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666
24th August 2007, 02:26 PM
I was hospitalized with a liver abscess earlier this year. One of my symptoms was intense uncontrollable shivering, even though I did not feel cold.

I was not in much of a condition to take in all that was said about me but I seem to remember that the medical staff used a term something like "rigel". This stuck in my mind because Rigel is another name for Beta Orionis and I don't think I was abducted by aliens. :)

I have tried to look up the actual name but have had no success. Any idea what it might have been, folks?
Ichneumonwasp
24th August 2007, 02:30 PM
Rigors
666
24th August 2007, 04:05 PM
Rigors
:thanks
tracer
24th August 2007, 04:38 PM
This stuck in my mind because Rigel is another name for Beta Orionis and I don't think I was abducted by aliens. :)

Well, if you were, the aliens certainly didn't evolve on any planet orbiting Rigel. Rigel's a trinary star system, where the primary is a blue-white supergiant and the pair of stars orbiting it are both blue-white main-sequence stars. There's no way any of those 3 stars could be old enough for complex multicellular life to have evolved around them.
666
24th August 2007, 05:06 PM
... the aliens certainly didn't evolve on any planet orbiting Rigel.
You mean they lied to me? I feel so... USED.
Myriad
24th August 2007, 05:16 PM
Rigellian Fever can be serious. Shivering is only one of its many possible symptoms, even though most cases are oddly symptom-free.

Perhaps that's why many health plans don't cover rytalyn (not to be confused with ritalin).

Respectfully,
Myriad
tracer
24th August 2007, 05:36 PM
You mean they lied to me? I feel so... USED.

Now now, they only said the aliens were FROM Rigel. They didn't say they EVOLVED there.

Perhaps they evolved around one of the neighboring sunlike stars, and then went on to colonize the planets orbiting Rigel A as a means of growing their interstellar empire. Eventually, their Rigel colonies became so prosperous that Rigel became the new seat of their civilization.

Of course, the logistics of interstellar colonization are a pretty big hurdle to climb. Why they chose to do so is a mystery we may never solve.
666
25th August 2007, 03:22 AM
Rigellian Fever can be serious. Shivering is only one of its many possible symptoms, even though most cases are oddly symptom-free.

Perhaps that's why many health plans don't cover rytalyn (not to be confused with ritalin).

Respectfully,
Myriad
This response shows great Enterprise on your part. Sounds illogical, though.