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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/326",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 326,
    "subject": "Sun's Dying <> Natural",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1998-01-31T11:08:40+00:00",
    "last": "1998-01-31T21:22:26+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0006-0478@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.geis.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-01-31T15:37:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sun's Dying <> Natural",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Reply:  Item #5531003 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#\n\nDave,\n\nHello there and welcome aboard.\n\nThe Old Sun is not dying of natural causes.\n\nI repeat, the Old Sun is =not= dying of natural causes (i.e., stellar\nevolution).\n\nSomebody put a black hole in the Old Sun at some point (for purposes\nunknown, but sure and I've got a few theories) and it is now dying\nfrom that.\n\nThis is established in the text.  And another example of the\n\"collapsing scale\" used so often in TBOTNS.\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0006-0479@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-01-31T11:08:40+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Sun's Dying <> Natural",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0006-0478@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 03:37 PM 1/31/98 GMT, you wrote:\n\nSomebody put a black hole in the Old Sun at some point (for purposes\nunknown, but sure and I've got a few theories) and it is now dying\nfrom that.\n\nThis is established in the text.  And another example of the\n\"collapsing scale\" used so often in TBOTNS.\n\n=mantis="
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\tYeh, I've seen you say this more than once, but I don't recall the\nevidence, let alone proof. Inquiring minds want to know....\n\nNutria"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0006-0484@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CRCulver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-01-31T21:22:26+00:00",
      "subject": "Re:  (urth) Sun's Dying <> Natural",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0006-0479@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Mr. Driussi said:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Somebody put a black hole in the Old Sun at some point (for purposes\nunknown, but sure and I've got a few theories) and it is now dying from\nthat.<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "     I've often wondered how it got there myself. I have established 2\ntheories:\n\n1) As in David Brin's novel _Earth_, some tinkering scientists create a black\nhole and it gets loose, ultimately falling into the sun.\n\n2) Maybe a black hole happened to be floating around in our area of space and\npassed into the sun then.\n\nI'd be most interested to hear you opinions, Mantis, as well as those of the\nrest of this motley group.\n\nChristopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>\nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html\n------------------------------------------------\n\"Ignorance, that light of fools steers a wayward path\"\n-Brendan Perry"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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