From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 16:28:44 MST
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Damien Broderick wrote:
>
>Alfio Puglisi:
>
>> I remmeber a Daniel Galouye novel [story, surely?]
Story, of course. Sometimes literal translations don't work :-)
>Drat.
I'm on dictionary.com checking the meaning of "novel" and "story", and I
even find 2 different meanings for "drat". Unbelievable.
>We'll probably find that Bertrand Russell wrote a sardonic little tale with
>the same plot in 1912.
Uhmm.. was nuclear fusion already known? And anyway, all those stories are
wrong: if you turned off nuclear fusion today, the Sun would keep shining
for thousands of years, while high-energy photons slowly crawl outside and
get converted to 6000 K black-body radiation.
Ciao,
Alfio
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