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Subject: Re: re: destruct revisited - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:33:00 EDT
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uiucdcsb!mcdaniel    Aug 16 01:33:00 1984

You know, there is such a thing as the speed of light.  If the sun had gone
nova at the "same instant" as the planet blew up, the light and other effects
from its explosion would have arrived on the order of 10 minutes later --
long enough for the Bird of Prey to get out.

The sun and the planet need not explode simultaneously, or even when the
signal from one's explosion reaches the other at light speed.  The planet
just may have happened to blow up well before the sun.  (You have two
different mixtures of nitro plus other stuff, on an increasingly vibrating
surface.  Which one goes off first? Unpredicable and unrepeatable.  Chem people:
please don't flame if the nitro actually wouldn't blow up in such
circumstances -- just see the analogy.)