Sflafnoed Karr

**Sflafnoed Karr** (1871-1942) was a well-known Rosperalftian Aulthainian astronomer. He is widely known in his nanosector, and others too. He is credited with the discovery of Struccfi lightning, a lightning that peculiarly came out of Beta Albatross, the star of the Strucc system. He is also known as being a peer of Caraln Nagaslark, who was one of the most famous astronomers of the era. Karr also was a devoted philosopher, and he combined his two interests to form one: astronomical philosophy. Astronomical philosophy helped him confirm the existence of Struccfi lightning.

## Early life

In 1871, Sflafnoed Karr was born to Gremston Vokr and Yeoztym Karr as Sflafnoed Nikhle Karr in Wilnok, Ghrrochsia. Vokr, his father, was an unusual gray, white, and blue-furred cat with bright swirling yellow-green eyes. His personality was as strange as his fur: usually he would be calm, but sometimes he would be very excited, like when Sflafnoed was sent out across the street to get some cotl flour or starrch grain. In 1876, when Gremston got extrermely excited, Sflafnoed knew it was for a reason: school.

Sflafnoed Karr was sent to Raz Tochtre School for Cats of Ages Five to Ten. There he learned simple concepts such as math and physics. But quickly Karr rose in intelligence, and at age seven, he was already doing problems involving division and exponents. So the teachers decided to put him two years ahead, but at age eight, he was already at 11-year-old-level math. Soon, they decided that at the beginning of the next year, they would put him with 12-year-old cats at the Tolg Mechamn Middle School, where he started intensely studying physics.

## Astrophysical studying

At Tolg Mechamn, Karr studied alongside cats three years older than him. He had already grasped the concepts of math and physics, and so he decided to study deeper into a sub-subject of his favorite topic: physics.

He studied astrophysics, and the intensity of his studies at home in Wilnok were so deep it was like a sleep: you couldn't break the concentration unless you loudly talked to him. But then, when Karr was 12, something happened.

Doctors diagnosed his father with a strange kind of chronic insanity disease in 1883. He had to go to an asylum for the rest of his life. Karr occasionally visited him. His father wasn't really insane, but just insane enough to go to an asylum: his personality and mood changed too rapidly.

Karr studied astrophysics until he and his parents moved to Luten, and he graduated to Cnobelmeinhe High School and University, where he firmly studied astronomy *and* astrophysics; astrophysics at school, astronomy at home. When he graduated from Cnobelmeinhe finally in 1893, he was an expert at both subjects, and was a close friend of Caraln Nagaslark.

## Expertise years

In 1901, his father died of his disease, and his mother soon died as well in 1905. Saddened, Karr distracted himself with astronomy and physics.

He wrote many essays, including *On Astrophysics, Philosophy and Their Relation*, his most famous. In 1912, he discovered Struccfi lightning, the reason why Genat, the closest planet to Beta Albatross, was being destroyed. Its existence was confirmed and its discovery published in 1914.

## Death

But in 1921, when at a conference of astronomers and physicians, he caught seventies disease, at age fifty. The disease continued infecting him until 1933, when a doctor treated it in a desperate last-minute operation. But the damage was done, and for the next nine years he continued weakening, until September 19, 1942, when he died peacefully.

His legacy continued to live on with astronomers, though he in reality did not.