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Re: The timing of the Rogue Star
Posted By: Bob-B-QDate: 4/5/23 9:10 a.m.

In Response To: Re: The timing of the Rogue Star (Forrest of B.org)

: Unless perhaps this rogue star was ejected from the galaxy much longer ago
: (like some kind of lifeboat perhaps?), and only began returning around a
: thousand years ago, which is a possibility I have contemplated before too.

At galactic distances, "nearly a millennia" isn't enough time for an ejected star to travel a significant distance - certainly not into "one of the great voids between the spiral arms" as Durandal claims - without it and its associated planet(s) somehow being accelerated to relativistic speeds.

The possibility that it's a star of extra-galactic origin merely passing through the local structure top-to-bottom (or vice versa) on its way to somewhere else simplifies the travel problem, but leaves a lot of other questions unanswered.

I have a feeling this one has to be chalked up to Jjaro shenanigans or else the old trope about sci fi writers having no sense of scale.

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The timing of the Rogue StarForrest of B.org 4/3/23 7:36 p.m.
     Re: The timing of the Rogue StarGodot 4/4/23 2:15 a.m.
           Re: The timing of the Rogue StarForrest of B.org 4/4/23 9:23 a.m.
                 Re: The timing of the Rogue StarDuckNextDoor...InChina 4/4/23 2:07 p.m.
                       Re: The timing of the Rogue StarLion O Cyborg 4/4/23 2:32 p.m.
                             Re: The timing of the Rogue StarVikingBoyBilly 4/4/23 2:53 p.m.
                             Re: The timing of the Rogue StarForrest of B.org 4/4/23 6:40 p.m.
                                   Re: The timing of the Rogue StarBob-B-Q 4/5/23 9:10 a.m.
                                         Re: The timing of the Rogue StarForrest of B.org 4/5/23 2:34 p.m.
                                               Re: The timing of the Rogue StarBob-B-Q 4/8/23 8:25 a.m.
                                   Re: The timing of the Rogue StarLion O Cyborg 4/6/23 6:51 a.m.
           Re: The timing of the Rogue StarVikingBoyBilly 4/4/23 2:21 p.m.
                 Re: The timing of the Rogue StarDurandal_1707 4/9/23 5:38 a.m.
                       Re: The timing of the Rogue StarGodot 4/9/23 6:28 a.m.
                             Re: The timing of the Rogue StarBob-B-Q 4/9/23 8:27 a.m.

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