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Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
#31
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
(September 13, 2016 at 3:50 pm)Jesster Wrote: Life as a moisture farmer would suck, though.

Oh I dunno, I wouldn't mind making a go of it...
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#32
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
(September 13, 2016 at 3:34 pm)Alex K Wrote:
(September 13, 2016 at 3:29 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Beats hubris. And now I'll never be wrong about the speed of light  again.

More importantly, the number of Suns Big Grin
Right. There are 2. I think the other one was hiding in Capricorn until Gawdzilla coxed it out. They're going to name it after him, ya know.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

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#33
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
(September 13, 2016 at 3:54 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Hm, don't fancy sharing a neighbourhood with them Jawas. Cruising around in their Sandcrawlers all hours of the night.

Wow. That's pretty insensitive and racist. Shame on you! Shake Fist
I don't believe you. Get over it.
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#34
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
(September 13, 2016 at 3:44 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Aren't we technically 'in' the constellation of Cassiopeia, as seen from α Centauri? Something like that, anyway.

Interesting. So the Alpha Centaur is the alpha male. One zodiac reading for the entire solar system. Kewl!
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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#35
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
Again with the Jawas? We told you, those Protocols of Cylon are fakes.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#36
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
(September 13, 2016 at 11:02 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: We're nearly four times closer to Alpha centauri than to El Sol. So why hasn't that closer star pulled us out of orbit?

Because... alpha centauri.. is light years away and our sun is the closet object to earth...

To put it like so the sun our sun has a gravitational pull on earth. 
[Image: orbital_forces.jpg]

This is where the earth would have to be to orbit Alpha Centauri A or B 
[Image: Alpha_Centauri_HZ.jpg]
And where not even.. that close
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#37
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
(September 13, 2016 at 3:29 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:
(September 13, 2016 at 2:52 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Nice duck and cover.
Beats hubris. And now I'll never be wrong about the speed of light  again.

You know the rule about which lessons stick...
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#38
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
(September 13, 2016 at 4:23 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:
(September 13, 2016 at 3:34 pm)Alex K Wrote: More importantly, the number of Suns Big Grin
Right. There are 2. I  think the other one was hiding in Capricorn until Gawdzilla coxed it out. They're going to name it after him, ya know.

I used to think I was a Capricorn until Carl explained precession.
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#39
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
(September 13, 2016 at 4:36 pm)Jesster Wrote:
(September 13, 2016 at 3:54 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Hm, don't fancy sharing a neighbourhood with them Jawas. Cruising around in their Sandcrawlers all hours of the night.

Wow. That's pretty insensitive and racist. Shame on you! Shake Fist

Hey I'm just saying. I mean I don't have anything against them personally, some of my friends are Jawas, they're good people. It's just, y'know, you see 'em sometimes wearing those hoods, hanging around hives of scum and villainy. They come up to you in the desert, try to sell you a droid out the back of their Sandcrawler and you don't know where they got it from, coulda got it from anywhere, Empire could be looking for it. And you know they're good with money so you'll probably get the short end of the deal, I'm just saying.
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#40
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
I can't believe I'm hearing this. Jawa lives matter!
I don't believe you. Get over it.
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