Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: re: destruct revisited Message-ID: <3323@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 06:23:32 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3323 Posted: Tue Aug 14 06:23:32 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 01:30:09 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 18 > From: pur-ee!dwm 11-Aug-1984 06:55:36 > > Why couldn't the Enterprise have exploded on the far side of the planet > and simply not have lit up the sky because the planet shadowed the effect? No reason at all, actually. That's not the problem, though. When the anti-matter in the ship's engines was released due to the self-destruct, it's contact with near-by matter should have created an explosion that would have taken out the entire planet. Hmmm, something else just occurred to me. If the Genesis-created planet aged and self-destructed because of the use of protomatter, why didn't the Genesis-creat- ed sun? --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA