(July 23, 2018 at 1:39 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: This speculation springs from the idea that most stars are binaries. Jupiter would be Sol's "failed brother star". If so it was a spectacular failure because Jupiter got the barest scraps after the sun was done gorging.
I try to have patience with the SciFi channel.
It was not the Si Fi Channel, it was the "SCIENCE CHANNEL" the two are not related.
This show, is not a crappy "reality show". Although it employees dramatic editing and simulations, like the COSMOS series hosted by Neil, it runs along the same lines of sticking to facts.
It made sense to me watching it. You have a death of a prior star, huge gas clouds, gravity takes over, and one or even two bodies can end up collecting enough hydrogen in any given solar system, and you have twin stars, where the rest of the material ends up being planets. In our case from what the show was saying our sun simply gorged faster and got enough gravity and heat to ignite and Jupiter did not.
