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Scattered remains of a huge alien spaceship? ( Sadly it is probably just ice. )
by tgbrter 11y ago
Scattered remains of a huge alien spaceship?
( Sadly it is probably just ice. )
- gregor7777 11y agoYeah a huge alien ice spaceship.
- tgbrter 11y agoActually, a large part of a spaceship capable of traveling near c would be comprised of ice, as a shield from relativistic particles. https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/craft.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/craft.html
- pavel_lishin 11y agoIt slices! It dices! It's a shield! It's reaction mass! It's fuel! It's potable water!
- msane 11y agoInterested in how this design decelerates
- Maultasche 11y agoI thought of that too. It sure would be exciting if it turned out to be something artificial. However, I agree with you that it's far more likely that it's something perfectly natural like ice. Not quite as interesting.
- ceejayoz 11y agoI really want the New Horizons probe to whiz past Pluto and find a giant "WE WUZ HERE" scrawled across the surface.
- exar0815 11y agoOr maybe, we will find some prothean ruins on Ceres and Pluto is a mass relay... ;)
- david-given 11y agoRun, don't walk, and read Clifford Simak's _Construction Shack_. There's a pretty crappy but readable copy here: http://lingualeo.com/pt/jungle/construction-shack-by-clifford-d-simak-245986#/page/1 http://lingualeo.com/pt/jungle/construction-shack-by-cliffor...
- colomon 11y agoIs it supposed to end in the middle of a quoted sentence? (I mean, I can imagine it ending that way, but it does seem kind of abrupt.)
- david-given 11y agoAt 'the bunglers'? Yes, that's correct.
- slater 11y agoOr our space junk.
- KhalilK 11y agoour space junk is stuck orbiting the Earth.