disc@houxz.UUCP (OPUS) (08/15/84)
> 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? > -- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) I hadn't realized the SUN was created by Genesis; I don't recall hearing that in the novelization although my memory isn't so hot. I always thought Genesis was created near an existing "proto-star" [sic] in the nebula and just assumed an orbit there. Any comments, proofs, refutations, etc.? SJBerry
friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP (08/16/84)
#R:houxz:-91600:uiucdcs:24900060:000:709 uiucdcs!friedman Aug 16 08:57:00 1984 > I hadn't realized the SUN was created by Genesis; I don't > recall hearing that in the novelization although my memory > isn't so hot. I always thought Genesis was created near an > existing "proto-star" [sic] in the nebula and just assumed > an orbit there. Any comments, proofs, refutations, etc.? It's been a while since I read the novelization, but I seem to recall David commenting that, since the new planet found itself not to be near a sun, it activated a subroutine to put one together. (How any program could survive the conversion of all matter for light years around the device is beyond me.) It seems clearly implied (not only by that passage) that the sun was as new as the planet.