At 09:29 PM 1/12/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Brian Atkins wrote:
> >
> > Our galaxy is surrounded in a spherical halo (what are the odds of that to
> > be naturally occuring?) of dark massive objects. The sphere is apparently
> > at least a million light years wide.
>
>We're in deep Vinge territory here. Why should the dark ones allow
>the visible core to exist? It doesn't seem to fulfill any visible
>purpose.
We are living in a galactic (leaky) Dyson sphere...
Chuck Kuecker
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