Arnold and DeVito in "Twins"?

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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.

I think there is a difference between formation of binary system, where the primordial nebula collapses into two distinct stellar cores,  and formation of has giant planets,  which forms from the debris disk around a stellar core.    That’s not to say a stellar core can’t failed to grow sufficiently so it never become a full fledged star, nor a gas giant planet can’t ever keep growing so much it becomes a star.   But there is a distinction in the method of formation between most gas giant planets and most stars.


Also, recently some astronomer suggested our solar system is actually a second generation system.  This suggest  the sun originally had a much more massive planetary system with much more massive planets, formed from a massive circumstances debris disk.   But these planets lasted by just a few million years  before they gravitationally perturbed eachother and interacted fatally with what remains of the original debris disk, so some of the plunged into the sun and others escaped into interstellar space.  Our solar system then formed out of the much depleted debris disk around the infant sun.

I agree with you, but the show quoted made the point in my first paragraph above. That provoked my last sentence.

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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. 

I didn't say "Si Fi Channel", nor did I mean "SyFy Channel". I was relating my opinion of some of their programing, verging on science fiction.