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Sometimes I need a bit of context to understand why it's on HN. I mean sure, it's a star, what makes it interesting?
by keyle 7y ago
Sometimes I need a bit of context to understand why it's on HN. I mean sure, it's a star, what makes it interesting?
- edu 7y agoMaybe due to Star Trek? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-0Jg6_zHu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-0Jg6_zHu0
- ralfd 7y agohttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmW9SveWsAcTfsj.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmW9SveWsAcTfsj.jpg
- Symmetry 7y agoI associate it with the short story "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" that was a Hugo finalist in 2007. Text: http://redstonesciencefiction.com/2011/01/wolf359/ http://redstonesciencefiction.com/2011/01/wolf359/
- biesnecker 7y agoThanks for that, it was a terrific read.
- Pigo 7y agosleep Data... sleep...
- TwoNineA 7y agoVery underrated comment.
- deepaksurti 7y ago[1] and [2] may help :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Both_Worlds_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)#Part_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Both_Worlds_(Star_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_(Star_Trek) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_(Star_Trek)
- olyjohn 7y agoI feel like Best of Both Worlds is the episode that really got TNG into it's groove. There was a lot of awkwardness in season 1 and 2, some cheesy acting and scripts, season 3 was better... But I feel like once they hit this episode and started with season 4 is when the show really took off and got good.
- softwaredoug 7y agoAlso immortalized in the classic Brandon Bird painting “Death of Jennifer Sisko” http://www.brandonbird.com/jen_sisko.html http://www.brandonbird.com/jen_sisko.html
- furgooswft13 7y agolol epic. Sisko is pretty much Space Jesus after all.
- nsxwolf 7y agoWhen I first saw that episode as a child I didn't appreciate how close Wolf 359 is to the Solar System and therefore what a big dramatic element that added to an already dramatic battle.
- drivingmenuts 7y agoMaybe someone is grinding karma for unknowable reasons?
- koheripbal 7y agoLots of Reddit refugees are migrating to HNews. Reddit has been overrun by teenagers
- Pigo 7y agoThey have been successful at culling most every subreddit that was interesting or fun, and most anything that deviates from the hive-mind.
- PaulHoule 7y agoIt's an interesting bit of science. Stars like that are really common and very long lasting so in the long view those might be the places most likely to harbor life.
- isoprophlex 7y agoAs a chemist, the tantalising idea of the thing having non trivial chemistry on its surface, in an environment full of hard radiation, magnetic fields and a hard vacuum above it.
- Amorymeltzer 7y agoAlluded to elsewhere, but it's very close. After Alpha Centauri and Barnard's Star — and a couple of brown dwarfs, if you want to count those — it's next at around eight light years away. It's ended up in a lot of fiction[1], in particular Star Trek, but also a number of novels and video games (I know it from Escape Velocity: Nova). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and_planetary_systems_in_fiction#Wolf_359_(CN_Leonis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and_planetary_systems_in...