planetary problems

Jordon Flato · 30 Dec 2010, 00:57 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jordonflatourth at gmail.com (Jordon Flato)
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:57:16 -0800
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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But Gerry has very valid points here.  We have to look at the text.  The
most straight forward explination I can think of is that a Red star would be
in much the same shape as Urth...not giving off much heat, because it's near
the end of it's life.  That is typically the state of red stars.  So, most
of the worlds around it would be ice cubes, no doubt, as will the planets of
Urth's system without a new sun.  It is very interesting that a being of
great age is being contacted around another dying star, however.

That is another mark in the column against it being Blue and Green.  Those
planets aren't circling a red star.

I think it's safe to say, in my opinion, that textually Blue and Green are
ruled out.  The 'ancient intelligence' being some sort of Megatherian isn't
ruled out at all, but goes mostly nowhere, probably.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> >Gerry Quinn: Feel free to speculate on the history of that system... the
> fact remains
> >that the number is stated to be one.
>
> Yes, Gerry. Ignore the words and pay attention only to numbers. Evidence is
> meaningless
> unless quantifiable. "One surviving world" implies there was one and only
> one world. Just
> pretend the meaningless "surviving" doesn't exist in the equation.
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