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LudwigPastorius

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7. I blame the Science Fiction Industrial Complex.

Reply to paleotn (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 21, 2018, 02:32 PM

Mar 2018

If people began realizing just how vast space is, and how far away, from everything else we are, they'd never buy into their stories. "Captain, the USS Throatwarbler is only 5,000 light years away. They can get here in 20 minutes.!"

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A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, and Early Humans Likely Saw It [View all] Calista241 Mar 2018 OP

C'mon now; we all know the Universe is only 6,000 years old... brooklynite Mar 2018 #1

Yeah, ain't we got enuf fake news? 3Hotdogs Mar 2018 #2

What's next? The earth isn't flat? n/t NotASurfer Mar 2018 #3

Well not exactly flat...a disc, if you will...lol Docreed2003 Mar 2018 #26

"Grazed Our Solar System" LudwigPastorius Mar 2018 #4

LOL!!! LeftInTX Mar 2018 #5

details, details.... paleotn Mar 2018 #6

I blame the Science Fiction Industrial Complex. LudwigPastorius Mar 2018 #7

Yep.... paleotn Mar 2018 #10

For a star, that is grazing kurtcagle Mar 2018 #11

"the boundary of a solar system is more defined by its heliopause" LudwigPastorius Mar 2018 #15

Hyperbolic orbits justify hyperbolic journalism ? ;) nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2018 #13

Then the verb is not relative, but rather absolute? LanternWaste Mar 2018 #14

I think "grazed" denotes that contact was made. LudwigPastorius Mar 2018 #16

The suns gravity well extends 1-2 light years out.. denbot Mar 2018 #20

Similar to the Nemesis hypothosis. paleotn Mar 2018 #8

red dwarf....explains a lot dembotoz Mar 2018 #9

Yep.. EX500rider Mar 2018 #18

What a guy! VMA131Marine Mar 2018 #32

Fascinating. Thanks for posting. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2018 #12

The same approximate time as the Toba Catastrophe? nt The_jackalope Mar 2018 #17

Humanity being a few million years old, 70,000 yrs ago is late. greyl Mar 2018 #19

Right. "Lucy" is 100,000 years old, so what happened to climate as a result? mpcamb Mar 2018 #21

But 70,000 yrs ago is not pre-human. nt greyl Mar 2018 #22

I don't wanna get into an event over what's human and what's not. mpcamb Mar 2018 #23

Okay, you might be talking about civilization, not humanity at large, correct? greyl Mar 2018 #25

So, if we're getting into what's humanoid, hell, maybe Lucy'd vote better than a lot of US Reps. mpcamb Mar 2018 #27

Gotcha! Good question. nt greyl Mar 2018 #28

Blood Star of the Neanderthals miyazaki Mar 2018 #24

So it's not fake news - OhZone Mar 2018 #29

Ya, 70,000 years late. miyazaki Mar 2018 #30

Hey, journalists should check their sources before running a story Bucky Mar 2018 #31

Locking - the host feel this is not important news muriel_volestrangler Mar 2018 #33