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From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ST III (not a spoiler) - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 15:09:00 EDT
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uiucdcs!friedman    Jun 10 14:09:00 1984

> at one point several actors (no names mentioned) were looking up
> at the sky from a planet and seeing something burning (am not saying what it
> was), and seeing smoke trailing from it. How can smoke exist in space, where
> there is not atmosphere to hold it? Or could that have been light deflected
> from particles from the burning object?

It wasn't burning in space; it had hit atmosphere, and was burning on entry.