3222: Star Formation

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Star Formation
It's ok, I still have some nice, cool gas clouds that aren't collapsing. As long as nothing ionizes them, I can continue to enjoy their ... HEY! NO!!!
Title text: It's ok, I still have some nice, cool gas clouds that aren't collapsing. As long as nothing ionizes them, I can continue to enjoy their ... HEY! NO!!!

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A black dot is in a field of clouds. "I think I did a good job with this universe." "Pressure waves dance through gas clouds." "They clump together and then pressure pushes them apart."

In the next panel, the black dot approaches a more dense field of clouds. "Oh weird, that big clump of clouds is staying together." "Their gravity is overcoming the pressure and more gas is falling in."

In the next panel, more of the clouds start to fall into the newly born star. "It's not stopping!" "The heat is rising but the collapse is only accelerating!" "I messed up bad. I messed up bad."

In the next panel, there is a star in place of the dense field of clouds. "NOOOOOOOO!!!" "My beautiful clouds!" "Ruined! It's all ruined!"


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Discussion

This entire process is unconfirmed and needs citations. [citation needed] 66.154.219.128 20:26, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Not sure if you're serious... but I rewrote some of the things that might have prompted this comment. 81.179.199.253 21:49, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

The something that ionized the gas clouds is presumably the star that formed. No second deity needed. 74.76.189.192 21:12, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

I dispense with that bit. What you obviously have here is a non-omniscient creator (or shaper-of-the-universe, at the very least) who is surprised by how things turn out when they had a much simpler (or at least different) idea of how things should have proceeded. I'm reminded of The Science of Discworld (once the Dean twiddles his fingers in the proto-Roundworld, and then the wizards discovering that things just like becoming spheres more than they expected) or perhaps something where a desired result went awry due to unforeseen external factors. 81.179.199.253 21:49, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Is Randall a believer in Stupid Design? Barmar (talk) 22:42, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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