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To: bigheadfred

It’s very, very low average density, a lot of the matter is just piled up as these nebulas, the starts, the planets, and whatnot. :’) Despite the low density, there’s quite a lot of it on any straight line in any direction from an Earth observer.

http://casswww.ucsd.edu/archive/public/tutorial/ISM.html

[snip] the interstellar medium... consists of neutral hydrogen gas (HI), molecular gas (mostly H2), ionized gas (HII), and dust grains. [/snip]

as a barely-relevant sidebar:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/haltonarp/index


9 posted on 06/27/2011 4:30:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's the Obamacare, stupid! -- Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv; TheOldLady
What do ya take me for????

I didn't see ANY mention of Energyzoa's. Sure, you might get consistently lucky and not vaporize yourself slamming into some rock at extreme +C speeds. But you'll forever be stopping to clean those little buggers off your windshield...

13 posted on 06/27/2011 5:36:40 PM PDT by bigheadfred ( He put... creatures... in our bodies... to control our minds.)
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