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 <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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet) My understanding is that those rocks never made up a planet. This may havehad something to do with Jupiter's comparative closeness. Jim Bell