Here's something by Joe Fugate from last May (again, on the GEnie MT BBS):
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Then there's the famed "Black Globe World" in the Vargr Extents. On that world
(Tuglikki 0904), a Vargr researcher activated a black globe and it promptly
expanded to engulf a radius of 50 km from its location within 24 hours. That
was in 973 (Imperial). That black globe engulfed the entire world within a
year and kept growing, although at a slower rate. The black globe has reached
20,000 km in size and continues to grow at a rate of about 20 km per standard
year. In about 2 trillion years, assuming the globe's rate remains constant,
it will have engulfed all of charted space. Recently, however -- for some
unknown reason -- the globe's expansion rate has been increasing dramatically.
Many researchers theorize this increased expansion rate means the globe is
about to "go into overload." A globe of this size, if it releases all of its
aborbed energy in one sudden blast, would devastate the entire parsec (both
star systems).
- - --Joe, DGP"
Haes anybody ever heard about this one before? It's completely new to me.
Later,
Mark F. Cook
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