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Star Blasted Through Solar System 70,000 Years Ago
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| Ian O'Neill
Posted on 02/18/2015 1:11:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:11:46 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
Of possible interest ping.
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:12:07 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
70,000 years isn’t that long and could have shaken things loose in the Oort cloud that could still be headed our way.
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:16:49 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: BenLurkin
Could this be the origins of the “Nemesis Mythos”?
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:17:25 PM PST
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: BenLurkin
a small brown dwarf (or a failed star)"I am sure the author intended a racist and possibly anti-small people insinuation there...............
To: doorgunner69
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:29:45 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
70,000 years??? Whew...that was close!
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:29:51 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
To: Mr. K
A mere blink of the eye cosmologically speaking.
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:30:41 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
It might be prudent to look in the opposite direction for a similar but blue-shifted object.
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:33:21 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:37:26 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
70,000 years ago, a huge super volcano blew its stuff all over the world. It was called the Lake Toba (Sumatra) catastrophe.
The human population was reduced from about a million to about 10,000 or so souls that prepped well enough to survive.
I have always wanted to know what set it off...now I know.
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:37:40 PM PST
by
montomike
(Politics should be about service and not a lucrative, money-making opportunity!)
To: montomike
Probably a coincidence, I think.
But an interesting one!
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:38:19 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: doorgunner69
I think he was talking about Gary Coleman.
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
I know... can you imagine what that must have looked like?
Am I reading tis article correctly? This thing blew through our solar system 70K years ago?
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:48:35 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
To: BenLurkin; Gamecock; F15Eagle
In other words, from our perspective, Scholzs star is fleeing the scene of a collision with us. I hope someone followed that star and got its license plate number! Of course, if it's a cute star, you might want to ask it out on a date.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:50:01 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: BenLurkin
Interesting.
Wonder what the sun traded for Pluto.
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:50:21 PM PST
by
eldoradude
(It doesn't matter how many it takes, the lightbulb has already been stolen.)
To: BenLurkin
If that thing was that close I could imagine it easily disrupting planetary orbits and sending any civilization that existed 70K years ago under water
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:51:06 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
To: Mr. K
I know... can you imagine what that must have looked like? Not much to be honest - it's a very faint star. Even at that type of close approach, it wouldn't have been visible to the naked eye.
Am I reading tis article correctly? This thing blew through our solar system 70K years ago?
By some definitions, the outer solar system, yes - but not really the solar system as we commonly think of it. We'd still be looking at this star being somewhere around 1000 times as far from the sun as Pluto.
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posted on
02/18/2015 1:57:19 PM PST
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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