Saturday, March 5, 2011

7 Ways Women Are Like Stars

They bring life and happiness to the universe, but must be kept at the right distance.
In the field of exobiology, scientists have determined that every solar system has a so-called Habitable Zone (aka Goldilocks Zone). The habitable zone is the distance a planet can be from the sun where it gets enough heat to support life, but not too much heat that would kill life.

They tend to group together.
Scientists have collected and analyzed data that indicates that as much as 85% of the solar systems in the universe have what is called a binary star system, which is a solar system that actually revolves around two stars that revolve around each other.

Things tend to revolve around them.
Most stars demonstrate a real knack for capturing passer-by's. An innocent comet could be just passing through, but the star's gravitational force captures it and the comet very well could spend the rest of its days orbiting that star.

Hot flashes.
About 5/7th of the way through its life cycle, it begins to heat up and expand, eventually turning into a red giant. When this occurs, it will typically engulf everything revolving around it in a raging sea of flame and destruction. Same with stars, too.

Everyone stops and looks when one of them falls.
Okay, you don't wish upon a falling chick, but you get the point.

They are oft studied and rarely understood.
Until recent times, nobody knew much about what stars were made of, or what governed their movements and actions. The movements of stars were so un-understandable and unpredictable that it took us until the 17th century A.D. to realize that the same laws of attraction apply on earth and in the stars.

The one nearest to you is the most exceptional.
It took astronomers millennia to figure out that the stars in the heavens are the same as our sun. It's not so irrational to think that our sun is different from all the others because its light blocks out all the light from every star in the universe when visible.


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