Kevin Knuth
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You can't say that they're, I mean, think of what kind of evidence would you need to be able to prove that some of these guys are from the Pleiades.
And to say they're from the Pleiades is already suspect.
It's already problematic because clearly the person who's saying this doesn't know what the Pleiades is.
The Pleiades is a star cluster.
It's a cluster of stars, right?
Which is a bunch of stars light years apart from each other.
Now,
They're saying they're coming from a star cluster.
That's not, well, which star?
I mean, that would be the most, they're not telling you which star they come from.
They're telling you which cluster.
And why are they identifying that cluster as being important, right?
I mean, the plea is you could make some arguments because it's an open cluster and those stars all formed from the, originally formed from the same cloud of gas cluster.
Presumably.
So that might make some sense.
But to say they're from the Pleiades would be a very strange thing to say.
And of course, where do they get that?
How do they know we call it the Pleiades?
All right.
Well, there's multiple things to hit here.