>That's not -entirely- true though; recall that the AT&T blew a full on
>-hole- in the Sphere, and slapped one of the emerging ships way out
>towards the other side of it.

Given the surface area of a two-AU sphere, there's a... mathematically significant... difference between the firepower required to poke a hole in it and the firepower required to destroy it. I mean, it's not a balloon, where all you have to do is poke a hole and the entire structure fails. :)

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