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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: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:17:52 -0500
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On 10/13/2024 3:29 PM, The Horny Goat 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.
> 
> In any case short of Lex Luthor or similar villain creating a devise
> to detonate the sun, that particular probably is 4-5 billion years out
> which is rather longer than I expect to be here to have that problem
> to face.

You forgot space aliens triggering a Nova in Sol to kill all humans 
which was the main event in the book series.

Lynn