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To: chimera

Whoever would sleep near such a thing, probably needs sleeping pills.


5 posted on 06/15/2011 3:48:05 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: Jonty30
Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov
7 posted on 06/15/2011 5:31:21 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Jonty30

Fun to look at from a distance, but probably not very healthy close up. With an average distance of about .83 ly between stars an awful lot of radiation would saturate the cluster - Not to mention the occasional supernova (I calculate about one every 750,000 years in the cluster) which would sterilize everything. Since evolution occurs on a lot slower time scale than the rate of supernovas, this alone would probably be enough to preclude the development of life.


8 posted on 06/15/2011 5:58:09 AM PDT by from occupied ga (your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
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