoneIt

WhoDoneIt — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:04:58 +0000

Plus since it is all relative, is the star’s speed relative to our own or relative to the Milky Way?

By: Osso

Osso — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:15:49 +0000

Maybe it’s a galactic mid-term election. Talk about losing a blue state!

By: scribbler

scribbler — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:32:48 +0000

Actually they’re saying that if you canabalize your brother you end up big, bloated and blue and get tossed out of your neighborhood by a tall, dark stranger…

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:40:49 +0000

So you’re saying that surgery is more effective than topical creams for rejuvenation? Well shoot, I already knew that…

By: JaberwokWSA

JaberwokWSA — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:13:24 +0000

With the speed of light at about 186,000 miles per second, over 670 billion miles per hour, a speed of 16 million miles per hour is only about 2.4% the speed of light. At this comparitively slow speed, relativistic effects haven’t really come in to play. My calcs show that time is about 99.97% of “normal” time, that is, nothing. So, the 100 million years ago was 99.97 million years ago according to the star.

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:10:35 +0000

Why isn’t anyone taking into account that at high enough velocities, time is considerably slowed, and subsequently so is the aging process of the object traveling at such a high speed?