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Originally posted by sonhouse
The "range" of radiation of the sun extends WAY past that distance.
It(radiation) is said to affect the orbital trajectory of comets in the
Oort cloud, which may extend a trillion miles.
I did a calculation of the energy hitting the earth from Sirius a few
years ago and found it amounted to over 13 MEGAwatts spread out
over the whole surface of the ...[text shortened]... s that power goes a long distance. 13 megawatts on the
earth from a distance of 8 Light Years.
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So that's a no then? 😉

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Originally posted by Daemon Sin
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So that's a no then? 😉
considering all the esoteric arguments for and against the
aforementioned proposition I would say without equivication
you might be correct in that statement.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
...would hope the galaxy fun zone
would be too.🙂
No. Actually, that's smaller than an atom. Please get your facts right.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
I figured it out on my own, so good luck!
In that case we'll need it.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
In that case we'll need it.
hehe

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So, you need a hint? This is a big one: gravitational lens.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
So, you need a hint? This is a big one: gravitational lens.
Summat to do with escape velocity dude?

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Originally posted by jimslyp69
Summat to do with escape velocity dude?
Possibly more to do with warped spacetime. Or the focal length of the sun.

That sort of thing.

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Originally posted by Daemon Sin
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So that's a no then? 😉
New topic: Can't something be done about the name of this website - I mean, Redhot PAWN, honestly!!!

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Originally posted by mac slayer
New topic: Can't something be done about the name of this website - I mean, Redhot PAWN, honestly!!!
What are you on about, the name's great.
Infact I only found my way here because of my inability to spell... gold old Pawn, eh? 😉

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Possibly more to do with warped spacetime. Or the focal length of the sun.

That sort of thing.
you are on to something here. Think it through all the way though.
What other implications can be gleaned here?
I found a bunch.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
you are on to something here. Think it through all the way though.
What other implications can be gleaned here?
I found a bunch.
I can't be bothered.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
I can't be bothered.
oh well, too bad, you miss out on a grand vista. sigh.

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Hmmm. In physics light waves from the sun are considered to be parallel, or as neear as damn it. is it the distrance from the sun that they actually converge at?

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Originally posted by mac slayer
New topic: Can't something be done about the name of this website - I mean, Redhot PAWN, honestly!!!
Now that we're off on random digressions in this thread...

Has Bowmann ever written a post with a line that reaches the end of screen, and wraps down to the next line? I don't believe so. Some of his posts consist of multiple lines, but they're the result of hitting 'enter'.