by SolomonW <SolomonW@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 21, 2008 at 08:24 PM
In article <pI-dnWW607X5AJbVnZ2dnUVZ_ramnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
max@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> SolomonW wrote:
>
> > In article <mttc04l9p5ajsh1k04udst2bvh37h7vfeq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > pethorne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> >> You *might* find some remnants
> >> that are ten or a 100 million years old.
> >
> > In interstellar terms 10 or 100 million years is nothing.
>
> Not really. 100 million years is the total lifetime of a star only a
> dozen or so times the mass of the Sun. For the most massive stars (a
> hundred or so times the Sun's mass), total lifetime is only about ten
> million years.
>
>
I suppose I should have said in SETI it is considered 10 or 100 million
years to being little.
