Can Star Trek's Enterprise Really Hide in a Brown Dwarf? With Prof. Emily Rice

Lisa Beth Kovetz & Emily Rice of CUNY's Macaulay Honors College dig into black holes, brown dwarfs and Star Trek's "Strange New Worlds!"
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Prof. Emily Rice Professor, Macaulay Honors College

[@LuvHrtZ]

Forgive my stupidity, but isn't Jupiter a brown dwarf?

[@Xerion1]

No, Jupiter doesn't have the mass required to be considered a brown drawf. It's considered a gas giant.

[@moonfuzz8444]

SNW best trek I've seen in years, non woke bullshit just good old proper trek 🫶👌

[@LuvHrtZ]

This has to be the crappiest explanation of nothing that I've ever heard. If you are going to dumb this stuff down, at least understand who you are talking to. A bit of Science, if you please.

[@Xerion1]

I understand how laymen can be frustrated at times by science, but the basis of these topics she discussed (mass, planet formation, star formation, electromagnetic waves, frequencies) are subjects you learn in high school. If you're going to be mad at anyone about your difficulty understanding the basic information she's discussing, then by mad at the education system wherever you grew up at or the fact that you didn't pay attention or forgot.