A dim star passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago

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Post by varmais » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 8:46 PM UTC

A dim star passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago
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Re: A dim star passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago

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Post by DiabloD3 » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 12:06 AM UTC

The interesting thing is, about 75 thousand years ago is humans were almost wiped out complete when the Toba supereruption happened in Sumatra.

Re: A dim star passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 5:48 AM UTC

Now we need a science fiction storey about the race that travels by moving their star around - and what they did when they last visited us.

Re: A dim star passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago

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Post by nitin_flanker » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 9:39 AM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #2

The interesting thing is, about 75 thousand years ago is humans were almost wiped out complete when the Toba supereruption happened in Sumatra.

Heck from where you got this information? specially about the Sumatra

Re: A dim star passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago

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Post by DiabloD3 » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 1:17 PM UTC

nitin_flanker wrote: post #4

DiabloD3 wrote: post #2

The interesting thing is, about 75 thousand years ago is humans were almost wiped out complete when the Toba supereruption happened in Sumatra.

Heck from where you got this information? specially about the Sumatra

See Wikipedia.