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Obviously an artifact of the Ancients...
G'Father strikes again!

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On Wed, 2/22/17, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] The Universe is strange....
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 2:58 PM

 I am very
 surprised that such a system is dynamically stable.
 You'd expect planets that close together to perturb one
 another quite a bit. I'm looking forward to reading more
 about this.
 And yes,
 it's a gorgeous, unexpected image, isn't it? I love
 living in our current age of discovery.
 On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at
 1:15 PM, Rob Davenport <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 From
 that article: "In contrast to our sun, the TRAPPIST-1
 star – classified as an ultra-cool dwarf – is so cool
 that liquid water could survive on planets orbiting very
 close to it, closer than is possible on planets in our solar
 system. All seven of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits are
 closer to their host star than Mercury is to our sun. The
 planets also are very close to each other. If a person was
 standing on one of the planet’s surface, they could gaze
 up and potentially see geological features or clouds of
 neighboring worlds, which would sometimes appear larger than
 the moon in Earth's sky.The
 planets may also be tidally locked to their star, which
 means the same side of the planet is always facing the star,
 therefore each side is either perpetual day or night. This
 could mean they have weather patterns totally unlike those
 on Earth, such as strong winds blowing from the day side to
 the night side, and extreme temperature changes."That
 is a cool image - standing on one planet and seeing that
 level of detail on another planet with the naked eye.  
 Somehow feels like E.R. Burroughs' John Carter of
 Mars-ish.  
 On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Peter
 L. Berghold <xxxxxx@berghold.net>
 wrote:
 On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 19:01 +0000,
 Bruce  Johnson wrote:

 > <https://www.nasa.gov/press-re
 lease/nasa-telescope-reveals- largest-ba

 > tch-of-earth-size-habitable-zo ne-planets-around>

 >

 Breaks the system generation rules for MT. :)

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     <xxxxxx@berghold.net>

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 Advocations: Dog Training, Beer Brewing, BBQ, Cooking 

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