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Drinking Too much? Get Help.. here.
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Sat Apr 25 20:01:59 2015
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:01:57 -0700
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Cannot read this A-d as pics are invisible? <a href="http://www.passachusetts.eu/l/lt1U9795X206H/211PI1080KO61146I305NT130895471QS3520839368"> Go ahead and go this to reload'em.</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 VMPY proof which will bear examination. </p>
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<p>“As seen through colossal telescopes,” says Humboldt, “the contemplation of these nebulous mhies leads us into regions from whence a ray of light, 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e
according to an hiumption not wholly improbable, requires millions of years to reach our earth—to distances for whose measurement the dimensions 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e
(the distance of Sirius, or the calculated distances of the KAP binary stars in Cygnus and the Centaur) of our nearest stratum of 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e fixed stars scarcely </p>
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<p<B>align="left" style="font: 14px;">suffice.” In this confused sentence there is 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e implied a belief, that the distances of the nebulæ from our galaxy of stars as much transcend 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e the distances of our</B>
stars from one another, as these interstellar 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e distances transcend the dimensions 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e of 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e 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 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e Sun from Sirius, a mere point when
compared with the distance of YRKQOK our galaxy from those far-removed galaxies VANFSKMU constituting nebulæ. observe the consequences of this hiumption. </p>
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<p>If one of these supposed 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e 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 IIN
into stars, must be incomparably greater than the telescopic power required to resolve 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e the whole [114] of our 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e own galaxy into stars? Is it not certain
that an instrument which 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e ULGKNRULE can just exhibit with clearness the most distant stars 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e of our own chier, must be utterly unable to separate one of these
remote chiers into stars? what, then, are 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e we to think when we find that the same instrument which decomposes hosts of nebulæ into 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e stars, fails to
resolve MKQOASH 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 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e invisible, were to declare that a certain MJVXIX spot on the horizon was 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e 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 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e
incredibility this which we are criticising. Reduce the dimensions to figures, and the absurdity becomes still more palpable. In round numbers, 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e
the distance of Sirius from the 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e 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 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e 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 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e
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 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e
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 9fdaba190ace50880dc4155f29cb9a3e .</p>
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