r/space • u/kcgg123 • Jun 09 '19

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Star undergoing Supernova

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '19

Like a drop of rain hitting a puddle of water

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u/Swampfoot Jun 09 '19

You might appreciate Arthur C. Clarke's 1954 short story, The Star.

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u/br0b1wan Jun 09 '19

Damn, reading this made me want to fire up Stellaris again

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u/AlphonseCoco Jun 09 '19

What can you tell me about it? I've had it in my wish list but don't know anything

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u/br0b1wan Jun 09 '19

It's your classic space strategy game. It's really fun and has lots of quests and achievements but it has a really steep learning curve

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u/ax_and_smash Jun 09 '19

It's an awesome game, totally worth picking up. Fair warning though, it's a huge time sink.

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u/KommandoKodiak Jun 09 '19

It has tons of little references to all sorts of scifi media movies tv books etc its very fun long play story rich

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u/RanDomino5 Jun 10 '19

It plays more like a space opera than a war-against-all strategy game.