Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered By New York Teen

Matt_dk writes "In November 2008, Caroline Moore, a 14-year-old student from upstate New York, discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so. Additional observations determined that the object, called SN 2008ha, is a new type of stellar explosion, 1000 times more powerful than a nova but 1000 times less powerful than a supernova. Astronomers say that it may be the weakest supernova ever seen."

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Re:It's misquoted ... This is like, daily doubles.

[RockDoctor]

If you go to doctors to get healed, you obviously live in a reality distortion.

They are there to make money. If you are healthy, you will not come anymore, meaning they will not get any money.

That's just how the system works. You get money for threating people. But it stops when you heal them.

Sounds to me like you've just given an excellent reason to move out of the society that you live in and into a more civilised one. Which would make you a pinko commie subversive fellow traveller. Probably gay too (amongst people who think that being a pinko commie subversive fellow traveller is a bad thing, many also think that being gay is a bad thing too, and so the irrelevant crime-by-association is alleged. I say this for parody.)

But seriously, by casting aspersions that the society that you live in is not the "best of all things in the best of all possible worlds", you do lay yourself open to charges of Panglossian unpatriotism. If that worries you.

BTW, it's "threatening", not "threating", assuming that you were trying to type in English. Oh, the mistakes I make trying to write in Russian ! Or Spanish.