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PhasmaFelis on July 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Strange Signals from the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ros...

Starting a numbering system with "R" may seem weird, but it's perfectly in character for the discipline that declared "metal" to mean "everything in the universe except hydrogen and helium."

Factory on July 18, 2017 [–]

"the 2% of the universe that isn't hydrogen and helium", surely.

PhasmaFelis on July 18, 2017 | [–]

"The interesting 2% of the universe."

(Though I thought it was rather less than 1%? Enh, apparently I'm too lazy to check Wikipedia right now.)

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