Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems

ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:

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:
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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.

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It can't be a nova; only close binary star systems can produce novas.
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Or Chevrolet.

I read somewhere a (possibly apocryphal) story that the Chevy "Nova" was
unpopular in Mexico because "no va" means "it won't go" in Spanish.
  -Don-