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Could the Mystery of the Milky Way hold the Key to Future Life on Planet Earth?
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| 5/23/09
| JXB7076
Posted on 05/23/2009 10:54:09 PM PDT by jxb7076
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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jxb7076
To: Voter62vb
There are two differnt distances to the galactic center mentioned in the same paragraph withoug the slightest embarrasment or care.
To: jxb7076
The Milky Way is a community of stars that boasts a stellar population of more than 100 to 300 billion members. Its density is so immense that light from one side takes approximately 100 thousand years to reach the opposite side Density should read diameter. Some science writer flunked physics.
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