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Message: <blockquote data-quote="H.M.Gimlord" data-source="post: 5405055" data-attributes="member: 79440"><p>Mikara, who has actually been listening, despite appearing aloof, hears 7 Rabbit talking about things about which he knows nothing.</p><p><em><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: DarkGreen">Perhaps I should educate the fellow</span></em></p><p></p><p>She begins to sing to herself again, softly, but this time, a little more cheerfully:</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">A star is a mass of incandescent gas</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">A gigantic nuclear furnace</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">Where hydrogen is built into helium</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">At a temperature of millions of degrees</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">Yo ho, it's hot, a star is not</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">A place where we could live</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">But here on earth there'd be no life</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">Without the light they give</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">We need their light</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">We need their heat</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">We need their energy</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">Without a star, without a doubt</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">There'd be no you and me</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">A star is a mass of incandescent gas</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">A gigantic nuclear furnace</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">Where hydrogen is built into helium</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">At a temperature of millions of degrees</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">A star is hot</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">A star is large</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">If the <em>sun </em>were hollow, a million earths could fit inside. and yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">The sun is far away</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">And even when it's out of sight</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">The sun shines night and day</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">The sun gives heat</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">The sun gives light</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">The sunlight that we see</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">The sunlight comes from our own sun's</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">Atomic energy</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">Scientists  have found that stars are huge atom-smashing machines. The heat and  light of stars come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon,  nitrogen, and helium.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">A star is a mass of incandescent gas</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">A gigantic nuclear furnace</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">Where hydrogen is built into helium</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Lime">At a temperature of millions of degrees</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p><p></p><p>[sblock=Reference Citation]This is from the song "Why Does the Sun Shine?" by They Might Be Giants.  The word "sun" was replaced by "star" in places to fit the context of the story.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>

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