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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:49:51 -0700
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ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:

> In article <robertaw-C761A6.21450013102024@news.individual.net>,
> Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>>In article <18bogjpjm9537c1kgdlq81earobgu1qcmf@4ax.com>,
>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:54:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>
> Or Chevrolet.

I read somewhere a (possibly apocryphal) story that the Chevy "Nova" was
unpopular in Mexico because "no va" means "it won't go" in Spanish.
  -Don-