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... Galactic center or in a globular cluster ( a positive photograph of which , under high magnification , looks for all the world like a heap of talcum powder ) the average distance between stars is one light - year . A hundred cubic ...
... Galactic center or in a globular cluster ( a positive photograph of which , under high magnification , looks for all the world like a heap of talcum powder ) the average distance between stars is one light - year . A hundred cubic ...
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... Galactic center . If the chances are not equal but are inversely proportional to the average distance separating the stars , then , combining points 1 and 2 , it is eighty times as likely that the victory be at- tained first in the Galactic ...
... Galactic center . If the chances are not equal but are inversely proportional to the average distance separating the stars , then , combining points 1 and 2 , it is eighty times as likely that the victory be at- tained first in the Galactic ...
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... center of the Galaxy and later evi- dence from other directions bore him out . So here we are , not in the center of ... Galactic center , obscuring it completely . The result is that , with or without optical telescopes , we can only ...
... center of the Galaxy and later evi- dence from other directions bore him out . So here we are , not in the center of ... Galactic center , obscuring it completely . The result is that , with or without optical telescopes , we can only ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Lifes Bottleneck | 17 |
No More Ice Ages? | 31 |
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