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On 26/08/2016 12:36 PM, John Gogo wrote:
> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:34:52 PM UTC-5, John Gogo wrote:
>> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:30:59 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>> On 26/08/2016 12:26 PM, John Gogo wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:03:25 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>>> On 26/08/2016 11:56 AM, John Gogo wrote:
>>>>>> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 8:52:33 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>>>>> On 26/08/2016 9:10 AM, Carl Susumu wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Astronomers are viewing a single point in space (.1 arcseconds), using the Kepler space telescope but to view a planet 4.2 light years from the earth, using the Kepler space telescopes, would require a planet with a diameter of more than ten times the diameter of our solar system.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Stars (all of them, except the sun) have an angular size that is too
>>>>>>> small to be resolved by the human eye. That doesn't prevent people from
>>>>>>> seeing them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sylvia
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes it does. It means that we can only see the corona, not the actual body- and this is bound to have a major measurable effect.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Comparatively little light comes from the corona. Most comes from the
>>>>> body of the star. Light doesn't disappear just because the eye lens is
>>>>> too small to resolve it as an image. It just gets concentrated into a
>>>>> featureless dot, which is what the owner of the eye perceives.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sylvia.
>>>>
>>>> You'd think so, but what's weird is that ALL of our light on Earth is the result of the reflection of our "little light".
>>>>
>>>
>>> So you're back to gibberish.
>>>
>>> Sylvia.
>>
>> No, what I'm trying to say is that there would be no life on Earth without the Sun. We are a product of the corona. The products of the Earth's reflection is invisible when compared to the overall corona of our star. Do we know its' magnitude?
>
> It is hard to separate the science when we fall within the limits of the sun's ability to illuminate.
>

It's easy. Just forget the metaphysical/philosophical nonsense, and 
concentrate on how to model measurable phenomena.

Sylvia.

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Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 16:10 -0700
  Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 16:23 -0700
    Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 04:13 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 16:28 -0700
    Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 17:05 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 17:32 -0700
  Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 11:52 +1000
    Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 18:56 -0700
      Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 12:03 +1000
        Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:16 -0700
          Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:21 -0700
        Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:26 -0700
          Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 12:30 +1000
            Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:34 -0700
              Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:36 -0700
                Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 15:11 +1000
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 12:16 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 12:52 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 13:30 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 14:29 -0700
    Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 15:42 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-28 13:34 -0700
    Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-29 20:08 -0700
      Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-29 20:10 -0700
    Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 03:50 -0700
      Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 06:18 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-29 20:01 -0700
  Re: Kepler jon.white.sm@gmail.com - 2016-08-29 21:19 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 11:11 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 12:34 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 14:14 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 14:28 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-31 09:19 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-09-01 10:20 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-09-02 14:44 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-09-02 18:46 -0700

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