# No, the derivation does NOT appear in any of those sources.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 28, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-derivation-does-not-appear-in-any-of-those-sources/247566 "2004-05-28T20:03:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-derivation-does-not-appear-in-any-of-those-sources/247566/21 "2004-05-29T15:53:51Z")

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> [@Smeghead](#):
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> I’ll accept a lot on these boards. I’ve read thread after thread that pissed me off, but I managed to keep my cool and prevent myself from responding. But, Mister Podkayne, you do NOT fucking diss Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar!!!
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> That man was a SAINT! Arguably one of the greatest Indians EVER! Worked himself up from basically nothing to become one of the world’s greatest astrophysicists! Just because you’re too much of a spacklehead to understand him doesn’t make his work any less revolutionary, you BASTARD!!!

You are correct, of course. I lost my temper and I said hasty things. I am unworthy to sweep the shavings from the lead of Chandrasekhar’s radiation pencil. _humbles self_

Although it was almost worth it to goad someone into calling me a “spacklehead.” That was amusing. That would be _Miss_ Podkayne Fries, though.

I wish I was working on something so profound and revolutionary that it was over my advisor’s head, but it’s really just a tedious and annoying geometry problem, and I’m just going nuts over factors of pi and the definition of theta. _sigh_

Chandrasekhar Limit. . . tee hee . . . I’ll think about that the next time I’m about to bash my head through the screen of my monitor.

Thank you all for the support. I am going to spend the weekend away from the problem and attempt to gain some perspective. I’m sure it will all look much more reasonable on Tuesday.

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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-derivation-does-not-appear-in-any-of-those-sources/247566/22 "2004-05-29T17:27:35Z")

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At this time, I would like to give this thread collective swirlies, take your collective lunch monies, and shove you, collectively, into your lockers. NERDS!

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-derivation-does-not-appear-in-any-of-those-sources/247566/23 "2004-05-29T19:00:33Z")

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> [@Bryan Ekers](#):
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> I’m guessing your Chandrasekhar Limit was reached…

_Golf clap_

Bravo, good sir. Bravo.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-derivation-does-not-appear-in-any-of-those-sources/247566/24 "2004-05-29T19:17:23Z")

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What I’d like to know is why **Podkayne** is now smiling at **Smeghead** , sweetly but with narrowed eyes, and picking her teeth with what looks like a letter opener. 😉

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