Lio by Mark Tatulli for March 02, 2021

{sigh} why e’en bother?

Buzzkill. :’(

Reality! The ultimate Disney killer!

Time to look for the genie.

But, they’re so pretty! And free.

Lio is lucky to live in a spot where he can see so many stars. Light pollution from large cities keep many of us from enjoying truly star lit night skies. When I was a young kid, the old man took the family up to North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains as well as Blowing Rock and the Carl Sandberg home. This was back a year or 2 after the Orlando Disney opens, so about 1972 or ’73. I remember where we stayed in Blowing Rock, man there had to be a million stars in that clear night sky. I have done my share of camping over the years and have never seen a sky like that since then. Good memories.

But according to the movie Stardust, you spend all of your time watching us. So why not grant us some wishes, since you have nothing better to do?

TBF I’m just a big blob of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and trace elements. Stop making excuses.

Love how Lio’s face changes expressions in the first three panels!

Too much honesty.

Somebody needs to tell an entire generation this

Yet, they are able to zip around at Ludicrous Speed to form meaningful patterns in the sky, just to irk some young lifeform on a distant planet.

Science 1, Disney 0.

I wish upon a star to keep my planet warm and lit.

Big differences in the chemical analysis of actual stars and wish makers….Romance and hope! voicing your dreams and wishes sometimes makes them visible to the brain, thus the optimism of making them happen with your own workings…

Talkative basic elements.

Yeah, but it does make a beautiful song …

Denied!

“YOU STUPID STAR!” — Sally Brown after wishing on a star for a pony and not getting it.

Good. A reality check for someone who really needs one.

“We’re just big blobs of hydrogen and helium!”

See: https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/C/CNO+cycle

Regarding their structure, it is speculated that they have a solid nucleus of a crystalline nature, surrounded by matter in the gaseous state.

This is possible due to the successive transformations that take place in a star’s nuclear reactor: from hydrogen to helium, from helium to carbon, and from carbon to heavier elements.

It’s a real possibility, because the temperature in the dwarf’s core is low enough for such a solid core to exist.

In fact, a white dwarf believed to have a 4,000 km diameter diamond core was recently discovered, located in the constellation Alpha Centauri, 53 light years from Earth.

Source: https://warbletoncouncil.org/enana-blanca-9166

Observations of lithium and potassium around white dwarf stars point to remains of rocky planet crustsAnalysis by astronomers led by University of Warwick shows chemical composition of crusts is very similar to Earth’s continental crust

The outer layers of the white dwarfs contain up to 300,000 gigatonnes of rocky debris, which includes up to 60 gigatonnes of lithium and 3,000 gigatonnes of potassium

These white dwarfs are among the oldest stars in our galaxy, and could host one of the oldest planetary systems discovered so far

Source: https://scitechdaily.com/vaporized-crusts-of-earth-like-planets-discovered-in-dying-stars/

All known red dwarfs contain metals, which in astronomical jargon means that they contain elements that are heavier than hydrogen and helium. This is rather strange considering how long these red dwarfs have lived, especially as current theory holds that red dwarfs that may have formed during the first burst of star formation (Population III stars) would be metal-poor, but still alive. Nevertheless, no metal-poor red dwarfs have been found thus far.

https://www.astronomytrek.com/10-interesting-facts-about-red-dwarf-stars/

Apparently the stars are Team Eva Rose.