Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxo!hartwig From: hartwig@ihuxo.UUCP (The Shaggy DA) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: re: destruct revisited Message-ID: <361@ihuxo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 14:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxo.361 Posted: Wed Aug 15 14:07:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:01:38 EDT References: <3323@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 19>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 ..!ihnp4!ihuxo!hartwig