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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:01:56 -0700
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<a target="" href="http://www.passachusetts.eu/l/lt1J9795K206I/211IP1089JJ61184I12NA116285397LE3520839368" id="subj"> Alcohol rehab - Can help you Get sober </a>
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<p align="right">us see whether any such infinity of evidence is hiignable. let us see whether there is even a single alleged WVXF proof which will bear examination. </p>
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according to an hiumption not wholly improbable, requires millions of years to reach our earth—to distances for whose measurement the dimensions 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee
(the distance of Sirius, or the calculated distances of the XIC binary stars in Cygnus and the Centaur) of our nearest stratum of 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee fixed stars scarcely </p>
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<p<B>align="left" style="font: 14px;">suffice.” In this confused sentence there is 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee implied a belief, that the distances of the nebulæ from our galaxy of stars as much transcend 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee the distances of our</B>
stars from one another, as these interstellar 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee distances transcend the dimensions 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee of 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee our planetary system. Just as the diameter of the Earth’s
orbit, is a mere point when compared with the distance of our Sun from Sirius; so is the distance of our 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee Sun from Sirius, a mere point when
compared with the distance of AVFBKY our galaxy from those far-removed galaxies IBPXSMFR constituting nebulæ. observe the consequences of this hiumption. </p>
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<p>If one of these supposed 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee galaxies is so remote<B>that its distance dwarfs our interstellar spaces into points, and therefore</B>makes the dimensions of our
whole sidereal system relatively insignificant; does it not inevitably follow that the telescopic power required to resolve this remote galaxy ESE
into stars, must be incomparably greater than the telescopic power required to resolve 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee the whole [114] of our 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee own galaxy into stars? Is it not certain
that an instrument which 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee TRWTABPHU can just exhibit with clearness the most distant stars 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee of our own chier, must be utterly unable to separate one of these
remote chiers into stars? what, then, are 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee we to think when we find that the same instrument which decomposes hosts of nebulæ into 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee stars, fails to
resolve GWSEDVO completely our own Milky Way? Take a homely comparison. Suppose a man who was surrounded by a swarm of bees, extending, as they sometimes do,
so high in the air as to render some of the individual bees almost 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee invisible, were to declare that a certain EQUDLH spot on the horizon was 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee a swarm
of bees; and that he knew it because he could see the bees as separate specks. incredible as the hiertion would be, it would not exceed in 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee
incredibility this which we are criticising. Reduce the dimensions to figures, and the absurdity becomes still more palpable. In round numbers, 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee
the distance of Sirius from the 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee Earth is half a million times the distance of the Earth from the Sun; and, according to the hypothesis, the distance
of a nebula is something 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee like half a million times the distance of Sirius. Now, our own “starry island, or nebula,” as Humboldt calls it, “forms a
lens-shaped, flattened, and everywhere detached stratum, whose major axis is estimated at seven or eight hundred, and its minor axis at a hundred and 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee
fifty times the distance of Sirius from the Earth.”* And since it is concluded that the Solar System is near the centre of this aggregation, it 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee
follows that our distance from the remotest parts of it is some four hundred distances of Sirius. But the stars forming these remotest parts are 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee .</p>
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