It would be a bit bright to be parked up against. Vega is 50 times brighter than the sun. I calculate
that temps would be earth-like on planets in orbits
about 1 billion km away from it, or about halfway
between Jupiter and Saturn if our sun had the same
properties.
Vega is too young to have developed life. That's why everyone got *so* excited in _Contact_ when they picked up a signal from Vega. Since Vega is too young to have developed life, whoever sent the signal from vega had to have come from another star. So the SETI crew had in one swell foop discovered not only an ET civilization, but a starfaring civilization as well.
-R
-- Randall Clague Government Liaison XCOR Aerospace [EMAIL PROTECTED] 661-824-4714
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