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mudling 10-09-2008 11:05 PM

Smartarse, you know what I meant.
Besides, your advanced teaching methods still haven't come to australia yet.

Fuzzle Guy 10-10-2008 11:53 PM

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Smartarse, you know what I meant.
Besides, your advanced teaching methods still haven't come to australia yet.

Can you count to ten yet?

lbyrd2 11-04-2008 02:06 PM

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Smartarse, you know what I meant.
Besides, your advanced teaching methods still haven't come to australia yet.

(no offence) I live in australia and I know these "advanced teaching methods"

Admiral Zaarin 11-10-2008 05:09 AM

That flickering light. I think it's а visible optical pulsar star. Normally the flickering of such an object would be so rapid that it'd be hardly ever noticible, but may be this one is something different... Also visible pulsars are very rare, comparing, for example, to radio or x-ray range ones.

Ps: The starry sky in Stockyards level allways fascinated me.. it's so bizzare

lbyrd2 11-10-2008 07:33 PM

It may be a zoomed in version of a night sky away from all the citys with some stars changing brightness in a loop. (maybe)

Hulaabeo 11-20-2008 12:05 PM

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That flickering light. I think it's а visible optical pulsar star. Normally the flickering of such an object would be so rapid that it'd be hardly ever noticible, but may be this one is something different... Also visible pulsars are very rare, comparing, for example, to radio or x-ray range ones.

I agree with the Pulsar Star

Bullet Magnet 11-20-2008 06:11 PM

Actually, the flickering, which is evident in real stars as seen from Earth, is a result of the distortion effects of our atmosphere, which is a personal bane of astronomers.

The slow, regular pulsation of some of Oddworld's stars is merely a stylised representation of that effect, as far as the memory cache of each screen can manage.

Pulsars are far too dim, and any so close to be that bright would have obliterated Oddworld as a habitable world during its formation, lest it formed before the Oddworld did. A very visible supernova remnant should fill the sky, too. It would be quite a sight, especially considering that it is illuminated by a pulsar, so it would be as if there were two flashlights spinning around in the cloud, illuminating different parts of it.

Oh, and the sight itself would also be lethal.