It was supposed to be a serious question. Did I miss something in the video that explains it? I looked around for info on the nasa site and wikipedia and elsewhere, but the source of the emission isn't really ever brought up. Just that the interaction of the star moving that fast through interstellar space "ignited" the material left behind. Obviously, I'm not an astrophysicist, but I can't think of any other phenomenon in which energy is emitted for that long without some source of energy.

I'm not suggesting the data was faked or anything, just trying to understand what is clearly a very odd finding.

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^Ya know dude, I'm not really sure about all of that. I might have known, but I got kicked out of MIT's astrophysics program for immoral experiments with gravity. I don't think those kittens suffered. Too much.

Actually, I don't like his double entente and refusal to answer directly, but he's right on this one for the wrong reason - the question was silly. You could believe a higher power was involved even if you though Darwin was correct, just look at the latest quantum mechanics theories involving multiverse, universe as a hologram and even universe as a simulation - these are even more out there (yet 60% of all leading astrophysicist think that the multiverse theory is correct).

Asking in America as part of a presidential debate 'do you believe in evolution is akin to ask 'Do you not believe in God', and Huckabee simply answered no because he did believe in God (and arguably didn't want to offend his religious voter base).

@winkler - the man posing the question, if that's what you're asking is Dr. Neil Tyson. He's an astrophysicist who's relatively new to me (that is to say, I've just seen him recently on Colbert and some Nova specials, but he's apparently been famous - within certain circles - for a while) and who is, IMHO, really cool.

Also, I love him more now that he's verbalized one of my major problems with Dawkins - that his often brilliant commentary would be much more well-received if it were only combined with an ounce of - what to call it? Empathy, maybe.