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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It
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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:19:07 -0700
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On 10/11/2024 12:10 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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.
>>
Elon Musk would like a word with you...  :)

> Not dreck, that is old school Pulp.
> 
Tomato, tomatoh.

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