palebluethought

I'm sure some parents use it as a substitute to avoid saying "son of a bitch" in front of their kids, if that helps

Sure, I mean pretty much by definition. What does that have to do with your question?

Are you under the impression that they don't?

Well, yeah. That's not really in the same category or ever really disputed

No, that's my evidence that it wasn't ubiquitous and typical.

Maybe not just your social circle, but social-circle-specific.

No, this was just your social circle. I know literally zero people who ever bought into any of that crap

Other than the vague "big bad gubbmint thinks you're too stupid for their SECRETS" vibe, I almost find this old school X-Files type insanity sort of adorable. They don't wanna hurt people, they just want a more interesting world

From England straight to Louisiana is quite a leap

It's actually the comptroller, but only if he attacks en passant

Isn't it 15 degrees every day in San Francisco

Which wouldn't have the potential if the larger sun didn't form first to create the gravity to allow the rest to form.

This is simply incorrect. The gravitational potential of the body would be there regardless of what else is going on around it. And either way, the OP's question was not about some hypothetical where the sun doesn't exist, it's about where energy came from in the real world.

Star != Sun is just pointlessly pedantic. You're not trying to learn anything, just be a smartass.

? The OP's question was literally "is there energy on earth that didn't come from the sun." I am not the one being pedantic here.

Nuclear materials were formed in supernovas. They wouldn't exist in the first place without a star.

Well, yeah, sure. But that star is not the Sun.

Earth wouldn't have coalesced without the sun in the middle. Otherwise we'd still be a gas blob.

I mean, sure? It wouldn't be a gas blob, but it would be a very different system. But that still has nothing to do with it -- even if the gravity of the sun influences how the earth coalesces, it's still not where the thermal energy of the core came from. That came from the potential of the dust itself.