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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It
 Seems
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:10:53 -0500
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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.
> 
> William Hyde

Not dreck, that is old school Pulp.

Lynn