I don't think that massive acceleration, such as that the star may have experienced, would have the damaging effects on it as though it were an object on Earth.
For example, if you spin a candy floss around your head here on earth, centrifugal force (Yes, I know there really no such thing!) would eventually pull the main candyfloss body off of it's stick in one big lump. However it is actually the friction of the air around you which rips the candy floss apart. In space there's no such friction, only gravity and momentum - these would combine in roughly the same way the centrifugal force would, pulling the star towards it in one big lump. I would assume that any part of the star would have fairly uniform forces acting on each point of it. Therefore, the star would have changed direction and begun to accelerate away with very little disruption (relatively speaking, of course, it may not have been so gentle if you were aboard any planets that happened to be orbitting it!)
that said, I completely made that up, and the truth could be far different...Who can tell for sure?
thats easily doable, tho you can't obviously have them both active at the same time. Are you saying somesuch OS lets you do that? If so then that OS is teh suxor, it would violate the routing protocols of tcp/ip!
Or am I missing something?
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I don't think that massive acceleration, such as that the star may have experienced, would have the damaging effects on it as though it were an object on Earth.
For example, if you spin a candy floss around your head here on earth, centrifugal force (Yes, I know there really no such thing!) would eventually pull the main candyfloss body off of it's stick in one big lump. However it is actually the friction of the air around you which rips the candy floss apart. In space there's no such friction, only gravity and momentum - these would combine in roughly the same way the centrifugal force would, pulling the star towards it in one big lump. I would assume that any part of the star would have fairly uniform forces acting on each point of it. Therefore, the star would have changed direction and begun to accelerate away with very little disruption (relatively speaking, of course, it may not have been so gentle if you were aboard any planets that happened to be orbitting it!)
that said, I completely made that up, and the truth could be far different...Who can tell for sure?
thats easily doable, tho you can't obviously have them both active at the same time. Are you saying somesuch OS lets you do that? If so then that OS is teh suxor, it would violate the routing protocols of tcp/ip! Or am I missing something?