Re: Fears that Supercollider may destroy the Earth. (MSNBC)

In article <ihrnv3hqopg04qho87j6p29ci1is47rhbb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpyron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> [Default] Thus spake jill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (jill):
> 
> >In article <vfsec5-qku.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,  <spike1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> >>In the sacred domain of alt.tv.stargate-sg1,
> >>Magda <hello@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> didnst hastily scribble thusly:
> >>> ... The thing is, you won't know when that 8-minute clock starts
counting 
> >>> ... down. Since nothing can travel faster than the speed of light,
your 
> >>> ... first clue that something has happened will be when the
countdown 
> >>> ... reaches zero and the earth is flash-fried to a cinder.
> >>
> >>> Spoil s****t. :((
> >>
> >>OK, look on the bright side...
> >>The sun might not explode/go nova...
> >>It might just go out...
> >>Or get mysteriously tele****ted to some distant corner of the universe
by
> >>powerful aliens (because their sunlamp died)
> >>
> >>If that happens, then the first you'll know of it will be 8 minutes
later
> >>when it becomes instant night globally, the earth is wracked by
earthquakes
> >>and tsunami as it's unleashed into the void as its gravitational
tethers are
> >>cut... It'll also get very cold very quickly, which will be nice at
chilling
> >>your champagun.
> >>:)
> >>
> >>In those cir***stances, you might have a day to enjoy an entire crate
of
> >>champagun before all the heat has bled into space and the atmpsphere
has
> >>begun to condense.
> >
> >There's a short story about this. The main character is on the night
> >side of the planet and learns of the solar ray or nova or whatever
> >it is and has some minutes left to live because the bulk of the
> >earth is protection.
> >
> >Jill
> 
> Inconstant Moon.  Larry Niven.  Published in his anthology All the
> Myriad Ways in 1971.  I believe it was made into an episode of Outer
> Limits.

Yes, although this also happened in Niven's "Rotating Cylinders and the 
Possibility of Global Causality Violation"

Inconstant Moon is just a flare.  Rotating Cylinders is a nova.

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