At 03:17 PM 1/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 1/12/2001 12:23:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>brian@posthuman.com writes:
>
><< 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. >>
>The earth, sun, and other astro-physical bodies are oblate spheres. Why
>would
>you consider the Milky Way galaxy with is creamy, hot, nougat, center of
>hydrogen-helium; surrounded by a chocolaty, surface of dark macho's, to be
>non-random ?
>
>Hungrilly, yours, Mitch
Dumb question - how do we know about this "halo"? Does it obscure known
light sources somehow? Seems to me anything that far away would be moving
(orbiting) at such a slow rate that we would not be able to detect the
motion...
Chuck Kuecker
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