Is our Solar system a r****d?

Question

"Research conducted by a team of North American scientist shows our solar system is special, contrary to the accepted theory that it is an average planetary system. Using computer simulations to follow the development of planets, it was shown that very specific conditions are needed for a proto-stellar disk to evolve into a solar system-like planetary system. The simulations show that in most cases either no planets are created, or planets are formed and then migrate towards the disk center and acquire highly elliptical orbits."

Answer 1

Indeed all matter has tricky behavioural disorders and in turn create random chaos elsewhere.

Answer 2

It is clearly.....

stupid.

303: we all know where the gas bubbles come from. Cows,people,!

Methane gas, gets all smart, breaks through the ozone where is amasses, has it floats around sometimes it gets hit by outer space junk. This in turn pops the bubble, creating chaos over the area on earth it has been popped over.  How else can we explain the weather.

It stinks but being a meteorologist on CNN is worth it.

Answer 3

Our current theory on how our solar system was formed is relatively new. We are finding exoplanets around stars that do not fit our model. For example, large gas giants close to their star. In our model they should have been vaporized. So...how did it get there? We don't know. Also, these massive planets are all we can detect at this time.

That is what science is about. We make an observation, predict and see if it works. If not, well...try again. I don't think our solar system is odd, but future observations and hypotheses based on newer technology may change our current way of thinking about how it was formed.

Only a few weeks into my astrophysics course and my Text book was already outdated!

Answer 4

Good grief! Can you Adam and Eve it? This guy has no shame. Now he's picking on the planets!

Answer 5

possibly...let me look into that a bit further since I teach special needs....

Answer 6

no its not

Answer 7

no but you are.

Answer 8

Well...I think the PC term would be 'mentally challenged,' but everything else you said made sense....lol

Answer 9

I prefer to think of our solar system as "gifted." In most cases, no planets are created. So the other stars, who don't have planets, make fun of our sun the way the dummies at my school made fun of us smart kids.

Poor thing is also probably a bit lonely since it's not part of a twin star system. Sort of like being the only star not invited to the senior prom.

I'm sure you can identify with that image...

Answer 10

That may be a fault in their computer program.  We're finding lots of other planetary systems, with a variety of features.  There are few where the planets have highly elliptical orbits.

Our early solar system was clearly shaped and stabilized by the formation of Jupiter at a radius where it did not migrate inwards or outwards very much, and thereby stabilized the other planet's orbits.

Such a circumstance will not happen all the time, but it may not be too unlikely.

Answer 11

Most of the stars that can be seen are binary systems. In that sense, we may be slightly different in that we only have one central star. I guess I consider this a difference in degree and not in kind, and I am pretty certain that there are lots of systems out there that are a lot like ours. After all, most systems like ours would be so dim that they would be difficult to see beyond 10 light years or so. So the fact that the stars that we do see are binaries just means that those are the bigger, brighter stars already.

I personally don't use the term "r****d" since many of my closest friends and relatives are handicapped adults. Most folks that use that term probably don't know anyone like that and probably think it's amusing.  

Answer 12

Suitti is right... the dinosaurs died out because they were too short sighted and did not develop an expansive space exploration program.

Looks like our solar system does ride the short bus. That plus it has a bad case of lice means its pretty unpopular too... Sol just can't catch a break.

But seriously, this is probably going to make the search for extra solar life a lot harder. Sure life may develop in all shapes and forms around the universe but only one has proven to be able to produce "intelligent" and unless they are intelligent and broadcasting we probably won't find them.

Answer 13

Clearly it's us that are the special needs children of the Universe.  The dinosaurs were starting to develop an intelligent species, but even so, they failed to mount a robust space program, a strategic error which led to their extinction (except for the birds).