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?
My understanding is that those rocks never made up a planet. This may have
had something to do with Jupiter's comparative closeness.