Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > >>That's the problem, isn't it? But maybe if we don't expect any two >>stars to get close enough, > >An illustration I have heard (not necessarily precise) is that two stars in >our Galaxy have about the same chance of colliding as two flies which start >from opposite ends of the Grand Canyon. > But I am not talking about _collision_. I am talking about getting close enough for enough time to change their speeds more than the initial errors in the measurement of those speeds.
And there are 100 thousand million flies, or 10 thousand trillion pairs of stars :-) > >Also, here's an item about a red dwarf which will come within 1 ly of the >Sun about a million years from now: > ><<http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970626.html>> > Ok, so we can assume that the Sun will keep its current orbit around the Galaxy. But what about other stars? > >> m = 1/1000. Do you mean My or ky? > > "mybp" is frequently used by geologists as an abbreviation for "million > years before present." > Bloody non-standard bastards. What is the abbreviation of year? yr? _Certainly_ m stands for 1/1000, not 10^6 Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
