To: RightWhale
I know.
That's why I was so amused at that one guy stating that we'd found all our closest neighbors.
And we still haven't sent anything to check out Pluto yet.
Might be some interesting surprises out on that hunk of ice.
Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to find that we live in a rather odd binary star system.
But I rather doubt the UFO types insistence that there's aliens living on a planet circling it and bebothering us every three thousand years.
'Course- the implications of what I'm saying, the binary system deal, are that the sun would have to have a neighbor that is a brown dwarf or similarly dim odject for us to have not seen it yet.
Like the article mentioned star.
Rather oddly dim for a red dwarf.
16 posted on
05/21/2003 12:06:52 PM PDT by
Darksheare
(Nox aeternus en pax.)
To: RightWhale
Crud, I coin a term and then miss-spell it.
"Oddject"
An object of bizarre existence or description.
The act or happenstance of being bizarre.
See Al Gore.
17 posted on
05/21/2003 12:24:39 PM PDT by
Darksheare
(Nox aeternus en pax.)
To: Darksheare
19 posted on
05/21/2003 1:21:10 PM PDT by
petuniasevan
(I'm hitting the control key but it's not giving me any!)
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