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sweetpinkpixie · 03-15-2013, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ ExpelliarMOOSE

Oakey was pleased with the outcome of his guesses on the Human Life Cycle. Grouping the four confusing ones into groups of two made him feel safe...

Aaaaand then the Professor started running his mouth off. Oakey couldn't follow any of it, more than half the things Flamsteed said just leaped right over his head. Except for the Death of a Star...Deathstar?
Keep your Mind in Focus Oakey!
He looked over nervously at the stars they had all made. "Professor, even if you say our stars have a long life ahead of them. Won't we all be in danger once they become Black Holes?" Come on Flamsteed, haven't you ever read any of those crazy science fiction Comics! creating a Black Hole on Earth pretty much dooms everyone! Life as they know it will get sucked into the Death Traps they just created!

Leave it to a Hufflepuff to think of ways they all could die. Yes, he had read about some of the unfortunate instances involving the death of a Hufflepuff or two at Hogwarts. Probably why that boy didn't die last term at the mercy of the jaws of that plant. He hadn't been a Hufflepuff.

"In theory, yes, stars have the potential of becoming black holes but there is one liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle snare to that," he said while pinching his thumb and index finger together to emphasize the liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle in his speech. "Only big stars, like REALLY big stars...think 3 times the mass of our sun, become black holes after they get crushed under its own gravity. Your stars are noooooooooooooo where near that size and will turn into white dwarfs when they evetually run out of fuel."

See, no danger. You can sleep safely at night Sir Hufflepuff.

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

Questions? She had questions--

"Our stars will become black holes?? COOOOL!!" Brilliant question Oakey and it gave her a question of her own...a new question actually because she had her other question that she still needed to ask. "So um...if that does happen...does that mean that Jeffery's already a black hole...since...you know..." She glanced over at the sensitive star, "he's presumed dead?" That. Would. Be. EPIC!

"Also, we're going outside?? Is it warm enough out for Jeffery and NOT Jeffery? Do you think I should increase their temperature before we leave...?"

And here was Miss Cambridge jumping to conclusions again - even if she was enthusiastic about it. Nor was she the only student that seemed excited about black holes. Seemed like this was something else he needed to add to his playbook of potential lessons.

Oh. Her star. Well, this was awkward.

"Your star is no a black hole, Miss Cambridge," he said gently. Please don't cry after what he said next, okay? Airey was awkward around tears and awkward professor was awkward. "Jeffery is a black dwarf, meaning that he is a star that......." Awkward pause. ".......longer emits significant heat or light."

Notearsnotearsnotears.

Or maybe he should have just lied to her and said it was a black hole...only his scientific mind wouldn't allow him to do such a thing.

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Originally Posted by McFeisty

The first thing Mika did when Professor Flamsteed spoke to her was nod. Yeah sure atleast she had gotten points right? But calling her the wrong name wasn't cool.

"My name is Johanson" she muttered quietly. As she looked at Professor Flamsteed's suit.

"Professor do we have to release our stars?" She asked a little frown on her face. She didn't want to say goodbye to Zara.

Awkward. SUPER awkward.

Airey could feel the beads of sweat forming on his brow when he realized his slip up on the girl's name. Social anxiety was a horrible thing sometimes and right now the classroom was just suffocating.

Good thing they would be moving outside soon, yes?

Forgetting to apologize to her AND call her by her proper name, he instead responded to the question that she did not mutter.

"I would be in your star's best interest to release it," he said with a grin. Had he let slip that they would be doing that next? Or were students just intuitive enough to have figured that out on their own? "In their jars and in our atmosphere increases the risk of them becoming black dwarfs. Up there in the vacuum of space," he said while pointing upwards towards the ceiling. "...there is less interference."

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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

She was a bit surprised to hear that when the stars died they could become black holes, though. This was something she hadn't known before. "So Professor? If a bunch of stars died near each other would they make like a super giant black hole of doom?" O____O And like, would that be really dangerous to the living stars up in the sky? Oh! And could Little Treyen stay farrrrrrr away from any dying stars so he didn't turn into a black hole, if that's how it worked?

