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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Woodside Kid: [QB] Unfortunately, what we know about Vulcan doesn't really fit any of the closest stars to Earth. If you look at their data, the only one with a star close to the sun's stats is Alpha Centauri. The only other G-type star within a dozen light years is Tau Ceti, and it's less than half as luminous as the sun. 40 Eridani, by the way, is only about a third as luminous as Sol. [QUOTE]Main-sequence M stars are poor choices for inhabited planets. They're cooler, dimmer, and smaller than Sol, which means planets have to be much close to be in the habitable zone... close enough that they'd probably be tidally locked (like the Moon; one side permenantly facing the star). That makes for very high winds, since the temperature difference between always-day and always-night will be extreme. [/QUOTE] An additional problem is that visible light isn't the only product of stars; you have to take into account its output across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Depending on the spectral class, you could be baked by infrared or fried by UV even if the visible light level is tolerable. As for the relative placement between stars, you might want to check out this site: [URL=http://www.projectrho.com/smap07a.html]projectrho.com[/URL] It's a data site for space based RPG, but the person has done a map, based on the sun, of the stars going out to about 25 l.y. The view is from above, with the galactic center to the top. Gives you a good idea of the directional relationships between the stars. 40 Eridani and Epsilon Indi, BTW, are nowhere near each other. BTW, here's a thought. the 40 Eridani system (a trinary) is some 16 light years from Earth. Remember Scotty's line at the end of TMP: "We can have you back on Vulcan in four days, Mr. Spock?" They would have had to put the pedal to the metal for that; that works out to wf 11.35 old scale, or 8.9 TNG scale. If they could do that do get home, why were they piddling around at warp 7 to get to V'Ger? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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