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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:45:01 -0700
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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.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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