Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:19:07 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:19:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5c1e94211d9ef497d1725528ae0bec91"; logging-data="4072210"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19O8qr8Oj4ccFUU6MavTHqF" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ChAGA3W5V/1uGlpKrljCADPk3b4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2823 On 10/11/2024 12:10 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 10/11/2024 10:32 AM, William Hyde wrote: >> Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> 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." >> >> You couldn't pay me to read dreck like that. >> >> And this time I mean it. >> Elon Musk would like a word with you... :) > Not dreck, that is old school Pulp. > Tomato, tomatoh. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.