More black holes. Right. He got it kids. Next term there would be a lesson on black holes.

And Miss Ella just opened up a MASSIVE can of worms. "What you are asking, Miss Ella, requires some extensive knowledge of astrophysics," he said with a small chuckle while tapping his sundial. "Unfortunately we do not have the time to go into as much detail as needed to fully answer your question briefly, but black holes CAN and on occasion do merge and when two black holes are closely orbiting each other they are called a binary black hole. a massive amount of energy is released in the form of jets. Meanwhile, the movement of these massive bodies disturbs the fabric of space-time around them, sending ripples of gravitational waves radiating outward. They won't exactly create a super black hole - doubling in size or anything like that - but they may take a sort of honeymoon trip together from one galaxy to another."

Probably not a very comforting thought, but black holes were more like the boogie man of outer space. Much more frightening things to worry about than them.

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Originally Posted by Talikins

Questions. Now he had her attention for a short moment.

"Professor does this mean our sun is going to 'die' eventually?" She wondered if that was even a valid question to the topic but decided any question was a good question. Heh. This subject was just not for her and for some odd reason her mind went to the idea of screeching.

....If only she could. Here. In the class. Without getting embarrassed. Luckily for everyone the chances of that was low.

"Precisely," he said with a firm nod. "However, our sun is still a main sequence star will not become an aging star, a red giant, for a very long time, about 5 or 7 BILLION years, and then even longer after that for it to 'die.'"

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Originally Posted by hpfan18

She noticed Nessie had a question and Belle was thinking along the same lines. She wondered if the sun would die eventually. Then Belle asked and she felt stupid but he did ask for questions though..."Professor i know you mention all about the stars and how they evolved, but what about like the North Star and how it is shinning and we can see it, did that come from an explosion or why do we see it?" She hoped she was not off topic but they were on the topic of stars.

STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE. It was really all the man could do right now with this one. Had she been paying attention at all to this and the previous lesson? Did she remember what the definition of a star was? Since she WAS asking about the North STAR.

Where did he even begin?

"Stars are burning balls of gas, not explosions," he began slowly while rubbing the bridge of his nose. "What you are seeing is the light leaving the stars caused by nuclear fusion." Pause again for a small smirk as the man got a little off topic - as usual. "Interesting to note, however, is that when we look into the night sky–or even at our own Sun–we are seeing the past, not the present. We may see one star as it appeared in 1803, another as it was in 3100 BC, and the next shining with light that left it 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed Earth. Our eyes, in a sense, become our own personal time machines."

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

Stars lived a very very long time, which was a good thing because people generally lived a middling amount of time and it would be pretty awful for the sun to run out on you before you were ready. But in relative terms, the professor had just told them that their sun was dying. Was that sort of thing inevitable? Could they fix it? Make it better?

"If the sun is dying, sir, how long does that generally take? I mean... I have stuff I want to do, so I really need to make plans around the end of the world."

Airey chuckled and tried to figure out how best to word this response without sounding too morbid. "As I told Miss Dixon, billions upon billions of years. nothing that you or I need to be concerned with."

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Moving on. So did she have any questions? Ehh, no. She kind of wished she did, though, because she missed out on that picture ordering activity. "I don't have any questions, Professor," she said raising her hand, "but I just wanted to say you shouldn't sell yourself short. Your drawings are pretty cool. I like how the middle-aged man gets larger just like the red giant. Really good visual there." She nodded at all the right places then grinned at the professor.

50 awesome points to the prefect!

Either that or there was something on her nose.

Still, the astronomer gave the girl a slight smirk followed by a quick 'thank you' before moving on.

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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Raising up her hand, Alyssa asked. "Professor I know that you mentioned that stars start out as protostars. But what makes that happen? I mean we all know how babies are formed."

