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Scientists have found that the jets of ice and dust wafting from comet 67P are down to the way sunlight beams hits its unique rubber ducky shaped surface. In a paper published in Nature, a group of astronomers studied why the sublimation process was concentrated into jets instead of a homogenous cloud of material. A plume of …

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  1. 89724102371719271892724I9405670349743096734346773478647852349863592355648544996313855148583659264921

    Fast Radio Burst causage

    FRBs caused by Collapse of Strange Star Crusts?

    https://www.universetoday.com/139252/are-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-coming-from-the-collapse-of-strange-star-crusts/

    or..

    FRBs caused by Pulars Zapping Brown Dwarfs Or Similar Objects Repeatedly With Radiation Beams?

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/black-widow-pulsar-1.4676462

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Fast Radio Burst causage

      Amanfrom67P subliming in bright jets?

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      1. 89724102371719571892724I9405670349743096734346773478647852349863592355648544996313855148583659264921
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        Re: Fast Radio Burst causage

        Subliming in bright jets from Uranus would be highly unpleasant...

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  2. Joerg

    Comet 67P is an alien spaceship!

    Despite all the censoring the official fake scientists tell the world.

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  3. Dodgy Geezer Silver badge

    Thank you, Greens...

    ...It eventually plopped down in a spot that was too shady to glean any solar energy....

    ...for stopping ESA from putting a radioisotope generator in there, which would have provided power for all the systems even in the shade. We could have had a lot of useful gas analysis back...

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