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Old 19-March-2002, 01:19 PM
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but I've recently read (wish I remembered where) that it's no longer expected to work that way. Possibly because it takes so long for the outbound leg that the sun does its red giant bit in the meantime, which seems likely to throw a monkey wrench into the whole scenario... but I don't know if that's the right explanation.
Well that's *certainly* true. I don't know if that's the explanation you were thinking of, but it's definitely true.

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