Polaris Dust Nebula

I’ll take two!

Great! I just finished dusting and vacuuming this place after a couple of weeks neglect and you give me something else to dust! Okay. How do you dust that nebie thing?

Anstapa

Whenever I hear about that sort of thing it seems so strange. I think of galaxies as collections of flaming balls of hydrogen and helium, with a few traces of other elements. But carbon compounds!! :boggle:

kinda makes ya wonder why the EPA isn’t doing something about it, eh?


stick that in your flaming balls of hydrogen

No, I don’t mean that hydrocarbons are messy.
I mean that it’s…it’s…like this… :astonished:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/B/BlackCloud.html

Cosmologist Fred Hoyle ranks among a small but influential group of scientists (which also includes Carl Sagan) who have written works of “alien” fiction that are extrapolated from their basic scientific beliefs. In his novel The Black Cloud (1957),1 Hoyle describes the arrival near the Earth of a > small interstellar cloud > that can think and move of its own accord. A > living organism> , half a billion years old, as big as the orbit of Venus, and as massive as Jupiter, the Black Cloud has a “brain” that consists of complex networks of molecules which can be increased in number and specialization as the creature desires (see intelligence, nature of). Once it learns that the third planet of the Sun is inhabited by an intelligent race, it establishes contact and begins to reveal some extraordinary facts about intelligence in the Universe.

I was doin’ okay 'till

Once it learns that the third planet of the Sun is inhabited by an intelligent race

I was havin’ relativity issues…