....Yes...Yes...Nod...Nod...

"But what makes a protostar form? Does something happen that creates their initial formation?" Alyssa finished her question.

More staring. Hufflepuffs...maybe they needed to find their way to the library or a new set of ears.

"As I said earlier, Miss Potter, protostars form in nebulae," he began but pointing back to the chart on the board which unfortunately did not have the nebula stage drawn on it. Something to think about for next time. "Within a nebula, there are varying regions where gravity causes dust and gas to 'clump' together. These 'clumps' gather more and more atoms which causes their gravitational attraction to other atoms to increase and pulls more atoms into the 'clump.' As you can imagine, all these atoms interacting with one another creates a very unstable environment making protostars very unstable."

And he had gone into detail about how a protostar becomes a star earlier, so he left things there for now.

Pausing again for a few minutes while students tended to their stars if needed and to see if there were further questions, he once again glanced at his ~~worthless~~ sundial and then back to the class.

"If there are no further questions I would like you all to come up and collect your stars," he said while making a rather dramatic gesture towards the table. "If your star needs tending to while we make the transition outside, please do so. This will be your last chance to ensure that your star is healthy before the main event."

He then grabbed his coat and threw it over his suit. They had brought coats with them too, yes?

"When you are ready if you could please follow me out to the Tower Patch."

And then with the grin of a kid in Honeydukes with a billion galleons to spend, he lead the way out of the classroom.

Please RP your characters collecting and tending to their stars and then head on over and post in the Tower Patch Class will continue in about 18 hours from this post.

