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#0, Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by MuninsFire on Nov-20-17 at 05:11 PM
It's a very long, spindly thing

Kinda reminds me of Rendezvous With Rama, though I sadly suspect it won't be anything sent by an alien intelligence.


#1, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by pjmoyer on Nov-20-17 at 08:07 PM
In response to message #0
>It's a very long, spindly thing
>
>Kinda reminds me of Rendezvous With Rama, though I sadly suspect it
>won't be anything sent by an alien intelligence.

A friend's facebook message advised me to warm up the Valkyries, since obviously the Zentraedi have come calling...

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#2, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-20-17 at 08:40 PM
In response to message #1
>>Kinda reminds me of Rendezvous With Rama, though I sadly suspect it
>>won't be anything sent by an alien intelligence.
>
>A friend's facebook message advised me to warm up the Valkyries, since
>obviously the Zentraedi have come calling...

Fortunately, they're terrible navigators and forgot to decelerate when they arrived. :)

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#6, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by mdg1 on Nov-21-17 at 07:09 PM
In response to message #1
My first thought was a Culture ROU:

"Ulver laughed. 'It looks,' she snorted, 'like a dildo!'

'That's appropriate,' Churt Lyne said. 'Armed, it can fuck solar systems.'"


#3, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by SpottedKitty on Nov-20-17 at 10:28 PM
In response to message #0
>Kinda reminds me of Rendezvous With Rama, though I sadly suspect it
>won't be anything sent by an alien intelligence.

Should we wait a bit to see if there's a second one... or a third? ;)

Interesting, especially since it appears to have little or no volatiles, and it might be a first-time solar close encounter. I wonder how it formed? Maybe this is an example of the sort of object ejected from our solar system way back when the final total number of planets was still a bit uncertain.

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#4, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by ebony14 on Nov-21-17 at 10:43 AM
In response to message #3
>>Kinda reminds me of Rendezvous With Rama, though I sadly suspect it
>>won't be anything sent by an alien intelligence.
>
>Should we wait a bit to see if there's a second one... or a third?
>;)

Agreed. This was clearly a ranging shot. Prepare for fire for effect... in several millennia. Interstellar combat is sloooooow.

>Interesting, especially since it appears to have little or no
>volatiles, and it might be a first-time solar close encounter. I
>wonder how it formed? Maybe this is an example of the sort of object
>ejected from our solar system way back when the final total number of
>planets was still a bit uncertain.
>

Maybe it's a splinter, sheared off another body from an impact?

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#7, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by Gryphon on Mar-08-18 at 00:10 AM
In response to message #4
>Agreed. This was clearly a ranging shot. Prepare for fire for
>effect... in several millennia. Interstellar combat is
>sloooooow.

"This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of lightspeed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton's First Law?"

"Sir! A object in motion stays in motion, sir!"

"No credit for partial answers, maggot!"

"Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!"

"Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire a hunk of metal, it keeps going until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not 'eyeball' it! This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip."

"Sir! Yes, sir!"

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#8, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by MuninsFire on Mar-08-18 at 04:20 AM
In response to message #7
> That means Sir Isaac Newton
>is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space.

Gotta say, this is pretty much my favorite line in any video game I've ever played.


#9, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by Verbena on Mar-08-18 at 06:25 AM
In response to message #7
I just did a playthrough of this game (Mass Effect 2, for those who don't know) like a week ago! And am I the only one who actually pauses outside the Citadel entryway to listen to this entire speech almost every time I show up there?

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#10, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by MoonEyes on Mar-08-18 at 09:36 AM
In response to message #9
Nope! Do that with pretty much every conversation out there, just because "story universe immersion".

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#5, RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted
Posted by McFortner on Nov-21-17 at 01:55 PM
In response to message #0
Whatever you do, don't go to South Ataria Island anytime soon.

Michael

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There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".