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Fri 10 Dec, 2004 05:55 pm
How can you guarantee to show someone a star that exists in nature, that has also never been seen before by anyone?
actually, that was a discussion in my class once (not really a debate, more like a lecture)
there are those star naming companies, where you can 'own' a star, but you dont know if the star is really there. It could actually be the light continuing to travel to earth, so, really you aren't naming anything (light is not a thing)
we can assume starts are out there, because of the fact of the sun or something lol, but we dont know if the starts are still there;they may have only existed, and are not here today
so basically, we dont know (to my knowledge)
What do you mean by star? An actual star like the sun, or something star shaped? If the latter, how about a snowflake?
A snow flake is good! But you still can't guarantee that someone hasn't seen it before!!
But yes, there is something in nature that's star shaped, and not a star!
Think of food :wink:
if you cut an apple in half the right way, doesn't a star appear in the center?
Apple cut horizontally is what I was thinking of!
But I'm sure this type of riddle has lots of hidden answers in nature!