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Re: Hard Sci-fi?

by jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Nicoll) May 3, 2008 at 06:47 PM

Re: SW

	I wonder how much of SW's oddities can be explained away by
supposing that that galaxy and the stellar systems in it are more
compact than the Milky Way? That is, the galaxy is more like this:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0811.html

	I think we have to assume most of the stars with inhabited
planets are actually red dwarfs as well.  
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