Thog's Science Masterclass #3

[realthog]

 
"The sun has reached its half-life, a scientific term for the time it takes for 'one unstable element to decay and transform into another,' and irrepressible solar flares blaze around the world."
    -- Roya Rastegar, reviewing the movie Half-Life in "Sci-Fi Heroes Take on the System", 2008

Comments

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Tsk. I live with the child of a nuclear health physicist. Half-life of the sun? Puh-leeeese.

But at least the flares are irrepressible. I like to see cheerful flares.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

. . . another argument in favor of viewing critics and reviewers with a grain of salt.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

The sun is made of (say) uranium and its flares are on the earth? Is the moon made of Gruyère?