Shelley is learning about stars as well and we often facebook each other trying to learn astro things. So you have two very eager students here
desperate for knowledge on all things (confusing
) stars. We also have to be careful on facebook that we get our genetives correct when we talk about constellations because Les doesn't like that.
Sometimes he issues us a quizz (hard ones
) which i fail at because Shell goes off googling and I use up the time looking through my books or pondering my brain, so one guess who wins by getting the answers first.
To Shelley:
Okay, so back on topic...
Wow, i did not know about how a star gets Lithium.. fascinating!
I wish i paid more attention in science class in school.
With what you said about stars showing an abundance of lithium when they consume a planet... do they already have some amount of lithium present before a planet consumption?
Carl, thanks heaps for going into great detail to explain things. I'm going to copy/paste the information you gave and pop it into my "stars" file so I can keep learning.
Fascinating stuff.
Craig, as usual, I always look to your input as well, many thanks also.
Les, that was one story and a half- thanks so much for sharing it.
He gave Mike Simmonds a bit of a run a few times in that interview as well. Though he did answer the question for Mike- re what he likes to look at, with the answer being galaxies.
Yes, I guess I found him engaging- you said it well in a nutshell. However, I haven't met him nor seen much footage on him but from what I've come to understand so far, he seems to have a reputation for being quite abrasive (for want of a better word?). Did you'll notice right at the end of the interview when the time was up, he wanted to talk about cosmology but ... "cut". It was almost as if Mike had said to him we are not going to talk about cosmology during the interview and as soon as it finished, Dobson tried to bring it up..."That's for another time.." I think were the last words.