Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.13 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!friedman From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: ST III (not a spoiler) - (nf) Message-ID: <12500084@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 15:09:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.12500084 Posted: Sun Jun 10 15:09:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jun-84 06:30:58 EDT References: <411@sri-arpa.UUCP> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:sri-arpa:-41100:uiucdcs:12500084:000:423 Nf-From: uiucdcs!friedman Jun 10 14:09:00 1984 #R:sri-arpa:-41100:uiucdcs:12500084:000:423 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.