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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by lewis500 on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:15PM (#17158060)
Armageddon 2: Starmageddon. Bruce Willis has to land on the surface of a star, drill down into it and release a hydrogen bomb. The fusion reaction will cause the star to blow up even though it’s already full of fusion. He’ll wear a suit made out of diamonds and have a spaceship made of diamonds, and an Aerosmith rendition of twinkle twinkle little star will play as the star explodes and diamonds rain from the sky. Now seeking story credit for this script.
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by MisterTea on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:34PM (#17158200)
Already stole the idea and have the rights secured.

All the best, - Hollywood

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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by heavenlyblue on Saturday May 26, 2018 @06:07AM (#17161226)
Codename: Brucy in the Sky of Diamonds.
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by ridgeguy on Friday May 25, 2018 @08:21PM (#17159280)
Diamond is the best known solid conductor of heat.

Bruce would get cooked.

I'm on board with diamonds raining from the sky, tho'. Maybe on Europa. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2061:_Odyssey_Three

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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by realPubkey on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:48PM (#17158297)
But.. but diamonds are made of carbon and so can burn.
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by lewis500 on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:49PM (#17158783)
The diamonds are cooled by ice water
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by Koshkin on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:03PM (#17158387)
But ignorance is bliss...
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by sarkhan on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:14PM (#17158475)
Your script is missing how Bruce managed to escape exploding asteroid.
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by disconcision on Friday May 25, 2018 @07:16PM (#17158948)
The film begins with government agents unearthing a refrigerator from the Nevada desert; the only known conveyance to have successfully protected a protagonist from the full brunt of a nuclear explosion.
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by lewis500 on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:52PM (#17158802)
Bruce burrowed into a floating piece of the asteroid and now has a sick man cave. Remember he is the best oil driller in the world.
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by StaticRedux on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:36PM (#17158678)
The explosion propelled him through the Milky Way at 5 million miles an hour until he came back around to earth.
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by civilitty on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:42PM (#17158728)
Or how he managed to get to it. Any start exploding close enough for non-FTL technology to be a reasonable mode of transportation would also turn the Earth into dust or a molten ball of rock.
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by krapp on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:52PM (#17158803)
No problem... it turns out we reverse engineered a primitive FTL drive from the debris at Area 51, so we stick it onto a Space Shuttle, but it also turns out to be the only thing powerful enough to blow up the star, so it has to be detonated, sacrificing the ship.

However,the explosion also creates a wormhole that Bruce Willis bounces back into after blowing the star up, which lets him land safely back on Earth in a cool pose like Iron Man at the end.

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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by craftyguy on Friday May 25, 2018 @07:15PM (#17158945)
spoiler alert: he dies
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Re:Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Mil... by oh_sigh on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:49PM (#17158779)
He was propelled out of the explosion at 5 million mph.
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