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sweetpinkpixie SSRPG Admin Gladrags Mod Quibbler Mod Minister for Magic Alley Proprietor Sea Serpent Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: The Paths Posts: 41,506 Hogwarts RPG Name: Professor Cox Ravenclaw Graduated Hogwarts RPG Name: CJ Miller Gryffindor Fourth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Nyle Harden Hufflepuff Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Iris Harden Ravenclaw Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Jae-hyuk Anouilh Slytherin Seventh Year Ministry Department Head: Charles Hollingberry Minister's Office Ministry Department Head: Airey Flamsteed Mysteries Diagon Alley Proprietor: Victor García Massey Ollivanders x12 x12	astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK \| & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf Quote: Originally Posted by DJ ExpelliarMOOSE Oakey was pleased with the outcome of his guesses on the Human Life Cycle. Grouping the four confusing ones into groups of two made him feel safe... Aaaaand then the Professor started running his mouth off. Oakey couldn't follow any of it, more than half the things Flamsteed said just leaped right over his head. Except for the Death of a Star...Deathstar? Keep your Mind in Focus Oakey! He looked over nervously at the stars they had all made. "Professor, even if you say our stars have a long life ahead of them. Won't we all be in danger once they become Black Holes?" Come on Flamsteed, haven't you ever read any of those crazy science fiction Comics! creating a Black Hole on Earth pretty much dooms everyone! Life as they know it will get sucked into the Death Traps they just created! Leave it to a Hufflepuff to think of ways they all could die. Yes, he had read about some of the unfortunate instances involving the death of a Hufflepuff or two at Hogwarts. Probably why that boy didn't die last term at the mercy of the jaws of that plant. He hadn't been a Hufflepuff. "In theory, yes, stars have the potential of becoming black holes but there is one liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle snare to that," he said while pinching his thumb and index finger together to emphasize the liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle in his speech. "Only big stars, like REALLY big stars...think 3 times the mass of our sun, become black holes after they get crushed under its own gravity. Your stars are noooooooooooooo where near that size and will turn into white dwarfs when they evetually run out of fuel." See, no danger. You can sleep safely at night Sir Hufflepuff. Quote: Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo Questions? She had questions-- "Our stars will become black holes?? COOOOL!!" Brilliant question Oakey and it gave her a question of her own...a new question actually because she had her other question that she still needed to ask. "So um...if that does happen...does that mean that Jeffery's already a black hole...since...you know..." She glanced over at the sensitive star, "he's presumed dead?" That. Would. Be. EPIC! "Also, we're going outside?? Is it warm enough out for Jeffery and NOT Jeffery? Do you think I should increase their temperature before we leave...?" And here was Miss Cambridge jumping to conclusions again - even if she was enthusiastic about it. Nor was she the only student that seemed excited about black holes. Seemed like this was something else he needed to add to his playbook of potential lessons. Oh. Her star. Well, this was awkward. "Your star is no a black hole, Miss Cambridge," he said gently. Please don't cry after what he said next, okay? Airey was awkward around tears and awkward professor was awkward. "Jeffery is a black dwarf, meaning that he is a star that......." Awkward pause. ".......longer emits significant heat or light." Notearsnotearsnotears. Or maybe he should have just lied to her and said it was a black hole...only his scientific mind wouldn't allow him to do such a thing. Quote: Originally Posted by McFeisty The first thing Mika did when Professor Flamsteed spoke to her was nod. Yeah sure atleast she had gotten points right? But calling her the wrong name wasn't cool. "My name is Johanson" she muttered quietly. As she looked at Professor Flamsteed's suit. *"Professor do we have* to release our stars?" She asked a little frown on her face. She didn't want to say goodbye to Zara. Awkward. SUPER awkward. Airey could feel the beads of sweat forming on his brow when he realized his slip up on the girl's name. Social anxiety was a horrible thing sometimes and right now the classroom was just suffocating. Good thing they would be moving outside soon, yes? Forgetting to apologize to her AND call her by her proper name, he instead responded to the question that she did not mutter. "I would be in your star's best interest to release it," he said with a grin. Had he let slip that they would be doing that next? Or were students just intuitive enough to have figured that out on their own? "In their jars and in our atmosphere increases the risk of them becoming black dwarfs. Up there in the vacuum of space," he said while pointing upwards towards the ceiling. "...there is less interference." Quote: Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow She was a bit surprised to hear that when the stars died they could become black holes, though. This was something she hadn't known before. "So Professor? If a bunch of stars died near each other would they make like a super giant black hole of doom?" O____O And like, would that be really dangerous to the living stars up in the sky? Oh! And could Little Treyen stay farrrrrrr away from any dying stars so he didn't turn into a black hole, if that's how it worked? More black holes. Right. He got it kids. Next term there would be a lesson on black holes. And Miss Ella just opened up a MASSIVE can of worms. "What you are asking, Miss Ella, requires some extensive knowledge of astrophysics," he said with a small chuckle while tapping his sundial. "Unfortunately we do not have the time to go into as much detail as needed to fully answer your question briefly, but black holes CAN and on occasion do merge and when two black holes are closely orbiting each other they are called a binary black hole. a massive amount of energy is released in the form of jets. Meanwhile, the movement of these massive bodies disturbs the fabric of space-time around them, sending ripples of