[HN Gopher] Stars Have Vanished Without a Trace. Where Did They Go?
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       Stars Have Vanished Without a Trace. Where Did They Go?
        
       Author : samspenc
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-11-04 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.iflscience.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.iflscience.com)
        
       | ShamelessC wrote:
       | Truly awful website keeps reloading every few seconds. I think it
       | even changed to a different CSS at one point? Then it crashes.
       | Mobile safari.
       | 
       | I only have so much patience as the subject matter and mysterious
       | tone of the title are ripe for clickbait.
        
         | buildbot wrote:
         | No issue on iOS 17.2 for me with safari at least. I learned
         | something new at least, I was not aware this has actually ever
         | happened.
        
       | buildbot wrote:
       | Interesting this has actually been observed to happen! Two stars
       | disappearing from the night sky, is the central plot point in the
       | first book of the commonwealth saga by Peter F Hamilton, which I
       | quite enjoyed. I wonder if the 1952 event was what inspired this
       | plot point...
        
       | bouvin wrote:
       | "overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."
        
         | croisillon wrote:
         | "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves,
         | that we are underlings."
        
         | samspenc wrote:
         | I remember reading this quote before and had to search for it,
         | it's from Arthur C Clarke's 'The Nine Billion Names of God'
         | (the very last line in the short story)
         | https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
        
         | Karellen wrote:
         | So that was the hidden purpose behind generative AI
         | technologies all along!
        
       | hotnfresh wrote:
       | This is very nearly the same as when this was posted a few days
       | ago, except this time it omits what sure seemed like the most
       | likely explanation (at least for most of them): the stars were
       | never there, and were just radioactive contamination of
       | (especially) 1950s astronomy photo negatives. On account of all
       | the above-ground nuclear testing.
        
         | neilv wrote:
         | "In 1952, a group of three 'stars' vanished-astronomers still
         | can't find them (phys.org)" | 41 points by pavel_lishin 4 days
         | ago | 12 comments |
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38088183
        
       | aninteger wrote:
       | They clearly went to GitHub ;).
        
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