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Uncommon card · Science
Local Interstellar Cloud, an Uncommon card
The Local Interstellar Cloud, also known as the Local Fluff, is an interstellar cloud roughly 30 light-years across, through which the Solar System is moving.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 52,000
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Local Interstellar Cloud quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Local Interstellar Cloud card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This feature overlaps with a ______ around the Sun referred to as the solar neighborhood.
Answer
region. This feature overlaps with a region around the Sun referred to as the solar neighborhood. From the Local Interstellar Cloud article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Richard Dedekind. Richard Dedekind 63 · Tau 60 · Local Interstellar Cloud 56 · Chrysocolla 51 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This feature overlaps with a region around the Sun referred to as the solar neighborhood.
- It is unknown whether the Sun is embedded in the Local Interstellar Cloud, or is in the region where the Local Interstellar Cloud is interacting with the neighboring G-Cloud.
- Like the G-Cloud and others, the LIC is part of the Very Local Interstellar Medium which begins where the heliosphere and interplanetary medium end, the furthest that probes have traveled.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Local Interstellar Cloud article was read about 52,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Local Interstellar Cloud
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Local Interstellar Cloud (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kevin Jardine at galaxymap.org. See the README pdf at File:Map production details, Kevin J, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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