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To: general_re

It should also be noted that the post-formation solar system has had a chaotic history with planetary breakups (several, including a big one that formed the asteroid belt), near-collisions, ejections into interstellar space, and several planetary moons probably being captured into their present orbits after their formation elsewhere. The assumption that everything should have condensed into a smooth and stable configuration where every object has the same spin is unjustifiable from the evidence of the real history.


386 posted on 12/20/2004 9:06:20 AM PST by VadeRetro (Nothing means anything when you go to Hell for knowing what things mean.)
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To: VadeRetro
It should also be noted that the post-formation solar system has had a chaotic history with planetary breakups (several, including a big one that formed the asteroid belt), near-collisions, ejections into interstellar space,

Were you there? How would you know this. IE, you can't know this and are positing it as though it were a fact. Try again.

388 posted on 12/20/2004 9:09:24 AM PST by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade.)
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Of course, you don't even need to go outside. I just sat in my chair here, and oddly enough, the angular momentum of the universe doesn't seem to be preventing me from spinning in both directions. I was even right there to witness it. ;)


392 posted on 12/20/2004 9:12:40 AM PST by general_re ("What's plausible to you is unimportant." - D'man)
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