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The Sun Had Sisters
[TheBORG] writes to mention a Space.com article about the Sun's departed solar siblings. Our own medium-sized yellow star was far from alone when it was formed, with hundreds of fellow solar bodies and a supernova to keep it company. From the article: "The evidence for the solar sisters was found in daughters--such as decayed particles from radioactive isotopes of iron--trapped in meteorites, which can be studied as fossil remnants of the early solar system. These daughter species allowed Looney and his colleagues to discern that a supernova with the mass of about 20 suns exploded relatively near the early Sun when it formed 4.6 billion years ago; and where there are supernovas or any massive star, you also see hundreds to thousands of sun-like stars, he said. The cluster of thousands of stars dispersed billions of years ago due to a lack of gravitational pull, Looney said, leaving the sisters 'lost in space' and our Sun looking like an only child ever since, he said."
...but an appropriate name for an astrophysicist.
I bet they were hot!
HA! The sun would have to get up *PRETTY EARLY IN THE MORNING* to catch *ME* out"!!!
Oh wait...
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Let me see if I have this clear now. We are mold forming upon the scum on top of a molten pile of rock swinging around a hot piece of miniscule debris left over from a single speck exploding on the outskirts of a tiny disk floating in a vast space full of other tiny disks and whatnot? And the going theories include one where this vast space is only one of an infinite number of vast spaces?
Put's watching my diet in perpective, that's for certain.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
'Interplanetary lesbian incest and its place in the formation of our galaxy'
> Look at me! I'm an epistomologist!
Really? How do we know that?
So the claim is that hundreds, maybe thousands, of sun-like stars were in close proximity to each other, but they didn't generate enough gravity to stay in the same neighborhood? How does that make any kind of sense?
Allow me to introduce my good friend, Kinetic Energy.
A scientist named Twoney is publishing an article in the Astrophysical Journal proposing that a supernova billions of years ago would have resulted in the presence of only one little lonely star in this sector of the galaxy, with the nearest neighbor over four light-years away. "Imagine what a lonely, cold place our solar system would be had this horrible event happened," said Terry Twoney. "Why, our solar system would be so small that life might be viable on just one planet, and Pluto would be so small and cold there would be debates regarding if it even counted as a planet!"
Aren't they Solaris, and Coffee Beans, the N1 Star, and StarSuite, as well as GSun and iSun?
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Time to change the name to end that joke once and for all. I propose we name it 'Urectum'.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
Grabs his hair and runs screaming from the room.
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