It looks like I'm going to get away with calling this paper,"Attack of the Flying Snakes". I like this referee.
Sadly Robert Minchin's suggestion that we call it "Snakes on a Fundamental Plane" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_plane_(elliptical_galaxies)) came too late to feasibly re-word the paper. Next time...
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The Bunny Rabbit of Death
Today's paper is a bit more technical than usual, but sometimes you've gotta tackle the hard stuff. Ram pressure stripping is some...
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Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
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In the last batch of simulations, we dropped a long gas stream into the gravitational potential of a cluster to see if it would get torn...
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And more importantly, how not to build a galaxy. Uniform discs of pure gas turn out to be almost impossible. Exponential discs - where ther...
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