From: Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>:
>> 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? Phaeton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet) My understanding is that those rocks never made up a planet. This may havehad something to do with Jupiter's comparative closeness. Jim Bell
