Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:45:01 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <18bogjpjm9537c1kgdlq81earobgu1qcmf@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net A5RLRobRzQNJ3PgQfVmd2gDKyl6mo0ZKYeS0wEQetlOr49KLxy X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:H6EW/Cuu58XEIHwbtyt1lF95CcU= sha256:QaYjyD8lozfUDlo+ntkfMh+3ATSthN2Ab9/BFJkKhm0= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 1985 In article <18bogjpjm9537c1kgdlq81earobgu1qcmf@4ax.com>, The Horny Goat wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:54:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire > wrote: > > >"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." > > There's a massive difference in mass between the size of a future nova > and a future supernova - and our Sun is barely big enough for a nova > future and far below that of a supernova so I tend to look askance at > any author who describes the future Sun in that way. It can't be a nova; only close binary star systems can produce novas. -- "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement." Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹----------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com