“over 60 times the size of the orbiting planet”: you mean *mass* not size. Actually, they are very nearly the same size! Any low-mass stars or older brown dwarfs or planets less massive than ~0.1*M_sun or ~100*M_jupiter are all about as big as Jupiter.

white dwar*f*s

Look up Charles Hagen, MD, that worked in Auburn, Alabama circa 1995-1997, and ask him...

It’s from “Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation’s ERs” by Mark Brown, an ER doc in CA. He compiled and published this in the mid-late 1990s after soliciting stories from hundreds of hospitals around the nation. (Oh, the halcyon days before Teh Interwebs!) My mom worked with him for years, and a few of her stories…

“Zombie” is not the same as “cannibal”.

This is long, and very late to the party, but I just have to tell it.