Largest Quasar Ever Discovered Burns 100 Times Brighter Than Entire Milky Way

[xiohexia]

[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;38638638]Not as scary as Magnetars, stars that are so magnetic that they can actually exploit the slight changes in temporary dipoles in your body to strip the water and materials from inside you before the gravity of the star could harm you.

They would literally rip the metals and compounds from your body, including shredding bone and the like apart before you would even notice the gravity.

Space man, that shit is fucking scary.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar[/url][/QUOTE]

Maybe im ignorant but wouldn't it just pull on your body as a whole and probably your metal ship as well? considering our bodies are mostly water anyways. Maybe this hypothesis is incorrect due to the effects of extreme magnetism being mostly unknown to me. Inform me plox.

[Pierrewithahat]

[QUOTE=Falubii;38647463]By temporary dipoles do you mean water, because it's a polar molecule and not really temporary. Or did you mean London dispersion forces?[/QUOTE]

Fuck my life, been too long since I've done any actual chemistry, but yeah Magnetars can exploit temporary dipoles and shit and strip you apart compound by compound.

[hypno-toad]

[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;38637921]Considering how quickly space travel is moving at the minute, with missions announced by the likes of China and private companies interested in interplanetary travel, I can very much see the common man crossing space in our life time.[/QUOTE]

"Crossing space" is about as vague a term you can possibly make.

Traveling within our own solar system may happen for the not-so-common man within our lifetime, but it's highly unlikely that the "common man" will be able to do anything other than get into orbit, at best.

Traveling to a quasar would be right off the page, too. Forever. These things are so incredibly far away it's highly likely that they haven't existed for billions of years.