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To: Red Badger

Very interesting, but...the prevalence of G2 stars would have required heavy element burning in at least one or two earlier generations of larger stars, which would have required at least a few billion years including supernova production, element spreading and subsequent accretion. I’m a little fuzzy about how this then young galaxy could produce so many G2s.


16 posted on 10/23/2013 10:57:48 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug
I’m a little fuzzy about how this then young galaxy could produce so many G2s.

Bureaucracy.........

20 posted on 10/23/2013 11:05:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (The only way to defeat liberalism is to give them everything they want......then pick up the pieces.)
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To: onedoug
which would have required at least a few billion years including supernova production,

Not for big stars. A 10 solar mass star might burn brightly for only 100,000,000 years or less and then go supernova. Voila! lots of metals available in a short time.

23 posted on 10/23/2013 11:20:25 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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