Sharks are also older than trees, flowers, Saturn's rings, and the Atlantic ocean.
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45-67Million Years according to Wikipedia.
Sharks are hundreds of millions.
Also somewhat relevant: https://xkcd.com/1342/
Fuckin' Sirius. So close and yet so far.
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.
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?
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.
The bigger the star, the brighter it burns
Also it dies sooner. So any given big star is more likely to be young
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-
Youngest known proto-star is 1300 years old....
So most species are older than HOPS-315.
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.
Stars have only existed for about fifty years. Duh.
How can the stars have existed for fifty years when the universe itself is only slightly under a week old?
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.
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
fwiw it'll at least stop being the north star in some thousand years (might be longer), which is arguably even more fucked to think about
like, people in the past had a different north star, what the fuck
Apparently the star is going to fizzle out soon, but beside that, if you are not on earth it becomes irrelevant for navigation.
I got to ask all the Internet tho.... Which is better?!
The concept of north?
Or sharks?

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