Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:54:19 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:54:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="60013c7ea2978aa56a292f873f233ce9"; logging-data="3513025"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/9fW8Wp0MlSQMwtaZwF6VG4lUtOS6JKOQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:p5rblDXiXt4gAqa6CXLIURsVFKk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2276 On 10/10/2024 11:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote: > Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems > > More boundless optimism: humans might constitute an existential > threat to many species on Earth (including humans themselves) but > life as a whole has and will survive worse. > > https://reactormag.com/complete-planetary-destruction-is-not-as-easy-as-it-seems/ Nanobot Gobblers will take care of the Earth just fine by turning the entire planet into a grey goo. There is a book by Sean Williams ??? and Shane Dix ??? about this. And if somebody poisons Sol turning it into a red dwarf early then the Earth will be gobbled by Sol. "Last Day on Mars (Chronicle of the Dark Star, 1)" by Kevin Emerson https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062306723 "It is Earth year 2213—but, of course, there is no Earth anymore. Not since it was burned to a cinder by the sun, which has mysteriously begun the process of going supernova. The human race has fled to Mars, but this was only a temporary solution while we have prepared for a second trip: a one-hundred-fifty-year journey to a distant star, our best guess at where we might find a new home." Lynn