From: Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>
   On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 09:53:14PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
   > On 08/10/2016 05:03 AM, Bastiani Fortress wrote:
   > > 11:00 PM, August 9, 2016, John Newman <[1]jnn@synfin.org>:
   >> We don't see interstellar "civilizations" very often, because those
   >> who did not get over making everything bigger and more powerful for
   >> sake of bigness and power didn't make it.  For reals.  Some of those
   >> gamma bursts may be industrial accidents, or Bad Outcomes to MAD
   based
   >> defense strategies (an especially stupid kind of industrial
   accident).
   >Is there a name for the planet that was the asteroid belt before it
   was
   >an asteroid belt?
   Phaeton.
   [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)
   My understanding is that those rocks never made up a planet.  This may
   have
   had something to do with Jupiter's comparative closeness.
              Jim Bell

References

   1. mailto:jnn@synfin.org
   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet)