Joke of the Day

> I would like to own a nuetron star - a supermassive star compressed into
> the space of a medium sized city rotating 600 times per second. I'm not
> sure what I would do with it, or if I *could* do anything with it, but to
> have it nearby, and point to it and say 'it's mine!' would be really nice.


Well, what are you wasting time posting to newsgroups for. Get a
shovel and start piling up dirt. Once you've accumulated several solar
masses of dirt in your yard, it should collapse into a neutron star by
itself. In a few hundred million years. You're wasting time! "