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From: hartwig@ihuxo.UUCP (The Shaggy DA)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: re: destruct revisited
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Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 14:07:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 15 14:07:00 1984
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>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-created sun?

NOTE: The following speculations are based on the assumption that the
      Genesis solar system follows our solar system as a model.

I don't remember seeing the sun after(or during) the destruction
of the planet. The chances of the sun self-destructing(going nova)
would be slim, because it is the same type of star as our sun(a red
dwarf). The Genesis sun could have been expanding rapidly into a
red giant, as it aged, thus changing the gravitational and climatic
effects(remember the wind?) on the planet. So the planet breaks up
with the help of the increased gravity pull from the enlarging sun.

                               Max Hartwig
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