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The stuff of many science fiction stories, not to mention "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow." |
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There's a boatload of magic technology in there. |
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No, there's an arkload of magic technology in there. |
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Alien: "Neat, free snacks!"
[Pops most recent delivery into Alien microwave.] |
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There is an upside to all this tomfoolery. If an asteroid with seeds/embryoes crashes into an alien planet, it's more likely that something will survive and flourish if there's EVERYTHING on it. Bet it's the cockroaches that win. |
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That EVERYTHING had better include mother animals for most of the embryos. |
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Baked and frozen in many an SF story, usually with a lot better explanation of how to make it all work. And a better understanding of asteroids and orbits.[-] |
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What he said, minus the minus. |
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//Alien: "Neat, free snacks!"// |
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Well, perhaps they would eat our embryos, or perhaps they would raise them and put them on a farm in order to get a long term food source out of them. You know, it's the old saying, give an alien an embryo and he'll eat only once, or teach an alien to farm embryos and he'll have a lifetime supply. |
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//That EVERYTHING had better include mother animals for most of the embryos.// |
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Nope.... strictly test tube babies on this mission. |
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//a better understanding of asteroids and orbits// !? |
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It's entirely possible to power slingshot a small but compact payload of tiny embryos into a hyperbolic escape trajectory from our sun in order to catch up to an asteroid on that same path. |
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So you are going to restrict this to just some reptiles? A baby elephant, say, needs a mother's milk, care and training for many years. |
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Very few asteroids are passing through the solar system and headed out for another star--by which I mean none. |
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//It's entirely possible . . . a hyperbolic escape trajectory from our sun . . ..// Exactly! A craft that can catch up with the hypothetical asteroid is already on course for the stars, and doesn't need the asteroid. |
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Asteroids are less affected by gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations than the craft all by itself is. |
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Not so for gravity, maybe so for electromagnetic, maybe. But if it does get disturbed, you can't get it back on course. |
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I wonder about gravity. It's like there should be gravity waves in the universe, but nobody has ever detected them yet. I suppose there should have been all kinds of gravity wave perturbations at the formation of our solar system when asteroids were being flung in every direction by jupiter and saturn as they were still forming, but perhaps the ripples in the pond have ceased for now. An outbound asteroid, say one that is flying in the opposite direction as our sun, would be destined for a gravitational ocean, that is, the milky way galaxy. |
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Didn't this kind of thing already happen here, originally, possibly? |
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I say this is baked. Please correct me, but haven't scientists figured out that DNA develped here in less than 200K years? This is the time between when the Earth cooled enough to support life and the time when BASIC living organisms were found. My present favorite explantion for that is bacteria spread here from space. |
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I can just imagine a homeworld scenario (see link). By the way, I completely endorse the game as awesome ;)
also theres pretty good odds that it'll impact one of the many Pluto sized planetoids orbiting our system bummer, all that work for nothing |
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//haven't scientists figured out that DNA
develped here in less than 200K years? //
Do you have a source for that,
[MisterQED]? I'd be very surprised. |
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//Alien: "Neat, free snacks!"
[Pops most recent delivery into Alien microwave.]// |
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But [jutta], how would an alien species as incurious as that invent a microwave oven? |
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//planetoids orbiting our system bummer// |
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You might like to punctuate that, [xxobot]. You wouldn't want to offend the system bummer. |
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I doubt this would work - the life we see around us today is built on billions of years of evolution, not just in the organisms themselves, but in Earth's climate, and the rich network of preexisting organisms and species that form the ecosystem. |
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If you took a piece of early life (say the very first single-cell organisms) from x billions of years ago and put them in today's seas, rather than teem and multiply as they originally did, they'd immediately die from enmangér. |
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Land our creatures of today on a foreign world and who knows what will happen - either they will reign supreme and destroy whatever life they encounter, or will be quickly engulfed by the nearest Hwoorang. |
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