The "Milky Way" test of a boondocking site
I know there are many definitions of boondocking, and that is a good thing. But here is one possible test -- if you are not in a campground and you can see the Milky Way under clear skies, you are re...
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profdant139 wrote:
OK. Someone sent me a PM asking me to explain the alleged pun, which means the pun was a failure. Ron's homeland, Pangaea, was a conglomeration of almost all of the land on Earth. Long ago, all the continents were in one mass, instead of being strung out as they now are. Similarly, a globular cluster is a dense mass of stars, instead of a spread-out disk of stars like the Milky Way. So the Milky Way when viewed from Pangaea should have looked like a cluster, right?
Hilarious.
Actually, it probably looked pretty much like today. The disk formed about 8 to 10 billion years ago whereas Pangea existed less than half a billion years ago. Our sun is at least a second (and probably 3rd) generation star.
LS
