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Incredible. Y-boring.

So what's classified as a "strange star" other than Neutron Stars?
are there more out there?
the article is too vague.
But for the discovery, +digg

Is this guy albertpacino?, everyday I see to stories by him.

sorry two, albertpacino sttoped posting at 800 stories on homepage.

“It’s like taking water,” Jaikumar says, “with a flat surface. Add detergent and it reduces surface tension, allowing bubbles to form. In a strange star, the bubbles are made of strange quark matter, and float in a sea of electrons. Consequently, the star's surface may be crusty, not smooth. The effect of surface tension had been overlooked before.”

Crusty stars. Gotta love basic research.

Strange indeed.

Yeah, I didn't even read any of it.

I'm new to Digg, but isn't this supposed to be a "tech" website? How is astronomy-related news considered tech related?.....like Microsoft stories, Firefox stories, Linux stories, etc.

Article marked as "Lame" because it isn't a tech article. But feel free to comment.

So they have a theory that's not exactly "new", and they state that "we haven't found strange stars", "maybe we have found strange stars".

They make apparently vague assumptions based on thought experiments.

No digg, sorry.

I thought all the "not tech" Nazis moved on to better things... really I haven't seen them around in a while.

---->category: science

@solarwinds-

Without science we wouldn't have tech.

Lots of people posting don't seem to understand what a strange star is. Read this, and see the part about strange matter.

Oops -- I didn't realize digg filtered out links. Soooo....

Lots of people posting don't seem to understand what a strange star is. Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star, and see the part about strange matter.

Pictures? Where are the Pictures???!!

Interesting, this sounds to me, a lot like the idea of a magnetar. But possibly a revision to the idea. The initial description of a strongly luminous star with strong electric fields sounds somewhat like a magnetar. A magnetar as i understand it is a rapidly spinning neutron star with extreme magnetic fields (like millions of times stronger than a MRI) and can be some of the most luminous stars and do have extreme surface tension. But they cool and slow down and lose energy over a period of like 10,000 yrs.

Sorry i know this is a tech site but i like science and anyways technology and science are closely related.

----> generalleoff
You have been reported for calling me a "nazi". I take great offense to that, have been blocked, given a negative rating as well.

By the way, astronomy doesn't relate to technology in the context of their article, even if this topic is in the "science" category. Digg is more like a pop-culture website I suppose rather than tech related.

I like Dvorak. He regularly makes good points that many people miss because they don't like him.

Haha, goddamn Firefox tabs with multiple digg stories open...

This is one of those science stories where virtually all the science is determined as a "What If" in the heads of those involved. They then twist the current math to support the "What if" and say, "well, if things are like this, then this could happen, and if so, then it would be like this."

Which is in itself cool, as it makes people think, but there is a difference between a solid theory and a daydream with some math.

It is still a cool read regardless.