gravitational waves radiating outward. They won't exactly create a super black hole - doubling in size or anything like that - but they may take a sort of honeymoon trip together from one galaxy to another." Probably not a very comforting thought, but black holes were more like the boogie man of outer space. Much more frightening things to worry about than them. Quote: Originally Posted by Talikins Questions. Now he had her attention for a short moment. "Professor does this mean our sun is going to 'die' eventually?" She wondered if that was even a valid question to the topic but decided any question was a good question. Heh. This subject was just not for her and for some odd reason her mind went to the idea of screeching. ....If only she could. Here. In the class. Without getting embarrassed. Luckily for everyone the chances of that was low. "Precisely," he said with a firm nod. "However, our sun is still a main sequence star will not become an aging star, a red giant, for a very long time, about 5 or 7 BILLION years, and then even longer after that for it to 'die.'" Quote: Originally Posted by hpfan18 She noticed Nessie had a question and Belle was thinking along the same lines. She wondered if the sun would die eventually. Then Belle asked and she felt stupid but he did ask for questions though..."Professor i know you mention all about the stars and how they evolved, but what about like the North Star and how it is shinning and we can see it, did that come from an explosion or why do we see it?" She hoped she was not off topic but they were on the topic of stars. STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE. It was really all the man could do right now with this one. Had she been paying attention at all to this and the previous lesson? Did she remember what the definition of a star was? Since she WAS asking about the North STAR. Where did he even begin? "Stars are burning balls of gas, not explosions," he began slowly while rubbing the bridge of his nose. "What you are seeing is the light leaving the stars caused by nuclear fusion." Pause again for a small smirk as the man got a little off topic - as usual. "Interesting to note, however, is that when we look into the night sky–or even at our own Sun–we are seeing the past, not the present. We may see one star as it appeared in 1803, another as it was in 3100 BC, and the next shining with light that left it 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed Earth. Our eyes, in a sense, become our own personal time machines." Quote: Originally Posted by Cassirin** Stars lived a very very long time, which was a good thing because people generally lived a middling amount of time and it would be pretty awful for the sun to run out on you before you were ready. But in relative terms, the professor had just told them that their sun was dying. Was that sort of thing inevitable? Could they fix it? Make it better? "If the sun is dying, sir, how long does that generally take? I mean... I have stuff I want to do, so I really need to make plans around the end of the world." Airey chuckled and tried to figure out how best to word this response without sounding too morbid. "As I told Miss Dixon, billions upon billions of years. nothing that you or I need to be concerned with." Quote: Originally Posted by Anna Banana Moving on. So did she have any questions? Ehh, no. She kind of wished she did, though, because she missed out on that picture ordering activity. "I don't have any questions, Professor," she said raising her hand, "but I just wanted to say you shouldn't sell yourself short. Your drawings are pretty cool. I like how the middle-aged man gets larger just like the red giant. Really good visual there." She nodded at all the right places then grinned at the professor. 50 awesome points to the prefect! Either that or there was something on her nose. Still, the astronomer gave the girl a slight smirk followed by a quick 'thank you' before moving on. Quote: Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88 Raising up her hand, Alyssa asked. "Professor I know that you mentioned that stars start out as protostars. But what makes that happen? I mean we all know how babies are formed." ....Yes...Yes...Nod...Nod... "But what makes a protostar form? Does something happen that creates their initial formation?" Alyssa finished her question. More staring. Hufflepuffs...maybe they needed to find their way to the library or a new set of ears. "As I said earlier, Miss Potter, protostars form in nebulae," he began but pointing back to the chart on the board which unfortunately did not have the nebula stage drawn on it. Something to think about for next time. "Within a nebula, there are varying regions where gravity causes dust and gas to 'clump' together. These 'clumps' gather more and more atoms which causes their gravitational attraction to other atoms to increase and pulls more atoms into the 'clump.' As you can imagine, all these atoms interacting with one another creates a very unstable environment making protostars very unstable." And he had gone into detail about how a protostar becomes a star earlier, so he left things there for now. Pausing again for a few minutes while students tended to their stars if needed and to see if there were further questions, he once again glanced at his ~~worthless~~ sundial and then back to the class. "If there are no further questions I would like you all to come up and collect your stars," he said while making a rather dramatic gesture towards the table. "If your star needs tending to while we make the transition outside, please do so. This will be your last chance to ensure that your star is healthy before the main event." He then grabbed his coat and threw it over his suit. They had brought coats with them too, yes? "When you are ready if you could please follow me out to the Tower Patch." And then with the grin of a kid in Honeydukes with a billion galleons to spend, he lead the way out of the classroom. Please RP your characters collecting and tending to their stars and then head on over and post in the Tower Patch Class will continue in about 18 hours from this post. __________________ We broke into a million pieces, and we can't go back......................................... But now we're seeing all the beauty in the broken glass..................................... The scars are part of me, darkness and harmony My voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like