[Coco] furriners, more regional dialect

[Jim Cox]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:17:29 EDT
  KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 8/31/04 12:09:31 AM Eastern Daylight 
>Time, RJRTTY at aol.com 
>writes:
>
>> > So I guess you can say that the Ort Cloud on the 
>>outskirts 
>>  >  of our solar system is made up of scraps ;)
>>  Hey!  somebody else here besides me reads Sky and 
>>Telescope magazine!!!
>
>Me too.  Yes, it occurred to me that the Oort Cloud is 
>indeed leftover scraps 
>from our solar system's creation.  Unforch, at random 
>intervals it throws 
>random pieces of ice and other scraps toward the Sun, 
>leaving the Earth to play 
>Cosmic Dodgeball.
>--Mike K.

But fortunately our big buddy Jupiter does a good job 
blocking for us.  At least that is the current threory and 
one reason why most scientists who look for exo-solar feel 
that we have a unique system and the reason why life is on 
Earth, is because Jupiter keeps most of the scraps away 
form us.  

-Jim