Huge Outburst from a Magnetar

I think magnetars are my new favorite stellar body. I just love the name magnetar (although I wanna read it as maneater, sending me to an annoying Hall and Oats place).

The source for these events was a magnetar, a type of neutron star that is the most highly magnetized object known, with a magnetic field some 10,000 million times stronger than Earth’s. The new magnetar, christened SGR 0501+4516, is of the type known as Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters (SGR), and is the first such found in the last decade. Magnetars are known for spectacular periods of irregular burst activity, changing their luminosity up to ten orders of magnitude on timescales of just a few milliseconds.

Now I wish I could change my luminosity up to ten orders of magnitude on timescales of just a few milliseconds.

Also, a "Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater" sounds like a deadly Nerf gun that you can buy at ThinkGeek....

Do we need to send out the laser cats to eliminate them, sara?

This is back, but I think those glass frogs are an evolutionary attempt to avoid dissection.

I had more, but I need to scramble to get ready to leave town now.

sending me to an annoying Hall and Oats place

There are no annoying Hall and Oates places.

There are no annoying Hall and Oates places.

Leave me alone, I'm a family man. And my bark is much worse than my bite.

::nods sagely::

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Huh. I thought it would go the other way.

Can't sleep, clowndeadline will eat me.

I should do some work.

1964 Frederick's of Hollywood Catalog

"get that 'Marry-a-Millionaire' look!"

Although for this one [link] I want to tell her that her millionaire is gay.

And I love the user comment on this one: [link]

BREAKING NEWS: Big girls want cute clothes, too.

Holy crap!

t /Frank

Try spelling it Oates.

And they RULE!!!!11!