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brian · 14th January 2003, 11:01 AM

I normally try to be a little more diplomatic than the word usage in the previous post - but, really, people awarding themselves titles as galactic emissaries/messiahs etc simply because they have had an idea, a little inspiration, and maybe even a website, just irritates the hell out of me! But I digress…

I remember reading a little about the subjects of "nemesis" and "planet x" a while back. Seems everything hinges on the apparent periodic extinctions and the perturbed orbits of outer planets. Although I found them interesting, I realised that was no actual need for another significant outer body.

One train of thought from this involved looking at our galaxy and realising that the relative positions of stars are not set as they orbit the galactic centre - so what if out solar system periodic closes on another, for example, the Centauri system? What if the perturbations and disturbance of the Oort Cloud objects was due to gravitational influence of our stellar neighbours if their galactic orbits sometimes pushed them closer?

In the end, in a moment of great inspiration, I stumbled across a different explanation far-encompassing theory. It takes me just over 600 words in emperor to make it a statement of fact. Hope it inspires - and I just bloody hope it's published soon because contemporary science is catching up enough to make the connection before myself. And as a speculative fiction writer, that simply won't do!

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brian Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 960	Re:Nemesis I normally try to be a little more diplomatic than the word usage in the previous post - but, really, people awarding themselves titles as galactic emissaries/messiahs etc simply because they have had an idea, a little inspiration, and maybe even a website, just irritates the hell out of me! But I digress… I remember reading a little about the subjects of "nemesis" and "planet x" a while back. Seems everything hinges on the apparent periodic extinctions and the perturbed orbits of outer planets. Although I found them interesting, I realised that was no actual need for another significant outer body. One train of thought from this involved looking at our galaxy and realising that the relative positions of stars are not set as they orbit the galactic centre - so what if out solar system periodic closes on another, for example, the Centauri system? What if the perturbations and disturbance of the Oort Cloud objects was due to gravitational influence of our stellar neighbours if their galactic orbits sometimes pushed them closer? In the end, in a moment of great inspiration, I stumbled across a different explanation far-encompassing theory. It takes me just over 600 words in emperor to make it a statement of fact. Hope it inspires - and I just bloody hope it's published soon because contemporary science is catching up enough to make the connection before myself. And as a speculative fiction writer, that simply won't do!