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- From: stefanis@ecst.csuchico.edu (Lab Boy)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: Out Planet
- Message-ID: <1ee6aiINN9is@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:42:10 GMT
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- Organization: California State University, Chico
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- >To: John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com
- >
- >JO|Dear Space People Watchers: The people from other planets as far as
- > |I have been told will give a sun a name (some of them call our
- > |sun Shan) and we are considered to be the third orbit from our sun
- > |unless you count Vulcan so we are the number three orbit planet of
- > `-------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Actually there is no, and never was any, planet Vulcan. The space around
- the Sun is warped way out of shape by gravity. The strange motion of
- Murcery that caused people the think that there was a planet there was
- dispelled by Einstein 30+ years ago with the release of General Reletivity.
- For more information on gravatic phenominon see Einstein's Circle or Einstein's
- Cross in any good Scientific encyclopedia. There are lots of strange things
- that can happen when you travel at even .5c in normal space. Time moves a bit
- faster on Mars than it does here on Earth.
- ______
- |\ |\ Nick Stefanisko (stefanis@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu)
- | |--+-|
- |-+---\| "Oodal-lada oodal-lada"
- \|____| --Thomas Dolby
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