"An interesting effect to watch for," Max was telling them, "is in the upper left quadrant of the sky, where if you look very carefullyyou can see the star system Hastromil boiling away into the ultraviolet. Anyone here from Hastromil?"
There were one or two slightly hesistant cheers from somewhere at the back.
"well," said Max beaming cheerfully at them, "it's too late to worry about weather you left the gas on now."
ponder it.