"The Space Between Stars Is Full of Greasy, Possibly " Topic

…Toxic Carbon.

"The space between stars may look pretty empty—and for most mundane intents and purposes, it is—but it's actually full of electromagnetic radiation and vast clouds of matter, together collectively known as the interstellar medium. Some of it is aliphatic carbons that leak from stars, and a new study from University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Ege University researchers has found there is an awful lot of it.

Interstellar space has enough of the greasy, likely toxic carbon substance that UNSW professor and study co-author Tim Schmidt says it might accumulate on any theoretical future interstellar craft, the Guardian reported:

The Australian-Turkish team discovered more than expected: 10 billion trillion trillion tonnes of gloop, or enough for 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter…."
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Smoke gets in your eyes…

So the future of space travel is … diesel?

Gonna need gloop filters on our Bussard Ramjets.

It not surprising that all sorts of carbon compounds are produced by dying stars. But these oily aliphatics have nothing on the discovery of "buckyballs".

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