Odysseus <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.com> wrote in
news:odysseus1479-at-84490C.03533403022007@news.telus.net: 

In article <Xns98CB7B4211067Klazmonllurdiaxorbgo@203.97.37.6>,
 Llanzlan Klazmon the 15th <Klazmon@llurdiaxorb.govt> wrote:

"skddlbyp" <ghmvdj@fnp.aiu> wrote in
news:12s4h769d2d9na9@corp.supernews.com: 

  I had a dream:  "Humans don't get along with the Earth because they
  are 
from Rigel 1. Rigel 1 is 50 parsecs away. One days journey."

<snip>

Rigel is a spectral class B8 supergiant with a luminosity about forty
thousand times that of the Sun and good chunk of that luminosity is in
the ultra violet. You wouldn't want to be anywhere near this system
unless you are planning on getting a serious tan. It's also much
younger than the Sun as stars of Rigel's mass don't last very long on
the main sequence. 

It's also some two to three hundred parsecs away from here. I suppose 
that's four to six days' journey. ;)

Well yes, choke, cough ;-).

Klazmon.