Quote:Together with [[Rigel_Kentaurus_B|Alpha Centauri B] and [[Proxima Centauri] Alpha Centauri A forms a loose trinary systemThere is some debate about wether or not [[Proxima Centauri] is actually part of a trinary system with the others, see [%[link=http://www.solstation.com/stars/alp-cent3.htm]http://www.solstation.com/stars/alp-cent3.htm] SolStation.com] for more details., and is one of the closest stars to Sol at a distance of about 4.40 light-years. Alpha Centauri A and B orbit a common point at an average distance of about 23.7 AUs.Formatting nits: Needs "ref" tags around "There is some debate about wether or not [[Proxima Centauri] is actually part of a trinary system with the others, see [%[link=http://www.solstation.com/stars/alp-cent3.htm]http://www.solstation.com/stars/alp-cent3.htm] SolStation.com] for more details." Also needs a spelling-check to fix "whether".
Quote:(It should be noted here that, once the Rigel Kentaurus system was named, a general moritorium was declared on using Greco-Roman mythology for planet names; all the good ones are already in use back home.)Yeah, yeah - the real reason for the moratorium on Greco-Roman names is that they didn't want anyone thinking a planet had been named after Ms. Swansen-Scott.
Quote:Among other interstellar notes I've got, Tau Ceti has Gallifrey, which is a beautiful world just hitting the Permian desert phase, New Alaska in the Barnard's Star system, a cryogenic biosphere on a snowball Super-Earth, and Ragnarok in Delta Pavonis, which was a very nice world until something twice the mass of Phobos hit it around 5,000 years back.This and the Miranda mission tell me that we're going with large values for f[size=smaller]p[/size], n[size=smaller]e[/size] and f[size=smaller]l[/size], but small values for f[size=smaller]i[/size] and f[size=smaller]c[/size] in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation]Drake Equation. That might be worth mentioning on the "Interstellar exploration in Fenspace" page.
Quote:Nope, no blue cat-people or giant dragons. Yet, anyway: you know fen.There has to have been at least one blue victim of the Catgirling Machine by now (in colouration; there are plenty that are blue in personality).
As for giant dragons, maybe somebody connected with the Vesta Institute of Biochemistry's "Jurassic Rock" theme park could create some, if offered enough cash and enough room for the results to live in. Heck, the Potterites and the McCaffrey Fen might chip in for that project, although the dragons they'd want would be somewhat different...
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012