# beetlejuice star **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 1, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801 "2011-04-01T15:18:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/21 "2011-04-02T19:38:26Z")
And the variability is just because sometimes his BO’s worse than others. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/22 "2011-04-02T20:10:32Z")
Here: [APOD: 2010 January 6 - The Spotty Surface of Betelgeuse](http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100106.html) Have a look for yourself. No cross. Nice glowy spots, sort of in a line, though. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/23 "2011-04-03T06:32:48Z")
I think I saw something about this during The End of Evangelion. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/24 "2011-04-03T07:19:06Z")
> [@Triskadecamus](#): > > Here: [http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100106.html](http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100106.html) > > Have a look for yourself. No cross. Nice glowy spots, sort of in a line, though. > > Tris Looks just like Mother Teresa ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/25 "2011-04-03T13:12:53Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > The core of Betelgeuse is most likely unbelievably hot, in the billions of degrees, at a temperature that will fuse oxygen and related elements to silicon. Betelgeuse got silicon implants? ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/26 "2011-04-04T13:50:03Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Betelgeuse got silicon implants? That’s what I’m getting for my pecs. Silicone is just too soft and girly. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/27 "2011-04-04T15:13:07Z")
I really want to hear more about what exactly shareve heard about this cross thing, and where he/she heard it. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/28 "2011-04-04T15:53:39Z")
If it doesn’t have a cross, then is that section empty? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/29 "2011-04-04T18:52:50Z")
> [@](#): > > I really want to hear more about what exactly shareve heard about this cross thing, and where he/she heard it. Don’t hold your breath. That’s his only post, and I doubt he’ll ever make any more. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/30 "2011-04-06T14:04:01Z")
Shareve, come back! And post some more of the stuff that your mom’s fundie aunt forwards you. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801/31 "2011-04-06T14:06:17Z")
Wait… random semi-heretical thought\*: If you’d known someone killed by a knife, you might be expected to hate knives, right? To kick it up a notch, if you’d been killed by a gun, it’d be logical that you’d hate guns. So why has it never occured to us that Jesus might hate crosses? \*(from a random semi-heretical former youth pastor, yet) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-star/576801.md?page=1)