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Amazing to me is the causal influence this star has on the Earth from 9 billion light years away. Physically the influence is zero, but the meaning humans are

• changoplatanero 9y ago
  It caused you to physically move your fingers and type that comment.
  • trypt 9y ago
    That's a cool observation. You could then forget about this whole event and remember it again at the age of 90 and write another comment saying "I remember back when this was discovered" Human bodies are very chaotic in their responses to stimuli due to the ability to react to old old memories...
• Kurtz79 9y ago
  What is also amazing is that this star is very likely long dead, but we will only know in a few million years :)
• Shivetya 9y ago
  well my take away is that I now know that syfy has value beyond the occasional good sci-fi show. I never really perused their site and there seems to be a good number of interesting articles here. the science behind this star's visibility is well beyond my understanding but the article did a good job of putting into terms I could make use of
  • coldpie 9y ago
    Yeah! I was slightly off-put by the tone of the first paragraph or two of the article, but then it actually dug somewhat deeply, including technical charts from the report, and I went back and read the whole thing. A very nice article.