Using Sirius as a place to put a planet reminds me of this old blog post on the uses of the Impossible. And let's not forget the Wow! Signal.
"Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound
In the throat, burning and turning. All night afloat
On the silent sea we have heard the sound
That came from the wound wrapped in the salt sheet.
Under the mile off moon we trembled listening
To the sea sound flowing like blood from the loud wound
And when the salt sheet broke in a storm of singing
The voices of all the drowned swam on the wind.
Open a pathway through the slow sad sail,
Throw wide to the wind the gates of the wandering boat
For my voyage to begin to the end of my wound,
We heard the sea sound sing, we saw the salt sheet tell.
Lie still, sleep becalmed, hide the mouth in the throat,
Or we shall obey, and ride with you through the drowned."
--Dylan Thomas
An Optical Poem. Try here.
"And if only we arrange our life according to the principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the most difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful." --Rilke, On Love and Other Difficulties, ed/tr J J L Mood
"...the famous 1977 Wow! signal was most likely generated by a comet." Crash go the chariots... "Of the thousands of stars observed by Gaia in the direction of the WOW! signal, Caballero identified 2MASS 19281982-2640123 as the best potential source for further investigation." Yup. And this star, once believed the source: "This is what i have done for χ-1 Sagittarii."
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