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To: LibWhacker
Crud! That animation is terrifying!

I don't know how we keep missing Venus let alone all those yellow dots!

12 posted on 02/26/2011 3:03:19 PM PST by agere_contra (Historically every time the Left has 'expanded its moral imagination' the results have been horrific)
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To: agere_contra
Fortunately, it's not to scale. It looks a lot more congested than it actually is. But as these things go, the risk is definitely there.

They don't have an actual count, only estimates, and probably won't have an actual count for a century or more, depending on technological advances. But it's got to be in the billions.

Then, of course, there are the mavericks, that zip through the Solar System from regions beyond and from every direction...

13 posted on 02/26/2011 3:14:42 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: agere_contra; LibWhacker

Well, that’s by far not to scale, and it’s a whole Earth year in eight seconds or so.


24 posted on 10/27/2013 9:48:22 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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