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You can't "know" from this distance. Tashmere Send a noteboard - 03/12/2010 03:13:05 AM
The universe could be full of elements that have similar properties that we haven't discovered yet.

It is the claim that we "know" things like that that bothers me. It wouldn't bother me a bit if they just said that according to what we do know the most likely elements are hydrogen and helium.
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