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SpottedKitty
Member since Jun-15-04
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Nov-20-17, 10:28 PM (EDT) |
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3. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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>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. -- Unable to save the day: File is read-only. |
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ebony14
Member since Jul-11-11
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Nov-21-17, 10:43 AM (EDT) |
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4. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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>>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? Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." |
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Gryphon
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Mar-08-18, 00:10 AM (EDT) |
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7. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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>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!" --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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McFortner
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Nov-21-17, 01:55 PM (EDT) |
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5. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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Whatever you do, don't go to South Ataria Island anytime soon. Michael Michael C. Fortner "Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill". There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload". |
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