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sharks are older than polaris

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Submitted ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    45-67Million Years according to Wikipedia.

    Sharks are hundreds of millions.

    Also somewhat relevant: xkcd.com/1342/

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    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fuckin’ Sirius. So close and yet so far.

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    • ksigley@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There really is an xkcd for everything.

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sharks are also older than trees, flowers, Saturn’s rings, and the Atlantic ocean.

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    • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And don’t even get me started on horseshoe crabs. Older than plants, those ones.

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      • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Back in my day you used to be able to buy twelve horseshoe crabs for a nickel… Of course that was before the war… Back then id swear at least two and a half teenth of my crew where horse shew crab but who you going to tell ? Tattling wouldn’t be invented for another 2 score years up in Kentucky you had to wait another 6!

        But it’s was easier and I miss those days. If you could dodge the knowledge toads you were already 12 up on these Irish but we can’t say that anymore can we? No sir…now we got to give everything to the freckled folk and act like that’s the way it’s meant to be but it’s not. It wasn’t a thing until the battle of leaky hill… But we lost and I had to accept that to get tomatoes down at the Paul’s service at a decent price. Don’t even get me started about the tomatoes. You never damn believe it.

        Sorry I’m going to be a grandfather soon so I’m practicing

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      • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But not horse shoes

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would cut the shapes of prehistoric sharks in cardboard in my childhood. Have a pouch of those somewhere.

      They were really beautiful.

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also from Wikipedia:

    Although appearing to the naked eye as a single point of light, Polaris is a triple star system, composed of the primary, a yellow supergiant designated Polaris Aa, in orbit with a smaller companion, Polaris Ab; the pair is in a wider orbit with Polaris B. The outer pair AB were discovered in August 1779 by William Herschel, where the ‘A’ refers to what is now known to be the Aa/Ab pair.

    I learned something new today. And if I’m reading the details section correctly, while the outer pair of stars are actually older than sharks, it’s the bright star that you can actually see that’s younger than sharks.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And if I’m reading the details section correctly, while the outer pair of stars are actually older than sharks, it’s the bright star that you can actually see that’s younger than sharks.

      This makes even less sense, how is the heavier thing in the middle younger than the things that orbit it?

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      • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I may be wrong but a mass of inhert hydrogen has the same mass of a radiating one, so they could have been orbiting a mass of gas a long time before the “newer” one ignited.

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      • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The bigger the star, the brighter it burns

        Also it dies sooner. So any given big star is more likely to be young

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      • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can explain that but I have to use the only thing available to illustrate.

        So imagine my left testicle here formed before this penis in the middle… And yes it is technically a penis despite the small size, and this testicle-

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Youngest star is 1300 years old…

    So most species are older than HOPS-315.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A medieval star!

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      • limer@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Rumors to this day state it pulses to a Gregorian chant

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  • doomsel@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I understand correctly, it is 2billion years old, but 50million years ago it merged with another star, making it more massive and thereby more bright an visible from earth. Fun fact: Due to it beeing a yellow supergiant it will turn red in a couple of thousand years and then die quiet soon.

    Source: scientificamerican.com/…/how-old-is-the-north-sta…

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    • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “soon” and “young” are always interesting terms in Geology and Astronomy.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stars have only existed for about fifty years. Duh.

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    • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How can the stars have existed for fifty years when the universe itself is only slightly under a week old?

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      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I could explain, but there’s a lot of string theory involved and I only have limited time.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean there has to be a few somewhere made this year. Reminds me tangentially of something I was reading during a statistics class, that due to many possibilities and infinite numbers I should be able to open my dryer and find all clothing folded.

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love it. it feels like Polaris will be there long after this rock is barren and cold, and we can continue to navigate by it in the gay space communism

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    • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Apparently the star is going to fizzle out soon, but beside that, if you are not on earth it becomes irrelevant for navigation.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        why would you want to dash my hopes like that?

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    North star? More like noob star.

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  • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    thinking about things too much makes me feel ill, i try not to do it very often

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    • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Explain what you mean in 6 paragraphs please

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  • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I got to ask all the Internet tho… Which is better?!

    The concept of north?

    Or sharks?

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    • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dont need the north star for the concept of north.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sharks are cooler.

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      • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        North is very cold tho.

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