20Q Game 31

The Sandbox Games
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Right, but question 12 excludes all of those

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Is it a gaseous object?

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  1. (YT) Is it alive? No
  2. (JSM) does it usually come in one specific color? Uhhh *
  3. (Lucy) do you usually find it in a home? No
  4. (VA) is it intended to serve some utilitarian purpose? No
  5. (MA) is it larger than a standard pillow? Yes
  6. (JSM) can a regular person lift it up? No
  7. (VA) Is it generally made from a single type of material? Yes
  8. (Lucy) Do you usually find it outdoors? Yes
  9. (YT) Is it man made? No
  10. (JSM) is it usually part of a NATURAL GROUND landscape? No
  11. (MA) is it in space? Yes
  12. (JSM) is it in our solar system? No
  13. (JSM) is it in the Milky Way? Yes, they can be found here.
  14. (VA) Are the objects generally visible by the naked eye from the surface of the earth? No
  15. (MA) Is it a gaseous object? Yes

(2) Though I was thinking of a common type, there are a few types of different colors. Enough that I would say, not really.

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Red dwarf star, but dwarf stars come in more than one color. Closest red dwarf star is not in our solar system, but is in the milky way (and are the most common stars in the milky way), and is not visible from earth. (All per wikipedia :link:)

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dwarves aren’t gaseous I don’t think

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methinks nebula

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Is that a guess?

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Also given how sort of subjective this stuff is feel free to ask if something qualifies as ‘gaseous, colorful, visible’ etc imo.

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I don’t want to guess because I don’t want to start a new game lol

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Gaseous, dead, aliens.

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I think the proper term is “flatulent” . . .

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this has died. so I’ll resurrect.

Is it usually smaller in diameter than the sun?

just to rule out neutron stars , dwarfs and the like

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  1. (YT) Is it alive? No
  2. (JSM) does it usually come in one specific color? Uhhh *
  3. (Lucy) do you usually find it in a home? No
  4. (VA) is it intended to serve some utilitarian purpose? No
  5. (MA) is it larger than a standard pillow? Yes
  6. (JSM) can a regular person lift it up? No
  7. (VA) Is it generally made from a single type of material? Yes
  8. (Lucy) Do you usually find it outdoors? Yes
  9. (YT) Is it man made? No
  10. (JSM) is it usually part of a NATURAL GROUND landscape? No
  11. (MA) is it in space? Yes
  12. (JSM) is it in our solar system? No
  13. (JSM) is it in the Milky Way? Yes, they can be found here.
  14. (VA) Are the objects generally visible by the naked eye from the surface of the earth? No
  15. (MA) Is it a gaseous object? Yes
  16. (JSM) Is it usually smaller in diameter than the sun? No

(2) Though I was thinking of a common type, there are a few types of different colors. Enough that I would say, not really.

The show must go on!

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The dark matter between the stars? A hydrogen cloud?

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Is it nebulae?

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  1. (YT) Is it alive? No
  2. (JSM) does it usually come in one specific color? Uhhh *
  3. (Lucy) do you usually find it in a home? No
  4. (VA) is it intended to serve some utilitarian purpose? No
  5. (MA) is it larger than a standard pillow? Yes
  6. (JSM) can a regular person lift it up? No
  7. (VA) Is it generally made from a single type of material? Yes
  8. (Lucy) Do you usually find it outdoors? Yes
  9. (YT) Is it man made? No
  10. (JSM) is it usually part of a NATURAL GROUND landscape? No
  11. (MA) is it in space? Yes
  12. (JSM) is it in our solar system? No
  13. (JSM) is it in the Milky Way? Yes, they can be found here.
  14. (VA) Are the objects generally visible by the naked eye from the surface of the earth? No
  15. (MA) Is it a gaseous object? Yes
  16. (JSM) Is it usually smaller in diameter than the sun? No
  17. (VA) Is it a nebula? Yes

(2) Though I was thinking of a common type, there are a few types of different colors. Enough that I would say, not really.

We have a winner!
The curse is broken! (or the curse has been unbroken).
Either way, good job VA!

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Good job, VA!

And that was an interesting object. :slight_smile:

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TIL,
A “nebula” is just a big cloud of dust/gas/ionized-gas (plasma)? So it ends up being a sort of catch-all for space soup. Which means there’s a lot of types?

  1. There’s your classic emission nebulae, which are powered by nearby stars. They are mostly red because hydrogen emits mostly red, and they are mostly hydrogen, and also because hydrogen doesn’t take a lot of juice to ionize.
    (When you see pics of a nebula, it’s usually colorful though because nasa likes to instagram shit.)

  2. Reflection nebulae, these don’t have enough juice to radiate their own red light, so instead they just reflect the light of a nearby star. They tend to be blue for the same reason that the sky is blue. Which is that, when it comes to gas, higher wavelengths ‘scatter’ light better than lower wavelengths.

  3. Dark nebulae, which are basically just relatively dense clouds of dust and stuff that blocks your view of the stars and stuff behind them. So just basically a random black spot in the sky.

  4. Supernova Remnants, which are what they sound like. They run out of fusion, collapse, then explode. Then they are sort of like an emission nebula, except they also have some radiation due to perpendicular acceleration through a magnetic field? Like whatever. Anyway, I learned that there’s a cyclotron insertion instrument called a “wiggler”, that does what it sounds like.

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I think you mean “photoshop”?