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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems
Date: 14 Oct 2024 06:45:26 GMT
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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.
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