I’m sure this means something ........to someone .....

[ozboz]

I came across this on a football site , I completely agree with it ,, ( I think ? ) erm ......



“”just ran this enquiry in the NASA Exoplanet Database to compare stellar rotation rate (stars rotate just like the Earth), and look what I found. Those so called Hot Jupiter planets which are Jupiter sized planets which are orbiting very close to their star seem to be slowly migrating inwards, before they will be engulfed by their star, and look what happens to the star, it's rotation rate speeds up.

This I think is really really cool. It shows evidence for the stellar tides. This is when a planet distorts a star creating a bulge on its surface, (like the moon's effect on our Oceans), and then the bulge pulls on the planet causing it to migrate.

This is the same process which goes on between Earth and the Moon only rather than moving inwards, the Moon is moving outwards at 4cm/year.

In the graph, those stars with an elevated rotational velocity, are only those on the left, i.e. those very close in to their star. Stellar tides are sensitive to distance.

 

[steveindenmark]

You read some weird football articles. That's what it means

 

[Lozz360]

No doubt there is an astronomy site debating Rooney’s move to Derby County.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Looks like the England ball position stat when attacking, i say attacking in the loosest of terms as we usually go backwards..

 

[Beebo]

It’s a funny old game.

 

[Drago]

This all came post my degrees, so is beyond my knowledge. Certainly in our own solar system Jupiter started out much closer to the sun and continues to work outwards. Having said that, Saturn remains offside.

 

[Beebo]

Placeholder for Uranus joke.

 

[Dirk]

Does that mean that the Moon will eventually go offside?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It means what I've always said, Football's crap, always was, always will be, in general played by overpaid to$$ers (professional level obviously)

 

[Cycleops]

I never saw Patrick Moore playing football.

 

[Edwardoka]

"Bend it like gravity interacting with spacetime" doesn't have the same ring to it

 

[Globalti]

What a futile and meaningless graphic. It might just as well be a picture of my lounge hearth rug with a blob everywhere a crumb of cake has tumbled from my lips and landed on the rug.

 

[Drago]

Using fractal theory to predict the quasi random behaviour of cake crumb particles on a sheepskin rug. You can probably get a degree in that these days.

 

[Edwardoka]

Using fractal theory to predict the quasi random behaviour of cake crumb particles on a sheepskin rug. You can probably get a degree in that these days.

And what is a cake crumb but a very small cake? Which means that crumbs have their own crumbs, all the way down...

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Using fractal theory to predict the quasi random behaviour of cake crumb particles on a sheepskin rug. You can probably get a degree in that these days.

Or at least funding so you don't have to do any real work for a couple of years