Chuck Taylor wrote:
From the same group I listened as someone explained M1, telling the
appreciative audience that the "whole thing is held up by gravity. When
the gravity fails, it will explode in an instant, and become so bright
we'll be able to see it in the daytime."

Paul Lawler wrote:
Well... he's only about 950 years late...

That, and the fact that gravity draws it in, and it (as far as we know)
never fails. I'll be charitable and assume he meant to say "fusion power"
or some such, instead of "gravity."

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