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   From: dddawson@hindmost.lpl.arizona.edu   
      
   In article <7dDKb.29120$Cs3.3074643@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> "John W. Kennedy"   
    writes:   
   >Robert Carnegie wrote:   
   >> (I forget if it was actually said, or if I just presumed, that the Sun   
   >> blowing up a few orders of magnitude of time before it should do   
   >> was an industrial accident, or ecological catastrophe, or   
   >> something.)   
   >   
   >JMS has gone so far as to hint that it was not natural, and that it may   
   >have involved someone opening a jumpgate _inside_ _of_ old Sol, but   
   >that's all we know.   
      
   On a related tangent:   
      
   There's a line in one of the early episodes where Sinclair says something   
   about scientists not agreeing about when the sun will die...a year, century,   
   a million years.  This was widely laughed at when the episode aired.   
   Certainly, having the Sun die early can be taken as a repetition of the   
   same error.   
      
   However, elsewhere in the setting we have the Dilgar, whose sun unexpectedly   
   (and   
   all-too-conveniently) explodes shortly after the end of the Dilgar War.    
   Certainly,   
   this is suggestive that somebody has nova-inducing technology.  However, it   
   appears that no one in the setting at that time had any inkling of that.   
   I wonder if the Dilgar nova could have led to intense debate and uncertainty   
   in the field of stellar dynamics...if you've got at least one star exploding   
   for no apparent reason, maybe there's a camp arguing that it could happen to   
   Sol, too,   
   which explains Sinclair's comment.   
      
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