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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: destruct revisited
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 06:23:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 06:23:32 1984
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> 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)

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