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I propose we call the object "Rama".
by ceautery 9y ago
I propose we call the object "Rama".
- ianai 9y agoSeconded. They did say it was oddly rectangular/columnar.
- fao_ 9y agoThis reads as if you're trying to draw a similarity between Oumuamua and Rama, but if that's the case, Rama was spherical, so I don't see the similarity. The only other thing I can think of is that the 2OO1(&) monolith was rectangular, but they never really moved IIRC. (&): Sorry, screenreaders, but it's so much nicer with the letter 'o' rather than zeros :/
- garmaine 9y ago...no? It was cylindrical in the book.
- peckrob 9y agoFor those who don't know, this is basically the plot of a classic science fiction novel, Rendezvous with Rama. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama)
- lsh 9y agobetter than 2001. I thought the commie Russians dated the novel when I read it in the 90s, but here we are, 2017, and everyone is worried about the Ruskies again. Funny ol world.
- astrange 9y agoThe sequels are pretty bad, by the way - Clarke eventually just started "co-writing" books where the other less-good writer did all the work. One of them has a foreword just so Gentry Lee can apologize he wrote a chapter about his historical hologram waifu.
- louky 9y agoI only made it a few chapters into the sequel, the writing is completely different and completely uninspiring.
- stty 9y agoThanks, as some who hasn't grown up watching Hollywood or reading English sci-fi, I couldn't get the context.
- muzani 9y agoMany of others like the name too: https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21730863-rendezvous-rama-first-visitor-another-solar-system-has-just-been https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/217308...
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