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Letter: Letters : . . . . .

Published 31 January 1998

From Dominic Hargreaves

dominic@netcomuk.co.uk

Grant Naylor describes a similar, even more ambitious project in one of his
Red Dwarf books. The plan is to send spacecraft off to trigger stars
into going supernova prematurely, spelling out a message “Drink Coca-Cola”
across the sky.

Issue no. 2119 published 31 January 1998

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