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Subj : Re: Serenity: good film !
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From : Al Smith
Date : Tue Oct 11 2005 22:28:31

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

>  I
> also recall ( correct me if I'm wrong ) that the story is supposed to
> take place in a solar system that has hundreds of inhabited planets.
> Pardon my French, but bullshit! What kind of freaked out orbital
> mechanics would have to be at work for hundreds of Earth sized planets
> to all fit into the habitable zone of a solar system? Now, I don't claim
> that Star Trek was the most rigidly scientific show of all time, but at
> least they didn't make that kind of silly mistake.

You've got a point. I'm thinking that if you had a binary system 
with really large stars, which would stretch the habitable zones 
wider, and if you had gas giants with maybe a dozen habitable, 
Earth-sized moons each, along with regular Earth-sized planets, 
maybe with habitable moons, you could get, max, about 70 habitable 
worlds in a system. That would really be stretching it. Probably 
you'd max out around 30 or 40.

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