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20 Jan 2016, 11:19 pm

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I think there was supposed to be another star the sun's binary star orbiting somewhere out there, it's called nemesis. Autistic messages? Are there more predictions from these messages?
"Autistic Messages" seem to be a by-product of "Facilitated Communication", which in turn seems to be nothing more than using an autistic person like a ouija board.

Sickening.


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21 Jan 2016, 10:25 pm

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I still feel bad for pluto.

Not to go too far OT, but I think after the New Horizons fly-by, "dwarf planet" is thought by many as merely a specific *type* of planet. Like, "tall person", "stinky dog" or "pretty flower". I mean, what other planet has a :heart: ?


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21 Jan 2016, 11:42 pm

If there is a second companion to the sun it would be have to be a red dwarf. Nemesis would have a semi-major axis of about 1.5 light-years



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22 Jan 2016, 2:01 am

I read this scifi called nightfall about a planet with several stars and there was always a star in the sky even dim so it was not dark and people thought there star system was the whole universe then every some thousands of years there was a nightfall and people would go nuts and society would collapse then reorganize but people would treat nightfall like a myth once enough time had passed and not believe it until the next nightfall.


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22 Jan 2016, 1:49 pm

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I read this scifi called nightfall about a planet with several stars and there was always a star in the sky even dim so it was not dark and people thought there star system was the whole universe then every some thousands of years there was a nightfall and people would go nuts and society would collapse then reorganize but people would treat nightfall like a myth once enough time had passed and not believe it until the next nightfall.

Asimov short story, 1941; fleshed out into a full novel in...1990 (-ish) with a co-author (Silverman? Silverberg/burg?)


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24 Jan 2016, 6:32 pm

They didn't discover it, they have found a lot of evidence that it exists. When I was in school I wrote a poem about how there was a large ninth planet discovered way beyond Pluto and it had rings and moons. I think I still have it somewhere



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24 Jan 2016, 6:50 pm

"Nightfall" is a short story written by Isaac Asimov that first appeared in a science fiction magazine in 1941 and quickly became one of Asimov's best-known works. The story discusses the reaction of an imaginary civilization that is faced with its impending destruction, represented in the story by total darkness.

Link to Plot Summary Webpage

... now, back to the topic ...



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24 Jan 2016, 7:34 pm

The astronomers in the story discovered discrepancies in the data that made them hypothesize there being stars beyond their system, dun dun dun!


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28 Jan 2016, 4:48 am

btbnnyr wrote:
The astronomers in the story discovered discrepancies in the data that made them hypothesize there being stars beyond their system, dun dun dun!


Most of the stars in our galaxy are known to be paired with a companion or multiple partners