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A comment on Starivore Extraterrestrials – Interacting Binary Stars as Metabolic Systems [pdf].

Re:Starivore Extraterrestrials – Interacting Binary Stars as... by dandelany on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:29PM (#8895836)
Interesting concept! But surely it should be "astrovore", no? :)
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Re:Starivore Extraterrestrials – Interacting Binary Stars as... by shepardrtc on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:49PM (#8895946)
Or Stellarvore. Anything but Starivore. Yuck. I always want to say "Stare" instead of "Star"
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Re:Starivore Extraterrestrials – Interacting Binary Stars as... by slackson on Thursday January 15, 2015 @07:06PM (#8896335)
I think it's just meant to be assonant with "carnivore".
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Re:Starivore Extraterrestrials – Interacting Binary Stars as... by shepardrtc on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @11:38AM (#8917709)
That makes sense!
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