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mdg1
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6. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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   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.'"

Mario


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 Extrasolar visitor spotted [View All] MuninsFire Nov-20-17 TOP
   RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted pjmoyermoderator Nov-20-17 1
      RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted Gryphonadmin Nov-20-17 2
     RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted mdg1 Nov-21-17 6
   RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted SpottedKitty Nov-20-17 3
      RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted ebony14 Nov-21-17 4
          RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted Gryphonadmin Mar-08-18 7
              RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted MuninsFire Mar-08-18 8
              RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted Verbena Mar-08-18 9
                  RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted MoonEyes Mar-08-18 10
   RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted McFortner Nov-21-17 5

pjmoyermoderator
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1. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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   >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...

--- Philip






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Gryphonadmin
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2. "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.
>
>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. :)

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
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mdg1
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6. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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.'"

Mario


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SpottedKitty
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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
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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

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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.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
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MuninsFire
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8. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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   > 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.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea


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9. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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   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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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
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MoonEyes
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10. "RE: Extrasolar visitor spotted"
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   Nope! Do that with pretty much every conversation out there, just because "story universe immersion".

...!
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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

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


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