Re: Earths difficult?

From: Jonathan Standley (standley@rcn.com)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 22:59:15 MST


> Well, yes. If the only stars they could see were supernovae, they'd
> doubtless reach the same conclusion: that there can't be too many
earthlike
> planets around them, and hence <here a miracle of illogic seems to occur>
> around *any* stars. D'oh.

Speaking of supernovae, I saw somewhere a long time ago, not sure where, a
reference to a
series of highly improbable novas in the 1930's (I think) IIRC there were
10+ ? novas detected in the Aquila constellation in the period of a year or
so. Anyone know anything about this?



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