12/01/14 Francisco’s Limits

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1. 

   jesse tharin

   December 1, 2014 at 12:32 am

   I thought there was only one “solar system”, the system orbiting Sol. Am I wrong in these here modern times?
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     someoldguy

     December 1, 2014 at 1:42 am

     Any star that has planets has a “solar system”. It just that that “sol” or “sun” happens to have another name than ours.

     Yes, another quick uniform change again.
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     clacke

     December 1, 2014 at 3:05 am

     In my vocabulary, only we have a solar system, everyone else have star systems.
2. 

   Joe England

   December 1, 2014 at 1:29 am

   Say, there’s a minor inconsistency in the uniform colors, there.
3. 

   Coyoty

   December 1, 2014 at 4:30 am

   Francisco’s birthday must be more impending than doom.
4. 

   Christopher Baldwin

   December 1, 2014 at 9:15 am

   Thanks for the edits! I changed “solar system” to “star system” and corrected the colors in Angie’s uniform. 🙂
5. 

   The Amazing Science-Man

   December 3, 2014 at 1:52 am

   Astronomers tend to use “star system” or “solar system” interchangeably though “star system” is technically correct (the best kind of correct). Technically there is only one moon (Moon), and those objects that go around other planets are “natural satellites” but we don’t bat eyes when someone calls them moons.
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   clacke

   December 8, 2014 at 5:09 am

   ” Aliens’ ” in first frame.
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     Neil

     December 9, 2014 at 12:14 pm

     Clacke is right: it belongs to all the aliens, not just one of them.

     Actually, I think that sun (of which the adjective is ‘solar’) can validly be used for any star around which there’s a planet with (intelligent) lifeforms on it. There is a good argument against the phrase “solar system”, however: it’s not a system of suns. It isn’t a system of stars either, so if we want to be pedantic then we should be talking about the aliens’ planetary system.

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