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If I were designing Rama, I’d probably make the craft change directory and/or slow down on entry into a star system. This would indicate its artificial nature,
by cgriswald 7y ago
If I were designing Rama, I’d probably make the craft change directory and/or slow down on entry into a star system. This would indicate its artificial nature, give inhabitants a better chance at intercept, and protect it from collision.
- magduf 7y ago>I’d probably make the craft change directory How do you know that the ETs use a hierarchical filesystem?
- interfixus 7y agoThe Ramans do everything in trees.
- aiyodev 7y agoI really appreciate this joke. Good job.
- SECProto 7y agoSlowing down or changing direction (in space) is equally as much work as accelerating the craft in the first place.
- tiborsaas 7y agoOf course! We should put some speed limit and CCTV warning signs at the orbit of Pluto :) But on the serious note why would you do that if your mission is only observation, data collection or maybe launching micro probes?
- magduf 7y agoMoreover, why exactly would you want to announce your presence to the beings you're observing? It's probably only going to cause chaos and upheaval in their society anyway.
- sliken 7y agoWell are we seeing a comet's tail? Or a retrorocket?