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The giant world Halla should have been swallowed by its star long ago
- BoardsOfCanada 3y agohttps://archive.is/Xjkw3 https://archive.is/Xjkw3
- gttalbot 3y agoI find the anthropomorphisms of "swallowed" and "ate" and "cheated death" so annoying that it's hard to read the article. I really wish science writers would tone this nonsense down. It gets in the way.
- wfhBrian 3y agoMetaphor is the basis of language, with the human body being the most accessible reference.
- mandmandam 3y agoYou could paste the text into GPT3.5 and ask it to do just that. I imagine it won't be long before that's an add-on, so you don't even have to leave the page. "Hemingway this up for me", and boobs your uncle.
- sjcsjc 3y agoAmusing autocorrect ;-)
- chongli 3y agoWhat would you prefer? The astrophysical process you’re referring to is called accretion [1]. It is a single word that covers many different situations that are all the result of the same underlying phenomenon: gravity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_(astrophysics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_(astrophysics)
- laxd 3y ago'Halla is “a forbidden planet of sorts,” said Marc Hon' This guy obviously knows how to talk to big media. But maybe NYT is not the right place for you to read science news?
- Geezus_42 3y agoNYT isn't the right place to read much these days. Just a bunch of old racist/transphobic neo-liberal trust fund babies writing nonsense. There are many more higher quality leftist oriented websites.
- oehtXRwMkIs 3y agoLike where?
- 6502nerdface 3y agoI wonder if the title is making a pun about eating a Jewish variety of leavened bread.
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- scotty79 3y agoYes. Paywalls surviving is such a disappointing development in the evolution of the internet. I'd really like to have a browser extension that could remove links to paywalled sites from search engine result pages and popular news aggregators. I don't really need to see that part of the internet or be reminded of its existence.
- rebolek 3y agoDo you prefer ad-supported internet over paywalls?
- Macha 3y agoOver the nytimes "please sign up online but phone retention during business hours to cancel unless your jurisdiction makes that illegal" paywall at least.
- nickpeterson 3y agoThey really need to change the cancel process. It makes them seem like amateurs. I feel like Sirius radio and the nytimes are run by the same people, and if you’re the nytimes that’s a problem.
- Geezus_42 3y agoYes, I can block the ads.
- 12907835202 3y agoHow do you propose the research for these articles is funded?
- Rebelgecko 3y agoBased on the headline, it almost sounds like the NYT is advocating for mundicide "Hella delenda est"