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Old 14-November-2008, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Gillianren View Post
I'm tired of being told "there are many possible mechanisms; look it up." I want, and this is to be considered a direct question according to board rules, a brief but detailed summary of the few you consider most reasonable and why. Further, I want you to tell me why these ideas are preferable to you over relatively fixed sizes of planets/moons.
I mentioned a mechanism called electromagnetic "flux transfer events" but you ignored it.
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