I have wondered if ET would signal with particles instead of em waves. Harry
----- Original Message ----- From: Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:31 am Subject: [Vo]:We have dark high energy company, Nemesis? > Discovered: Cosmic Rays from a Mysterious, Nearby Object > > http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/19nov_cosmicrays.htm?list49408 > > http://tinyurl.com/5ehj7d > > > "Some members of the research team believe the source could be less > > than a few hundred parsecs away. For comparison, the disk of the > spiral Milky Way galaxy is about thirty thousand parsecs wide. (One > > parsec approximately equals three light years.)" > > "The least exotic possibilities include, e.g., a nearby pulsar, a > 'microquasar' or a stellar-mass black hole—all are capable of > accelerating electrons to these energies. ... An even more > tantalizing possibility is dark matter." > > About the parsec (pc): > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaparsec#Distances_in_parsecs > > "the Oort cloud is postulated to be approximately 0.6 pc in diameter." > > "The center of the Milky Way is about 8 kpc from the Earth, and the > > Milky Way is about 30 kpc across." > > > We are possibly a member of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, which is > now colliding with the Milky Way. Our solar system takes a polar > route over the top of the Milky Way. See: > > http://viewzone.com/milkyway.html > > The above theory that we are part of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy > is > debunked here: > > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the- > sun- > from-another-galaxy/ > > http://tinyurl.com/59kd5n > > However, this only shows that we are not "from" the Sagittarius > Dwarf > Galaxy, but I would point out that in any case we lie in the > *intersection* of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy and the Milky way. > In > that sense we are part of both galaxies and worse located in a very > > hot spot for the galactic collision. > > It seems entirely logical to me that the close source of the high > energy electron cosmic rays might be a black hole which was > formerly > located at the center of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. This > invisible object could thus be "Nemsis". See: > > http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/Nemesis.pdf > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > > >
